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Is Museums’ Social Media Use Dying?

While most of the 100 museums in the list grew their social media followings over the past year, this is despite almost all of them experiencing a decline in followers on X. - The Art Newspaper

Museums As Medical Therapy Prescriptions

Years after the pandemic sharpened issues around mental health, the practice has boomed, with doctors prescribing visits to museums from Montpellier to Massachusetts as a complement to more traditional treatments. - The Guardian

What We Could Learn About Accommodating Climate Change From Frank Lloyd Wright

“The man-made building heighten the beauty of the desert and the desert more beautiful because of the building,” Wright wrote in To Arizona. “A dream, but realization is coming.” - Bloomberg

Sudan’s National Museum Ransacked And Looted By Paramilitaries

“Videos of (the) museum showing empty rooms, piles of rubble and broken artefacts posted on social media after the Sudanese army recaptured the area from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. … The museum held an estimated 100,000 artefacts from thousands of years of the country’s history.” - The Guardian

Small Nebraska Museum Says It Has Discovered Five Edvard Munches

Much like Munch’s iconic painting, this suite of five “never-before-seen” works made around 1893 all depict the main figure on a bridge alongside a pair in the background. In this case, the central character displays a range of emotions, from happiness to anger and boredom. - Hyperallergic

Historic Landmarks Damaged In Myanmar Earthquake

“The most significant damage to cultural heritage sites appears to have occurred in and around Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city and the home of many ancient monasteries and palaces.” - ARTnews

Visitors: Isn’t The Smithsonian Already Telling The Story Of America?

“There’s no way this is anti-American if it’s showing everything we’ve been through and what our nation is founded on. How is it divisive to educate people on what happened?” - Washington Post

If The Minnesota State Capitol Were On Fire, Its Historian Would Save This Painting

Why would historic site manager Brian Pease save The Battle of Nashville? The Capitol “was finished in 1905, only 40 years after the Civil War. The war was fresh in people’s minds, especially the state’s veterans, who had become politicians, governors and business leaders.” - MPR

In Berlin, Fine Tattoo Art Is Thriving

“Works on Skin sells artwork in numbered limited editions of 100, initially for €100 each but reaching up to €2,000 for the last remaining numbers. With their purchase, buyers acquire a signed fine-art print of the artwork.” - The Observer (UK)

Tate Britain Will Return A Nazi-Looted Work To The Family Of A Belgian Art Collector

“Painter Henry Gibbs' 1654 work, Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy, was taken by the Nazis as 'an act of racial persecution,' said the Spoliation Advisory Panel, which which looks into cases of looted artworks.” - BBC

More Than A Century After It Was Taken By A Museum, An Indigenous Shrine Returns Home

Franz Boas "decided to acquire for the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where he was a curator. He was driven by a concept known as ‘salvage anthropology,’ in which researchers saw collecting Native cultural possessions as a way to safeguard them." - The New York Times

MoMA’s New Leader Is Christophe Cherix

Cherix is an insider, chief curator for drawings and prints. “The board, which was anxious about leaks to the news media, summoned its members to a hastily called meeting on Friday morning for a vote to appoint Cherix; among those who attended, the approval was unanimous.” - The New York Times

The Intersections Of Art And Sports

“Art and sports have so many parallels, like the idea of practice versus natural talent. Athletes and artists both have invisible teams that ensure their success, or push it forward anyway, while museums and arenas both act as stages for their talents.” - Hyperallergic

What To Know About The Smithsonian Museums, And The Crisis They’re Facing Now

One (really) good thing: “While the vice president, along with the chief justice of the United States, is a member of the board by law, the executive branch does not have authority over the institution.” - The New York Times

Vancouver Art Gallery Parts Ways With Its CEO

He was at the helm as the gallery prepared to relocate to a new building downtown and then scrapped that plan last year after the project’s budget ballooned by 50 per cent to $600 million. - Vancouver Sun

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