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address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** British Museum will help save Iraqi treasures
The prime minister has intervened to ask the culture department to draw up a
plan to rescue treasures being plundered by looters in Iraq.
** So yesterday was the burning of books
Half an hour later, there wasn't an American at the scene and the flames
were shooting 200 feet into the air.
** Top cultural adviser steps down over looting of Iraqi museum
Calling the looting a "tragedy," Sullivan said that it was not prevented
"due to our nation's inaction
** Experts: Looters Had Keys to Iraqi Vaults
Some of the looters who ravaged Iraqi antiquities appeared highly organized
and even had keys to museum vaults and were able to take pieces from safes
** Feature Site: Iraqi Museum Collection Database
The illustrations here are from the only detailed catalogue of the museum,
Treasures of the Iraq Museum by Dr Faraj Basmachi, published in Baghdad in
1975/6.
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** Iraq Looting Puts Spotlight on Art Trade
The world has seen it before: looters ransack museums in the aftermath of
war
** FBI to Seek Iraqi Museum Treasures
The FBI announced Thursday that it had sent agents to Iraq to assist in
recovering antiquities stolen from museums by looters
** Tussaud's Squeezy Model
Brad Pitt's image is the first model to feature a squeezable bottom
** Hohokam ruins, artifacts discovered in metro Phoenix
Fearing looting or vandalism at the 100-acre site, archaeologists kept the
discovery a secret for several months while they completed work
** Privy lifts lid on loo heritage
Residents, backed by the Council for British Archaeology, say that if one
300-year-old lavatory goes, whole lines of them could tumble
** Pork chops spark gunpowder explosion
An artist cooking pork chops near a keg of gunpowder accidentally set off a
huge explosion that destroyed a workshop in Lake Worth, Florida
** Bid Launched for Concorde
A campaign to bring Concorde to a Scottish museum when the fleet is
mothballed later this year was launched today
** Saatchi gives Tate a lesson in the fine art of partying
Sipping champagne or a specially created cocktail called an Absolute Shark
Bite, the 1,000 invited guests will be ushered past Hirst's spotted mini,
which perches on a central staircase, and up into the panelled hall
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** V&A swoops on porcelain menagerie
The bird was part of a spectacular auction of art treasures and furniture by
the Marquess of Bath last year, intended to secure the future of his
palatial family home, Longleat
** S. Korean Museum Devoted to Kimchi Dish
The concoction of vegetables and spices is so pervasive in the Koreas that
enthusiasts compare it to air and water
** This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius: (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Everybody always speaks admiringly of what a
survivor you are, but Thursday's events will make liars of them all.
** Remington's West Paintings in Exhibit
Remington was an Easterner whose pictures and sculptures of cowboys, Indians
and cavalrymen in the late 1800s helped form an image of the frontier for
filmmakers and ordinary Americans
** Teapots turn over an old leaf
The world's biggest teapot, and 99 of its smaller brethren, are back in
Norwich after a decade's absence
** Don't Bury the Bones
A committee has met behind closed doors in London over the last two years to
decide the future of old bones in British cultural and scientific
institutions
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Migration, Work and Identity-conference and the general meeting of
WORKLAB
** Australian Archaeological Association Inc. calls for protection of
Iraq's cultural property
** The Director-General of UNESCO calls for all measures to be taken to
ensure the protection and surveillance of Iraqi cultural heritage and
effectively fight against illicit trafficking
** "Deciphering the Past: A Retrospective View of the Art & Science of
Cryptology"
** ICOM-CC appalled by looting in Iraq
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