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    Paris museum hires Instagram artist-in-residence

    Jean-Philippe Delhomme will depict an artist as a social media user every week for the Musée d’Orsay One of France’s most celebrated and august art institutions has taken a novel approach to embracing technology while breathing new life into its collection – by installing an Instagram artist-in-residence who imagines the social media accounts of famous […] More

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    20 new UK attractions to visit in 2020

    The coming year will see a bumper crop of openings and relaunches, including adventure parks, wellbeing centres, theatres and museums The 450-hectare Rye Harbour nature reserve, with its coastal habitats of grassland, saltmarsh, and sand and shingle shoreline, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with a new visitor centre opening in association with Sussex Wildlife […] More

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    Hazardous hats: V&A staff don gloves to move arsenic-laced relics

    Relocation of museum’s collections to east London has brought surprising dangers There are razor-sharp samurai swords, lethal poison darts and dauntingly huge 17th-century ceilings but a particular challenge for the V&A as it moves to new storage facilities comes from a surprising area – women’s hats. “People think that textiles and fashion don’t have a […] More