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** Ceramic cat gifted by hitchhiking art student David Hockney to be sold
A David Hockney ceramic cat gifted to strangers who gave the artist shelter as a student is set to fetch tens of thousands of pounds at auction.
** In France, workers build a castle from scratch the 13th century way
Deep in a forest of France's Burgundy region, a group of enthusiasts is building a medieval castle the old-fashioned way — that is, with tools and methods from the late 13th century.
** Obsessed with the obsessive recluse who fathered modern American art
Toward the end of his life, he mostly lost interest in exhibiting his work and lived in a decrepit home coated in dust, the floors littered with unwashed dinner plates, and obsessively reworked his existing paintings.
** AI Vincent van Gogh talks of ‘mental health struggles’ in Paris exhibition
Musée d’Orsay adds AI and VR to display of artist’s last works, never previously seen together.
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** The Bible That Stopped a Bullet
In 1863, a New Testament tucked in the pocket of Union soldier Charles W. Merrill prevented a musket ball from mortally wounding him.
** Museum Worker Sold Paintings and Put Forgeries in Their Place
An in-house appraiser noticed something was awry when the canvas on his workbench did not match a catalog entry.
** Sandals found in a cave are the oldest known footwear in Europe
Neolithic farmers made the espadrilles 6,200 years ago with the same material that hunter-gatherers used for their baskets three millennia earlier.
** Inside the Newly Reopened Tenement Museum
The multi-million dollar project has repaired and reinforced the museum’s 160-year-old building, which also hosts a new permanent exhibition.
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** Chaos and Order
An introduction to the ancient Egyptian pantheon.
** NASA picks 3 museums to display OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples
As NASA saw its first asteroid sample return to Earth this past weekend, three museums took particular notice, knowing that they had been chosen to display small examples of the newly landed space rock material.
** ‘Enough is enough’: US looted treasures unit faces accusations over credit
Tsirogiannis has accused the unit of abusing his intellectual property by ignoring or downplaying his requests to be credited in official announcements.
** UK Trades Union Congress calls for end to ‘second class pay’ in heritage sector
The motion recognised that arts and heritage make a huge contribution to the UK economy but that public funding for arts and heritage is often seen as an easy target for cost-cutting.
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** Spark! for trustees
Following the successful Spark! training for museum leaders, AIM's fourth Spark! programme is aimed at supporting trustees of volunteer-run museums.
** National Museum of Scotland
Cultural Connections. Mon 16–Sat 21 Oct
** $25 Million Gift
The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum Receives Record $25 Million Gift.
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aries: This week, your exhibition theme will be "Ancient Artifacts: Lost and Found." Unfortunately, you'll spend most of your time searching for the lost instruction manual for assembling the display cases.
Read the full horoscopes here.
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