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week's edition include:
** Frog named after Darwin croaks its last
A frog named after Charles Darwin has gone extinct because of a deadly
amphibian skin disease, scientists believe
** JFK in art: all the president's pictures
The Kennedys had spent the night of 21 November in suite 850, hung for the
occasion with works of art lent by local collectors aghast at reports that
the president and his wife were to be fobbed off with the hotel's
second-best rooms (the best went to Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, the
vice-president and his wife, both Texans)
** Oldest human genome reveals roots of first Americans
A 24,000-year-old boy from Siberia is the oldest human to have his genome
sequenced, and the results suggest that the first people to colonise the
Americas were not simply east Asians
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** A new twist on an old favourite as transformed Tate Britain reopens
After a £45m transformation, the gallery is back to its best with
stripped-back features and a front door opening on to the Thames once more
** Enduring Nazi Law Impedes Recovery of Art
Repeal or reform of the 1938 law could unravel an intricate web of art deals
involving such works that have been negotiated around the world in the
decades since, something that even many museum curators like Mr. Büche are
loath to consider
** Imelda Marcos' former secretary convicted in art scheme
Imelda Marcos' former secretary has been convicted of conspiring to sell art
that the former Philippine first lady acquired during her husband's
presidency, including a famous Claude Monet water-lily painting
** Not 'saved for the nation': Britain selling more art than ever before
In the last two years, less than a third of the antiques, paintings and
manuscripts that the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and
Objects of Cultural Interest recommended should be "saved for the nation"
actually remained in Britain
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** Vatican Unveils Revamped Catacombs Museum
Celebrating the meeting of ancient and modern worlds, the Vatican on Tuesday
presented a revamped museum of antique funerary remains in Rome, while
inviting the rest of the world to peek inside that space by computer
** Frankenstein to Star Trek: Sci-fi museum coming to D.C.
The museum will showcase seven distinct galleries, featuring the creators,
vehicles, time travel concepts, aliens, computers, robots and technology
** Vienna museum denies Jewish owner sold Klimt frieze under duress
The Viennese museum that houses one of Gustav Klimt's greatest artworks says
it has evidence that its previous Jewish owner sold it to the Austrian state
in an amicable transaction, rather than too cheaply under duress
** Autry Museum Under Fire After $10.5 Million Renovation
Another museum says the Autry has spent taxpayers' money fixing up the
Southwestern Museum, yet they are giving back very little in return
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** African art museum for V&A Waterfront
Positioning itself as a significant international cultural institution, the
museum will focus on collecting, preserving, researching and exhibiting
contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora
** Data taken from Singapore Art Museum website illegally
The email addresses and phone numbers of as many as 4,000 people were taken
from a data file on the Singapore Art Museum's (SAM) website, and illegally
published and uploaded to a New Zealand-based server
** Let's ear it for Derbyshire's secret treasure
Most people make do with a finger or a cotton bud to clean their ears - but
in Elizabethan Derbyshire, only an ear scoop would do
** Cairo's Egyptian Museum getting ambitious, multimillion-dollar
renovation
Egypt has unveiled a multimillion dollar renovation project for Cairo's
famed Egyptian Museum, including plans to demolish a scorched building that
stands between it and the Nile, in a bid to draw tourists back and restore a
sense of normalcy after more than two years of unrest
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** Mystery humans spiced up ancients' rampant sex lives
New genome sequences from two extinct human relatives suggest that these
'archaic' groups bred with humans and with each other more extensively than
was previously known
** Jewish Museum Releases New Hanukkah App
Light My Fire: A Hanukkah App allows users to select a contemporary or
traditional Hanukkah lamp from the Museum's renowned collection, choose a
unique background to place it on, light the lamp, and then share it with
their family and friends
** 'Gate to Hell' Guardians Recovered in Turkey
Known as Pluto's Gate - Ploutonion in Greek, Plutonium in Latin - the cave
was celebrated as the portal to the underworld in Greco-Roman mythology and
tradition
** US museum opens Anchorman exhibit
For the exhibition created with Paramount Pictures, Newseum curators paired
more than 60 costumes and props from the movie with real stories about TV
news and the struggle for women to achieve equality in the newsroom
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius - If you've ever regretted not pursuing a career in
bullfighting, this week may bring an accidental chance to start over
** Museum hopes kangaroo rats will breed like rabbits
Tiny and brown, with dark eyes, big feet for hopping and long tails for
balance, Tipton Kangaroo Rats are one of nature's more attractive rodent
subspecies
** Secret shots from the Great War
Fred was a medical officer in a famously bloody-minded Scots regiment, drawn
mainly from foul-swearing Glaswegians and dour Lanarkshire miners, happy to
run to its own rules
** Innovators and Entrepreneurs: Risk Taking in Living History
Calgary, Alberta Canada
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** National Park Service's 2014 Archaeological Prospection Workshop
May 19-23, 2014, Aztalan State Park in Jefferson County, Wisconsin.
** Envisioning China: A Festival of Arts and Culture
February-June 2014, The University of Chicago
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