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week's edition include:
** Has anyone seen these works of art? Investor's desperate appeal after
$10m raid at his home
Thieves plundered the Santa Monica home of the art-obsessed bond-fund
manager, swiping possessions worth over $10m, including 13 works from his
art collection, luxury watches and 40 bottles of fine wine; they even fled
the scene in his Porsche Carrera 4S sports car
** Diamond Jubilee portrait captures her majesty
When one is painting a portrait of the Queen, one is first instructed by
palace courtiers on how to direct the royal subject
** What will become of the Olympic works of art?
The fate of two enormous works created by Damien Hirst and Marc Quinn for
the recent London Olympics and Paralympics Games is uncertain, with key
trade figures questioning whether the large-scale pieces will ever find a
home
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** Taxidermists, Artists Bring Aging Museum Animals Back to Lifelike
The dioramas of these real, once-living, animals in their beautifully
detailed natural environments are a priceless resource for learning and
inspiration, especially for kids, that will become more and more valuable as
these species face changes in their habitats and some disappear for good
** Displaying the Dinosaurs of the Digital Age
Not everyone's pulse will quicken with a glimpse of a 1956 I.B.M. Ramac
actuator and disk stack and the 1959 Telefunken RAT 700/2 analog computer
will just look like a cross between an antediluvian switchboard and the
control panel for a German submarine
** 405 Picassos donated to Saskatoon art gallery
The donation, called the largest of its kind in the province's history, was
announced Tuesday in Saskatoon and the 405 pieces are arguably the finest
collection of Picasso linocuts in the world, according to the gallery's
chief curator
** Building blunder prompts discovery of pharaonic stele in Cairo
A large section of the souq was dug to a depth of four metres in order to
construct a stone wall and during his routine shift, the souq's security
guard stumbled upon an 18th dynasty religious stele within the debris
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** Imelda Marcos shoe collection now worthless
Termites, storms and government neglect have damaged some of Imelda Marcos's
legendary stash of shoes, expensive gowns, and other vanity possessions,
which were left to oblivion after she and her dictator husband were driven
to US exile by a 1986 popular revolt
** Amsterdam museum's closing puts Van Goghs on the move to Hermitage
In an undertaking that seemed tailor-made for a complicated heist film, the
Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam began taking down its collection of
masterpieces Sunday night and prepared to transfer them to the Hermitage in
Amsterdam
** Einstein's brain is now interactive iPad app
The National Museum of Health and Medicine under development in Chicago
obtained funding to scan and digitize nearly 350 fragile and priceless
slides made from slices of Einstein's brain after his death in 1955
** 10 Of The Most Memorable Museum Scenes in Film
From elaborate art heists to existential teenage crises to Russian period
dramas, some of the most memorable moments in cinematic history have taken
place inside the walls of art museums
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** Paris museum erects statue of head-butting Zinedine Zidane
A 16-foot statue portraying Zidane aiming his shaven head at Italian
opponent Marco Materazzi's torso has been erected in front of Paris' Centre
Pompidou modern art museum
** Google Launches Field Trip App For Android
Google says you can discover thousands of places and experiences under the
following categories: Architecture, Historic Places & Events, Lifestyle,
Offers & Deals, Food Drinks & Fun, Movie Locations, Outdoor Art and Obscure
Places of Interest
** Giant crocodile was 22 feet long - and ripped its prey to death
A crocodile more than 22 feet long that ripped prey to death and another
huge croc that sucked prey to its doom were at the top of the European
marine food chain 150 million years ago, a new study finds
** Museum exhibit reveals Chinese presence in Yuba City
Many Chinese men became cooks on ranches or farms, and the exhibit shows the
traditional kitchen and implements one would use, some of them artifacts
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** Flea market Renoir was allegedly stolen from Baltimore Museum of Art,
auction canceled
The discovery of the theft was made after a Washington Post reporter
uncovered documents in the museum's library proving that the institution had
the painting from 1937 up until at least 1949
** Nazi-Acquired Buddha Statue Came From Space
It sounds like a mash-up of Indiana Jones' plots, but German researchers say
a heavy Buddha statue brought to Europe by the Nazis was carved from a
meteorite that likely fell 10,000 years ago along the Siberia-Mongolia
border
** Have science museums had their day?
Guardian science correspondent Ian Sample interviews Ian Blatchford,
director of the Science Museum in London, and asks him how the museum plans
to bring the Large Hadron Collider and the ephemeral Higgs boson to life for
the public in an upcoming exhibition. Podcast
** This Week's Horoscopes
Taurus - After years of putting up an emotional wall, you'll realize the
error of your ways this week and purchase 3 tons of brick and cement instead
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** Bronze Age skeletons reveal strange secrets
When two almost perfectly preserved 3000-year-old skeletons were dug up on a
remote Scottish island they were the first evidence that ancient Britons
preserved their dead using mummification
** Has the Original Mona Lisa Been Found?
For the last four decades, a portrait of a woman closely resembling the
subject of Leonardo da Vinci's famed Mona Lisa has remained under lock and
key in a Swiss vault
** Culture Matters 2012
The new and exciting international cultural heritage conference will be held
in the historic city of Norwich on November 14th - 16th
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