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week's edition include:
** Truckee's $5 canvas could be a Pollock
When told her painting might be by the abstract expressionist, she asked:
"Who the f... is Jackson Pollock?"
** Mysterious deaths, the Marquess and the forbidden treasure
The Marquess bought the silver not for aesthetics but to get even richer, a
plan that has gone spectacularly awry
** Louvre helps fete Quebec's 400th birthday
The Louvre is marking the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec by
lending 276 works in its collection to the province's museum of fine arts
** Italian museum wants patriotic toilet back in show
The fate of a toilet that flushes to the strains of Italy's national anthem
is in the hands of a tribunal following a complaint from a right-wing
political party
** USS Intrepid Gets Stuck In The Mud
After 24 years at the same Hudson River pier, the legendary aircraft carrier
USS Intrepid was inched out of its berth by powerful tugboats on Monday -
but the trip never got under way because it got stuck in the mud as the tide
went down
** Beautiful minds from ugly homes
In an aristocratic household, or even a rich mercantile one, there would
have been dozens of individuals making a living off the family - and eating
in their kitchens - as well as cousins, uncles and great-aunts hanging
around
** This Week's Horoscopes
Gemini May 21 - June 21. You will fly into a blind, towering, destructive,
psychotic, and ultimately murderous rage this week over the excessive use of
adjectives in today's popular writing.
** Could extra dolphin fins be legs?
Japanese researchers said Sunday that a bottlenose dolphin captured last
month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of hind legs, a
discovery that may provide further evidence that ocean-dwelling mammals once
lived on land
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** Flood-damaged paintings restored
The paintings hang in rows from huge metal racks awaiting their fate in
storerooms 40 years after they were battered and torn by the raging
floodwaters of the Arno
** Mastodon tusks tell of brutal battles
The scars reveal they fought in brutal combat each year during seasonal
phases of heightened sexual activity and aggression
** Taipei hosts conference for museum professionals
Delegates to the international event heard that a lack of funding was a
common problem for museums across the Asia-Pacific region
** Nazi claim halts sale of Lloyd Webber's Picasso
Her family believed the Picasso rightfully belonged to them, but Sarah
Jackson, a 39-year-old Londoner, was to discover a document that shocked
everyone
** Serpents' teeth, nuns' girdles and the joy of random stuff
John Bargrave, a 17th-century collector of everything from medieval seals to
the chains of slaves he freed, did house his meticulously annotated hoard in
two large, beautifully tailored cabinets, which he left to Canterbury
Cathedral, where they can still be seen
** King children criticize site for proposed civil rights museum
Two of Martin Luther King Jr.'s children say a proposed civil rights museum
should be near their father's grave instead of in the city's tourism hub
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** Museum Drops Plan to Sell Monet to Pay for Roof Repairs
The western town of Krefeld has scrapped plans to sell a painting by Monet,
the most precious canvas in its local art museum, to raise money to repair
the museum's leaking roof
** My new museum is slightly smaller
With a shimmering metallic finish and swooping curves, it has all the
hallmarks of a classic Frank Gehry building, but with one crucial
difference - it can fit in the palm of your hand
** Fire at museum exposes laxity
The fire which required six fire brigade tenders to control, broke out in
the western block of the museum which is adjacent to the eastern block where
an exhibition of the Nizam's famed jewellery collection is presently on
** Museum thinks Venus looks better with her head
Conservators at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University think a
late first-century statue of Venus looks better with its head attached and
are using a giant X-ray machine usually used to inspect commercial airliner
parts to accomplish the task
** Seeing the serpent
Isbell suggests instead that primates developed good close-up eyesight to
avoid a dangerous predator - the snake
** The Conservation Centre for Art and Historic Artefacts (CCAHA) presents:
Small Cases, Big Ideas: Planning Exhibitions
** National Park Service's 2007 Archaeological Prospection Workshop
** 11th Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video
Festival
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