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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** British Museum to police eBay
The initiative will try and tackle the problem of potentially academically
valuable artefacts being traded
** Giant carrot cake to mark Phar Lap's 80th
A party will be held at the Melbourne Museum where the champion
thoroughbred, which died amid controversy in 1932, is preserved and on
permanent display
** New Exhibit of Onassis' Lavish Life
The shipping tycoon's lavish lifestyle and business acumen made him the most
famous Greek of the 20th century, and a new exhibition that opens in Athens
sets out to reconstruct Onassis' life through a series of personal effects
** Artist feels slighted, gets off the Artrain
This is a story that concerns artists and respect - what they think they
deserve, what the public thinks they deserve, and the disconnect that often
exists between these two values
** New China turns back to the Wall
A new exhibition at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum - The Great Wall of China:
dynasties, dragons and warriors - has brought together objects, historical
paintings, photographs and videos that aim to present a multifaceted view of
the giant structure and its cultural history
** Museum uses interactive technology to sell controversial history
The 13 (M) million dollar exhibit combines traditional, encased artefacts
with plasma-screen maps and interactive theatres
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** V&A's Inaptness Closes London Theatre Museum
A visiting Martian would be entitled to conclude that London is a city that
has no concern for viewing its performing arts in any kind of intellectual
or historical context, regarding them as here tonight and gone tomorrow
** Louis Vuitton unveils plans for new Paris contemporary art museum
France's richest man has unveiled plans to build an ethereal, fully
transparent museum designed by architect Frank Gehry that will house a
contemporary art collection in Paris
** Flat Earth Society Launches Mapquest Rival
The International Flat Earth Society is a small religious group which holds
that humans live on a disc, with the North Pole at its centre and a 150-foot
high wall of ice at the outer edge; according to this model, the sun and
moon are each a mere 32 miles in diameter
** Medieval finds of what could be 'lost village'
A ploughed field on the outskirts of Nuneaton could be the site of the lost
medieval settlement of Copston Parva
** British exhibition probes power and taboo in Polynesia
In the 18th and 19th centuries, European explorers brought back home gold
cloaks of Polynesian chiefs, feather "god heads" and wood temple figures
from the islands of the eastern Pacific
** Veterans threaten war museum boycott over description of bombing
campaign
A national coalition of veterans groups, including the Royal Canadian
Legion, is threatening to call a public boycott of the Canadian War Museum
if it refuses to change a display the critics claim is accusing the
country's Second World War airmen of being ''war criminals.''
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** Hot dogs to hot rod make history
The blue, custom-built 1978 Monte Carlo embodies the museum's idea of
today's Chicago: modern, lively and multicultural
** Freud's affair with pagan splendour
Among the secret passions the father of psychoanalysis kept to himself was
an overpowering urge to collect antiquities
** Shadowy Aladdin's caves and subjects lit from within
How I wish the British would follow this example and establish their own
such museum
** Three Lowry paintings stolen in gallery raid
They were among 15 artworks, worth over 300,000 pounds in all, taken from
the Clark Art Gallery in Hale by three men in ski masks who smashed a front
window with a drain cover
** Go-ahead for art gallery
The Auckland Art Gallery has the go-ahead for a $90 million restoration and
expansion of its 1887 French-style colonial building on the proviso it
improves links for the public between a modern addition and Albert Park
** Boston museum returns antiquities to Italy
The Italian officials said they hope the prompt action taken by the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts can help expedite a related deal with Los Angeles' J.
Paul Getty Museum, which has been balking on its agreement to return such
artefacts for nearly three years
** More Items Missing From Hermitage Museum
Russia's Hermitage Museum says five more of its artworks appear to be
missing, besides the 221 works worth $5 million that it announced two months
ago were stolen
** Inventing Out Past: What, How, and Why We Remember
** Coming of Age: A Symposium Exploring a Century of Art and Artists from
the Collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art
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