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** How Museum Items Go Missing
After alleged thefts from the British Museum, a curator explains the challenges of keeping
track of collections— and the legal limitations on returning cultural material to source communities.
** Top French Art Expert Heads to Trial for Allegedly Selling Fake Antique Furniture
to the Palace of Versailles
According to the suit, the furniture collector and dealer allegedly falsely claimed items were from the 18th
century, and sold pieces at high prices to buyers, including the Palace of Versailles.
** Treasures destroyed and masterpieces in vaults: War's toll for art in Israel and
Gaza
Curators of Israeli and Palestinian history and art have found themselves confronted by very different realities
in the scramble to preserve museum works in the middle of an ongoing war.
** British Museum is set to publish the findings of an independent review into how
its artefacts were stolen and sold online
About 1,500 items - including jewellery, sculpture fragments and pottery - disappeared over a nearly 30-year
period while a further 350 artefacts had portions removed, such as gold mounts from gems.
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** How X-rays reveal the secrets of Madrid’s Prado Museum
Radiography and reflectography can penetrate works of art layer by layer, telling us how an artist worked,
and uncovering old paintings hidden beneath newer ones.
** Protesters climb Te Papa exhibit, deface English version of Treaty Of Waitangi
A man abseiled within the building and used an angle grinder and spray paint to damage the exhibit.
** After Devastating Blaze, Notre-Dame Cathedral Set to Reopen In A Year's Time
In 2019, an inferno tore through Notre-Dame cathedral’s roof, consuming the fragile spire as Paris watched
in horror.
** Striking Workers at the Centre Pompidou March to France’s Culture Ministry to Demand
Job Security
No one seems to contest that the Pompidou’s modernist edifice is in a state of critical disrepair and the ministry
of culture has promised to spend about $285 million on necessary renovations.
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** The Uniquely American History of Eggnog, Everyone’s Favorite—or Least Favorite—Holiday Quaff
The creamy, spiced beverage is believed to have originated in medieval Britain as “posset,” a comforting mixture
of hot milk or cream, wine or ale, and spices.
** The Cavernous Bat Trang Pottery Museum Swells Upward Like a Hand-Thrown Ceramic
Vessel
The historic village of Bat Trang in northern Vietnam has been a hub for ceramic production since the 11th
century.
** Paris' Louvre museum to hike ticket prices by 29%
The Louvre art museum in Paris will hike its basic entrance fee next year by 29%, adding to concerns that visitors
coming to Paris for next year's Olympic Games will face spiralling costs.
** The Glory of Designs by Women (It’s About Time)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute reimagines the record of fashion, celebrating designers
known but also those long, and wrongly, forgotten.
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** Inside the Wabanaki Tribes' Struggle to Reclaim Ancestral Remains from Harvard
The university’s Peabody Museum exploited loopholes to prevent repatriation to the Wabanaki people while still
staying in compliance with NAGPRA; the tribes didn’t give up.
** The Metropolitan Museum’s rehung European galleries are a triumph
Five centuries of paintings, including Giotto, Rembrandt and Goya, are displayed with understated intelligence
in the New York museum.
** Irish repatriation committee holds first meeting
Plans to provide advice on the restitution of cultural heritage held in Irish institutions moved forward with
the first meeting of an advisory committee.
** Roundtripping people identifiers with Wikidata
Being sure that we’re all talking about the same person is a vital part of sharing collections and data between
sources.
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** Guggenheim Lays Off 10 Employees as Museums Face Fiscal Challenges
A growing number of museums around the country have raised admission fees and cut staff to try to weather the
financial setbacks they have faced since the pandemic began.
** 'Fussy eater': Alberta researchers analyse young T. rex's meals
The juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex preferred dino drumsticks over wings.
** Rare Bronze Age axe heads found in forest described as ‘sensational’
Five immaculately preserved bronze age axe heads have been unearthed in a forest near Szczecin.
** Banksy’s Brexit Mural in Dover Has Been Demolished
Contractors are working to determine whether restoration of the piece’s remains is possible.
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** Cultural institutions accused of censorship over Israel-Palestine war
Artists sign letter amid growing frustration at culture sector's response to conflict.
** Call for Panels: World Anthropological Union (WAU) Congress 2024
Anthropology Southern Africa warmly invites you to join us in Mzansi/South Africa for
the inaugural World Anthropological Union (WAU) Congress from November 11 to 15, 2024.
** This Week's Horoscopes.
Aries: This week, you will be struck by a sudden and overwhelming urge to buy a Christmas
cake. Resist it. Just... no. Christmas Cake is the culinary equivalent of a participation trophy. You can do better.
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