Museums Are Closed, But Digital Exhibitions Could Be A Revenue Source—If Only They Tried

“Arriving at London's St. Pancras International train station via the Eurostar from Brussels or Paris, visitors and Brits returning home are greeted by Tracy Emin's neon text, "I want my time with you". With the emotions of a lover nearing a breakup, Emin's work reminds us that this international relationship is coming to an end...” Read more.

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Brexit: A Golden Moment For British Artwork

“Arriving at London's St. Pancras International train station via the Eurostar from Brussels or Paris, visitors and Brits returning home are greeted by Tracy Emin's neon text, "I want my time with you". With the emotions of a lover nearing a breakup, Emin's work reminds us that this international relationship is coming to an end...” Read more.

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Big tobacco keeps starting 'grassroots' Facebook campaigns

“Facebook groups like 'Oregonians Against Tax Hikes' and 'No Blank Checks for Colorado' look like citizen groups concerned about taxes. But after a few months running extensive Facebook ad campaigns, they recede with members' petition signatures and personal data. They also happen to be owned and operated by tobacco companies.…” Read more.

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Radiocarbon Dating May Help Uncover Art Forgeries

“Art forgeries have been a problem for centuries and still plague the art world today. Last year an art museum in France found 60% of its works supposedly by artist Étienne Terrus to be frauds. A show of Amedeo Modigliani paintings in Genoa, Italy in 2018 turned out to be entirely fake, but for one of the 21 paintings…” Read more.

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Finding A Way To Make Digitizing Art Collections Profitable

“Institutions that hold the world's art have often been slow to create user-friendly digital databases and websites to display their collections (not to mention their retail). The challenges are clear: collections are vast with a majority of works in storage, building new websites and painstakingly cataloging photos of pieces is expensive, and keeping these colossal digital collections up-to-date technologically is difficult…” Read more.

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Bauhaus' 100th Anniversary Opens Museum Doors

“There are few artistic movements that have had a more lasting and widespread impact beyond the art world than the 20th-century design school of Bauhaus, founded in 1919. It's almost hard to believe that this artistic movement and design style – still present in everything from Ikea furniture to cars to sunglasses – is turning 100 this year…” Read more.

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