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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** China Arrests Museum Official for Stealing Antiquities
Mr. Li is accused of stealing 158 relics during 12 years, substituting fake
artifacts or doctoring inventories to conceal his crimes
** Nefertiti Bust's Setting Sparks Furor
The museum director, Dietrich Wildung, answers that his museum's most famous
piece was never at risk and defends the videotaping of Nefertiti's head on a
nude torso as a legitimate artistic experiment
** Chemical David
When Agnese Parronchi was entrusted with Michelangelo's David, she just
wanted to rub him gently all over. But her bosses disagreed
** Britney to get throbbing blow-up breasts
Pop star Britney Spears is to get a pair of inflatable, throbbing breasts
that will pulsate in time to her dancing - at least her waxwork model will
at Madame Tussauds museum in London
** 1,000-year-old coffin opened on live TV
Chinese archaeologists have opened a 1,000-year-old casket live on national
television, revealing what they believe to be the body of an ancient tribal
nobleman
** Dolly enjoys an afterlife among café society
Seven years after she was "conceived" and five months after her death, the
world's most famous sheep has a permanent spot at Edinburgh's Royal Museum,
a few feet from the public café
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** San Antonio museum displays Emancipation Proclamation
For the first time in history, the Emancipation Proclamation is being
displayed in Texas for the national Juneteenth celebration
** The Incredible Hulk causes an incredible headache at Tussaud's
The model was so large it had to be airlifted by a crane to an access point
at the top of the building by a team of 32 people
** Smithsonian to Display Some Rare Diamonds
Diamond lovers will be able to see eight of the world's rarest gems this
summer at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
** Bair house hires guards after threat
A phone call that implied a threat against the employees and art collection
at the Charles M. Bair Family Museum in Martinsdale has resulted in the
posting of a 24-hour armed guard & layoffs for the workers
** Art meets science in new London exhibition
Science embraces art in a new exhibition at London's world-renowned Natural
History Museum
** SARS, past plagues to feature in exhibits
The Chief Curator of the Museum of History, Dr Joseph Ting Sun-pao, noted
that the origins of some folk customs could be traced to these outbreaks.
** David Beckham blamed for poor performance at Venice Biennale
Visitors to the Venice art beano were stunned at Ofili's 'Dung Pavilion', a
vast Renaissance palazzo reconstructed entirely out of elephant excrement
studded with tiny multi-coloured mapping pins
** Gauguin looks set to fetch £9m
Though his paintings were first mocked in Europe, by 1902 he was sending
back a steady flow of work to his agent in France and becoming comparatively
prosperous
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** Looters riddle ancient Iraqi sites with holes
Gibson said Umm-al-Hafriyat, where he had excavated in 1977, "looks like a
waffle, full of holes and pretty much destroyed".
** Pakistan to Save Crumbling Mirror Palace
It was 372 years ago that a Muslim emperor built the Shish Mahal, or mirror
palace, as a residence for his beloved wife, filling its high-domed ceilings
with thousands of mirrors
** Inscription Citing Jesus Is Fake
Investigators have concluded that the inscription on an ancient burial box
identifying it as the possible repository for the remains of Jesus's brother
James is a modern-day forgery
** Staff revolt at Baghdad museum
Staff also described how Mr George gathered employees in the museum for a
meeting in the early days of the war at which he ordered them to fight US
troops or face the sack
** Attracting, engaging museum-goers
Taking a cue from their science and natural-history cousins, art museums are
increasingly offering varying degrees of hands-on excitement
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** ANZAC - The New Zealand Story opens at Te Papa
** Katherine Coffey Award Call for Nominations
** Children of Lebanon: The Story of the Dunedin Lebanese Community
** Space Still Available for Scouting Archaeology Day
** Join us for the third annual meeting of the ADA/504 Coordinators and
Accessibility Managers in the Cultural Arts Conference
** 2003 UMAC Conference, September 21-26.
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