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Here's something you don't see every day...Sir Philip Hendy, our Director from 1946 – 1967, stands in Room 29 surrounded by paintings laid out on the floor in preparation for a rehang of the room in 1956. #BehindTheScenesMW @MuseumWeek https://t.co/bgiZRUlG7y

Pat Passlof, Untitled, 1950 https://t.co/gfVzOe6yrz https://t.co/a1B0C4F9lw

Today celebrate (almost) summer with the 2021 Virtual Museum Mile Festival! ☀️ Join our friends: @TheAfricaCenter @cooperhewitt @TheJewishMuseum @elmuseo @MuseumofCityNY @NeueGalerieNY @Guggenheim 📲 Enjoy Met activities online: https://t.co/HqElCYWxhE #VirtualMuseumMile https://t.co/B5tdJl5XJ1

Vietnamese artist Ngoc is known for covering women's scars, burns, and other blemishes with beautiful tattoos. https://t.co/E5g17poauu

The dynamic duo. The PB to your J. Together, you’re unstoppable! Let your bestie know how much they mean to you on #NationalBestFriendsDay. 🎨: "New England Interior" (1906), Edmund C. Tarbell, oil on canvas https://t.co/AmJ1odXulF

🖼️ What was hiding beneath the frame of Botticelli's 'Adoration of the Kings' for nearly two centuries? Find out as Restorer Jill and Conservator Britta remove its 19th-century frame: https://t.co/ciKtoQ37HV #BehindtheScenesMW @MuseumWeek https://t.co/EWzuEZq09o

The Romanian sculptor’s beloved pet, whom he purchased in 1921, was a fixture on the Parisian art scene. https://t.co/jLXCflJslC

Western museums are finally reconsidering their African collections. We gathered 3 experts to explain why—and what needs to happen next: https://t.co/PeWgW2bap6 https://t.co/RvuEMYhrws

Japanese artist Naoki Onogawa crafts hundreds of tiny origami cranes using nothing more than his hands. https://t.co/7ASrY04Baj

HueArts NYC — a collaborative initiative between Museum Hue (Hueseum), the Laundromat Project, and Hester Street — aims to create a new online resource mapping all arts entities founded by and focused on POC in New York City. https://t.co/pA67CuCLub

How do you varnish a painting? Watch as Larry, our Head of Conservation, shows us the final stages of 'Het Steen's' restoration: https://t.co/YEvQsVM00m #BehindTheScenesMW @MuseumWeek https://t.co/ajNxLrH7tc

How would Aristotle and Leonardo da Vinci look in 2021? https://t.co/wem7dSVQSw

The collectors L. John and Barbara Wilkerson are selling a desert painting with a controversial history in order to fund a university programme aimed at giving Indigenous Australian curators “a seat at the table” https://t.co/ETAqythVMu

A Visual Metaphor of The Wait https://t.co/96OJvS4cUt https://t.co/GRGyJaiGta https://t.co/IOXuer2xpA

Damien Hirst opens a big show in Rome, gunfire damages Iowa's Figge Art Museum, and more in today's morning links https://t.co/JrDTcY8OI7