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- FoxNews 13:00June 28, 2022Beyond Disney: 10 fun activities for kids this summer that won't break the bankFor many parents, a Disney trip is out of the question this year — yet there are plenty of fun, low-cost ways to let the kids have fun this summer. Here are 10 smart tips.
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- The Guardian 08:00June 28, 2022V&A to display its first African fashion exhibitionGalleries will showcase designers who are often overlooked, in an effort to acknowledge colonial histories within the museumThe Victoria and Albert Museum will open its first African fashion exhibition this week, more than 170 years after it was founded.Featuring designers who have worked with names including Beyoncé and architect David Adjaye, Africa Fashion aims to look across the fashion of the continent, exhibiting designs, photographs and films from 25 of the 54 countries. Continue reading...
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- Business Insider 16:04June 25, 2022The FBI seized 25 Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings following doubts about their authenticity, report saysThe raid on the works in an exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art was sparked by doubts about their authenticity.
< Retail, News, Art, basquiat, FBI, Museums, BI Weekend UK > - The Guardian 11:40June 20, 2022Sudanese museums seek return of artefacts taken by British colonisersItems include armour, banners, and two skulls taken from Omdurman battlefieldMuseum officials in Sudan are hoping for the return of priceless artefacts and body parts taken by British soldiers, colonial administrators and travellers, saying they could help bring peace to the unstable east African country.The items include valuable armour, weapons and clothing, and the banners of fighters who resisted the British force that invaded and colonised Sudan 124 years ago. Continue reading...
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- New York Times 10:00June 7, 2022The Museum Was Built So No One Would Forget. Now It’s Falling Apart.Organizers at the Monument of Heroes in the Philippines are racing to preserve documents related to the Marcos regime before the dictator’s son takes office.
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- FoxNews 05:13June 3, 2022Dallas man broke into museum, damaged art worth millions because he was ‘mad at his girl,’ police sayDallas police say 21-year-old Brian Hernandez broke into the Dallas Museum of Art and destroyed ancient artifacts worth millions because he angry with his girlfriend.
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- New York Times 18:38June 2, 2022Ukraine Tells Story of War in Museum ShowThe exhibition, called “Crucified Ukraine,” is one of several ways that the country’s government is highlighting the devastation that its people have endured.
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- FoxNews 18:43May 31, 2022New exhibits honor ‘Peanuts’ creator Charles Schulz’s 100th birthdayThree new exhibits in Ohio and California celebrating “Peanuts” creator Charles Schulz are opening this year. Two exhibits are already open and the third is set to open in September.
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- FoxNews 18:10May 30, 2022Mona Lisa left unharmed after apparent climate protest stuntDa Vinci's Mona Lisa was left unharmed after being smeared in cream on Sunday at the Louvre in Paris by an apparent protester disguised as an old woman.
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- The Guardian(UK) 02:01May 27, 2022V&A to host exhibition on Coco Chanel’s career and designsGabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto will display 180 designs, jewellery, accessories and perfumesThe V&A is to host the first ever exhibition in a major UK museum on the work of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, covering the career of the French designer from the opening of her first millinery boutique in Paris in 1910 to the showing of her final collection in 1971.The London museum’s exhibition, Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto, will display 180 designs as well as jewellery, accessories and perfume, and outfits created for Lauren Bacall and Marlene Dietrich. Continue reading...
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- The Guardian 18:17May 26, 2022Former Louvre head charged in Egyptian artefacts trafficking caseJean-Luc Martinez is accused of conspiring to hide origin of works taken out of Egypt during Arab springThe former president of the Louvre museum in Paris has been charged with conspiring to hide the origin of archaeological treasures that may have been spirited out of Egypt during the Arab spring uprisings, in a case that has shocked the world of antiquities.Jean-Luc Martinez was charged this week after he was taken in for police questioning, a French judicial source told AFP. Martinez ran the Paris Louvre, the most visited museum in the world, from 2013 to 2021. Continue reading...
