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** Alleged Leader of Suspected Egyptian Antiquities Traffic Ring Jailed in Paris
The 80-year-old dealer is believed to be behind the sale of allegedly smuggled Egyptian antiquities to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Louvre Abu Dhabi for a collective €60 million ($64 million).
** The unending fight against fake works of art
Counterfeits are proliferating on the market thanks to fraudulent certificates, the
hunt for a bargain, and the ability of scammers to convince collectors.
** National Museums Scotland launches new national strategy
National Museums Scotland (NMS) has launched its fifth national strategy for the Scottish sector, with a focus
on increasing engagement with the national collection and supporting collections knowledge and skills.
** Michelangelo’s secret sketches under church in Florence open to public
A “secret” room in Florence whose walls are sketched with doodles that the Italian Renaissance
master is believed to have created while evading a death sentence ordered by Pope Clement VII amid his falling out with the powerful Medici family is to officially open to the public for the first time.
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** Catalonia’s Museum of Archaeology
Leads Naked Visitors on Guided Tour
The Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia played host to a group
of nudists who were invited into the museum, and gor 90 minutes were allowed to enjoy everything the institution has to offer wearing only the clothes they were born with.
** Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture
announces closure
The Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MoDA) is seeking
new homes for its collections following a decision by Middlesex University to close the institution.
** How Art Schools Are Navigating the
Challenge of Artificial Intelligence
This is a conversation that has happened in art forever; sculptors
were once accused of casting the human body, but the whole framework of a sculpture isn’t ‘did you do it with your hands?’
** 8 Sites of Scientific Discovery and
Innovation
From Charles Darwin to Alan Turing, discover incredible places
in England connected to scientific achievement.
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More than 45 venues take part in Welsh
Museums Festival 2023
The event is funded by the Welsh Government and aims to celebrate
museums in Wales and increase publicity and footfall for the sector
** British Museum Will Make Digital Copies
of Its Objects
The project to digitize about 8 million items will take five years.
** Did dust from the Chicxulub asteroid
impact kill the dinosaurs?
Fine particles kicked up by the collision could have blocked out
the Sun for years, resulting in global cooling and disastrous consequences for ecosystems.
** Tracing Treasures of Ancient Rome to
a Village That Looted Its Own Heritage
Investigators say men from a nearby village found the bronzes
buried on a hillside, beginning in the late 1950s and, acting in tandem over a period of years, dug up the statues, often working in large groups to facilitate their excavation.
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** Historic England asks for ‘ghost sign’ photos to create an online map
Over the Halloween weekend, Historic England asked people to help
record the “ghost signs” still to be found on buildings across England and send them in for an online map.
** New Data ‘Poisoning’ Tool Enables
Artists To Fight Back Against Image Generating AI
The tool, called Nightshade, enables artists to add invisible
pixels to their art prior to being uploaded online.
** Perth Museum reveals opening date
The new permanent exhibition will include Bonnie Prince Charlie's
sword and a rare Jacobite wine glass, both on public display for the first time.
** How a biologist turned amateur sleuth
to solve a century-old art riddle
To Burgos, the craft and the colours suggested again the hand
of Gericáult, but this painting was not in the catalogues raisonées that list the known artworks of a painter.
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Opera great Maria Callas is honoured
with a new museum in Greece
The top floors offer a recreated room of her Paris apartment,
an imaginary forest and a sound studio, along with recordings of her famed live performances and clips of her lessons at The Juilliard School.
** Casting Dinosaur Footprints: Bringing
Home a Piece of the Jurassic
These footprints can be seen in the Beneski Natural History Museum,
along with the rest of the ichnological collection of Edward Hitchcock, who taught geology at Amherst College in the nineteenth century.
** Delicious, Daring, and Deadly Materials
in Art
See how artists have used everything from eggs to soap and even
to poison to make their creations.
** The papers of Nuestra Señora de Covadonga,
a Spanish treasure galleon
This previously unknown set of records from an 18th-century galleon
shines a light on one of history's most significant trade routes.
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** Insuring Your Art Collection
A free recording of the Artwork Archive's webinar with Huntington
T. Block about insuring your art collection.
** Call for Nominations: 2024 Charles
C. Eldredge Prize
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is now accepting nominations
for the 2024 Charles C. Eldredge Prize.
** Sensory-friendly Art After Hours
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
** This Week's Horoscopes
Virgo (August 23 - September 22): Art handlers,
prepare for some heavy lifting! You'll be moving some massive obstacles this week, and your knack for precision will be your secret weapon. Just remember to bend at the knees and not at the waist, no matter how tempting it might be to cut corners.
Read the full horoscopes here.
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