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week's edition include:
** Horror as man in suit plunges to his death from private members' balcony
at Tate Modern
A man in his late forties plunged to his death in front of horrified
families at a packed Tate Modern after falling more than 100ft from a
private members' balcony
** Art's Sale Value? Zero. The Tax Bill? $29 Million
Because the Robert Rauschenberg work, a sculptural combine, includes a
stuffed bald eagle, a bird under federal protection, the heirs would be
committing a felony if they ever tried to sell it
** London 2012 Archaeology and the Olympics
Archaeologists excavated no fewer than 121 trenches, recovered more than
10,000 artifacts, and revealed evidence of at least 6,000 years of human
activity - from the area's first prehistoric hunters and farmers to World
War II defense structures
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** Living Museums Bring Static History to Life
The counter argument is that if visitors can discover even a few things
about, say, America's whaling tradition or the real First Thanksgiving - and
have a good time doing it - that's more than they'd get out of looking at a
bunch of boring displays
** At Getty Museum, revelations of art via tech
Home to some of the most celebrated European artwork in the world - and one
of the most visited museums in the United States - the Getty has also become
one of the museums most devoted to adopting technology aimed at enhancing
guests' experience, as well as at using high-tech tools in the research and
archiving arms of the related Getty Research Institute and Getty
Conservation Institute
** National Museum of Scotland in eight new galleries plan
A tea service created for Emperor Napoleon in 1810, the world's first
pneumatic tyre invented by John Boyd Dunlop in 1888 and the Nobel Prize gold
medal awarded to Sir James Black for the discovery of beta blockers and
anti-ulcer drugs are some of the items to go on show at the Chambers Street
site
** Last of the Neanderthals
The locale places them at one of the most important geographical
intersections of prehistory, and the date puts them squarely at the center
of one of the most enduring mysteries in all of human evolution
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** The Curse of the Outcast Artifact
Across the country measures taken to curb the trade in looted artifacts are
making it more difficult for collectors of antiquities to donate, or sell,
the cultural treasures that fill their homes, display cases and storage
units
** Pizza Museum To Offer A Slice Of American Food And Culture
Philadelphia is not an obvious location choice for a pizza museum; the City
of Brotherly Love is better known as the home of the Philly cheesesteak
** How the State House's cultural treasures have vanished, piece by piece
While some people die bitter, having chased Rembrandts to the grave, few
have acknowledged the breadth of the commonwealth's lost jewels, let alone
lost sleep over a bygone canvas
** Museum roof collapses, buries artifacts
A number of priceless artifacts possibly lay crushed beneath piles of rubble
following a ceiling collapse at the Marion Natural History Museum on Spring
Street
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** Nigeria Wants Boston Museum to Return Trove of Benin Artifacts
Last month the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, announced that it had received a
major gift of centuries-old Benin artifacts from what is now Nigeria,
including 28 bronzes and six ivories, from the collector Robert Owen Lehman
** Israel Museum to introduce sex-segregated visiting hours
The Israel Museum in Jerusalem will have separate visiting hours for men and
women to its new exhibit about Hasidic Jews
** Russia Bible museum sees the books as national treasures
Pozdeyeva said she never fails to experience a surge of emotion when she
handles the book, one of 350 surviving copies of the first Bibles printed in
Russia in the old Slavonic language
** When museum curators confuse price and value
Barron is the senior curator of 20th-century art at Lacma, which puts her at
the pinnacle of the non-profit art world, the place where art is supposedly
valued just for its own sake and not because it's worth lots of money
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** Museums are already social enterprises
The evidence on the ground is powerful - museums demonstrate an impressive
array of profitable income streams and cost saving measures that most
'not-for-profit organisations' can only dream of
** Exhibit is something to crow about
"A Cultural History of the Chicken" covers both the larger history of the
chicken - its origins, geographical expansion and cultural significance in
world religions, folklore and literature - and its more recent history in
the United States, especially on the Eastern Shore, as the chicken became a
staple of the dinner table
** The search for photos of China's past
Holiday snapshots, studio portraits of weddings and babies, all were
dangerously incriminating so people destroyed their own family collections,
rubbing out over 150 years of photographic history in the process
** Project Passenger Pigeon
2014 is the centenary of the extinction of the passenger pigeon and this
project is an international effort to use this occasion to familiarize
people with the story of the Passenger Pigeon; and to then use that
compelling story as a portal into consideration of current issues related to
extinction and sustainability
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Virgo - You knew eating those hamburgers would come back to haunt you, but
it's still a bit of a surprise when all the floating cows show up
** Royal Worcester porcelain maker details how he stole trade secrets from
French potters after Revolution
A 223-year-old diary of one of the founders of Royal Worcester porcelain,
John Flight, reveals how he stole the secrets for the world famous brand -
by spying on French potters
** Museum Complexes
The ICOM ICFA Annual Conference of 2012 in Moscow, Russia
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