Reinventing America's Most Popular Museum | Tate Modern's Invasion Of Privacy | Barrel Chested Neanderthals | Dealing with the Tough Stuff In Museums | Vatican Considers Limiting Museum Visitors | Cunning Husband-And-Wife Art Forgers

 
From: "Roger Smith globalmuseum@gmail.com [talk at museum-ed.org]" <talk@museum-ed.org>
Date: November 11th 2018
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**  What Would You Do? How to Reinvent America's Most Popular Museum
That’s the task at hand for this famed museum with its enormous collection of over 60,000 artifacts, 5,500 works of art, 1.75 million photographs, 14,000 videos/films and 12,000+ cubic feet of documents in 23 galleries and presentation spaces.

**  Jean Nouvel-designed National Museum of Qatar announces opening date
Nouvel, who also designed the Louvre Abu Dhabi, drew inspiration from the crystalline forms that emerge in the desert as the basis for his design with curved discs, intersections and cantilevered angles.

**  Tate Britain to hold major Van Gogh exhibition in 2019
The exhibition will tell the story of the young Vincent, an economic migrant who lived in London between 1873-76 as a trainee art dealer; he lodged in Brixton and fell in love with the city, walking everywhere.
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**  New V&A East site to offer dramatic 360-degree viewing spaces
The V&A plans to open up its vast stores of objects in a way which does not exist anywhere else in the world, creating dramatic 360-degree viewing spaces for the public to walk through.

**  Why the Long Face, Extinct Dolphin?
In the fall of 2015, while rummaging through the fossil collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Matthew McCurry came across a very strange skull; it belonged to an extinct dolphin named Eurhinodelphis, and it was incredibly long.

**  How Does the Art World Live With Itself?
Only 40 years ago, the art world was small, artists did what they did with no market, no money, and little outside audience.

**  Flat owners take Tate Modern to court over 'invasion of privacy'
Residents of London flats overlooked by the Tate Modern have gone to the high court in an effort to stop “hundreds of thousands of visitors” looking into their homes from the art gallery’s viewing platform.
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**  A Cunning Husband-and-Wife Duo Sold Hundreds of Forged Artworks in Finland
The ringleaders of a forgery scam in Finland were sentenced to prison and ordered to pay €13 million ($11.4 million) in damages for selling hundreds of fake artworks over five years.

**  The radical history of a past Museums Association president
The MA reveals the radical story of one of our past presidents, Count George Noble Plunkett, and his role in the 1916 Easter Rising, the armed insurrection against British rule in Ireland.

**  Stonehenge | The British Museum
Stonehenge is an enduring source of mystery, myth and legend; it’s one of the most famous monuments in the world, equal to the pyramids but who built Stonehenge, and what was their world like? 

**  Cats go viral for failing to enter Japanese art museum for two years
On Oct. 31, two infamous cats in Japan made headlines yet again for their umpteenth failed attempt to enter the Hiroshima Onomichi City Museum of Art
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**  Vatican considers limit on museum visitors amid safety fears
The museums, a sprawling structure of 54 galleries containing a vast collection of treasures gathered by pontiffs over the centuries, draw in more than 6 million people a year.

**  Dirty Jokes in Latrine Mosaics Entertained Ancient Romans
As men relieved themselves at the public toilets in the coastal city of Antiochia ad Cragum some 1,800 years ago, they probably would have been amused by dirty scenes crafted into floor mosaics, archaeologists have found.

**  Venice Museums Re-Open After the City’s Worst Flood in a Decade
How Venice and its cultural institutions will battle rising sea levels in the future is a larger question.

**  Dutch Tribunal Says Artwork Lost Under Nazis To Stay in Museum
The Restitutions Committee concluded that the painting had not been stolen or confiscated, but rather that the Lewenstein family had sold the work in October 1940 because of their worsening financial circumstances.
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**  Duchess Kate sees WWI letters of her ancestors at London's war museum
Kate's visit to the museum helped focus more attention on the war museum's fascinating Documents Archive, which allows anyone to research their ancestors' war service and the extraordinary sacrifices made by so many families during WWI, or the "First World War," as the British call it.

**  Former Met Director Will Now Head the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco
Selected after a six-month search, 'Tapestry Tom' Campbell has begun his new role at the helm of the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor.

**  Neanderthals’ barrel chests might not have been any bigger than ours
Though humans often consider ourselves far more evolved and refined than Neanderthals, new research has shown we have a lot common with our stocky, hairy cousins in terms of behaviour and development.

**  Budapest museum's Romanesque Hall returned to former glory
Built during the early 1900s, when the Hungarian half of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy was seeking to assert its national pedigree, the museum houses a large collection of European art.
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**  Who likes Van Dycks?
No wonder the 17th century A-list all wanted Van Dyck to paint them, even more so than his famous mentor and sometime employer, Peter Paul Rubens, who had a more all-round repertoire.

**  Eye of the Bird: Visions and Views of D.C.’s Past
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**  Dealing with the Tough Stuff: Promoting Civic Dialogue in the Academic Art Museum
Academic art museums often enjoy a level of institutional freedom to address contemporary social justice issues such as institutional racism, decolonization, income inequality, or LGBTQ+ rights.

**  University Museums and Collections as Cultural Hubs: The Future of Tradition
19th Annual UMAC Conference

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