Jane
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Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.
September 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.
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Eight years after French president Emmanuel Macron pledged to return African heritage to the continent, his government has adopted a bill facilitating the deaccession of cultural items plundered from former colonies.
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/30/f...
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/30/f...
French government adopts bill for restitution of colonial-era objects
The text will be submitted for a vote in the senate on 24 September
www.theartnewspaper.com
July 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Eight years after French president Emmanuel Macron pledged to return African heritage to the continent, his government has adopted a bill facilitating the deaccession of cultural items plundered from former colonies.
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/30/f...
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/30/f...
One of my favourite artists visited the museum and took the time to compliment my installation work
July 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
One of my favourite artists visited the museum and took the time to compliment my installation work
Feb 2023, an art exhange project between kids in hospital in London and kids in Gaza was dismantled following a complaint that the decorated plates made Jewish patients "vulnerable, harrassed and victimised"
July 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Feb 2023, an art exhange project between kids in hospital in London and kids in Gaza was dismantled following a complaint that the decorated plates made Jewish patients "vulnerable, harrassed and victimised"
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Huge news. This is a win for the artistic community who collectively rejected this racist censorship from the start and never let up - particularly Khaled’s peers who refused to take up the poisoned pavilion. Solidarity in action.
July 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Huge news. This is a win for the artistic community who collectively rejected this racist censorship from the start and never let up - particularly Khaled’s peers who refused to take up the poisoned pavilion. Solidarity in action.
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AI bot scrapers are hitting every site on the web in search of training data. This report is the first good attempt to evaluate the impact of these AI scrapers, especially on smaller institutions that are trying to make their collections open to the public www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
www.404media.co
June 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
AI bot scrapers are hitting every site on the web in search of training data. This report is the first good attempt to evaluate the impact of these AI scrapers, especially on smaller institutions that are trying to make their collections open to the public www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
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New @planet.com SkySat imagery from May 13 gives us an updated look at the archeological site highlighted below.
In the newer imagery, we can see Tell Ali Muntar has been further damaged and turned into a military position, with new roads, gravel, and military infrastructure set up on the hill.
In the newer imagery, we can see Tell Ali Muntar has been further damaged and turned into a military position, with new roads, gravel, and military infrastructure set up on the hill.
May 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
New @planet.com SkySat imagery from May 13 gives us an updated look at the archeological site highlighted below.
In the newer imagery, we can see Tell Ali Muntar has been further damaged and turned into a military position, with new roads, gravel, and military infrastructure set up on the hill.
In the newer imagery, we can see Tell Ali Muntar has been further damaged and turned into a military position, with new roads, gravel, and military infrastructure set up on the hill.
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The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has apparently been trying to work with the (son of the Lehman Brothers CEO) donor of the Benin Bronzes collection to transfer ownership back to Nigeria, but instead he's taking all the statues back and they're closing the gallery entirely.
In an extraordinary move, MFA to return prized African art to wealthy donor and close gallery - The Boston Globe
The museum had sought to transfer ownership of 30 historic bronzes, originally plundered in a bloody colonial raid, to Kingdom of Benin. The donor asked they be returned to him instead
www.bostonglobe.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has apparently been trying to work with the (son of the Lehman Brothers CEO) donor of the Benin Bronzes collection to transfer ownership back to Nigeria, but instead he's taking all the statues back and they're closing the gallery entirely.
Today I read an interview with a philosopher who bemoaned the prevalence of headphones as symptom of an atomised and individualistic society.
Tonight a man sneezed the entire width of the supermarket aisle. I could hear the droplets
Tonight a man sneezed the entire width of the supermarket aisle. I could hear the droplets
April 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Today I read an interview with a philosopher who bemoaned the prevalence of headphones as symptom of an atomised and individualistic society.
Tonight a man sneezed the entire width of the supermarket aisle. I could hear the droplets
Tonight a man sneezed the entire width of the supermarket aisle. I could hear the droplets
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Meet the Fish That Doesn’t Want to Be Met
“Go away.” – Mexican tetra.
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March 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
A while back someone asked me to DNA test them and I had to explain a) not that kind of anthropologist b) erm don't hand that out without asking a lot of questions
Some private equity firm is going do the most evil possible thing with this data and that was always how this was going to end.
DNA testing company 23andMe files for bankurptcy protection, CEO resigns
March 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A while back someone asked me to DNA test them and I had to explain a) not that kind of anthropologist b) erm don't hand that out without asking a lot of questions
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News that makes me want to cheer and also punch Franz Boas right in the face for stealing an entire shrine plus 16 ancestors from the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation in 1903: rabble.ca/indigenous/t.... Thanks for (finally) doing the right thing, American Museum of Natural History!
The Whalers Washing House finally coming home
Taken more than 100 years ago, the Whalers Washing House is finally coming home.
rabble.ca
March 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
News that makes me want to cheer and also punch Franz Boas right in the face for stealing an entire shrine plus 16 ancestors from the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation in 1903: rabble.ca/indigenous/t.... Thanks for (finally) doing the right thing, American Museum of Natural History!
Finding out that the makers of two bags in the exhibition were sisters. My colleague had suspected this and had put them next to each other in the case so the family would see even if nobody else knew
March 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Finding out that the makers of two bags in the exhibition were sisters. My colleague had suspected this and had put them next to each other in the case so the family would see even if nobody else knew
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The NLA's suspension of my #trove API access has been picked up in this news story from the Australian Computing Society: https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/national-library-cracks-down-on-public-data-access.html #glam #OpenData
National Library cracks down on public data access
Archives are throttling access to data that was supposed to be open.
ia.acs.org.au
March 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The NLA's suspension of my #trove API access has been picked up in this news story from the Australian Computing Society: https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/national-library-cracks-down-on-public-data-access.html #glam #OpenData
Biggest challenge of the storm for me so far: relocated a very nervous huntsman spider that would not stop freaking out and galloping
March 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Biggest challenge of the storm for me so far: relocated a very nervous huntsman spider that would not stop freaking out and galloping
Okay so I missed pub trivia but on the plus side I found out people practice swordfighting outside my work on Tuesday nights
February 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Okay so I missed pub trivia but on the plus side I found out people practice swordfighting outside my work on Tuesday nights
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One second from every episode of Twin Peaks.
September 15, 2024 at 11:38 AM
One second from every episode of Twin Peaks.