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week's edition include:
** Jewish museum explodes myth Rembrandt was a Jew
The myth that Rembrandt had close links with Jews or could indeed have been
a Jewish convert can be dated back to the 19th century, according to van
Voolen: an increasing number of Jews came to live in the district of
Amsterdam where the artist worked and where there was already a synagogue,
thereby establishing its reputation as the city's "Jewish quarter"
** Sword holds clue to 17th century nanotechnology
Made by the renowned 17th century Arabic swordmaker Assad Ullah, the sabre
is a rare example of authentic Damascus steel - a unique material renowned
for its hardness, sharpness, and unique banding pattern
** Children's Museum director forced out
Museum executives say he failed to attract the star power and wealthy donors
willing to make the big-money contributions needed to complete the exhibits
and support the state-of-the-art museum
** Museum has vet its match
Street vendors are taking up arms against the Metropolitan Museum of Art
this Veterans Day in a war over a Vietnam vet's right to sell scarves and
sunglasses at the Met's doorstep
** Getty risks embargo Italy warns
Frustrated by the J. Paul Getty Trust's refusal to return a prized statue of
Aphrodite and a score of other antiquities, Italian officials are
threatening to impose an unprecedented cultural embargo on the Los Angeles
museum that would prevent its borrowing any artwork from or conducting
research in their country
** Easy-Bake Oven enters the toy hall of fame
The Easy-Bake Oven and Lionel model trains have joined Mr. Potato Head, the
Frisbee and 32 other classic, but watt-free toys, in the Strong-National
Museum of Play's eight-year-old hall of fame
** Fossil collection donated to Utah museum
The Lehi Hutchings Museum will add 25,000 fossils to its collection - a
half-million dollar gift from a Utah man who spent his life collecting the
specimens
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** National Gallery Buys Eakins Painting
The National Gallery is buying one of the 19th century's best-known American
paintings, "The Gross Clinic" by Thomas Eakins, for a record $68 million
** Museum is accused of letting pages of history fade
Nabwangu said museum officials have offered only to try to have the
manuscript pages restored, which could further damage them or shorten their
lifespan
** Adopt A Wasp
The fall in the number of domestic wasps can be directly linked to the
increased popularity of foreign destination holidays
** Viking ship replica to sail from Denmark to Ireland in July
On July 2, the vessel will set sail from Roskilde with a crew of 65 who hope
to learn more about Viking seamanship on a seven-week, 1,700-kilometre
journey to Dublin - a city founded by Vikings
** 2,700-year-old bronze ware discovered in northwest China
The wares were firstly found in a cellar by six farmers in Wujun Village,
Fufeng County when they were digging a water channel in their field
** Goya masterpiece stolen en route to New York
A reward of up to $50,000 has been offered for information leading to the
recovery of a painting by a Spanish master that was stolen while being
transported to the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan
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** The crazy truthfulness of Stanley Spencer
Patricia with fish-cold blue eyes, her sagging, lined skin shrivelling into
the canvas in sexual distaste, her slimy fingers curling like tentacles, and
a look of such loathing towards artist and viewer that it is a relief to
learn that she left Spencer on their honeymoon
** Civil rights museum director disputes auditor's report
The executive director of the planned International Civil Rights Centre &
Museum in Greensboro angrily disputed a state audit that suggested the
organization had not properly accounted for the $2 million in state funds
the project has received
** Masterpieces found in librarian's bedroom
Two lost paintings by Italian Renaissance master Fra Angelico have turned up
in a modest English house in a discovery hailed as one of the most exciting
art finds in a generation
** Swedish court commutes prison sentences in stolen Rembrandt case
An appeals court has commuted prison sentences against three men convicted
of trying to sell a stolen Rembrandt painting to an undercover agent, saying
the crime was provoked by a police sting operation
** Scientists Mapping Neanderthal Genome
A bone fragment that scientists had initially ignored has begun to yield
secrets of the Neanderthal genome, launching a new way to learn about the
stocky and muscular relative of modern humans
** Lindsay Wildlife Museum charging teens to volunteer
To help offset budget deficits racked up in the last two years, the
civic-minded youths must pay $450 a year for the privilege of helping out at
the museum, on top of a $65 annual family membership
** Call for Proposals for the 2007 Marketplace of Ideas and Read The Fine
Print
** 35th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods
in Archaeology
** Trends in Museum Developments - ICAMT - Architecture and Museum
Techniques
** Request for submissions to the Wittenborn Book Competition
The ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society of North America) welcomes submissions
of notable art books to its George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award
Competition
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