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week's edition include:
** Tales of Katrina
The room is lit by flashlights, an escape hole chopped in the roof with an
ax lying nearby. Steps away, rising floodwaters seep down a levee wall;
across the way, a storm diary written in black felt marker on a housing
project wall bears testimony to the hellish days after Hurricane Katrina hit
** Battle Cry Resounds in Hamburg as Spending Cuts Decimate Museum
While the Schauspielhaus is hanging protest banners on its facade, printing
shark badges, organizing demonstrations and targeting Stuth in a postcard
campaign, Hinrichsen is collecting signatures for a petition and exploring
legal options in his fight to save the Altonaer Museum
** Hide your mummies for fear of offending pagans
Most remarkable of all is that human remains of all ages, and which are not
the subject of claims-making by any community group, have become subject to
concerns about their handling, display and storage, expressed by influential
members of the museum profession
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** Van Meegeren's secret supplies
A secret Scotland Yard report shows that the notorious Dutch forger Han van
Meegeren bought rare lapis lazuli paint for his "Vermeers" from Winsor &
Newton
** Royal Blood May Be Hidden Inside Decorated Gourd
While storing blood or body parts in a decorated squash might seem unlikely
now, Lalueza-Fox said it wouldn't have been for the time
** Turner Prize launch greeted with protests
The launch of the Turner Prize at Tate Britain in central London was
initially boycotted by photographers after they were asked to sign a form
which said they could not publish any images or words which would "result in
any adverse publicity" for the Tate
** Ancient insect find raises questions about India's origins
Scientists had long assumed that India was for a time an isolated
island-continent, and consequently expected that the insects found in the
amber would differ significantly from those elsewhere in Asia
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** Louis XIV ancestor sues over Japanese pop art at Versailles
The suit is being brought by prince Sixte-Henri de Bourbon-Parme in defence
of "respecting the chateau and ancestors" while the "people", represented by
seven visitors, are suing to defend the "right to access to heritage."
** Warhol Brillo boxes downgraded to "copies"
More than 100 Brillo boxes, said to be works by Andy Warhol, have been
declared "copies" by the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board after a
three-year investigation
** Hidden passages, secret texts and gold thieves
Visiting these caves offers an archeological adventure in what could be the
set for an Indiana Jones film - replete with hidden passages, secret texts
and tales of gold thieves - that provides insight into the cosmopolitan
evolution of this ancient Silk Road nexus
** High-tech exhibits shine at Walt Disney museum
The museum is arranged chronologically, from the earliest stages of Disney's
life and career, to his first days in Hollywood, to the beginnings of the
Walt Disney Studio, to a special look at the first-ever animated feature
film, "Snow White," and on to his greater ambitions after that huge success,
and then to a glimpse at what were probably his most difficult years, the
World War II era
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No, honestly, you can trust us. This isn't like the time with the horse
laxatives
** Showcase of 5,000 years of Jewelry
Masterworks of the goldsmith's art from the early centuries B.C. include a
delicate pair of Etruscan spirals from the 7th century, a gold and garnet
diadem and a gold, horse-shaped pendant crafted by Greek artisans
** Winning wildlife photos 2010 announced
The title of Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year was
awarded to Hungarian photographer Bence Máté from Pusztaszer for his image A
marvel of ants, a simple shot that captures the complexity of the behaviour
of leaf-cutter ants in the Costa Rican rainforest
** The art world's Bernie Madoff, and his deceptions
Why did the art dealer spend decades cultivating his friendship even as he
sold more than 90 of father's paintings behind his back, dismantling a
collection that Davis had sought so hard to preserve?
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** Clues to king's love hidden in portrait
The King's attentions came with a price, for he also gave her some form of
venereal disease which he tried to ameliorate with the gift of a pearl
necklace, commonly thought to cure such ailments
** Vehicles belonging to the late Amirs on display
The permanent collections in the museum include the first car brought into
Kuwait, a Belgian made Single cylinder 1904 Minerva Type A with bicycle-size
wheels
** Would You Pay $1,400 To Sleep On A Magic Mushroom?
Visitors to Berlin's Museum for Contemporary Art can book themselves a night
in an installation created by artist Carsten Hoeller at a cost of 1,000
euros ($1,400)
** Civil War dolls get X-rayed for signs of smuggling
The 150-year-old dolls, dubbed Nina and Lucy Ann, were likely packed with
the drugs and shipped from Europe in the hope that Union troops would not
inspect toys when looking for contraband
** Ads of Sighs
The city council and the superintendency of architecture for Venice, which
has given permission for these ads, are adamant that this is the only way to
finance the restoration of historic public buildings in the city as public
funds have been very short since the special financing Venice used to get
has been diverted to build the barriers between the Adriatic and the lagoon
(due to be completed in 2014), and the restoration budget of the ministry of
culture has been cut
** Civil War Drawings from the Becker Collection
An exhibition of rarely seen first-hand drawings that document the Civil War
will open at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on January 15, 2011.
** Sustaining a Community of Learners
Sustaining a Community of Learners is the theme for the 24th Annual Visitor
Studies Association Conference, to be held July 24-27, 2011 at the Palmer
House Hotel in Chicago, Illinois.
** Commonwealth Museums: Culture, Economy and Climate Change
Commonwealth Association of Museums (CAM)
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