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week's edition include:
** "Golden Chief" Tomb Treasure Yields Clues to Unnamed Civilization
Newfound tombs in Central America are yielding thousand-year-old gold, gems,
and even hints of murder by pufferfish but the real treasure is the
excavation's clues to the unnamed civilization of the so-called golden
chiefs of Panama
** Are these Bacon artworks really kosher?
An Italian who claims to have been Francis Bacon's lover for 15 years is
fighting to prove the authenticity of hundreds of drawings which he says
were given to him by the artist
** Vast Titanic collection to be sold off in one lot
The biggest collection of Titanic artifacts is to be sold off as a single
lot in an auction timed for the 100th anniversary in April of the sinking of
the famed ocean liner
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** When nation blew hot and cold over steam travel
The new exhibition, entitled Fear and Fascination, will open at the National
Railway Museum in February, featuring more than 40 pieces of the earliest
railway art capturing the mood of a nation conflicted by this new technology
** Meryl Streep's next project: A national women's history museum
My grandmother had three children in school and she would have to go to the
golf course and get my grandfather off the ninth tee to make him go to the
school board election, 'cause she was not allowed to vote
** From the sublime to the ridiculous
This is the latest demonstration that the people running Venice have lost
all sense of the sublimity of the city in their charge; the area around St
Mark's basilica is already dominated by vast advertisements and now, to the
side of the church, this hut has appeared, selling grotesque ceramic
statuettes
** Former museum director suspect in $100,000 theft
Since November, Lewis County Historical Museum officials have been trying to
figure out how more than $460,000 could have disappeared from the museum's
endowment fund in less than three years
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** No chance' of 9/11 museum opening on time
Work on the National September 11 Memorial Museum has been halted over a
budgetary dispute, delaying its opening, New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg has said
** Understanding Museums: Australian Museums and Museology
The contributing authors of this web publication - all of whom are
outstanding and most also longstanding museum practitioners - delve into the
depth and breadth of Australian museum collections
** Apropos Appropriation
The decision, by Judge Deborah A. Batts, set off alarm bells throughout
Chelsea and in museums across America that show contemporary art
** Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall
In addition, the sculptural medium has expanded exponentially over the past
century and especially the last several decades, incorporating all manner of
materials and found objects, focusing on context and space itself in new
ways, and turning even to social interaction
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** Napoleon Bonaparte and Egypt's lost scrolls
A handwritten manuscript of this colossal work has been destroyed in the
fire that consumed the Institute of Egypt during clashes in Cairo earlier
this week
** Check out 'The Ant' in Mob Museum's 'black book'
From 1960 to the 1980s, landing on Nevada's List of Excluded Persons, as the
black book is officially known, was like being added to a directory of
accomplished criminal figures, such as Sam Giancana or Marshall Caifano
** Arts centers, museums have big construction projects on tap
Plans for the future of the perpetually beleaguered Smithsonian affiliate
now hinge on the ability of a single planned exhibition in 2012 to raise
sponsorship and motivate community support
** Museum of the Clean
Don Aslett founded the Museum of Clean in Pocatello, Idah because he
believes that cleanliness provides a solution to most of the world's
problems
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** Half of Israeli museums fail to provide Arabic info
Half of Israeli museums required to provide visitors with Arabic captions
fail to do so, despite Education Ministry regulations on the matter
** Treasure trove of Civil War artifacts unearthed
The heart-warming hand-made valentine that a Confederate soldier sent to his
wife is one of the 25,000 Civil War artefacts collected to commemorate the
150th anniversary of the long, bloody war
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for less than $25k, and some for well under $5k
** Sydney museum in abestos claim
The carcinogenic material has been found in the mortar of the sandstone
building at Sydney Harbour, which is undergoing a A$50 million makeover
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** Nagoya planetarium recognized as world's biggest
The city of Nagoya has announced that the planetarium at Nagoya City Science
Museum has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's largest
** Unique Khmer Silver Plate Has Been Returned To Cambodia From Hungary
Considerable international and Cambodian interest was focused on the
donation ceremony in Phnom Penh, during which Dr Istvan Zelnik of Hungary,
founder of the Southeast Asian Gold Museum, Budapest, handed over the silver
plate
** Norman Rockwell and The Art of Scouting
The National Scouting Museum's new exhibit, Norman Rockwell and the Art of
Scouting, is an in-depth look at Scouting-inspired artwork that will give
visitors an opportunity to view works by Rockwell as well as works by Walt
Disney Studios, Joseph Christian Leyendecker, Howard Chandler Christy, Dean
Cornwell, and Joseph Csatari.
** Museums and the Web 2012 (MW2012)
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** Exhibition salutes Canadian troops in the Battle of Hong Kong
During World War II, two Canadian battalions were deployed to Hong Kong to
defend the city, and many of the soldiers sacrificed their lives in action.
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