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**  One-star reviews of world-class museums: ‘It felt more like an airport’

Travelers gripe about suffocating crowds, bathroom lines, amateur art and food they deemed underwhelming​​.

**  Caution urged on using generative AI in funding bids

Organisations applying for funding from Arts Council England (ACE) should use generative AI “cautiously”, the funding body has warned​.

**  ‘Relentless negativity’ around sponsorship must end, say national museums

​An open letter from cultural organisations defends use of corporate money in arts and culture.

**  Judge says administration can dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services

A federal judge has denied a request by the American Library Association to halt the Trump administration’s further dismantling of an agency that funds and promotes libraries across the country

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**  US Army plans to close more than 20 base museums in major reduction

Citing maintenance costs and aging buildings, the Army will close or consolidate many of its 41 museums, leaving only 12 at major bases​​.

**  ‘Putin’s daughter’ works in Paris gallery of Ukraine war art

Elizaveta Krivonogikh, 22, bears a striking similarity to the president and is rubbing shoulders with Russian émigrés and Ukrainian artists.

**  Embroidered silks to Adidas collabs: the evolution of the kimono – in pictures

The National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) exhibition Kimono features hundreds of garments, paintings and posters; it includes historic garments from the Edo period, right through to works by contemporary Japanese and western designers.

**  Ready for Their Reboot: How Galleries Plumb Art History’s Forgotten Talent

Call it the ‘‘rediscovery industrial complex”: Art advisers and dealers are turning to the past to discover tomorrow’s blue-chip stars.

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**  UK Art Dealer Sentenced to 2.5 Years In Jail For Selling Art to Suspected Hezbollah Financier

Evidence seized from Ojiri’s phone showed the art dealer had researched Ahmad’s identity and knew about the Lebanese-Belgian art collector being sanctioned by the US.

**   British Museum tracks down the Plum Garden: Hiroshige, Van Gogh and the Edo 'Instagram'

Thousands of prints were made of Hiroshige's Plum Garden at Kameido, but which version did Van Gogh paint?

**  236-Million-Year-Old Poop Fossil Reveals a Hidden Treasure — Oldest Evidence of Butterflies

Tiny wing scales trapped in fossilized dung suggest butterflies evolved long before flowers appeared.

**  Museums must support diversity amid Trump attacks, says V&A East director

Gus Casely-Hayford expresses solidarity with US colleagues after Smithsonian gallery director is ‘fired’​.

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**  Williamsburg museum found 4 Confederate soldiers’ remains. It’s trying to identify them

Archaeologists in Williamsburg, Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human skull.

**  Whitney Museum pauses Independent Study Program amid accusations of censorship

​The cancellation of a performance addressing the ongoing war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza has also sparked an open letter by alumni of the programme.

**  Dutch museum exhibits Victorian-era condom adorned with erotic art of a naughty nun and clergymen

The Netherlands' national museum has a new object on display that merges art with Amsterdam's infamous Red Light District: a nearly 200-year-old condom, emblazoned with erotic art.

**  To Make an Exhibition, Make A Library: An Interview With the New Museum’s Massimiliano Gioni

For the artistic director, the act of collecting books is both a research tool and a way to archive his intellectual obsessions.​

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**  Smithsonian’s Reaction to Trump’s Firing of Its Museum Director: Silence

Days after the president said he was dismissing the head of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian has yet to accept or challenge his authority.

**  Museum staff’s emotional wellbeing is not a side issue

​The emotional complexities of roles aren’t recognised.

**  Macron waxwork stolen from French museum by activists

Greenpeace activists entered the Grevin Museum posing as tourists before changing their clothes, covering the statue with a blanket and taking it out through an emergency exit.

**  Dinosaur bones: The journey from find to museum

Have you ever wondered how a fossil discovered on public lands ends up showcased in a museum or studied at a university.

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**  Helping Hands: Harnessing the Power of Volunteers

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**  Shining a spotlight on popular music in Canada

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