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week's edition include:
** Guggenheim Museum Receives $1 Million Grant
The first phase of the Guggenheim's new four-year study, "The Art of Problem
Solving," will be to bring together artists, educators, and cognitive
scientists to identify the problem-solving skills that visual arts can most
powerfully teach, and to describe the hallmarks of teaching that will most
likely result in students learning these skills
** International Museum Communication Awards 2007
An eagerly anticipated event which will bring together more then 500
professionals, from both agencies and museums, in order to celebrate the
best visual campaigns
** Alexander the Great's personal sculptor to get own museum
The work of Lysippus, one of the greatest sculptors of ancient Greece and
the personal portraitist of Alexander the Great will get its own museum near
the artist's native town of Sikyon in southern Greece
** Paper-making in China dates much older
A 2,000-year-old piece of paper inscribed with legible handwriting has been
found in northwest China's Gansu Province, suggesting that China's
paper-making and handwriting history are older than previously though
** Treasure hunter seeks more shipwreck riches in Asia
He believes there are more shipwrecks resting on seabeds across Southeast
Asia, especially in the Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest
shipping lanes and dubbed by some as a graveyard of ships for its
treacherous reefs
** Healing Practices Over The Decades
The Brunei exhibition features the display of medical and treatment items
from the late 1880s to the 1950s
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** Hillary Clinton on display at NY's Museum of S#x
A "Presidential Bust" of U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton was unveiled on Wednesday
at New York's Museum of S#x, where sculptor Daniel Edwards hopes it will
spark discussion about s#x, politics and celebrity.
** Rare Photo of Florence Nightingale Shown
A rare photograph of Florence Nightingale went on display Monday to mark the
150th anniversary of the famous nurse's return to Britain from the Crimean
War
** Having A Gardener Is A Wonderful Hobby
Eating food that was picked only minutes ago and then carried over to your
lounge chair is a completely different experience
** Fakes fear as National Gallery of Victoria starts probe
The gallery wants to compare X-rays of pictures painted by the Dutch master
over the same period, held at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, to try to prove
its painting is genuine
** Smashed vase goes back on display
A 17th Century Chinese porcelain vase accidentally smashed when a museum
visitor tripped on a shoelace is back on display after being restored
** Volunteers fix up decaying Skylab mock-up
A full-size training mock-up of Skylab is slowly rotting away outside the
Alabama space museum where it spent years on display
** Ming Dynasty castle damaged in typhoon
The typhoons that have killed hundreds of people in China have damaged an
ancient castle dating from the Ming Dynasty
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** Tehran museum playing host to war photos
The collection depicts Iran-Iraq war as well as the recent conflicts in
Palestine and Lebanon
** Golden dagger found in tomb
The dagger, which is believed to be made of gold and platinum, most probably
belonged to a Thracian ruler or to a priest
** First Chinese "beauty" robot destined for Sichuan
Since the "beauty" is destined for Sichuan Science Museum, where she will
work as a receptionist and tour guide, she has been programmed to speak the
south-western dialect that prevails in inland Sichuan Province
** Louvre rethinking glass pyramid
The Louvre Museum, a Paris artistic icon, has been forced to reconsider its
glass pyramid entrance due to a rapid increase in visitors
** Beams reveal Archimedes' hidden writings
Previously hidden writings of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes are
being uncovered with powerful X-ray beams nearly 800 years after a Christian
monk scrubbed off the text and wrote over it with prayers
** Putin orders massive arts audit
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a nationwide inventory of
cultural treasures after valuable works were stolen from the Hermitage
Museum Thefts From Hermitage Exposes Pattern
** Emerging Geographies Of Belief - University of Exeter, Department of
Geography
** Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf
** 6th International Symposium on Aspects of Tourism - Gazing, Glancing,
Glimpsing?: Tourists and Tourism in a Visual World
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