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Crikey! 🐊 Celebrate #WorldMusicDay with this croc-shaped instrument known as a mi-gyaung, or "crocodile-zither" in Burmese. Similar chamber instruments can be found throughout Southeast Asia. Learn more: https://t.co/rS1XsUhQs1 https://t.co/YODw7wknWV

A man stumbled upon two 17th-century paintings in the garbage at a highway rest stop. Now police are asking the public, whose are they? https://t.co/YPTKO6M2bu https://t.co/R3RKQnuV68

The @ngadc announced today that it had received a gift of 161 photographs, incl rare 19th-c examples by French luminary Gustave Le Gray and remarkable 20th- and 21st-c images by artists such as William Eggleston, Robert Frank, Edward Weston and Sally Mann https://t.co/k0Wh1kYZjf

As the art world becomes increasingly aware of its contributions to the climate emergency, collectors can play a central role in a push for substantial change. https://t.co/5deGjDun2T

This month’s #ConnectingCollections theme is long-term loans. Did you know that museums lend their objects to supplement or complement the collections of other institutions? These arrangements are often reciprocal and allow for sustained intellectual exchange. https://t.co/8RkQsEealy

Power struggles in 16th-century Italy were epic. One family crushed it. What’s art got to do with it? Go inside the world of Cosimo I de’ Medici and get ready for "The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570," opening Saturday, June 26. #MetMedici https://t.co/0UnT9tFENI

@MuseumModernArt @Pushkin_museum @SALT_Online @CentrePompidou @museomacpr @hcponline @muzeumsztuki Detail of Cibollitta Mesa. (A Sunset.), 1899, A.C. Vroman. The J. Paul Getty Museum. https://t.co/KZ8sCFJKIi https://t.co/xkpAXX10mY

✨Welcome to This Week at LACMA✨ Your guide to current exhibitions, programs, and classes at the museum. See what's on view and find things to do: https://t.co/f7lvaANxtP https://t.co/ps9V6QEowI

New Zealand comes to life in this amazing 8K time-lapse. https://t.co/T9Adt6hwvA

Everything you need to know about abstract art today. https://t.co/8ZR1uGHpWp https://t.co/1ocrqxb4kT

"More than a few of the objects verge on grotesque and maybe ugly and will push at the limits of your taste, which is always healthy." "Shapes From Out of Nowhere: Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection" takes the Critic's Pick in @nytimes. https://t.co/8FG2nNwdMN

Songs of the Sky, 1924, Alfred Stieglitz. J. Paul Getty Museum https://t.co/AKE5Dfybcj https://t.co/MyBQNKjMPS

Diego Cortez, a curator whose 1981 "New York/New Wave" show at PS1 is credited with helping launch the career of Jean-Michel Basquiat, has died https://t.co/6agx87TCGb

The Glasgow International, Scotland’s largest visual arts festival, is one of the first major events to kick off after the city’s lockdown lifted earlier this month https://t.co/y3nGe4a42x @GIfestival @loubuck01

The Best of 2020 Drone Photography by SkyPixel https://t.co/QGnif7jwVg https://t.co/kO2L6Lxgdi https://t.co/d3On39zuCc