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** Italy's Maxxi museum taken over by ministry as debts balloons
The museum, which cost the Italian government 150 million Euros to build,
has been hailed a success by many but has struggled to stay afloat after
cuts have seen its budget reduced to just two million Euros a year
** Painted Maya Walls Reveal Calendar Writing
Hacking through jungle growth and clearing away rubble, archaeologists made
their way to excavate a house buried at the edge of ruins of a large Maya
city in the remote Petén lowlands of northeastern Guatemala
** Art prices reflect income inequality
Most of the shrieks center on the confusion of authentic value, represented
by a degradation of art's capacity for meaning in the hard face of
promiscuous cash
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** In Egypt turmoil, thieves hunt pharaonic treasures
Taking advantage of Egypt's political upheaval, thieves have gone on a
treasure hunt with a spree of illegal digging, preying on the country's
ancient pharaonic heritage
** Agricultural museum gets rid of cats couple fed for years
A department spokesman says museum staff prefer that the number of cats on
the ground be kept to five or fewer, but the number had grown to 20 or 25
** Museum unveils newly acquired Vincent van Gogh watercolor of pollard
willow
A young Vincent van Gogh was so struck by a dead willow leaning "lonely and
melancholy" over a pond near The Hague that he knew at once he had to paint
it
** The Big Grin: Punch and Judy celebrations begin in sunny Worthing
They're planning to honour the 350th birthday of everyone's favourite wooden
seaside grump with a day of debauchery - a parade, a cake ceremony in a
giant booth, a beggars' banquet and a shindig in Fleet Street's famous Punch
Tavern are all on the cards - as part of The Big Grin
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** WWII plane found frozen in time deep in the Sahara
It is thought the pilot survived the crash and initially used his parachute
for shelter before making a desperate and futile attempt to reach
civilisation by walking out of the desert
** Will the real Abe Lincoln please stand out?
At first glance, Mr. Juola, a member of Duquesne's computer science
department, might seem an unlikely person to be involved in adding to the
scholarship about the country's 16th president
** Campaign to save the ancient Roman spa town from flooding
A decade-long campaign led by Turkish archaeologist Ahmet Yaras to prevent
the Turkish government from flooding the ancient Roman spa town of Allianoi
is one of 28 initiatives to receive a European Union Prize for Cultural
Heritage/Europa Nostra Award
** World's smallest mammoth is identified
The extinct dwarf mammoth, species Mammuthus creticus, was around 1m tall,
about the size of a modern baby African or Asian elephant
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** How the war on terror could solve art's most enduring mysteries
Software developed to recognise terrorist faces is being adapted to solve
the mystery of portraits of unidentified people; in certain cases,
cutting-edge "face recognition" technology could identify faces from digital
images, detecting similarities in facial constructs
** Australia's busiest museum to cut staff, extend shows, to meet funding
shortfall
Museum Victoria will cut its 550-strong workforce by 47, hold fewer touring
exhibitions and run other shows for longer to reduce costs to meet a
projected funding shortfall next financial year
** Viking treasure in Furness
The find is being billed as 'the missing link' by experts who say it is the
long-awaited material culture of the 9th and 10th century Vikings who would
have settled and operated in the peninsula
** A fiery little museum
Comprised of fire department memorabilia from around the world, the museum
was started about 50 years ago, when volunteer firefighter Irving Jenkins
brought back souvenirs from fire departments on his travels to other
countries
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** Chicago museum visits one NATO casualty
The museum at the Art Institute of Chicago, where the biggest-ever Roy
Lichtenstein retrospective will only just have opened to the public when the
NATO summit rolls into town
** Ancient language discovered on clay tablets found amid ruins of 2800
year old Middle Eastern palace
The discovery is important because it may help reveal the ethnic and
cultural origins of some of history's first 'barbarians' - mountain tribes
which had, in previous millennia, preyed on the world's first great
civilizations, the cultures of early Mesopotamia in what is now Iraq
** Loophole In Curse Lets Archaeologist Off The Hook
Mystic spirits guarding Sacsayhuamán Archaeological Park acknowledged
Tuesday that a loophole in a centuries-old hex had allowed archaeologist
Brian Bauer to violate the site's subterranean catacombs without being
cursed (satire).
** American Art Museum gives a peek at vast collection of African American
art
Today, the institution says it has the largest collection of African
American art in the world, some 2,000 works by 200 artists
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** Asia's superrich build their own art museums
Over the past two years Wang Wei and her husband Liu Yiqian dropped a
reported $317 million on their hobby
** Raj pictures found in shoe box at Edinburgh national collection
Archivists at RCAHMS have already confirmed that some of the images were
definitely taken in 1912, when King George V and Queen Mary visited Calcutta
** Bridges and Boundaries: Reframing Professional Education for Museums +
Heritage?
ICTOP Call for Papers, Amsterdam Sept. 13-15, 2012
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** The Inclusive Museum Conference 2012
The Fifth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum is to be held at
the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, from 2 to 5 August
2012.
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