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week's edition include:
** Tarzan, King of the Apes, swings into Paris museum
Created in 1912 by Edgar Rice Burroughs, a restless former soldier,
prospector and publicity agent from Chicago who never set foot in Africa,
Tarzan was an instant success, with over 20 novels translated into 56
languages, thousands of comic strips and dozens of films
** Excavation of terracotta site starts
While surprise discoveries are hoped for from the excavation in a 200-sq-m
section of the 14,260-sq-m No 1 pit, the dig is mainly being carried out to
test preservation technology that the museum has spent decades developing to
ensure terracotta figures remain intact and retain their original colours
** Believe It or Not, a Bedevils Ripley's
This is the first time in its history that it is facing a shortage of A-list
oddities, on par with the portrait of Barack Obama made of 12,000 gum balls
in New York, the three shrunken heads on display in London and the
vampire-killing kit from the mid-1800s at the Tennessee museum
** Storm unearths buried history
Spare a thought for those colonial sailors who, in July 1889, experienced
frightful conditions and only just escaped with their lives
** Putin 'turns into art instructor'
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been raising eyebrows by telling
one of the country's most famous artists how to paint better
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** Aztec temple promises to yield one of antiquity's great treasures
Archaeologists working amid the smog and din of Mexico City may be on the
verge of unlocking an extraordinary time capsule
** Joanna Lumley goes to war again in satire on modern art world
The film is based on Danny Moynihan's novel and its makers have been advised
by two of Britain's foremost art insiders - Damien Hirst and Mollie
Dent-Brocklehurst, art consultant to Roman Abramovich and his girlfriend,
Dasha Zhukova
** St. Louis Art Museum lays off 16 employees
The employees, all full time and from various departments, learned of the
job cuts, which represent less than 10 percent of the museum's full-time
staff
** Is a national 'Manga Museum' at last set to get off the ground?
There's long been talk of creating a Japan mecca devoted to anime, cartoons,
video games and digital art - but an election looms and the latest plan is
fast becoming a political football
** Bumblebee re-introduced to UK
It may be surprising to know that 8 of the 20 British species have been seen
buzzing around in the heart of London in the Natural History Museum's
Wildlife Garden
** Olympic Builders Unearth Iron Age War Grave
A 2,000-year-old mass war grave crammed with up to 50 headless bodies has
been uncovered by workers building a road for the 2012 Olympics
** From The Blogs - Playing the Oldest Recordings
The recordings were made by a phonautograph, invented by a Frenchman named
Léon Scott more than 20 years before Edison came up with the phonograph
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** Graffiti Gains New Respect
Like a slow-burning fuse, graffiti has smouldered in the contemporary art
world for decades: omnipresent in the streets yet not quite hot enough to
catch fire in the market
** In Frick's Basement, an Unknown Masterpiece
You, of course, are likely to be more impressed by the stuff related to
bowling: the pine-and-maple lane beds, the gravity-driven ball return, or
the antique balls themselves, which strangely have two holes instead of the
standard three
** This pile of rocks was once the seat of kings
It has a sphinx; compasses go haywire when laid on its granite rocks; and it
is dangerous to be there in a thunderstorm
** Medals honour for WWII codebreakers
Staff based there deciphered codes from the German Enigma and Lorenz
machines, which provided crucial assistance to the Allied war effort and,
according to some historians, shortened the war by two years
** Museum experts ID birds that bring down planes
The Feather Identification Lab at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural
History in Washington served as lead detective, with assistance from
Chicago's Field Museum
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** Archaeologists Discover World's First Guy Named Marty
University of Toronto archaeologists excavating a prehistoric settlement
near the Serbian border announced Tuesday that they had unearthed the
remains of the earliest known Marty, dating back nearly 9,000 years
** Focusing on Photographs
Identification and Preservation in Philadelphia, PA. The omnipresence of
photographic media belies the complexity and variety of techniques used to
create these images
** Feature Site - The Virtual Museum of Iraq
Available in Arabic, English and Italian, the Virtual Museum of Iraq offers
visitors the opportunity to move through eight virtual galleries and see
highlights from the collection from the prehistoric to the Islamic period
** Ask The Curator
Discover what goes on behind the scenes
** Intensely Dutch Image, abstraction and the word, post-war and beyond
Art Gallery of New South Wales
** Putting University Collections to Work in Research and Teaching
UMAC's 9th International Conference 10th-13th September 2009, UC Berkeley,
California
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