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- The Guardian(UK) 07:00May 23, 2022Kyiv museums exhibit Russian artefacts with pride and a warningRelics of the failed siege of the Ukrainian capital ‘show what happens when lessons of history are not learned’ A young woman takes a selfie in front of the burned-out carcass of a Russian armoured personnel carrier. A child eating an ice cream peers at the remains of a tank turret. A curious pensioner photographs the label on some mangled plane fuselage, which explains it belonged to a Russian Su-25, shot down by the Ukrainian military on 2 March.Vladimir Putin doubtless envisioned a scenario in which Russian military hardware would stand on Kyiv’s central streets this spring, but he probably did not imagine it would look like this. Continue reading...
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- FoxNews 01:16May 7, 2022Goodwill find in Texas turns out to be ancient Roman bustA marble bust that a Texas woman bought for about $35 from a Goodwill store is temporarily on display at a San Antonio museum after experts determined it was a centuries-old sculpture missing from Germany since World War II.
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- Huffington Post UK 07:00May 5, 2022Inside Queer Britain, The UK's First National LGBTQ+ Museum
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- New York Times 16:59April 13, 2022Israel’s Oldest Museum Takes a New Look at Israeli ArtFor decades, museums presented Israeli art as a companion to the country’s history. The Tel Aviv Museum of Art breaks away from that approach — with surprising results.
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- New York Times 16:59April 13, 2022Israel’s Oldest Museum Takes a New Look at Israeli ArtFor decades, museums presented Israeli art as a companion to the country’s history. The Tel Aviv Museum of Art breaks away from that approach — with surprising results.
< Art, Museums, Sculpture, Palestinians, Jews and Judaism, Zionism, Herzl, Theodor, Israel, Tel Aviv (Israel), West Bank > - New York Times 10:43April 7, 2022A Decaying Art Gem Signifying Venezuela’s Divisions Could Now Help It HealCaracas’s Museum of Modern Art, a symbol of a westernized Venezuela, was dismantled by the Socialist governments. Its modest recovery offers hope to the troubled nation.
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- Time 21:44March 29, 2022Ukrainian Museums Are Racing to Save Artifacts That Tell the Country’s Story“This is a war against our history, our culture,” says Ihor Poshyvailo, a museum director in Kyiv. But Ukraine's museums are fighting back
< Uncategorized, museums, nationpod > - Observer 16:00March 19, 2022Best New York City Museums to Cry atNot much is free in this life, but no one can ever charge you for crying in public.
< American Natural History Museum, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Museum, crying, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Sex, museums, The Whitney Museum of American Art > - The Guardian(UK) 20:10March 15, 2022Queen joins cultural boycott of Russia by withholding swords destined for MoscowRoyal Collection withdrew permission for loan in February as troops gathered near UkraineRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesThe Queen’s art collection has become involved in the cultural boycott of Russia by withdrawing permission for three swords to be displayed at the Kremlin Museums in Moscow.The Royal Collection had agreed to loan the 17th-century weapons as part of an exhibition about duelling, sponsored by the Russian oligarch and former fencer Alisher Usmanov, who had sanctions imposed upon him by the UK, EU and US earlier this month over his ties to Vladimir Putin. Continue reading...
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- Observer 17:52February 12, 2022Meet the Girl Who Is Visiting Every Museum in New York CitySince February 2021, she has visited and documented over 50 museums on her TikTok.
< Historic House Trust, Interview, Merchant's House Museum, MoMA, museum of reclaimed urban space, Museum of the Moving Image, museums, New York City Culture Pass, New-York Historical Society, NIcholas Roerich Museum, Poster House, Tenement Museum, the museum of broadway, tiktok > - The Guardian(UK) 03:01February 10, 2022Stephen Hawking exhibition hopes to unravel the mysteries of his blackboardScience Museum hopes fellow travellers of the late cosmologist will join visitors to display of his office miscellanyHaving devoted his life to the conundrums of the cosmos, Prof Stephen Hawking has left behind a mystery of his own amid the eclectic contents of his former office.The Cambridge cosmologist, who died in 2018 at the age of 76, treasured a blackboard that became smothered with cartoons, doodles and equations at a conference he arranged in 1980. But what all the graffiti and in-jokes mean is taking some time to unravel. Continue reading...
