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The second and concluding WRFU women’s 7s tournament is scheduled to be played at Rugby League Park tomorrow. The scheduled field has been reduced from six to four teams, with last week’s entrants Oriental-Rongotai and the Wellington Axemen falling off the pace and leaving Petone, Avalon, Old Boys University and Pōneke to don their club...

By Kevin McCarthy. It’s fashionable in the recent times to say satire may be dead, given what some would politely call,  a 24-7 cycle of change. Or, less politely, the continual cluster-fudge. Kudos then for World Rugby proudly announcing it will be doing more biometric testing of fans to see what happens to them as...

The Museum Wiesbaden will return 10 human skulls to Indonesia in a formal ceremony on November 10. The Hessen Wissenschaft, the state culture ministry, said it will be the first German museum to return human remains from the Dutch colonial era to the country, reports Monopol . Out of respect for the deceased individuals, the remains will be covered with a cloth during the ceremony. Located in the state of Hesse and about an hour west of Frankfurt, the Museum Wiesbaden’s founding collection dates to the late 18th century and early 19th century, when it was assembled by father-son collectors Johann Christian Gerning and Johann Isaac Freiherr von Gerning. It ranged from paintings and drawings to books and maps to insects and coins. At the suggestion by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the younger Gerning donated his holdings to the Duchy of Nassau; they were subsequently split up into three museums and then transferred to the city of Wiesbaden in 1900. Since 1973...

A new survey suggests that the broad majority of US museum visitors are worried about how AI is used in the production of exhibitions and marketing materials, mirroring an anxiety about AI that proliferates widely today. The American Alliance of Museums’ 2026 survey showed that just 9 percent of respondents accepted the use of AI in museum shows. Nineteen percent were unbothered by the notion that AI could used for brainstorming but not exhibition texts, meanwhile, and 29 percent said they felt no reservations about the usage of AI to write emails sent by museum officials. Forty-three percent of respondents said they expected humans to “develop all content from museums, including exhibitions, emails…everything.” AI is not yet widely used to produce exhibitions. But a New York Times report from this past weekend revealed that a handful of forthcoming shows will incorporate it, though not always in the form of wall texts. For one, the Smithsonian’s...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Researchers believe they’ve uncovered the secret to Michelangelo’s intense colors in the Sistine Chapel fresco The Last Judgement. Powerhouse, Sydney’s new $641 million arts, design, science and technology museum, is opening on November 7, but controversy continues to rock the institution. Despite the Democratic blue wave sweeping Congress, beleaguered President Donald Trump still can’t get the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as blue as he continues to promise, with reporters spotting new areas of discoloration and cracks. The Headlines STROKES OF GENIUS . Researchers believe they’ve uncovered the secret to Michelangelo ‘s intense colors in The Last Judgement fresco in the Sistine Chapel , reports The Times of London . A recent cleaning and close inspection revealed he made his own paintbru...

A federal judge sentenced the former chief operating officer of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta to one year in prison and one year of supervised release for stealing more than $600,000 from the museum. Brady Lum, 60, served as the High Museum’s COO from January 2019 until December 2025, when he resigned. He began siphoning money from the museum in September 2019, around nine months into the job, until November 2025, when it was discovered. Lum’s theft involved the purchase of “non-business items and services for himself, including expensive guitars and other music equipment, personal music lessons, and woodworking equipment, through direct supplier invoicing and the High Museum’s corporate credit card reimbursement process,” according to a press release from the Office of US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, which prosecuted the case. The release adds that Lum concealed the theft by “submitting altered invoices, using his position to ...