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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
webzine) edition include:
** London museum offered parts of Afghanistan Buddha
London's Victoria and Albert Museum has been offered pieces of the ancient
giant Buddha destroyed by the Taliban in Afghanistan
** A museum worthy of ham called Spam
Spam has been called the "most universally maligned food product," except
maybe for the U.S. military's C-rations
** Brazil to host four Guggenheim museums
The Guggenheim Museum plans to build arts facilities in four different
Brazilian cities, Brazilian officials said Monday
** Two Swiss architects share prestigious Pritzker prize
Two Swiss architects who converted an abandoned London power plant into a
soaring museum of modern art were named Sunday as this year's recipients of
the Pritzker Architecture Prize
** FBI finds baseballs with presidential signatures
FBI agents and baseball security personnel have closed a 29-year-old case of
four missing baseballs signed by presidents and collectively worth more than
$1 million
** Museums launch free entry
Visitors to eight National Museum and Galleries of Wales sites will be able
to do so free from Sunday
** New boss at Louvre's helm
Henri Loyrette, currently chief of the Musée d'Orsay, is an expert on the
French artist Degas, and is expected to begin work at the illustrious museum
on 14 April
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** Michelangelo's Moses in Restoration on the Internet
For what experts say is the first time ever, people the world over will be
able to watch the entire project minute by minute over the Internet as web
cameras capture each delicate touch of restorers' hands
** Doctor defends Berlin exhibition of preserved corpses
Korperwelten (Bodyworld), which opened on Feb. 10, is expected to attract
one million visitors during its five-month run in the city's old postal
depot
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A word of advice: Though drywall cement is a substance, it is not the kind
that can be abused.
** After the Storm: Bob Walker and the Art of Environmental Photography
"Find something outside yourself that is yourself. Then devote yourself to
it with all your heart." Bob Walker, 1991
** Egyptian museum goes online to find adopters for animal mummies
People who adopt cats, snakes, crocodiles of even the extinct sacred ibis
bird, get an information pack on their adopted animal
** New Canberra museum highlights our unease
By contrast, New Zealand's public history is often characterised by a sense
of unease, disapproval, and even guilt about our past.
** New museum would display artifacts most never see
California is treating some of its greatest historical treasures like many
people treat an old pair of shoes - storing them in boxes or on shelves far
out of sight
** Queen honours her ancestor
The Queen has opened a major exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of
Queen Victoria's death - and viewed a newly-restored portrait of her
great-great grandmother
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** 'Pompeii' salamanders fill fossil gap
A collection of petrified Chinese salamanders is giving scientists valuable
new information about amphibian evolution
** Art museum's scantily clad saint causing outrage in Santa Fe Members of
the Catholic community are demanding the city's Museum of International Folk
Art remove a piece of artwork that offends them
** In contrast with Taliban, Tajikistan restores ancient Buddha statue
While soldiers in Afghanistan labored to destroy two immense statues of
Buddha, art historians in neighboring Tajikistan were meticulously restoring
an enormous reclining Buddha from the same era
** Neanderthals, Modern Humans Interbred, New Study Says
A University of Tennessee anthropologist has found new evidence that
Neanderthals and emerging modern humans were not distinct species, but
evolved together and probably interbred
** Historic US Civil War graffiti uncovered
A team refurbishing a Virginia courthouse have found eloquent graffiti
dating from the American Civil War
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** Slavery in Massachusetts: Lecture at Commonwealth Museum
** The Largest Collection Of Neanderthal Man Finds In The World
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