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week's edition include:
** A Major Photography Museum in Marrakesh
The world's largest photography museum is coming to Marrakesh: the Marrakech
Museum for Photography and Visual Art is scheduled to open in 2016 near the
Menara Gardens on the outskirts of the old city
** Old masters brought to life, in the blink of an eye
For centuries, art lovers have stood blinking in front of the Sleeping Venus
by Italian master painter Giorgione, but few would be prepared for it to
blink back
** Textile Museum set to have a new home
The move by the 88-year-old Textile Museum from its historic DuPont Circle
home to the campus of George Washington University has been heralded as
visionary
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** Model for Chicago Picasso sculpture could fetch $35 million
A model for the cubist sculpture that Pablo Picasso gave to the city of
Chicago could fetch as much as $35 million when it is sold at auction next
month - a record for a sculpture by the artist
** Famous Pirate Ship Emerges, Piece by Piece
It is colloquially named "The Pile", a concretion of objects that consists
of a large anchor lying over seven cannon, other artifacts, and a natural
encrustation that has built up over nearly 300 years
** Museum and Art Gallery is reborn as The Wilson
The Wilson also boasts a space to discover more about local heroes,
including the eponymous Edward Wilson - one of Scott's key men on his 1912
expedition to Antarctica - and a re-interpreted Arts and Crafts gallery
housing a world-renowned and Designated collection of national importance
** Engraved Penises Reveal Birth Date of Italian City
Two penises engraved on a 2,000 year old stone may shed light on the
foundation of the city of Aosta in northern Italy, revealing its deep
connection with the Roman emperor Augustus
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** Museum closed by shutdown disappoints Greek delegation
A group of senior Greek officials left Washington for home Thursday, deeply
disappointed that a major art exhibition from their country had just become
one of the latest casualties of the federal government shutdown
Cut-Outs took four years to organise
Some of the work will be displayed together for the first time since they
were in Matisse's studio, reflecting the passion for an art form he at first
employed because he couldn't paint after an operation and ill-health
Archaeologist Finds Near-Perfect Maya Mural
Finally, after weeks of digging in withering heat and humidity, they came
upon something that made the hardships worth the effort: a previously
undisturbed tomb beneath a pyramid staircase
3-D Scanned & Printed Renderings of Classical Paintings
Dutch researcher Tim Zaman has developed an innovative 3D photographic
scanning system and has been working with Kröller-Müller and Rijksmuseum in
the Netherlands to capture some of their fine art in 3-D space
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** Codebreaker at the Science Museum provides fitting tribute to genius of
Alan Turing
Although more than the story of a lone genius, this biographical exhibition,
which comes to the end of its year-long run later this month, focuses on the
life and legacy of a man known by the Bletchley workforce as "the Prof",
also celebrating 100 years since the mathematician, philosopher, computer
scientist and Bletchley codebreaker, Alan Turing, was born
** Sold for £15,000 - but Napoleon portrait by Jacques-Louis David is worth
£2m
Gravy-stained painting thought to be a copy has now been confirmed as master
painter's work
** Who needs the Smithsonian and National Gallery when there's the Medical
Museum?
Thanks to idiot lawmakers, many of Washington's iconic attractions - the
Hope Diamond, the Declaration of Independence, the Ginevra de' Benci, the
giant pandas - are behind locked doors
** How to move a museum
As conservator for the Alaska State Museum, she is responsible for figuring
out how to pack up more than 32-thousand objects
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** Miss Piggy chases Kermit the Frog to Muppet collection at Smithsonian
Miss Piggy is finally joining her love, Kermit the Frog, in the Smithsonian
Institution's collection of Jim Henson's Muppets, and Bert and Ernie will
have a place in history, too
** Huge Chichester stone could be head of Roman Emperor Nero
A 26-stone head found in a flower bed in a Hampshire vicarage garden could
represent Nero, the rarely-glimpsed Emperor whose first century rule over
the Roman Empire began when he was a 14-year-old
** Detroit manager: Museum must earn money off art
Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr on Thursday offered some of the
strongest hints yet that prized works at the Detroit Institute of Arts are
on the table as a way to reduce the city's debts, but he didn't go into
detail on what methods that might involve
** Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto unveils app for interactive look at
exhibits
The Royal Ontario Museum unveils a new app that allows visitors to get a
more interactive look at some exhibits, including X-ray views of mummies and
a close glimpse into a dinosaur's mouth
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** As War Rages in Syria, Efforts are Made to Save Culture
The International Council of Museums is publicizing an Emergency Red List
that highlights Syrian cultural objects that are at risk of being lost
forever
** Scientists Recommend Having Earth Put Down
While admitting that the prospect of saying goodbye to the terrestrial
planet is very difficult, Wyche explained to reporters that letting nature
take its course would only prolong the inevitable (satire)
** Military Museum, State go to court over artifacts
A lawsuit filed by the California Military Department, which oversees the
California National Guard, alleges the Museum is sloppy in its accounting of
weapons, including pistols, rifles, machine guns and even anti-tank weapons
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Helping you determine what your antiques and collectibles are and how to
care for them
** Consequence of the US Shutdown
Contacting Smithsonian Institution, BLM, and other federal institutions
** 7th European Industrial and Technical Heritage Weekend
Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
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