Art lovers descended on London’s Brick Lane on the week end of June 7-8 in search of some bargains at Europe’s coolest car boot sale. photo by Linda Nylind From the Guardian UnlimitedContinue Reading
The AMNH has repatriated, out of the confines of NAGPRA, human remains belonging to the Tseycum First Nation, of British Columbia… http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/nyregion/10remains.html?ex=1213761600&en=53bb9c6f211e4d13&ei=5070&emc=eta1Continue Reading
The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia has been devastated by the theft on Saturday, May 24, 2008 of 15 objects, including 12 pieces by the renowned late Haida artist Bill Reid. Read more> http://www.moa.ubc.ca/art-theft/Continue Reading
A Story in the NY TImes about Le Corbusier chairs in Chandigarh and some shifty market shenanigans… (link passed on with thanks from Miriam Basilio) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/world/asia/19chandigarh.html?ex=1206590400&en=23228c637beb1978&ei=5070&emc=eta1Continue Reading
Good article about the demise of statues of famous despots by David Cannadine… http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7196530.stm Statues to the mighty are erected as permanent monuments. But those regarded as heroes by one political regime are often denounced as villains by the next, their statues left unloved or toppled and carted off toContinue Reading
It came as a shock within the museum world to learn of the proposed closure of the Textile Conservation Centre in Winchester. The TCC is one of the world’s leading centres in textiles research, conservation and development. Having merged with the University of Southampton in 1999, it offers a rangeContinue Reading
Great story on the BBC about the 1,000,000 people a year that visit the unclaimed baggage repository in Scottsboro, Alabama, where you can view, and purchase, the luggage that is never claimed. Finders Keepers DO NOT fail to check out their website: Unclaimed Baggage: Lost treasures from around the worldContinue Reading
A man who handed over a counterfeit million-dollar bill to a cashier at a Pittsburgh supermarket and asked for change has been arrested…. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7036098.stmContinue Reading
Today it was announced: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7027533.stm that plans have been set in motion to preserve the Chesnut Tree that Anne Frank sought solace from during her confinement in hiding during World War Two. The tree has become an important materialisation of Anne herself…and a way of thinking through poetically, the emotionalContinue Reading
Just wanted to share with our readers a short piece about the use of blogs in universities, which includes a description of material world blog… http://www.nyu.edu/its/pubs/connect/spring07/Continue Reading
Graeme Were, UCL Museums & Collections Since its opening last year, critics have declared Chirac’s museum of ‘primitive art’ in Paris – better known as the Musée du Quai Branly – as ill-judged, neo-colonial, and racist to list just some of the negative terms deployed. If those weren’t strong enough,Continue Reading