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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** De Young selling tribal art as family squabbles
San Francisco has agreed to sell 76 pieces of tribal art pledged to the M.H.
de Young Memorial Museum in a bid to resolve an inheritance dispute that
threatens the city-owned museum's cornerstone collection of Oceanic art
** Facebook is more than a fad-and museums need to learn from it
By treading gently into the second generation of web development and design,
known as Web 2.0, museums risk achieving little, and are effectively paying
mere lip service to online social engagement
** Egyptian Temple of Karnak virtually restored
The reconstruction, presented at the American Research Centre in Egypt
meeting in Dallas, follows online digital re-creations of Rome's Coliseum
and Roman Forum as well as Pompeii's Villa of the Mysteries, all produced by
a University of California-Los Angeles team
** In colour: the Edwardians as we've never seen them before
A collection of previously-unseen pictures captured by the scion of the
banking dynasty at the turn of the 20th century has cast new light on the
era with the discovery of the earliest-known colour photograph of King
Edward VII
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** Cezanne may be great, but who can afford him?
The Philadelphia Museum of Art's charge is part of an unfortunate trend that
has museums seeing themselves as competing with for-profit entertainment
businesses such as the local cineplex or professional baseball team
** Guerrilla Girls protest sexism in museums
In 1995, a "weenie count" done by the Guerrilla Girls at the Metropolitan
Museum showed that 85 percent of the pieces that depicted nudes depicted
naked women while only five percent of the displayed artworks were created
by women
** When a dress had to be Parisian
The Philadelphia Museum of Art harks back to those early days of haute
couture - when high fashion was solely about craftsmanship, and clothing
defined social standing - with its latest show, "Shopping in Paris: French
Fashion 1850 to 1925."
** Spitfire sells for record £1.7m
The plane, which was discovered in a South African scrapyard, is one of
fewer than 50 Spitfires still capable of flying
** Art museums become thing of past in Las Vegas
Museums dedicated to neon, entertainer Liberace and pinball machines remain,
but high-brow culture in Las Vegas has achieved a new nadir with the closure
of its public art museum
** On display, the sculpture that revealed an aristocrat's guilty secret
A certain artwork, which was created by Charles Sargeant Jagger - one of the
era's most prominent artists - and which took pride of place in their living
room, revealed a sensational secret that led to censure and outrage from
their contemporaries
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** Indonesian minister of culture's public apology for destruction of
archaeological site
The Indonesian minister for culture and tourism was forced to make a public
apology after the government ignored urgent warnings and failed to halt a
controversial new museum and visitor centre in Mojokerto, East Java, which
caused extensive damage to important archaeological remains at Trowulan
** Children's Museum to get Anne Frank tree sapling
A sapling from the tree Anne Frank used to measure the seasons while hiding
from the Nazis in Amsterdam will be planted at The Children's Museum
** London airport lands museum to stow and show vintage jets
The CT-133 Thunderbird jets will soon be joined by three more in a new
venture in which the vintage aircraft will be housed and maintained in
London and also sent to air shows far and wide
** The lost fleet of Khubilai Khan
In 1274 and in 1281, Khubilai Khan, Great Khan of the Mongols and conqueror
of the Song Dynasty in China, sent invading fleets against Japan
** Da Vinci Portrait Found in Cathedral Window
According to Vezzosi, the stained-glass portrait dates to around 1520, one
year after Leonardo's death in Amboise, France
** It's Bad for Museums to Pay Bonds With Their Art
Regardless of how one generation (or administration) feels about the
relevance of a particular aspect of the museum's collection, it should not
assume the right to alter the character of the museum, or simply erase the
work of previous curators and donors
** From The Blogs - Touring New York City's Most Famous Museums
First off, I know I have a tendency to exaggerate sometimes, but as an
English-speaking person in the Met this afternoon I was a drastic minority
** Record $110m for heritage
The phenomenal increase is mostly due to Chinese artist Wu Guanzhong's
donation of 113 artworks worth $73.7 million to the Singapore Arts Museum
** This Week's Horoscopes
Pisces Feb 19 - Mar 20. You always hate it when shows end with a big musical
number, so you'll probably be pretty disappointed with what happens to the
universe on Wednesday
** CT scanning performed on prehistoric turtle to find skull, eggs, embryos
The fossilised remains of a 75-million-year-old turtle, only the second in
the world found with eggs inside it, underwent CT scanning at Bozeman
Deaconess hospital recently
** What Will You Do for MayDay?
Cultural Institutions Prepare for Emergencies
** A Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media
Presented by the Conservation Centre for Art and Historic Artefacts
** Emotion in Motion: The Passions of Tourism, Travel and Movement
This event will once again bring together an interdisciplinary group of
academics to discuss old and new ideas within the broad thematic fields of
tourism, travel and movement
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