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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Scientists say notorious Dr Crippen wrongly hanged
A team took mitochondrial DNA - genetic material passed on through the
mother - from a tissue sample from the corpse kept in a London museum
** Paris museum installs one-room hotel on roof
An art installation consisting of an actual one-room hotel offering
1970s-style glamour, artistic cachet and a view of the Eiffel Tower has been
lifted into place on the roof of a Paris museum
** Global warming protester booted from museum
A climate change protester was ejected from the British Museum Sunday after
tying surgical masks onto two of China's famed terracotta warrior statues
currently on display at the London venue
** Researchers display shipwreck artefacts
In 1559, a hurricane sent up to seven Spanish sailing vessels to the bottom
of Pensacola Bay, hampering Don Tristan de Luna's attempt to colonize this
section of the Florida Panhandle
** 1st of Acropolis sculptures successfully transferred by crane
The first of the Acropolis' ancient sculptures was gingerly plucked from the
top of the Parthenon temple and successfully transferred Sunday to a new
museum at the foot of the hilltop citadel
** A decorating dilemma at Guggenheim Museum
A woman walking her two dogs along Fifth Avenue recently stared up at the
Guggenheim Museum and contemplated the paint swatches hanging from the
northeast side of the building, high above the street
** Flags going back up at museum after threats brought them down
The chair of the museum board says the museum "caved" to anonymous threats
from people angered to see the American flag next to the Mexican flag
** Good result, bad process on Bomber Command panel
The changes, however, do not dampen the concern we should all have about
pressures causing amendments to museum texts
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** Archbishop opens medieval church
A 13th Century church, which was dismantled and rebuilt 50 miles away at a
museum in Cardiff, has been opened by the Archbishop of Canterbury
** For iconoclasts, art vandalism is an expression
Each act is, obviously, a transgression of law, but perhaps more important,
a going beyond the limits of behaviour imposed by museums or galleries,
which are secular equivalents of places of worship
** Valuable religious items stolen from museum in Ecuador
About six unidentified individuals went into the museum, tied up a female
employee and a security guard, and stole the monstrance as well as a gold
crown and a cloak embroidered with precious stones that belonged to the
Virgin of the Snow of Sicalpa, one of the most important works of religious
art in Ecuador
** Prosecutors seek stiff sentence for former seaport museum head
Prosecutors are calling for a stiff prison sentence for the former president
of the Independence Seaport Museum who pleaded guilty to defrauding the
organization of $1.5 million
** Museum drops race row scientist
The Science Museum has cancelled a talk by American DNA pioneer Dr James
Watson after he claimed black people were less intelligent than white
people.
** Primitive man used makeup, dined on cooked seafood
A recent archaeological discovery in a South Africa cave suggests primitive
Homo sapiens may have eaten seafood, used razor-sharp cutting tools and
donned makeup long before they were supposed to
** Happy ending for looted Courbet painting in Paris exhibit
Hundreds of works from the baron's collection are still missing today, while
some are hanging on the walls of museums in Russia, which refuses to return
them
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** A cavalier frame of mind
Probably the most important factor was that 'A Cavalier' was vulnerable, its
frame secured to the wall by two keyhole plates at the top left and right,
the screws clearly visible although painted the same colour as the wall, and
accessible
** The `Demoiselles' Turn 100: Paris Toasts the Cubist Picasso
Curated by the Picasso Museum, the exhibition starts in 1906 with Picasso's
first mask-like portraits, inspired by a show at the Louvre Museum that
featured recently excavated Iberian sculptures
** World's oldest wall painting unearthed in Syria
French archaeologists say they have excavated an 11,000-year-old wall
painting in red, black and white in northern Syria which they describe as
the oldest in the world, although it resembles a modern work
** Transforming Archaeology Into Science
An Englishman who first headed to Egypt in 1880 - and promptly set up his
hammock in an abandoned tomb - Petrie is credited with transforming the
profession from mere treasure-hunting into a science
** Small Museum Association Awards Program & Nominations - 2008 Small
Museum Association Annual Conference
** The Animated Spirit - The Art of Lam Wu Fui
** Archives and Ethics: Reflections on Practice
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