from The Guardian
This epic Earth
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When artworks reach the scale of the monumental and beyond, then the question of conservation treatment becomes somewhat irrelevant. And this raises an interesting relationship between size and conservation methodology. It can be surmised that the scale of construction of an artefact would affect and impact on the choice of conservation treatments. However, to what extent? And more specifically - how? Such an explanation or exposition could perhaps help to make sense of the diverse concerns in the field of conservation such as museum artefacts, architectural, sites, monuments and even intangible heritage and digital materials.

from The New York Times
Who Should Tell History: The Tribes or the Museums?
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from Justice Talking
Who Owns Art?
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Following on from an earlier post on the Elgin Marbles debate, 2 other perspectives on how museums influence (or some might say distort) history.

from Discovery
Elgin Marbles Dispute Takes New Twist
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When a museum makes claims such as: "Only here can the worldwide significance of the sculptures be fully grasped", it can only signify a blindspot which fails to appreciate that the debate on "where historical artefacts should be" will always turn against the museum, as that is the place with the least connection and resonance to the actual context of most, if not all, historical artefacts.

from BBC News
Bidders to snap up mobile photos
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from Yahoo News
Nokia: Connect to Art!
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from Wired News
Cell Phones Work as Tour Guides
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The increasing prominence and use of the mobile phone in art- and heritage-related activities must definitely signal the coming of age of the mobile phone generation.

from The International Committee for Museums of Ethnography (ICME-ICOM)
Museums and Intangible Heritage
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Several online papers that were presented during ICOM 2004 in Seoul are made available on the above web-page. It is also interesting to see how the concept of "Intangible Heritage", which is the theme for the ICOM meeting in Seoul, has begun to take off with increasing references made to it.