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The headlines this week in our 'cold turkey' ( post thanksgiving ) edition
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** British Man Held in Theft of WWII Encoder
A man has been arrested for allegedly stealing a World War II-era encoding
device from a museum and demanding ransom for the rare Enigma machine
** From antiquing to ancient history
Although Mary Tripp circumnavigated the globe three times with her sea
captain-merchant husband between 1833 and 1845 and was among the first
Western women to enter the walled city of Canton, China, she was virtually
invisible to history like most women of her day
** End of war brings hope for discovery
The unveiling of the 110-million-year-old skeleton of Suchomimus--the first
dinosaur skeleton ever erected in the Sahara--is not the primary reason
thousands of Nigerois are gathering in the 130-degree heat
** In England, the public loo may be going down the drain
Britain is dotted with splendid little lavatory buildings, encircled by iron
fences and crowned with arches or pergolas
** Van Gogh or no?
In 1928, a handsome Berlin art dealer, who'd been known to moonlight as a
raunchy cabaret performer, was arrested and jailed after he tried to sell 33
dubious van Goghs
** Priceless photo collections in need of rescue
The veteran photographer, best known for his priceless collection of 90,000
Satyajit Ray photographs, recently revealed in Mumbai that he sometimes felt
like "dumping the whole lot into the Ganga"
** Whiz-kid's dust-up at British Museum
Former investment banker Suzanna Taverne has upset the old order by bringing
modern management techniques to an ancient institution
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** 120 years on, Ned Kelly is still at large and haunting Australians
More Than 120 years after Australia's most infamous folk hero, Ned Kelly,
was felled by a hail of police bullets, the country is seized by a row that
is as divisive as any the legendary outlaw and bushranger has yet provoked
** Treasures of state - from Russia with armed guard
A permanent exhibition of items from the State Hermitage Museum of St
Petersburg has been opened by the Prince of Wales at Somerset House, London
** Canid resembling extinct Japanese wolf sighted
A high school principal in Kitakyushu spotted an animal resembling a
Japanese wolf--believed to have gone extinct 95 years ago--on a Kyushu
mountain
** Investors lobby to save financially strapped International Museum of
Cartoon Art
If it takes a check for $950,000 to save the financially strapped
International Museum of Cartoon Art, then that's what two local real estate
investors are ready to offer the museum's loan collector
** BuÑuel Is Swell At Moma
The Museum of Modern Art is honoring a former employee
** Hughes' Spruce Goose Finds New Home
Nearly a decade after it was disassembled, the world's largest wooden
airplane has gotten its wings back
** Exhibit showcases presidential relics
In his old age, a year before his death, Thomas Jefferson placed a sheet of
paper on the mahogany lap desk he had used for nearly a half-century and
wrote a memo to the future
** Spain's art treasures coming to state in 2001
Delta native Jack Kyle talked the Spanish government into loaning
Mississippi many precious pieces, including a 55-foot royal gondola from the
18th century, more than 600 pieces of art, including 17 rare royal clocks &
many prized cartoons and tapestries
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** Wartime jail hell lives on in memory
There were some tears from the group of about a dozen, who had assembled to
hand over valued artefacts from the prisoners to a memorial being built in
Singapore
** She's got to have it
Because the museum was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great, she becomes
the subject of the inaugural exhibition
** Oxford thrilled by headless torso discovery
Oxford University has offered to return a Roman marble head to Croatia after
learning from The Times that its matching body had been found in a recent
dig
** Taiwan posting for soldiers of China's Terracotta Army
While tensions between Beijing and Taipei continue to simmer, Taiwanese
museum officials claim the arrival of the biggest group of the
2,200-year-old figures to be sent abroad will actually warm cross-Strait
ties
** Clinton Declares Self President For Life
Denouncing the American electoral process as "immoral and corrupt,"
President Clinton announced Tuesday that he will not step down on Jan. 20,
2001, declaring himself "President For Life."
** OTAGO MUSEUM CLOSE TO COMPLETION OF MAJOR REDEVELOPMENT
After a number of years in development, the transformation of the Otago
Museum is almost complete!
** The National Endowment for the Arts recently announced the availibility
of a new grant opportunity called Creative Communities.
** Farewell - Death and bereavement in multi-cultural Norway
Exhibition at the Historical museum, University of Oslo
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NEW BOOK : Designing the New Museum
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** Announcing the Preliminary Program for Museums and the Web 2001
March 14-17, 2001
** Chacmool 2001 - An Odyssey of Space
November 14th - 18th 2001
** Digitization for Cultural Heritage Professionals
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MORE NEW MUSEUM BOOKS:
English Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Volume 2
by Ellen M. Alcorn, Ellenor M. Alcorn
Publication date: October 15, 2000
Publisher: MFA Publications
Binding:Hardcover
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0878464808/drdrumsnotforpro
John F. Kennedy: The Presidential Portfolio: History as Told Through the
John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
by Charles Kenney, Michael R. Beschloss (Introduction)
Publication date: October 25, 2000
Publisher: Public Affairs
Binding:Hardcover
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1891620363/drdrumsnotforpro
Impressionist and Post - Impressionist Paintings
by Fogg Art Museum(Editor)
Publication date: November 2000
Publisher: Dover Pubns
Binding: Paperback
Subjects: Art; Stationery / Gift Wrap; History - Impressionism
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486414744/drdrumsnotforpro
Designing the New Museum
by Rockport(Editor), James Grayson Trulove
Publication date: November 2000
Publisher: Rockport Pub
Binding:Hardcover
Subjects: Architecture; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Design
& Drafting
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1564966895/drdrumsnotforpro
Coosa : The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom (Florida
Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
by Marvin T. Smith, Jerald T. Milanich
Publication date: November 2000
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Binding:Hardcover
Subjects: Coosa Indians; History; Politics and government
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0813018110/drdrumsnotforpro
Biogeochemical Approaches in Paleodietary Analysis (Advances in
Archaeological and Museum Science, V. 5)
by S. Ambrose(Editor), Mary Anne Katzenberg (Editor)
Publication date: November 2000
Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp
Binding:Hardcover
Subjects: Prehistoric peoples; Food; Human remains (Archaeology)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0306464578/drdrumsnotforpro
From Attila to Charlemagne : Arts of the Early Medieval Period in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia, 1)
by Katharine Reynolds Brown(Editor), et al
Publication date: November 2000
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Binding: Paperback
Subjects: Decorative arts, Early Christi; Congresses; Decorative arts,
Medieval
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0870999680/drdrumsnotforpro
Romantics, Realists, Revolutionaries : Masterpieces of 19th Century German
Painting from the Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
by Helga Aurisch, et al
Publication date: November 2000
Publisher: Prestel USA
Binding:Hardcover
Subjects: Art; Exhibition Catalogs; Art & Art Instruction
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3791323806/drdrumsnotforpro
Images of Spirit for Philadelphia Museum of Art
by Graciela Iturbide
Publication date: November 2000
Publisher: Aperture
Binding:Hardcover
Subjects: Art
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0893818321/drdrumsnotforpro
Masterpiece Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
by Theodore E. Stebbins, Peter C. Sutton (Photographer)
Publication date: November 1, 2000
Publisher: Harry N Abrams
Binding:Hardcover
Subjects: Painting; Massachusetts; Boston
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0810914247/drdrumsnotforpro
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