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week's edition include:
** Rothko painting victim of 'Yellowism' protest could take 18 months to
restore
To the untrained eye it might appear that a dab of white spirit and a quick
once over with a roller-soaked in emulsion might solve the problem
** Fisticuffs
Bellows painted many subjects and used many different techniques; he stole
so much from other artists that one visitor remarked that the artist's
retrospective looked more like a group show
** The Tucker Was the 1940s Car of the Future
Preston Tucker, an affable character with a weakness for statement neckties,
was a Prohibition-era policeman known for chasing down boosmtleggers in
Lincoln Park, Michigan
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** Museum exhibit shows how World War II POWs relied on creativity in
captivity
The captives slept on hard, wooden bunks in drafty barracks, and often
dropped substantial amounts of weight - some to the point of emaciation -
because of the meager and unpalatable food options
** Concept Alpine museum can go hang
What could be more appealing to the educated wine tourist than a trip to
Switzerland's Lavaux region, where the ideal conditions on the northern
shore of Lake Geneva have encouraged the cultivation of vineyards since at
least the 11th century?
** Crystal Bridges Museum the victim of apparent Wal-Mart email hoax
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark., is the
victim of an apparent email hoax linking founder and Wal-Mart heiress Alice
Walton with workers from the big-box retailer
** Cooking and Eating, Under Glass
File this under great minds thinking alike: For the first time, the American
Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institution will have major
exhibitions devoted to food and the food industry
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** Meet Chism, the Mining Museum's new burro
The sad but true fact is that in the late 1800's as mining booms played out
and other forms of transportation became available, miners released their
burros to fend for themselves
** Night of the White Gloves
The company's BMW museum in Munich is handing out white gloves to visitors
in a special evening event and letting them touch the venerable Mille Miglia
328s, Elvis-era 507s and M supercars
** Book Worms? Medieval Tomes Hold Surprising Fossil Record
A smattering of white spots found among the ink in medieval books aren't
just printing errors - they're actually an amazingly detailed "fossil"
record of European beetles, new research finds
** RAF Museum asks public to choose objects for its World War One centenary
exhibition
Curators have picked out 100 items ranging from Sopwith Camel rudders,
captured German aircraft and to The "Red Baron" Von Richtoffen's flying
helmet, to camouflaged rudders, incendiary bombs, photographs, ephemera,
personal trinkets and lucky charms
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** Ancient petroglyphs ripped from stone at California rock art site
Four petroglyphs carved into volcanic rock more than 3,500 years ago have
been hacked out and stolen by thieves who also damaged other engravings at a
historic site in California
** Art Deco Autos: Mullin Museum Opens Exhibit of Voisin Vehicles
Financial services entrepreneur Peter Mullin, long a fan of all objects from
the art deco period, opened the Mullin Automotive Museum nearly three years
ago to display his collection of more than 100 pre-World War II Bugattis,
Delahayes and Talbot-Lagos
** Former Marcos aide charged with secretly keeping Monet painting
The paintings, which the Philippine government claims it owns, disappeared
around the time Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was forced from power
a quarter century ago
** The Perfect Place To Grow
While Emin acknowledges the encouragement of her tutors, she is ambiguous
about her post-graduate experience: "I've always said the best thing about
the Royal College of Art was receiving that letter saying that I got in, and
after that it went downhill"
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** A Scholarly Approach to Innovation
First, storytelling lies at the heart of innovation - a fleeting insight by
one tribesman can be conveyed to another - and, second, cultural or
technological innovation shares traits with biological evolution: Good
insights provide a platform for ever-more-advanced ones
** New species sit on museum shelves for 21 years
The researchers randomly chose 600 species out of the amazing 16,994 new
species described worldwide in 2007 for an estimate of how long specimens
wait
** Israel Museums Hide Art to Protect It From Rockets
Tel Aviv's leading art museum, spooked by rocket attacks on Israel's
cultural capital, have moved nearly 200 works into a rocket-proof safe the
size of an auditorium - including some 100 works painted by relatives of
Flemish Renaissance master Pieter Brueghel the Elder
** Obese Salmon Unable To Swim Upstream To Spawn
Using an abstruse process of geomagnetic navigation that remains a mystery
to scientists, the salmon is reportedly still able to home in on the same
riverine drainage from which he hatched many years ago, but traversing the
thousands of feet of elevation gain required to complete the journey has
proven daunting for the flabby, out-of-shape fish (satire)
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** DNA study deals blow to theory of European origins
A new study deals a blow to the idea that most European men are descended
from farmers who migrated from the Near East 5,000-10,000 years ago
** Hundreds of historic photos go missing
A complaint was laid late last month with Kerikeri police about the
disappearance of more than 500 photos from the Whangaroa County Museum and
Archives Society in Kaeo
** Garden of Eden
From November 9th, 2012 to January 4th, 2013 , the Dimbola Museum and
Photographic Galleries, Julia Margaret Cameron Turst, Isle of Wight, UK, is
presenting the exhibition by Polish/Canadian artist Andrzej Maciejewski,
titled "Garden of Eden".
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** Francis Bacon - Five Decades
Art Gallery of New South Wales
** Waterfowling for Beginners
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD is offering a
Waterfowling for Beginners workshop on Saturday, December 8.
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