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- Observer 22:17January 24, 2022The Louvre and Sotheby’s are Teaming Up to Identify Works for RestitutionThe Metropolitan Museum of Art has been taking similar action in recent years.
< Auction, Louvre, museums, Nazi looted art, Restitution, Sotheby's > - FoxNews 17:25January 20, 2022Theodore Roosevelt statue removed from front of NYC's Museum of Natural HistoryThe monument to Theodore Roosevelt that has stood prominently in front of the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan for over 80 years has now been removed — the statue is headed for North Dakota.
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- Observer 20:27January 18, 2022How Long Do Banksy Murals Remain Untouched, Anyway?A Lowestoft Banksy mural has been sold to a private buyer in the latest episode of the artist's public work being removed.
< Murals, museums, private owners, sale, Sotheby's, Twin Peaks > - The Guardian(UK) 20:50January 12, 2022Newcastle museum to return Benin bronze staveMove by Great North Museum: Hancock is latest in number of repatriations that put pressure on British Museum to follow suitA Benin bronze in the collection of a Newcastle museum is to be proactively returned to Nigeria, the latest in a number of repatriations that ratchet up pressure on the British Museum to follow suit.Bosses of the Great North Museum: Hancock announced that it had recently been established that a brass stave with a distinctive bird finial had been looted from Benin City by the British military in 1897. Continue reading...
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- The Guardian 18:23January 5, 2022Italy returns Parthenon fragment to Greece amid UK row over marblesLoan deal could renew pressure on Britain to repatriate ancient Parthenon marbles to AthensItaly is returning a fragment belonging to the Parthenon’s eastern frieze to Greece in a breakthrough deal that could renew pressure on Britain to repatriate the 2,500-year-old Parthenon marbles removed by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century.The marble fragment, which depicts the foot of a goddess, either Peitho or Artemis, peeking out from beneath an elaborate tunic, is currently held at the Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum in Palermo, Sicily. It was originally bought by the University of Palermo from the widow of Robert Fagan, the British consul for Sicily and Malta, after his death in 1816. Continue reading...
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- The Guardian 18:25January 1, 2022Frozen in time: clock that tells tale of Jewish resistance in wartime AmsterdamArtefacts from hideout of family sent to Auschwitz death camp with Anne Frank and her family are put on display in NetherlandsA clock that is the sole surviving object from a second world war Jewish hideout will go on display at Amsterdam’s Dutch Resistance Museum this year.The round mantelpiece clock may have been one of the last things people saw as they were seized by the Nazis and sent to death camps. Continue reading...
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- The Guardian(UK) 11:00January 1, 2022The art of Yves Saint Laurent: design house marks 60th anniversaryFive Paris museums to display fashion designer’s creations with artwork that inspired themSimultaneous exhibitions to mark the 60th anniversary of Yves Saint Laurent’s first collection are to be held by six leading Paris museums in an unprecedented tribute from the art world to the late French fashion designer.The events at museums, among them the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay, will reveal how the celebrated couturier was inspired by some of the 20th century’s greatest artists including Picasso, Matisse and Mondrian. Continue reading...
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- FoxNews 21:01December 29, 2021Smithsonian announces four museums will close due to COVID-related staffing issuesSmithsonian announced that it will temporarily close the African Art, Postal, Anacostia and Asian Art Museums.
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- The Guardian(UK) 08:00December 10, 2021Works by Turner and Lowry gifted to British nation in 2021Paintings, archives and other items worth £52m allocated by Arts Council England to museums across UKSir Anthony van Dyck’s Portrait of a Woman, JMW Turner’s Walton Bridge and LS Lowry’s painting of David Lloyd George’s birthplace in Manchester are among the dozens of items of cultural importance saved for the nation this year.Thanks to Art Council England’s cultural gifts and acceptance in lieu schemes, the paintings, archives and other items worth £52m have been accepted for the nation and allocated to museums across the UK. Continue reading...
