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week's edition include:
** Obama: I will come back to Forbidden City
Accompanied by museum curator Zheng Xinmiao, Obama entered the museum from
its main entrance in the south, the Meridian Gate (Wu Men) and walked along
the museum's central axis, also the axial line of the city, from south to
north, about 960 meters
** A gala celebration for MOCA
The mood was gay, with more than a hint of self-consciousness (this was a
museum back from the brink, after all) at the black-tie soiree, which drew
more than 1,000 for a reception, sneak preview and a sit-down dinner,
raising more than $3.5 million
** Historical plane gets big clean
Over the years it has been piloted by Santa Claus, a mannequin known to
staff as Bertie and most recently by Banksy's Guantanamo Bay inmate
** London Museum Asks Public What to Pitch
Consider the boring old picnic basket known as the "Agatha Christie basket,"
which contains fragments of pottery of unknown origins and if it had
belonged to the author as its nickname would suggest, it would undoubtedly
be a keeper; however, it turns out it belonged to her second husband's
second wife, and the university has no idea under what circumstances it was
donated
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** Nautical antique weekend planned
Hoyt has 30 years of experience in the study of historic shipwrecks,
performing much of his early work in the islands of the Caribbean and in
Bermuda, including several years with the Institute of Maritime History and
Archaeology at the Bermuda Maritime Museum
** Climate change catastrophe took just months
He believes the extinction of Neanderthals roughly 30,000 years ago was
linked to a series of rapid climate fluctuations that began more than 40,000
years ago
** Experts better than machines at reconstructing fossils
A new study pitting academic expertise against a computer in recreating a
425 million-year old jigsaw puzzle has discovered that there is no
substitute for wisdom born out of experience
** Masters Reopen Music Museum of Iran
Its different sections are now home to a variety of musical instruments such
as wind instruments, string instruments, regional instruments and national
instruments, a library, an instrument-making workshop, and a gallery
** Berlin row over expellee museum escalates
Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told Der Spiegel that he would not accept
the nomination of Erika Steinbach to a board overseeing the museum, which
will depict the plight of Germans and other groups forced out of eastern
Europe after the war
** Museum of Chinese in America opens in New York
The exhibits, which narrate 200 years of struggle for the Chinese in the
United States, puncture old stereotypes and some that still lurk
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** Let there be light in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Time and again it has stood on the brink of dissolution or obsolescence,
only for a new version to rise, like the proverbial phoenix, out of the
ashes of the old
** Mona Lisa had eyebrows, art expert says
Now comes word that at least one persistent rumour concerning the
masterpiece is true; Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" used to have eyebrows,
according to a French art expert
** True extent of Ukraine famine revealed in British journalist's diaries
Gareth Jones, who revealed the story of the forced famine that claimed the
lives of four million people in Ukraine in the 1930s, recorded the words of
Stalin's victims in his diaries, which he then used to prepare his dispatch
** Were rats behind Easter Island mystery?
Next, they proposed, based on DNA evidence and chewed palm remains in the
Journal of Archaeological Science, that Polynesian rats brought with those
immigrants had been the culprits behind deforestation, eating palm tree nuts
** Italy tries to shed image as keeper of past
Italy is opening its first national museum for contemporary arts and
architecture in a bid to shed its image as merely a keeper of a glorious
artistic past
** Sweden returns 22 human skulls to Hawaii
The symbolic ceremony on Saturday - attended by guests from Hawaii and the
Nordic countries' own indigenous Sami population - was part of Sweden's
increased efforts to return indigenous remains collected by scientists
across the world
** Asir Museum one of five planned for Kingdom
During the ceremony, Prince Sultan said the SCTA was "working hard" to
introduce a comprehensive plan for the development of museums and the
architectural heritage of the Kingdom
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** Animation is now deemed 'real' art in China
The First China Cartoon and Animation Artistic Exhibition at the National
Art Museum of China in Beijing shows that animation and comic books have hit
the mainstream and are no longer just something for children and teenagers
** This Week's Horoscopes
Leo - Jul 23 to Aug 22. Life will imitate art this Tuesday when a
multi-planar figure of a woman stands languidly beside an abstracted carafe
of wine
** From The Blogs -
Dr. Alexander decided that Annie would bridge this barrier and become a
doctor, so that this propriety would no longer be life-threatening
** In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes Before the Digital Age
National Gallery of Art
** Rare species discovery honours wildlife campaigner Steve Irwin
Queensland Museum scientist Dr John Stanisic has named a rare species of
tree snail discovered in north Queensland in honour of wildlife advocate and
conservationist Steve Irwin
** Festival of Trees
Every year, the Berkshire Museum spruces up its galleries for its holiday
exhibition, The Festival of Trees
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