World's First AI Art Museum | Brain-On Museum Experiences | Wood-Munching Marauders & Giant Nosed Dinosaurs | Donors Want Mauritshuis Rembrandts Back | Quebec's Indigenous groups Challenge New Museum | The Women Who Made MoMA

World's First AI Art Museum | Brain-On Museum Experiences | Wood-Munching Marauders & Giant Nosed Dinosaurs | Donors Want Mauritshuis Rembrandts Back | Quebec's Indigenous groups Challenge New Museum | The Women Who Made MoMA | More Museum News

From: "Roger Smith globalmuseum@gmail.com [talk at museum-ed.org]" <talk@museum-ed.org>

Date: October 4th 2024

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** The world's first AI art museum will be a big test for the technology

While the question of copyright in AI art is being dealt with in the courts, the matter of whether anyone wants to look at it will be put to the test by a new AI art museum in Los Angeles called Dataland.

** This Museum Ups Game To Equal Ascension Of Its Home City

The museum as more than a storehouse. More than a refrigerator for artwork. A museum prioritizing the human experience akin to a park or garden or library or stadium.

** The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself

It is no exaggeration to say that digital archiving as we know it would not exist without the Internet Archive—and that, as the world’s knowledge repositories increasingly go online, archiving as we know it would not be as functional.

** The Forgotten Female Art Dealer Who Championed Picasso and Modigliani

This homely Jewish spinster with spectacles thick as goldfish bowls exhibited a then little-known Pablo Picasso many times, including in a 1902 show featuring 30 early works.
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** Turner prize 2024 – everything, everywhere, all at once

The Turner prize has had trouble attracting sponsors of late – and no wonder; it feels too strenuous to call for its end, on the basis of such a weak show, but it seems to have run out of originality and fire.

** Heirs to Dutch Collector Who Donated Rembrandts to Mauritshuis Museum Want Them Back

The heirs of Dutch museum director Abraham Bredius (1855-1946) have filed a legal motion demanding a trove of Rembrandt paintings he donated to the Mauritshuis museum in The Haugue be returned to the family.

** United States Announces New Support for Protection of Ukrainian Cultural Heritage

The FBI and U.S. Department of Justice will work with Ukraine’s Prosecutor General to strengthen Ukraine’s capabilities to investigate, prosecute, and trace looted, stolen, and trafficked cultural property from Ukraine and to prosecute those responsible.

** Video Game Maker Nintendo to Open a Museum

The museum, which opens to the public October 2, is in the place where the company used to make playing cards and was a center for product repairs.
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** The Women Who Made MoMA

A new book pays tribute to the female investors, curators, collectors and more without whom the Museum of Modern Art in New York likely would not exist.

** Tasmania’s Supreme Court Overrules Closing of Women-Only Art Installation

In a reversal, the Tasmanian supreme court overturned a previous ruling that shuttered a women-only art installation at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart, Australia.

** African Rock Art Demonstrates How Indigenous People Were Early Paleontologists

It’s possible the walrus-like beast, known as the Horned Serpent, is a dicynodont—a species that lived in the area more than 200 million years ago and left numerous fossils.

** Museum investigates the DNA sequence of a wood-munching marauder

Armed with the genome sequence of the Deathwatch Beetle, university researchers and the National Museum of the Royal Navy have joined forces to further the study of the Deathwatch Beetle.
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** Vintage museum collection and modern research intersect in century-long bee study

Scientists connected olden wild bee sample collections and modern technology to better decode the ecological traits and habits of pollinators, critical links to environmental stability.

** Understanding the Leafcasting Process

Leafcasting is a conservation technique used to repair documents with significant damage, such as gaps or tears.

** Indigenous groups challenge Quebec over new history museum

Several Indigenous groups are calling on the Quebec government to distance itself from the “colonialist mentality” as it designs a new $92-million history museum project in the provincial capital.

** A mesmerising British Museum show turns world history upside down

Far from developing in isolation, let alone in a “clash of civilisations”, east and west were once mutually connected by epic trade routes known as the Silk Roads that carried China’s precious discovery, silk, across the then-known world.
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** New 73-Million-Year-Old Duck-Billed Dinosaur With A Giant Nose

Paleontologists have described a brand-new species of duck-billed dinosaur with one hell of a honker.

** Make an impact that visitors want to share

Our online reviews often focus on the level of, not just hands-on, but “brain-on” experience our visitors encounter; when people can make links between historic life and contemporary society in unexpected ways, it leaves a lasting impression.

** Van Gogh paintings vandalized at a London gallery

A group of activists attacked a pair of paintings by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh at London’s National Gallery by throwing what appeared to be tomato soup on the artworks, after 2 activists were recently sentenced in similar attack.

** China pledges to retrieve more lost cultural artifacts

Since the Opium War in the 1840s, more than 10 million Chinese cultural relics have been displaced due to war and illicit trade, according to the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics, a domestic non-profit organization.
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** MOCAD secures nearly $450k in grants this Summer

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) proudly shares the 5 new grants awarded this past summer in support of programming and operations.

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This Week's Horoscopes

By Celestia Stardust, Senior Astrologer & Purveyor Of Stargazing Wisdom

Cancer: You’ll start the week full of optimism, thinking, “Surely this Zoom call will go smoothly!” Oh, how naive you are, Cancer. A new study has shown that 87% of productivity is lost to museum staff whispering “Can You Hear Me Now?” on Zoom Calls. By the end of the week, you’ll be mumbling, “Can you hear me not caring anymore?” You’ll start whispering it to yourself in the museum bathroom for comfort. Read the full weekly horoscopes here.

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