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week's edition include:
** Portion sizes increase in paintings
Two researchers analyzed the food and plate sizes in 52 of the most famous
paintings of The Last Supper and found that the portion sizes in the
paintings have increased dramatically over the past millennium, from years
1000 to 2000
** Banana Museum Has Lost Its Appeal
About 10 years ago, a three-pound can of banana-flavoured tobacco from South
America combusted after being in its pressurized can for a decade
** Documents of Auschwitz death camp doctors found
Food coupons for some of the notorious Nazi doctors at the Auschwitz death
camp - including perhaps the sadistic Dr. Joseph Mengele - have been found
in the attic of a nearby house, where they had lain unseen for decades
** AGO laying off 37 staff despite cash injection
Weeks after announcing a multimillion-dollar cash injection from Ottawa, the
Art Gallery of Ontario says it will lay off 37 employees during the
construction of its new state-of-the-art learning centre
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** Jeffrey Deitch says he'll still sell art - but not deal in it - after
taking MOCA reins
Part of the deal was that Deitch would liquidate his New York-based
business, Deitch Projects, before beginning his MOCA job on June 1, thus
shedding the potential conflicts of interest and the ethical murk that could
arise if a museum director tried to serve both the scholarly, educational
and public service mandates of a nonprofit museum and the profit motive of a
commercial art dealer
** Vitali's predecessor happy to step in as temporary director
The man who turned the Auckland War Memorial Museum from an underfunded and
run-down facility into a well-endowed museum of international standing says
he would, if asked, return to help it through a "settling down" period
** Bloomsbury Set archive released
They were, according to taste, a fascinating circle of hard-working,
free-thinking and gifted intellectuals, or a bunch of dissolute subversives
"who lived in squares but loved in triangles"
** European-looking mummies found in China, shown in California
The mummies from western China's arid Tarim Basin are so well-preserved that
the viewer can see their intricate clothing and eyelashes, and also that
they are distinctly non-Asian in appearance
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** Beyond battlefields: Vicksburg diversifies its tourism offerings
Visitation numbers at the Biedenharn Coca-Cola Museum, Old Court House
Museum and Vicksburg National Military Park were all up slightly in 2009
over the year previous
** Lawmen recover Uhrichsville artefacts, key to city's past
The city's kilns once fired huge pipes, but clay factory workers also
crafted items by hand and in molds, including horses, pigs, ashtrays, pots,
tree stumps and grave decorations, many examples of which were on display at
the museum
** Historical hokum deserves the chop
The appalling Delaroche had his heyday in the second quarter of the 19th
century, when his ridiculous forays into British history resulted in some of
the most tremulous and inaccurate art of his or any other times
** Victoria & Albert Museum Opens First Major Exhibition of Quilts
The first exhibition of its kind in the UK, "Quilts 1700-2010" shows an
extraordinary variety of quilts from the highly decorative and opulent such
as the Bishop's Court Quilt, once believed to have been created by a Duke
for a visit from King Charles II in 1670, to modest homemade bed covers, all
testifying to the creativity and imagination of the makers
** Rome to display ancient Greek silverware
The 16 pieces of silverware with gold detail were returned as part of
Italy's aggressive campaign against illegal trafficking in antiquities
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** The Aztecs, through old-world eyes
In "Aztec Pantheon," with an eye on its Mexican American audience, the Getty
is celebrating the bicentennial of Mexican independence by exploring how
Europeans came to understand the Aztecs - in terms of the Roman Empire
** Smithsonian's Natural History Museum opens its Hall of Human Origins
Not just in the bones and other artefacts on view - nearly 300 objects in
all, including more than 75 skulls - but in a series of lifelike latex heads
created for the museum by sculptor John Gurche, using state-of-the-art
forensic reconstruction
** Restoring a Museum Piece, a Jungle Gym That Once Flew
The plane, or the pieces that used to be the plane, and one day will be
again, lives in a white tent just behind the superstructure of the Intrepid
Sea, Air and Space Museum on the West Side of Manhattan
** Yellowstone Park Attempts To Increase Ranger Population With New Mating
Program
In an effort to revitalize its rapidly dwindling ranger population,
officials at Yellowstone National Park unveiled a new mating program this
week in hopes of doubling the endangered employees' numbers by 2015
** Grand jury criticizes Fresno over troubled museum
A grand jury report says Fresno city leaders took unnecessary risks with
taxpayer money by granting the now-defunct Fresno Metropolitan Museum a $15
million loan
** Back in business: Pompeii snack bar re-opens
In AD79 it was Pompeii's most popular hang out, where locals would stop off
to meet friends and partake in a snack of baked cheese smothered in honey
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** Prehistoric Shark Attack Reconstructed
A shark attack that took place 4 million years ago has just been
reconstructed from the extinct hunter's fossilized victim - a dolphin
** The relationship between horses and humans
This summer, the Canadian Museum of Civilization is presenting a major
exhibition that provides a fascinating, in-depth look at the majestic horse
and its remarkably close bond with humans.
** Arts and politics in houses and interiors of the 20th century
Brno/Czech Republic, 21-24 April 2010
** 450-million-year-old armour-plated creature discovered in Canada's
capital
One of the world's rarest fossils has been discovered in downtown Ottawa,
Ontario
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