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week's edition include:
** 'Drunk' Japanese MP takes touchy tour of Vatican museum
Japan's Ambassador to the Vatican, Kagefumi Ueno, says the Minister kept
touching the art work, at one stage stepping over a security barrier to
touch a statue and setting off an alarm
** Canadian aviation took flight 100 years ago on Frozen Lake
The ice on Baddeck Bay gleamed in the sunlight as the primitive biplane,
held together by a spindly network of bamboo and taut wire, was wheeled from
a shed on the shoreline of Cape Breton's sprawling inland sea
** Google sinks Atlantis 'discovery'
Google has dismissed a persistent rumour that a would-be Jacques Cousteau
discovered the lost city of Atlantis using the Google Earth mapping program
** Contemporary art is a fraud, says top dealer
One of the world's leading art dealers this week launched an astonishing
attack on the contemporary art market, condemning the millions charged for
some works as "almost fraud"
** Historic Omaha Museum Could Collapse
One of Nebraska's oldest historic landmarks, the Great Plains Black History
Museum, is in danger of imminent collapse, safety engineers say
** Nunsense
An art dealer who bought a painting from an upstate convent for $450,000 and
then immediately resold it for $2.2 million says it's not his fault nuns are
bad business people
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** Scientists Find First Animal That Had Sex
Remains of embryos entombed in their fish mothers' wombs for 380 million
years have been found in fossils from an ancient rock outcrop in Western
Australia
** Museum and labyrinth
A culture without writing is extremely circumscribed and practically
incapable of self-criticism, but it does of necessity foster the power of
memory, for all cultural knowledge must be stored in the minds of living
people
** Photographs of Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition saved
Photographs of Captain Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole have
been brought to life by digital technology
** Exhibit ignores perplexing questions during Iranian king's rule
At the private opening on Tuesday of the "Shah Abbas: The Remaking of Iran"
show on view until June 14, the guests at the British Museum may have
briefly wondered whether this was a dry run for international negotiations
between Iran and the West, with a bit of political positioning here and
there
** How to spot a golden calf - or a cash cow
Damien Hirst might think his own art is great, but whether he would honestly
price it in the same way as a paying punter is another matter
** Just look at the noses
The art of Pacific Island cultures from the 18th to early 20th century is
finding renewed resonance in museums across the U.S., including a new
exhibition in San Diego
** 'Superguns' of Elizabeth I's navy
The new research follows the discovery of the first wreck of an Elizabethan
fighting ship off Alderney in the Channel Islands, thought to date from
around 1592, just four years after the Spanish Armada.
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** Oh No It's Gone
Great art heists - as audacious art heists go, the theft of da Vinci's Mona
Lisa from the Louvre in 1911 ranks pretty high
** The Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits
The Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits was established in 1985
to recognize excellence in museums and museum exhibits that interpret the
history of technology, industry, and engineering to the general public
** Darwin specimen found at Manchester Museum after 100 years
A set of sea stock found in 100-year-old archives at the Manchester Museum
has been confirmed as belonging to Charles Darwin by experts at Cambridge
University
** The Art of Museum Diplomacy
At a time when more conventional channels of communication between Britain
and Iran have stalled, MacGregor's cultural diplomacy is opening up another
avenue for dialogue
** Gallery giants reach uneasy truce over great 1900 divide
The two titans of the British art world, the National Gallery and the Tate,
have finally edged towards a truce after four years of disagreement about
where the cut-off between their collections should be
** New Monet museum blooms in France
The Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny, on the site of the famed Musée d'art
Americain Giverny, is due to open with an exhibit of Monet works
** Fake postman stole Lowry paintings
Miller, dressed as a postman, rang the front doorbell, and when Mrs Laird,
who was carrying the couple's two year old daughter in her arms, opened the
door, he held a kitchen knife at the child's throat to force the Lairds to
co-operate
** Enabling Diversity Sustaining Development
The 2nd International Conference on the Inclusive Museum
** Museums and Faith
ICOM / ICMAH Annual Conference 2009
** International Symposium on Terrestrial Paleogene Biota and Stratigraphy
of Eastern Asia
June 15-17, 2009, Beijing, China
** Through the Looking Glass: Museums and Internet-Based Transparency
The Smithsonian Centre for Education and Museum Studies announces the next
G. Brown Goode Smithsonian Education Lecture
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