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week's edition include:
** Dutch restoring clocks from Chinese imperial collection
According to the curator, famous clock makers such as James Cox and John
Pike designed clocks that had a lot of what we would call bling today: gold,
jewels, crystal and frills
** Worth waiting for
Far from being an old man's doodles, Titian's late paintings are among his
finest
** Irish "crown jewels" heist continues to baffle, a century on
It has the stuff of a good crime novel: palace scandal, a taboo gay s#x
ring, murder, money and politics and a century on, the theft of Ireland's
"crown jewels" still tantalizes - and is still unsolved
** Guides Say Museum Is Blocking Union Drive
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, which features stories of downtrodden
immigrants exploited by employers and landlords, is now the subject of a
unionization drive by nearly 30 part-time tour guides who say the
organization has been blocking their efforts to organize for higher wages,
better benefits and more regular work schedules
** 'The Scream' to go back on display after 2004 heist
Visitors now pass through metal detectors and put their bags through a
scanning device before even arriving at the ticket booth, where they must
pass through a second metal detector
** Who Controls Access to Research on Fossils?
The fear of being scooped runs deep among some palaeontologists, the
scientists who hunt and study the bones of these ancient creatures
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** Stamp out boring museums
Glorious shoes ranks right up there in the Tedium Table just below the
Savings Bank Museum (think about it... where else? Dumfries, Scotland) and
the Museum of Ovens in East Anglia
** Maya blue mystery made clear
Chicago anthropologists have solved the mystery of how the ancient Maya
produced Maya blue, a vivid and virtually indestructible pigment that was
used for painting religious objects and human sacrifices
** Scott's slippers sell for £3,000
A pair of slippers once owned by Sir Walter Scott has sold at auction in
Edinburgh for £3,000
** Site of Interest - Museum of Black Super Heroes
In recent years, many African American artists and comics publishers have
taken it upon themselves to create and explore more black superheroes
** The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
The (somewhat daft) premise of the show, which contains work by contemporary
artists from Josephy Beuys and Bruce Nauman to Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst,
is that it is a museum collection of Earth art, curated by a Martian, for
Martian visitors
** A Marvel of a Museum and Newsworthy, Too
When the Newseum opens April 11, visitors will see an extraordinary work of
architecture housing extraordinary exhibits
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** Roman sex artefacts go on show
Devised in the Netherlands and first mounted in 2003 in another museum, the
exhibition is being supplemented at the Rhenish Museum in Trier with about
50 local Roman-period artefacts recovered by archaeologists
** This Week's Horoscopes
Scorpio October 24 to November 21 - While being replaced by a machine is
never easy, losing your job to a common office stapler will prove especially
difficult to take
** Ancient ceremonial plaza found in Peru
A team of German and Peruvian archaeologists say they have discovered the
oldest known monument in Peru: a 5,500-year-old ceremonial plaza near Peru's
north-central coast
** Jack the Ripper returns to London's East End
The lurid news coverage of the murders even prompted Queen Victoria to write
asking if more could be done for the destitute women of the squalid,
disease-ridden and vermin infested area
** Experts create new image of Bach
Experts have digitally rebuilt the face of 18th century German composer
Johann Sebastian Bach - and say the results may surprise his fans
** Museums, marketing and money: the fine art of empire-building
The demise of the Man with the Titanium Touch (apologies to the actual
architect of curvaceous Bilbao wonder, Frank Gehry) has nothing to with
diminishing energy or commitment
** Mediterranean Archaeological Field School
The 2008 Boston University Mediterranean Archaeological Field School will
take place at the site of Torre d'en Galmes on the island of Menorca, Spain.
** Plague in Gotham
On April 4, the New-York Historical Society will be opening a new exhibition
called Plague in Gotham!: Cholera in Nineteenth-Century New York
** The Natural History of Easter Island
The Natural History Museum, London
** Celebrate Pasifika - Story Telling
Auckland Museum
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