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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Mural note could be da Vinci code
Cerca Trova - seek and you shall find - says a tantalizing 500-year-old
message painted on a fresco in the council hall of Florence's Palazzo
Vecchio
** Some 9/11 Kin Want Freedom Museum Cancelled
Family members of those killed at the World Trade Centre are balking at
plans to add a museum of freedom at ground zero, arguing it would allow
politics to infect a place revered as sacred
** Trotsky murder ice-pick found
One of the most notorious murder weapons in modern history, the ice-pick
that killed Leon Trotsky, appears to have been found, 65 years after it was
apparently stolen from the Mexican police
** DNA May Hold Clues to Explorer's Identity
Scientists are preparing to analyse DNA taken from the skeleton of a woman
who died 400 years ago as they try to discover more about an English
explorer believed to be one of America's founders
** Picasso's Mistress Auctions Off Sketches
It's a surprise to meet sunny 79-year-old Genevieve Laporte, with her laugh
lines, throaty chuckle, floral-print dress and white orthopaedic shoes comfy
for walking the dog
** Knights charge to vanquish their foes . . but joust for fun
Next month's competition, hosted by the Royal Armouries - a Leeds-based
museum with one of the world's best arms and armouries collections - is a
display of skills and techniques used by knights in medieval times
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** There's steel in his soul
Every American museum director ends up at some point as tour guide for the
groups of elderly, ambitious billionaires that now cluster around art
** Treasures from Vatican Museum on show in Singapore
From paintings by masters like Raphael and rare relics from the beginnings
of Christianity, 140 objects from the Vatican and local churches will be on
show at the one-off, specially curated for Singapore exhibition
** Baghdad museum director gets used to returning fire
The museum is a soft target and at the moment if they wanted to hold an
exhibition they would need the whole Iraqi army to protect it
** Rodin sculpture stolen from Chilean museum
The statue was part of a 62-piece exhibit from the Rodin Museum of Paris
that opened here on May 7 and was scheduled to remain open until August 7.
Student confesses to crime
** Natural disaster game educates museum visitors
Sporting four-dimensional glasses and a firmly fastened seatbelt, Ma
Xiaozhou experienced torrential rain and gale-force winds and had no idea
whether he was being shaken by an earthquake or submerged by a tsunami
** Everything that can go wrong, listed
A worldwide consortium of scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers is
nearing the completion of the ambitious, decade-long project of cataloguing
everything that can go wrong
** V&A saves £750,000 a year with its IT overhaul
The museum decided in 2002 that it needed to update ageing IT systems to
establish a more efficient and robust infrastructure
** Bar of soap sells for 10,000 pounds
Perhaps the oddest piece of work at Art Basel is a bar of soap, displayed on
a square of black velvet, purportedly made from Italian Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi's fat, removed during liposuction
** Did Pirates of Yore Get a Bad Rap?
The popular image of pirates as a gang of sadistic monsters led by a
despotic, possibly deranged captain is largely a product of an early 18th
century propaganda campaign against them, says historian Marcus Rediker of
the University of Pittsburgh
** Treasure of magic amulets found in Russia's western region
Eleven items made of gold, silver, tin and hematite were found during an
excavation on the site of a medieval royal castle
** Outraged black activists protest that King Tut has been whitewashed
US black activists demanded that a bust of Tutankhamen be removed from a
landmark exhibition of artefacts from the Egyptian boy king's tomb because
the statue portrays him as white
** Scream theft museum set to reopen
Museum spokeswoman Jorunn Christoffersen said the replacements were a poor
substitute for the real paintings, which have a combined value of £10.4m.
More
** Stolen bronze sculpture returned to Greece
The sculpture, which measures 11 cm high and is valued today at 30,000
British pounds, had been stolen from the museum during World War II
** Performance artist stages "falls" from museum roof
The artist's antics attracted a crowd of gawkers, who became sidewalk
critics of his work. Enraged New Yorkers
** Museum to show fishy side
The tanks will house more than 250 species of animal and plants and will
represent a Fijian coral reef, a mangrove swamp, a South American
rainforest, a Victorian-style parlour aquarium, a British pond and a Devon
rockpool -complete with crabs, shellfish and wave surges.
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** Grant Writing Workshop in Omaha, NE - July 11-13, 2005
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