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That’s not a potato: mystery of Egyptian
treasures found buried in grounds of Scottish school
Incredible tale of Melville House where, over a 30-year period,
pupils uncovered treasures of antiquity.
** Ukraine accuses Russia of looting
museums, destroying churches as part of heritage war
While plunder is as old as war itself, Ukrainian investigators
say this is different; they see a campaign of cultural genocide to destroy Ukraine's identity as a nation
** ‘We failed in our duty’ to look after
objects, says Osborne
British Museum must be more open in how it deals with controversy,
chair tells trustees.
** How Cabinets of Curiosities Laid the
Foundation for Modern Museums
An exhibition at LACMA examines the legacy of Dutch colonization
through a fictive 17th-century collector’s room of wonders.
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Orlando Museum’s Ex-Leader Countersues,
Insisting ‘Basquiats’ Are Real
Former CEO at center of fake Basquiats scandal countersues museum,
claiming he is being scapegoated.
** British Museum Blog - An abundance
of riches: Myanmar's many landscapes
In this eye-opening blog the curator of the museum's major new
exhibition Burma to Myanmar takes us on a tour across this vast country.
** No flatulence, no sex in trees: Victorian
children’s sanitised Chaucer to go on display
A new exhibition in Oxford charts the different ways the great
Medieval poet has been interpreted by readers down the centuries.
** Former museum payroll manager gets
three years in prison for embezzling more than $2m
A former payroll manager at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC),
who pleaded guilty in April to embezzling funds from the museum, has been sentenced to three years in prison.
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** Plan to remake Polish Art, History and life after right-wing rule
Many state-run museums and galleries have been politicised under
PiS, a process that came to a symbolic head in the weeks after the election when it emerged that a PiS-supported artist had won the competition to represent Poland at next year’s Venice Biennale.
** Documenta Selection Committee’s
Remaining Members Resign En Masse as Controversy Mounts
In the current circumstances we do not believe that there is a
space in Germany for an open exchange of ideas and the development of complex and nuanced artistic approaches that documenta artists and curators deserve.
** The Met Gives Its European Galleries
a Fresh Look
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its full suite of
45 galleries dedicated to European paintings from 1300 to 1800, following the completion of an extensive skylight renovation project that began in 2018.
** The National Museum of Ireland Archaeology's
gold collection
The immense quantity of Bronze Age gold from Ireland suggests
that rich ore sources were known.
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** How Did the Ancient Greeks Get Rid of Tyrants?
The ancient Greek laws against tyrants were established in order
to contain the seditious.
** Pigs provided food in the Middle Ages,
but men had to watch out for their scrotums
It was quite common to have a pig in your backyard in Europe's
medieval towns, but there were fines if it was allowed to roam freely, or if it bit off someone's scrotum while that person was using the outhouse.
** German Museum Cancels Afrofuturism
Show Over Curator’s Pro-Palestine Posts
The Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, has canceled part of an
exhibition devoted to Afrofuturism due to guest curator’s pro-Palestine social media posts.
** Science Museum in London criticised
for promoting oil giant backer
The institution held a “Meet the Funder” event shortly after Equinor
got approval to develop the Rosebank field.
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** Feathery moa's fossilized footprints, ancient age revealed
Cosmogenic nuclide dating, a method commonly used in dating coastal
areas and alluvial riverbeds for landscape reconstruction, is also useful for calculating the age of trace fossils, such as a footprint, where no remains of the animal are preserved.
** SFMoMA Eliminates 20 Staff Positions,
Citing Lower Attendance and Rising Costs
As it struggles to bounce back to pre-pandemic attendance numbers,
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has eliminated 20 staff positions, citing a 35 percent drop in visitation from 2019.
** From arsenic to urine, archaeologists
find odd artifacts on museum shelves
A pair of archaeologists has spent the last 15 years cataloging
toxic and gross artifacts moldering in museum collections.
** Secrets hidden in 190m-year-old fossilized
dinosaur eggs revealed to challenge ‘soft-shelled’ assumption
Led by a group of Chinese researchers, a recent paleontological
project has revealed a secret hidden behind fossilized dinosaur embryos that were dating back to 190 million years ago.
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** 'Valuing sculpture: art, craft and industry, 1660–1860'
A Sculpture Journal Special Issue is now available online. Download
a free issue.
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Virgo, your attention to detail reaches
new heights this week. Whether you're meticulously arranging exhibits or alphabetizing the gift shop merchandise, your precision is unparalleled. Just be cautious not to let your obsession with perfection lead you down the rabbit hole of rearranging the gallery
furniture to achieve the perfect Feng Shui. Remember, not every chair needs to be aligned with the magnetic north.
Read the full horoscopes here.
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