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In this weeks issue:
** For jaded NY noses, get a whiff of this new museum **
For New York noses grown jaded on acrid bus fumes, street-corner hot dogs
and freshly baked bagels, the perfume industry has opened a museum that
makes good scents .
** U.S. man charged selling stolen 16th Century art **
A man in the furniture refinishing business was charged with trying to sell
a 16th Century painting that he allegedly knew was stolen from a German art
museum after World War II
** John F. Kennedy Exhibit Opens in Florida **
President John F. Kennedy's rocking chair, his christening ring and hundreds
of other personal and family belongings go on display Friday in a
controversial exhibit at a Florida museum
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** Hitler Silverware Auction Set on Internet **
An Internet auction of silverware believed to have belonged to Adolf Hitler
drew criticism on Wednesday from the leader of a Jewish group who called
public fascination with Hitler memorabilia ``disturbing
** Dublin gets some cross advice from G.B. Shaw **
A series of sharply-worded letters which George Bernard Shaw sent to a young
writer at the start of his career were bought for £2,530 at Christie's in
London
** Ghosts, gladiators, sleeping giants and Lady Chatterley **
The quietness is eerie. Only the crunch of my shoes on the carpet of rubble
between fallen and abandoned Corinthian columns breaks the silence
** Digging out the naval secrets of an Emperor **
According to one chronicler, the harbour was built to hold up to 250 vessels
while the walled city of Classe included warehouses, for which three
original plans have been uncovered, and army barracks at a time when
Augustus and Mark Antony were at war
** Your good health **
Even a dodgy liver benefits from a couple of beers a day, if a new study on
rats is anything to go by
** Architects pondering whether to abandon UT art museum job **
The ongoing design dispute over the Blanton Museum of Art has produced this
oddity: the architect might fire the client.
** Picasso sells for $49.5 million; other artists break records **
For art auctioneers, art aficionados and even the late artists whose
masterpieces were sold for record breaking sums, this was a very good week.
** Beginner's Luck Digs Up Roman Silver Treasure **
A farmer's son has stumbled across the largest hoard of early Roman coins
ever discovered in Britain just two minutes after being shown how to work a
metal detector
** A museum's scientific makeover **
The Denver Museum of Natural History is spending $70,000 for an image
makeover, including new logos, new colors and a new name -- likely, The
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
** Paintings returned 21 years after California heist **
Three Dutch Old Master paintings stolen 21 years ago in a daring Christmas
Eve heist from a San Francisco museum have been returned anonymously to a
New York auction house
** Search on for missing parts of the Koelz Triptych **
The German artist Johannes Matthaeus Koeltz fled Nazi Germany in 1937 with
his family first into Austria and then via Prague to the UK. He cut up his
giant Triptych "Thou Shalt not Kill" and hid the pieces with friends.
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