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** Cornish lord found in chair burial after 300 years
Sir James Tillie, the man who built Pentillie Castle in Cornwall in 1698,
specified in his will that, rather than being buried, he should be dressed
in his best clothes, bound to a stout chair and placed with his books, wine
and pipe in his favourite folly, awaiting resurrection
** The incubation of genius
There was something about Picasso's tender "Child with a Dove", painted in
Paris in 1901, that moved Courtauld to buy it in 1928 and keep it in his
personal collection until he died in 1947
** Lucy Cooper on a wedding dress made out of metal in Sheffield
The cascading layers of the stainless steel mesh shimmer in the light and
appear both luxuriant and slightly ethereal; this dress is a great example
of how stainless steel is being used by contemporary craftspeople in
Sheffield, 100 years on from its discovery
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** New proof said found for "original" Mona Lisa
New tests on a painting billed as the original version of the Mona Lisa,
Leonardo da Vinci's 15th century portrait, have produced fresh proof that it
is the work of the Italian master, a Swiss-based art foundation has said
** Visitors flocking to Zeugma Museum
The Gaziantep Zeugma Museum also has a greater range of color harmony in
comparison to Tunisia's Bardo Museum, which held the title of world's
largest mosaic museum until the opening of Zeugma
** Federico Barocci: Italy's forgotten genius
Patronised by popes, his work commanded huge sums - an average price for a
Barocci altar piece in his lifetime was 450 scudi; a studio assistant earned
half a scudo per day - he was in such demand that, by the time of his death
in 1613, his main patron, the Duke of Urbino, wrote to a friend agonising
over what they were going to do when the dyspeptic painter finally kicked
the bucket
** Scientists unwittingly discover new owl species in Indonesia
Sangster has called for more research on birds in Indonesia, a sprawling
archipelago of around 17,000 islands that he calls "a treasure trove for
taxonomists"
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** Pompidou's Dali exhibition inspires artist's favourite hotel
He would walk the corridors with his two pet ocelots; when he left for lunch
at a restaurant he would ask staff to throw coins under the wheels of his
car, so that he could drive away on a path of gold
** Love and handcuffs at the Museum of Crime and Punishment
For Valentine's weekend the museum held its popular event, "Crimes of
Passion"; upon entering the museum, couples were bound in handcuffs for the
duration of the three-floor tour
** Famous cache of vintage films headed to homes and screens
The collection of more than 700 titles, acquired by the late film
archivist-producer-distributor Raymond Rohauer, is a treasure trove
containing the classic silent comedies of Buster Keaton, the shorts and
epics of D.W. Griffith, experimental films from such directors as Man Ray,
Rudolph Valentino's final film, Lon Chaney's 1925 version of "The Phantom of
the Opera" and even a Joan Crawford film noir
** Malcolm McLaren's widow fears Met will get punk fashion show all wrong
The New York museum's forthcoming show could be riddled with errors and fail
to give Malcolm McLaren due credit, say critics, as a battle against fakes
and counterfeits from the era rages
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** Computer History Museum shares original Photoshop code
To millions of people around the world, the name Photoshop inspires images
of sharks leaping out at helicopters, phony disaster photos, and retouched
celebrity shots
** Knut the polar bear becomes museum display
Adorable in life, still attracting admirers in death: Knut the polar bear's
hide has been mounted on a polyurethane body and is going on display in a
Berlin museum
** Farming Arrived in Europe with Asian Migrants
Archaeologists have long wrestled with the question of how farming spread
across Europe, ushering in a host of technologies, including the use of
pottery, that ultimately led to the rise Western civilizations
** Field Museum Studying Martian Meteorite
Meteorite curator Philipp Heck said the museum has received more than half
pound of Martian rock, soil and atmosphere from a meteoroite which fell over
the Moroccan town of Tissint in July 2011
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** Rare portrait of Elizabeth I owned by North Carolina Garden Club shown
in Washington
A painting of a sixtysomething Queen Elizabeth I, depicting her with facial
wrinkles, is being exhibited at the Folger Shakespeare Library in
Washington, DC
** Anger That a Herod Show Uses West Bank Objects
The Israel Museum has opened its most ambitious archaeological exhibition
and the world's first devoted to Herod, the lionized and demonized
Rome-appointed king of Judea, who reigned from 37 to 4 B.C.E. and is among
the most seminal and contentious figures in Jewish history
** This Weeks Horoscopes
Virgo - Approaching police sirens combined with your naturally paranoid
tendencies will significantly alter the stuffing of tonight's honeysuckle
white turkey
** Tornado Damage Closes Military museum For At Least 1 Year
Crews from the Convention Commission and volunteers from the University of
Southern Mississippi History Department, the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum
at Camp Shelby and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History spent
two days rescuing items from the museum and bringing them to Lake Terrace
Convention Center where dehumidifiers were on hand to dry them out
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** The Anchorage Museum opens a major exhibit celebrating a century of
flight
"Arctic Flight" features a number of historic photos and films capturing how
airplanes in Alaska went from a novelty to the workhorse of arctic
exploration to military necessities to a commercial fact of life
** Edward Steichen in High Fashion
This exhibition consists of photos he took between 1923-1937 for Condé Nast
magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair, showing off an artistic style of
photography that is often credited for setting off a wave of modernism in
America's fashion industry
** Imagining Scotland through Cultural Policy
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh - Wednesday 10th April 2013, 10am -
5.30pm
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