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week's edition include:
** Museum to house 'historic' Danish Muhammad cartoons
The Royal Library in Copenhagen has agreed to house controversial cartoons
of the Prophet Muhammad which were published in a Danish newspaper and
created a wave of global protest in which more than 50 people were killed
** Plan to hire real-life pr*stitutes for Jack the Ripper exhibition
Bosses of top tourist attraction the London Dungeon have caused outrage
after advertising for real pr*stitutes to work in a Jack the Ripper
exhibition
** Archivist steals historic artefacts from the New York State Library
A state archivist looted a treasure-trove of historic artefacts from the New
York State Library - including documents about Davy Crockett - and hawked
them to pay off his daughter's credit card debt
** Lincoln's secret refuge to open doors to public
Until now, a cottage three miles from the White House where Abraham Lincoln
paced the floors, contemplating the end of slavery, was largely unknown to
the public
** Scientists call for new Epoch
A heated scientific row is brewing as British geoscientists lead a push to
establish a new chapter in the history of Earth - one based on human
activity
** The Antiques Rogue Show
From Lowry to Gauguin, Henry Moore to the ancient Egyptians - how
overstretched police and the greedy art world allowed a simple family to
forge a counterfeit career over nearly 18 years
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** Ancient bones suggest cavemen wore boots
Toe bones from a cave in China suggest people were wearing shoes at least
40,000 years ago
** The natives were restless and colonists nervous
The natives were restless, their white would-be masters nervous, on the
outer edge of British Empire recently named by royal edict - British
Columbia
** Like Stepping Inside Life-Size Golden Jewellery Box
In the 300 years since Frederic built the Amber Room for his home at
Charlottenburg Palace, it has dazzled kings and queens, trading hands
between Russian and Prussian rulers
** Fake 'mummy' still awaits burial
The dead in Pakistan are usually buried within hours - but the mummified
body of a woman that sparked a diplomatic row has lain unburied for seven
years
** Piero della Francesca masterpiece 'holds clue to 15th-century murder'
An historian claims to have solved a Renaissance murder mystery by
deciphering one of the world's most enigmatic masterpieces
** Museum Workers Are Called Complicit
Affidavits related to search warrants executed at four Southern California
museums on last Thursday say that staff members at two of the four museums
worked closely with the main targets of the investigation, visiting a
storage locker maintained by a smuggler of stolen antiquities and meeting
with the sellers of stolen goods - even while acknowledging that the
artefacts headed for the museums might be tainted
** Frugal British librarian amassed $8 million art trove
I was amazed to see quite how many treasures there were ... The Fra
Angelicos were behind the bedroom door and we only spotted them on the way
out
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** Italy opens Benito Mussolini museum
The museum in Salò, on the shores of Lake Garda, examines the last days of
fascism in the town that Mussolini used as his headquarters in the final 19
months of the Second World War
** Suspect: Saudi collector wanted art
A suspect in last month's brazen theft of two paintings by Pablo Picasso and
Candido Portinari told detectives the paintings were to be delivered to a
Saudi collector
** Zeus worship site millennium older than thought
A rock crystal seal, bearing an image of a bull, of probable Late Minoan
times (1500 - 1400 B.C.) also was found on the altar, suggesting an early
connection between the Minoan isle of Crete and Arcadia
** Study Finds Link Between Being Struck By Cream Pie, Diminished Social
Standing
The study, which was conducted with the help of 25 dignified members of the
aristocracy and three rather clumsy butlers, showed a direct correlation
between unexpected contact with the custard-based stimulus and a loss of
social stature - including the respect of bystanders, the affections of
untold gentlewomen, and any possibility of securing a sizable donation for
one's struggling playhouse
** Boston museum sues Austrian woman over disputed painting
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has filed a federal lawsuit against an Austrian
woman who claims she is the rightful owner of a 1913 oil painting sold
during the Nazi era
** The 'French Exception' in Question
A new bill challenges the long-established French protection of national
cultural heritage.
** Auckland Museum Announces Cancellation of Vatican Exhibition
Auckland Museum has cancelled its upcoming exhibition about the Vatican
after key artworks promised as part of the travelling exhibit were
withdrawn.
** Emily exhibition to Osaka, Tokyo and Canberra
The largest solo exhibition of an Australian artist to tour overseas,
Utopia: the Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, will be on display at the
National Museum of Australia in August 2008.
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