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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:
** Fans get to decide if Turner Prize is art
Pickled cows, elephant dung paintings and a transvestite potter - The Turner
Prize deserves its reputation as one of art's most controversial awards
** Inca children 'fattened' for sacrifice
Hair samples taken from child mummies suggest the ancient Incas "fattened"
up children chosen for ritual sacrifice months before actually killing them
** Hearses inhabit quirky museum
The museum opened in 2003, only to be filled with four feet of water during
floods resulting from Hurricane Ivan in 2004
** Poster Churchill pulped on show
A war poster banned by Winston Churchill as a 'disgraceful libel' because it
showed a boy with rickets in a British slum is to go on display this week in
a major exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum
** The future of medical museums: threatened but not extinct
No doubt Hunter would be saddened and dismayed at the plight that has
befallen some of our wonderful collections of pathology specimens, medical
and surgical artefacts and memorabilia
** Louvre mounts ambitious exhibit for U.S. audience
A few feet away looms Tiberius, Livia's son from another marriage who,
according to some accounts, became emperor only after his mother arranged
several deaths, including Caesar's, to clear his path to the throne
** GAO Faults Smithsonian Upkeep and Security
Deteriorating Smithsonian facilities have damaged historic airplanes,
threatened collections and resulted in the leakage of tens of millions of
gallons of water at National Zoo enclosures, while cuts in security staff
have exposed artefacts in the institution's 18 museums to vandalism and
theft, the Government Accountability Office has reported
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius - November 22 to December 2. Drained both physically and
emotionally, you will find comfort this week in the arms of a rather
spacious leather couch
** Mummy P@rn Show Opens
Mummified corpses of adults and children from around the world are on show
in a stomach-churning new exhibition in the Germany city of Mannheim
** Deliberately set fire destroys several museum artefacts
The museum's collection was not insured as the premiums were unaffordable
for the volunteer board of directors
** Exhibit celebrates 400 years since Caravaggio's exile to Malta
Celebrated for his dramatic chiaroscuro (light and shadow) paintings, he was
equally theatrical in life, and one of the many brawls he was notorious for
ended in the death of a young adversary in Rome, Ranuccio Tomassoni, in 1606
** Price To Peep At Pepys? Pfffft!
Unlike Canadians, who have come to expect to be charged to enter museums
such as the National Portrait Gallery - something we don't even have, of
course, because the Harper government has scuttled plans to give the
collection an appropriate venue - Britons bristle at the suggestion that
they should pay to access their own history
** Greece to create Alexander the Great museum
Greece will dedicate a museum to Alexander the Great in the northern town of
Pella, his birthplace and the seat of the Macedonian kingdom that ruled an
empire from Europe to India
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** The Millais model
When Lionel Lambourne, distinguished curator of paintings at the V&A, joined
the museum in 1958, his very first task was to burn Victorian drawings that
were deemed superfluous and valueless
** Smuggling fuels worldwide trade in Chinese antiquities
By a curious twist of history and geopolitics, Hong Kong has become the
legitimate outlet for ill-gotten treasures of Chinese history, a legal
market for illegally obtained objets d'art that can and do command huge sums
** Sakharov museum in Moscow falls on hard times
Yelena Bonner, Sakharov's widow who has helped the museum raise funds, said
rich Russians have showed little enthusiasm for supporting the museum
** Expert locates tomb of short-lived Chinese emperor
The first emperor of China would be rolling in his grave if he knew his Qin
empire outlived him by only three years, and its last emperor had since been
lying within a kilometre of himself for 2,200 years
** New Arp museum
Chancellor Angela Merkel has opened a striking new museum perched high above
the Rhine devoted to the work of Dadaist artists Hans Arp and Sophie
Taeuber-Arp
** Irish Museum Cleared of Nazi Loot Claim
An Irish museum has been formally cleared of claims that its founders were
Nazi spies who bought art works from dealers trafficking in items stolen
from Jews
** Donation from Ellis helps Museum profile netball
** Vulnerability Assessment Program - The Conservation Centre for Art and
Historic Artefacts
** Americana 2007 "Digital Americana" - Tasty food, live jazz, and
multimedia presentations
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