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week's edition include:
** Paracas exhibit at Peru's National Archaeology Museum
The new Paracas room will include a wide variety of items, including human
skulls, children's toys and games, textile items, and a study of Paracas
tattoo art
** New annex for the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst
Despite being in possession of over 5,000 works, the MMK was for a long time
unable to exhibit more than just a fraction of its world-class collection of
international contemporary art
** 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author in dispute with U.S. museum
The 87-year-old author has filed an application seeking a trademark for the
book's title when it is displayed on clothing and other merchandise
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** Fossil fish find in China fills in evolutionary picture
An international team of scientists in China has discovered what may be the
earliest known creature with a distinct face, a 419 million-year-old fish
that could be a missing link in the development of vertebrates
** Infatuations, Female and Feline
The French painter who called himself Balthus painted alluring, disturbing
pictures of nubile adolescents more than he painted anything else, making
images that conjured Courbet, Ingres, Piero della Francesca and Seurat and
were charged with suggestive undercurrents
** Giant skeleton of 80-tonne whale dismantled
Stretching the length of the gallery, this former resident of Pevensey Bay,
whose Sussex beach it washed up on in 1865, is now going back into storage
while improvements are made to its home
** How Aboriginal Australians Coped with Climate Change around 20,000 Years
Ago
Lakes dried up, forests disappeared, deserts expanded, animals went extinct
and vast swathes of the Australian land mass would have been simply
uninhabitable
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** How two years in the Paris made Vincent van Gogh into a master
The transition between these two periods in the artist's work - as if from
sepia to Technicolor - has fascinated experts for more than a century: in
short, how did the Van Gogh of The Potato Eaters become the Van Gogh of
Sunflowers?
** Fashion Museums Are à La Mode
Museum executives, conscious of their bottom lines, are eager to gain some
of the record-breaking 660,000-plus attendance of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art's Alexander McQueen exhibit in 2011 or the unprecedented ticket sales
that the Victoria and Albert Museum in London reported earlier this year for
its "David Bowie Is" show
** Mercedes to open museum in Beijing in bid to boost Chinese sales
Most German carmakers, including Mercedes, Porsche and BMW, have museums in
their home market to show off their brands, which experts say can boost
their appeal among potential buyers
** In Belgium, a Museum About the People Who Left It
The Red Star Line Museum, located in the former warehouses of the Red Star
Line shipping company, tells the story of the company, now defunct, and of
the people who sailed from the port city of Antwerp on its ships
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** British Museum exhibition shows the Vikings as more than just violent
raiders
The biggest Viking ship ever found is coming to London as part of a major
exhibition that aims to expand the popular image of the Scandinavian
plunderers, whose voyages took them as far as Asia and North America
** Ancient Etruscan Prince Emerges From Tomb
Italian archaeologists have unearthed a 2,600-year-old intact Etruscan tomb
that promises to reveal new depths of one of the ancient world's most
fascinating and mysterious cultures
** Holocaust Museum Barracks Going Back to Poland
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington is returning one of its
most powerful artifacts to Poland: a wooden barracks that housed prisoners
at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp
** MET offers Groupon deal for admission
Looks like the Met continues to be the true masters in the art of deception;
the famed museum launched a Groupon deal offering discounted admission
fees - but the prices are slashed from the "recommended" rates
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** Spy Museum Considers Move to Historic DC Library
The International Spy Museum, one of the most popular attractions in the
nation's capital over the past decade, is considering a move to a historic
library that would give it more space for exhibits and a link to the city's
convention center
** Name this ice age sloth
Slow on the heels of last year's mammoth-naming contest, the Nevada State
Museum in Las Vegas is looking for a cool new handle for its giant ice age
sloth; "Pokey" springs to mind
** Police believe racing museum burglaries linked
A burglary in December at the Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame in
Goshen, in which 14 pieces were stolen, is believed to have been pulled off
by the same person or people who took five priceless trophies from the
Saratoga museum
** National Postal Museum to open new stamp gallery
As home to the Smithsonian's second-largest collection - at 6 million items,
only the Natural History Museum has more - the museum was historically rich,
culturally resonant and enthusiastically commemorative
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** Britain's Tate museum calls on government for funding "contract"
The Tate museum called for a five-year public funding "contract" with the
British government on Thursday to help stabilize its role as a national
repository of art in an era of declining public finances for culture
** This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius - You will come face to face with your worst fears this week
after standing in front of a bathroom mirror
** Giant prehistoric elephant slaughtered by early humans
Research suggests that early humans, who lived thousands of years before
Neanderthals, were able to work together in groups to hunt and slaughter
animals as large as the prehistoric elephant
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** What does Ming suggest to you?
A new touring exhibition unveils surprising details about one of China's
greatest dynasties
** STEM 2014 Conference at Vancouver Canada
July 12-15, 2014 | UBC Vancouver, Canada
** Looting the Past: The Battle for Our Ancient Heritage
A public program from The Chicago Council on Global Affairs in partnership
with the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
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