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Good Morning!<\/strong><\/p>\n ALL FOR ONE, AND ONE FOR ALL?\u00a0<\/strong>The Dutch archaeologist involved in the recent discovery of what many hope are the remains of the 17th-century musketeer\u00a0D\u2019Artagnan<\/strong>\u2014found beneath the floor of a church in Maastricht\u2014was arrested and released after retaining some of the excavated skeletal remains,\u00a0Le Figaro<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0reports. The archaeologist,\u00a0Wim Dijkman<\/strong>, remains the subject of a police investigation. When the\u00a0Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul<\/strong>\u00a0parish in Maastricht\u2019s Wolder neighborhood announced that stones on its church floor had unexpectedly sunk and a skeleton had been found beneath them, hopes ran high that the remains were those of D\u2019Artagnan\u2014born Charles de Batz de Castelmore, the real-life inspiration for Alexandre Dumas\u2019s 1844 novel\u00a0The Three Musketeers<\/em><\/strong>\u2014who died near the site in the Battle of Maastricht in 1673.But Dijkman told\u00a0Le Figaro<\/em>\u00a0that no stones sank by accident. He and other researchers, he said, had been planning an archaeological excavation of the church for months. He now claims that the church, in coordination with the local municipality, fabricated that story as a \u201ccover-up\u201d to seize control of the findings and obscure their earlier attempts to stall the project and claim credit for it. He also contends that local authorities are mishandling the sensitive excavation \u2014 and that they had asked a Munich laboratory to return the skeletal remains by airmail following testing. To prevent what he considered a reckless transfer, Dijkman traveled to Germany, retrieved the bones, and placed them in a friend\u2019s safe. That decision apparently led to his arrest on Wednesday. Local media report that he has since handed over the remains. \u201cI am not going to make a fool of myself with D\u2019Artagnan\u2019s \u2018wild dig.\u2019 This is a matter of defamation, and I am personally discredited in this affair,\u201d Dijkman said.<\/p>\n MUSEUM ON ICE<\/strong>. A bill to create a\u00a0Smithsonian American Women\u2019s History Museum<\/strong>\u00a0on the National Mall was rejected by the US House of Representatives on Thursday, after it was amended to recognize only \u201cbiological\u201d females, the\u00a0New York Times<\/em><\/strong>reports. The bill designated a location for the long-awaited museum, which has had bipartisan support. But after Republicans amended the bill, including its definition of women, Democrats sank it in a vote of 216 to 204. Some said that any provision specifying the achievements of \u201cbiological women\u201d threatened to exclude transgender women and girls from the institution\u2019s programming. Republicans had also added language intended to allow the president to potentially select an alternative site for the museum, while giving the Trump-controlled\u00a0Commission of Fine Arts<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0National Capital Planning Commission<\/strong>\u00a0approval power over its design.<\/p>\n \n\tThe US\u00a0Commission of Fine Arts<\/strong>\u00a0approved Trump\u2019s plan to build a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, D.C. [Washington Post<\/strong>]<\/p>\n Adam Budak<\/strong>, the director of the\u00a0Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK)<\/strong>, was fired by the local mayor, igniting a backlash from artists. [Artforum<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tIn October, a new art center backed by collector\u00a0Laurent Dumas<\/strong>, called\u00a0Large<\/strong>, will open on the Ile Seguin, an island on the Seine River west of Paris, with an exhibition curated by\u00a0Cecilia Alemani<\/strong>. It will be joined by new movie theaters, a hotel, and a sculpture garden. [Le Figaro<\/strong>]\u00a0<\/p>\n White Stripes<\/strong>\u00a0frontman\u00a0Jack White<\/strong>\u00a0talks about his debut solo exhibition of visual artworks titled \u201cThese Thoughts May Disappear\u201d\u00a0at\u00a0Damien Hirst<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0Newport Street Gallery<\/strong>\u00a0in London. [Financial Times<\/strong>]<\/p>\n ART THE DOCTOR ORDERED<\/strong>. When a hospital in Los Angeles shuttered ahead of major renovations that will transform the building into the\u00a0St. Vincent Behavioral Health Campus<\/strong>, for treating addiction and providing services for mental health and interim housing, locals decided to activate the space with art. That is exactly what over 70 artists have done across the 45,000-square-foot building, and from May 27 to July 31, the (paying) public can experience this one-of-a-kind, immersive exhibition titled \u201cHospital of Emotions,\u201d reports the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/strong>. A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the center\u2019s nonprofit. Divided into themes of grief, fear, hope, joy, and sadness, contributing multimedia artists selected with the curator and artist\u00a0Yaara Sachs<\/strong>\u00a0from an open call, are presenting works about subjects ranging from epilepsy, PTSD, and homelessness. There\u2019s\u00a0Melan Allen<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0The Eggsibition<\/em>, where ceramic eggs cover the walls around a giant yolk laid atop a hospital bed; or\u00a0Paal Anand<\/strong>\u2019s piece about an IED explosion and veterans who commit suicide after returning from war. \u201cThere is no way you can walk out and look away,\u201d Anand said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/archaeologist-dartagnan-musketeer-arrested-morning-links-1234786856\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-584617150.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Dutch archaeologist Wim Dijkman was arrested and then released for taking some of the skeletal remains that are possibly of the fourth Musketeer, D\u2019Artagnan. Congress rejected a bill to build a Smithsonian Museum dedicated to women. 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