museums

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• 1/14/20
  

  Painter of Disquiet: Félix Vallotton at the Metropolitan Museum of Art'

  by Sam Ben-Meir

  Vallotton’s work unquestionably merits the renewed attention — his paintings possess a mysterious quality, narrative appeal, and attention to detail, as well as invoke a delicious sense of irony and wit.

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• SOURCE: Washignton Post
  12/31/19
  

  As the Newseum closes its doors, pieces of history and human remains to find a new resting place

  “Everything goes,” said Sonya Gavankar, a Newseum spokeswoman and 20-year veteran of the facility.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/24/19
  

  Colombia’s conflict spills over to museum of memory

  “What’s at stake is potentially losing the opportunity for the museum to be another instrument through which to build peace in Colombia,” said Rafael Tamayo, an academic who until recently served as the museum’s leader.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/16/19
  

  A museum’s 3,500-year-old disposable cup shows the desire to avoid dishwashing is ancient

  One is a paper discard from the 1990s. Researchers believe the other, made from clay, may have held wine before it was thrown out after an ancient party on the island of Crete.

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• SOURCE: AP News
  12/12/19
  

  Long-awaited Native American museum in Oklahoma has new name

  The long-awaited American Indian Cultural Center and Museum in Oklahoma City is getting a new name. City and tribal officials announced Thursday the facility will be called the First Americans Museum. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  

  Bullets That Killed John F. Kennedy Immortalized as Digital Replicas by Smithsonian

  The originals remain at the National Archives, but new 3-D scans showcase the ballistics in vivid detail  

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• SOURCE: Virginia Mercury
  12/6/19
  

  ‘We’re telling history now’: New Lost Cause exhibit opens at Richmond museum

  Includes a qutoe from Melvin Patrick Ely, a College of William & Mary history professor.

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• 1/19/20
  

  Digesting History: A Conversation with the Museum of Food and Drink’s Curatorial Director Catherine Piccoli

  by Chelsea Connolly

  Food historian Catherine Piccoli describes how this Brooklyn museum encourages its visitors to literally "digest" history.

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• SOURCE: Literary Hub
  11/13/19
  

  On the Missing History at New York’s Warship Intrepid Museum

  by James Loewen

  James W. Loewen Wonders What Happened to Vietnam.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.org
  11/15/19
  

  Smithsonian Elevates the Frequently Ignored Histories of Women

  by Erin Blakemore

  Packed with ordinary objects made and used by American women, Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity, and Vision from the National Collection considers their contributions to the nation’s history through the lens of the things they invented, created and owned.

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• 11/7/19
  

  14 Ships' Figureheads Weighing Over 20 Tons Arrive at UK's Newest Museum, The Box

  by Orbis Conservation

  In what is the most ambitious sculpture conservation project currently taking place in the UK, 14 monumental 19th century naval figureheads have been saved from decay for the nation. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/1/19
  

  244-Year-Old Rifle Stolen Decades Ago Is Returned to Museum

  The Johann Christian Oerter rifle, taken from Valley Forge State Park in 1971, will go on display at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.

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• SOURCE: Time
  10/15/19
  

  Smithsonian Museums Are Supposed to Tell the American Story. So Where's the One Dedicated to Latinos?

  by Julissa Arce

  The harm of not being treated as valuable members of this country can be seen in the rise of anti-Latino hate crimes, as well as in the higher rate of depression among Latino youth than their white peers.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  10/17/19
  

  Washington doesn't have a Latino history museum. These people are hoping to change that

  How does a Smithsonian museum get established? The process involves a lot of time and a lot of legislation.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  10/16/19
  

  Hobby Lobby Will Return Biblical Antiquities Allegedly Stolen by Oxford Professor

  The Museum of the Bible, founded by the owners of arts-and-crafts store chain Hobby Lobby, will turn over biblical fragments it had acquired from an Oxford professor.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/27/19
  

  With a brass band blaring, artist Kehinde Wiley goes off to war with Confederate statues

  Kehinde Wiley, the man who painted the portrait of Barack Obama that now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, unveiled his latest work, a monumentally scaled bronze equestrian statue of Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart.

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• 9/15/19
  

  S.F. History Museum Highlights America’s First Immigration Restriction: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

  by James Thornton Harris

  An interview with Tamiko Wong, the executive director of the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum about the exhibit Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/9/19
  

  What Happens to Those Heartbreaking Tributes at the 9/11 Memorial

  The expressions of mourning left behind at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum are cleared nightly and preserved.

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• SOURCE: The Japan Times
  9/9/19
  

  At meeting in Kyoto, global body debates how to define and protect museums

  At the heart of the debate is determining the role museums should play in the 21st century, and the extent to which they should engage the public.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  8/29/19
  

  New Exhibit Highlights the Understudied History of Enslaved Women in Colonial Cape Town

  At the Iziko Slave Lodge in Cape Town, an exhibition gives voice to a group of women whose lives were written out of history because they were considered too marginal to bother with.