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- Observer 21:47December 8, 2021The American Antiquities Trade is Defined By Bad ActorsBillionaire Michael Steinhardt will face no criminal charges for acquiring a collection of looted and smuggled artifacts.
< Christie's, Collectors, Larnax chest, looted artifacts, marble, museums, Sotheby's, Thailand > - The Guardian 13:05December 2, 2021Museum rivalry could make Dutch Vermeer show last of its kindRijksmuseum aims to bring together all the works by Girl with a Pearl Earring painter that are fit to travelAmsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has announced a “first and last” exhibition of all the paintings by Johannes Vermeer that are fit to travel, as its director claimed growing museum rivalry makes such international cooperation unlikely in the future.Vermeer, whose most famous work is Girl with a Pearl Earring, dating from around 1665, is thought to have painted 35 masterpieces, of which 23 were shown together 26 years ago at the Mauritshuis in The Hague. Continue reading...
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- New York Times 16:59December 1, 2021Looking Again at Amy Winehouse, 10 Years After Her DeathIn “Amy: Beyond the Stage,” the Design Museum in London explores — and tries to somewhat reframe — the “Back to Black” singer’s life and legacy.
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- The Guardian 13:00November 21, 2021‘It was terrifying’: ancient book’s journey from Irish bog to museum treasureA new book tells the story of the painstaking process to preserve the 1,200-year-old Faddan More PsalterOne summer’s day in Tipperary as peat was being dug from a bog, a button peered out from the freshly cut earth. The find set off a five-year journey of conservation to retrieve and preserve what lay beyond: a 1,200-year-old psalm book in its original cover.Bogs across Europe have thrown up all sorts of relics of the ancient past, from naturally preserved bodies to vessels containing butter more than a millennium old, but the 2006 discovery of an entire early medieval manuscript, entombed in a wet time capsule for so long, was unprecedented, said the National Museum of Ireland. Continue reading...
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- The Guardian 14:35November 13, 2021Greek prime minister tries to broker deal for return of Parthenon marblesKyriakos Mitsotakis offers to loan Greek treasures to British Museum if ‘stolen’ sculptures are returned to AcropolisThe Greek prime minister has demanded that the 2,500-year-old Parthenon marbles, which he accuses Britain of stealing, be returned to Greece, and even offered to loan some of his country’s treasures to the British Museum in an attempt to broker a deal.Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the Daily Telegraph that the sculptures, also known as the Elgin marbles, belong in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. Continue reading...
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- The Guardian(UK) 09:00November 10, 2021Records of 320,000 Punjab soldiers from first world war uncoveredMilitary files of Indian troops left unread in Pakistan museum for 97 years go onlineThe records of 320,000 troops from the Punjab who fought in the first world war, left unread in a basement for 97 years, have been disclosed by UK-based historians to offer new insight into the contribution of Indian soldiers to the allied war effort.Files found in the depths of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan have been digitised and uploaded on to a website in time for Armistice Day on Thursday. Continue reading...
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- Observer 22:12November 9, 2021Metropolitan Museum of Art Attendance Has Dropped by Around HalfSince the pandemic began, the Met has become far less able to rely on international travelers for ticket sales.
< American Alliance of Museums, Attendance, Metropolitam Museum of Art, Pandemic > - The Guardian 18:14October 29, 2021‘True genius’ of Fragonard revealed after restoration of The SwingRococo painting to go back on show at Wallace Collection with greater depth and detailA complex and delicate conservation process on one of the most celebrated paintings in French art history has revealed fresh vibrancy and detail that shows the artist’s “true genius”.Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Swing, created in 1767, was considered by many contemporaries as highly risqué for its depiction of a young woman revealing a glimpse of her undergarments from her perch in a verdant garden. Continue reading...
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