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week's edition include:
** Flea-market Renoir reignites tensions between museum and art donor's
descendants
Behind every museum's art collection, behind every terse "Gift of" plaque on
a museum wall, are the little-known, often fraught histories between museums
and their donor families
** Skeleton of Suspected Medieval King Undergoes Testing
They're currently subjecting the skeleton to a barrage of tests, including a
computed tomography (CT) scan, which will allow them to reconstruct a
three-dimensional image of the skeleton with flesh and skin overlaid
** Chinese police bust major relic smuggling ring
Police in central China's Hubei Province have bust a relic smuggling ring,
recovering 198 ancient artifacts from the black market
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** Spy Museum's exhibit on Bond villains resonates in real-world threats
But the ambitious new Spy Museum exhibit - the entire first floor was redone
to accommodate the 110 Bond artifacts - largely plows through the sensual,
thrill-retentive, kitschy elements of the Bond franchise to focus on
something bigger
** World's Leggiest Animal Found Near Silicon Valley
First seen by government scientists in 1928, Illacme plenipes - "the acme of
plentiful legs" - keeps such a low profile that for the rest of the 20th
century the species was thought to be extinct
** Suspects arrested in Mariposa museum gold heist
Men dressed as ninjas and armed with pick-axes broke into the Sierra
foothill museum Sept. 28, in broad daylight, and herded two employees into a
far room before smashing display cases
** Czech archaeologists discover tomb of ancient Egyptian princess
The placement of the princess's tomb is baffling to archaeologists; she was
buried in Absusir South during the fifth Dynasty along with non-royal
officials
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** Metropolitan Museum Sued for Consumer Fraud Over "Suggested" Entry Fee
Two Metropolitan Museum of Art members filed a lawsuit in the New York State
Supreme Court yesterday alleging that the historically free, public
institution has been deceiving visitors into paying entry fees
** Stolen Letters From George Washington, Napoleon, Coming Back To
Connecticut
The Connecticut Historical Society is recovering dozens of rare documents -
among them letters by George Washington, Marie Antoinette and Napoleon
Bonaparte - stolen by a pair of society thieves who removed a truckload of
similar pieces from museums on the East Coast
** Online museum showcases Britain's hidden art
In one of the most ambitious art projects in the world, curators have spent
ten years tracking down publicly-owned paintings by 45,000 artists from
every corner of Britain, from the Shetlands to the Channel Islands
** Reputed mobster knew nothing about Gardner Museum art heist
Reputed mobster Robert V. Gentile has testified before a federal grand jury
probing the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist that he does not
know who stole the priceless paintings from the Boston landmark, Gentile's
attorney said after his client pleaded guilty to drug and weapons charges
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** Museum celebrates the ultimate rock 'n' roll garment
Leather jackets are the Mick Jaggers of the fashion world: They can add a
flash of daring and danger to an otherwise impeccably proper outfit, the way
Mick might at tea with the Queen, or they can be part of a uniform of
rebellion, a way of signaling that you're not standing (or singing) with the
crowd
** 11 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Taxidermy
Since the days of William Hornaday and Carl Akeley, taxidermy has been a
scientific art: It requires practitioners not only to take accurate
measurements and photos and make traces of the animals they'd like to mount,
but to study the anatomy of those animals - all for the purpose of creating
a specimen that is true to life
** In Big New Museum, Russia Has a Message for Jews: We Like You
A stream of elegant visitors stopped in their tracks as they toured Moscow's
new Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, a sprawling, state-of-the-art
complex underwritten by oligarchs close to President Vladimir V. Putin
** French mammoth may have been Neanderthal lunch
French archaeologists have uncovered a rare, near-complete skeleton of a
mammoth in the countryside near Paris, alongside tiny fragments of flint
tools suggesting the carcass may have been cut into by prehistoric hunters
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius - An attempt at composing the perfect love sonnet will fail time
and again this week when you fall for a girl named Orange
** Grammy Museum takes charge of music history
The Grammy Museum gets a handle on its huge and ever-growing archive of
recordings, music artifacts and memorabilia with the help of Iron Mountain
storage
** Was the Civil War high tech?
What else can you call a war that included instantaneous telegraph
communication, speedy travel by railroad, portable printing presses, mass
production of uniforms and military equipment, and aerial spies?
** Museum to open site where Martin Luther King Jr. killed
Until recently, museum visitors could see the balcony - the museum is built
around the two-story motel - but they couldn't walk on it
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** China's painful past displayed under political shadow in businessman Fan
Jianchuan's six museums
A group of museums commemorating China's violent Cultural Revolution is
opening up normally tightly controlled discussion of the chaotic era - but
only up to a point
** Love letter to Tate.org.uk
I'll give honourable mention to a couple of big galleries, and then move on
to the meat of the post, which has been hijacked by my enthusiasm for
Tate.org.uk, a website mottled with the sublime
** re Innovation Meets Rigor: Shaping the Next Decade of Visitor Studies
We are pleased to announce that the 2013 Visitor Studies Association calls
for Session Proposals and Pre-Conference Workshop Proposals are now open!
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** Famous trio of Victoria Cross medals unveiled at the Canadian War Museum
An extraordinary collection of all three Victoria Cross Medals awarded
during the First World War to residents of Winnipeg's Pine Street, later
renamed Valour Road, was unveiled today at the Canadian War Museum.
** ld a Flying Car and Win at the San Diego Air & Space Museum
Museum launches scholarship competition for local students
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