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week's edition include:
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** Van Gogh's brush with Aussie mate
Unlike others who exploited their association with Van Gogh after his
suicide, Russell stayed out of the limelight
** Bottom falls out of Kylie's pants
Sadly, the micro-mini shorts in which the world's most famous derriere
wiggled in the 2000 video Spinning Around are losing their lustre and are at
risk of decay
** £3m Henry Moore sculpture stolen
A bronze statue worth £3m ($5.3m) by sculptor Henry Moore has been stolen
from the grounds of a museum
** Rome Prosecutor Says Letters Tie Ex-Getty Curator to Smuggler
Prosecutor Paolo Ferri said letters between True and Medici demonstrate True
was close to the convicted smuggler and was aware of the questionable
origins of some antiquities she acquired or sought to buy for the Getty
** Art expert makes an ape of herself
A German art expert was duped into believing a painting done by a chimpanzee
was actually painted by a respected artist
** Why the King Kong Story Still Resonates
Elements of the 1933 Kong movie are based on the 1926 real-life expedition
of William Douglas Burden, a trustee of the American Museum of Natural
History
** Detroit will lay off 400, shut history museum
Acting quickly on a re-election mandate to fix the city's finances, Mayor
Kwame Kilpatrick has announced the layoffs of 400 city workers, the closing
of the Detroit Historical Museum and transfer of management of the Detroit
Zoo
** Devon treasure hunters strike a rich seam
The Viking gold ingot, silver gilt dress hook, silver huntsman's whistle and
medieval gold and sapphire ring have all been officially declared treasure
and have become the property of the Crown
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** Millions of years ago, eruptions shaped the state
When the Rover Exploration Spirit first beamed back satellite images of Mars
in 2004, researcher Larry Crumpler saw New Mexico
** Children's Museum lights up the solstice with celebrations from around
the globe
For many of us, the return of the light - as marked by the passing of the
winter solstice, the shortest, darkest day of the year - offers a time for
great celebration
** Feature Site: In pictures: Pixar exhibition
More than 500 works created by Pixar artists, including this Finding Nemo
oil painting, have gone on display at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York
** War museum under siege by feral cats
The National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas, is under
siege by feral cats, who have turned a simulated landing zone into a giant
litter box
** Preserved Mural Unearthed in Guatemala
Archaeologists have uncovered an elegantly painted 30-foot-long mural in a
ceremonial chamber beneath a Guatemalan jungle pyramid, providing new
evidence that Mayan civilization was in full flower more than 2,000 years
ago
** Demonstrators accuse art museum of misrepresenting Tut's skin tone
A "King Tut is back and he's still black" placard drew the gaze of visitors
making their way to view the acclaimed exhibit yesterday at the Museum of
Art in Fort Lauderdale
** Museum honours the aluminium Christmas tree
It was mostly a gag when Charlotte native Stephen Jackson decorated 37 fake
trees in an old store front and claimed it was the world's only museum for
aluminium Christmas trees
** Restoration of a lost treasure
The greatest find was Mrs Thornton's boudoir, an oval first-floor room
decorated like a cameo brooch, where she kept her bottles and potions and
received guests
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** World's songbirds trace roots from Australia
Australia's songbirds are among the world's most ancient species, many
northern hemisphere birds tracing their roots back to our Gondwanan
rainforests, a leading zoologist says
** Humans in England May Go Back 700,000 Years
Ancient tools found in Britain show that humans lived in northern Europe
200,000 years earlier than previously thought, at a time when the climate
was warm enough for lions, elephants and sabre tooth tigers to also roam
what is now England
** Mona Lisa 'happy', computer finds
A computer has been used to decipher the enigmatic smile of Leonardo da
Vinci's Mona Lisa, concluding that she was mainly happy
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** The Changing Face of Reality: Realism in Art
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