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This weeks top headlines include:
** Chicago Museum Unveils Landmark Dinosaur **
Dinosaur fever struck Chicago Wednesday as the Field Museum unveiled the
most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever found -- a 41-foot-long monster
that lumbered the Great Plains 67 million years ago
** London's new Tate museum pulls in the crowds **
Britain's stunning new Tate Modern Museum was a resounding success on its
opening day Friday, with up to 3,000 visitors an hour pouring into the
restored power station on the banks of the River Thames.
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** Weighing In on Net Art's Worth **
And now for something completely different: After giving out their very own,
branded Webby award last week, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
presented this weekend a symposium on online art
** Native moths may die out nameless **
Species of day-flying moths found around New Zealand's coastline are dying
off before they are even named
** Few takers for looted relics show **
A keenly-promoted exhibition of looted Chinese imperial relics sold at
auction in Hong Kong opened to a lukewarm response yesterday
** Saving Imperiled Sites **
Egypt's fabled Valley of the Kings is overwhelmed by tourists. Mexico's
eighteenth-century Santa Prisca Parish Church was battered by earthquakes.
An ancient rock-art giraffe in Niger suffers from time and weather
** Smithsonian offers paper-thin exhibit **
The main attraction of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
new display, a life-size papier-mache model, almost suffered the same fate
as the cadavers it was meant to emulate.
** Salvors to raise Monitor's propeller **
A crew of conservators from the Mariners' Museum will try to separate the
Monitor's propeller from its wrought-iron shaft today, in its effort to
restore the historic ironclad
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** Indigenous people hide identity in Japan **
In a recent interview in the media, 51-year-old Kazuyuki Yamamura, chairman
of the Ainu Museum in Hokkaido, said many Ainu people do not want to reveal
their identity despite the new law because they still fear, and experience,
discrimination
** No: 1637 Ned Kelly **
So his head is on the block again? It would be, if his skull hadn't vanished
from the Kelly Museum in 1978. A farmer in north-western Australia claims to
be holding it ransom until he is sure it will get a Christian burial
** Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld sues gallery, dealer **
Al Hirschfeld, the 96-year-old artist whose famous caricatures chronicled
the celebrity culture of the 20th century, has dismissed his longtime dealer
and sued her and her gallery for more than $5 million.
** Wayne to buy new roof for venerable museum **
For 304 years, it has withstood most of Nature's greatest tests. But not
even the sturdy Schuyler-Colfax House could escape damage from Tropical
Storm Floyd
** German town saw Nazi art dealer as local hero--WJC **
A powerful Jewish advocacy group said Wednesday it had backed up claims that
the German city of Augsburg had lauded Adolf Hitler's leading art dealer as
a local hero by citing a 1960 statement by its mayor
** Battling to protect Lebanon's ancient archaeological sites **
Whatever the Directorate General of Antiquities lacks, it isn't office
space. The elegantly appointed rooms it occupies in the Egyptian Deco annex
just behind the Beirut National Museum were obviously intended to house a
busy department
** Special museum exhibit puts visitors in the hot seat **
The buck used to stop with Harry. But soon it will be passed to visitors at
a special interactive exhibit at the Harry Truman Library in Independence
** STOP the LOOTING of AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL OBJECTS **
The ICOM Red List
** Saudi Arabian Museum Objects **
Dr. Abdullah Alsharekh needs your help and suggestions
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