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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Britain's National Gallery to Keep Raphael
Art experts consider the 12-by-9 inch piece a true treasure and believe
Raphael painted it in 1507 and 1508, drawing inspiration from a Leonardo da
Vinci painting
** Hopes for end to gallery's days of thunder
Controversies have dogged Dr Kennedy, over his exhibition programs,
acquisitions, staff matters and even the air-conditioning
** Vandalized 800-year-old Buddhist sculpture reattached
The stone head of an 800-year-old Buddhist sculpture was reconnected to its
body in Cambodia, after it was chopped off by looters two decades ago
** Activists Storm Museum Office
They were protesting the presence of certain art objects they said
denigrated Hindu gods and goddesses
** Argentina plans Dirty War museum
A former naval school which became a major torture centre during the
country's military rule is to become a museum
** Museum to house Nizam's jewels
The facility would be constructed below ground level by scooping out the
sheetrock so that the museum would be surrounded by the sheetrock which
resists any kind of intrusion
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** Museum Begins Unpacking China Treasures
Workers at the Field Museum used protective gloves and a lot of
concentration as they unpacked crates containing rare and priceless
artefacts from 18th-century China, some never before displayed outside the
Forbidden City
** Natural History Museum's 'cash crisis'
The museum currently relies on a £38 million grant from the Government,
which includes an extra amount to compensate for the introduction of free
visitor entry in 2001
** Clive's jewelled flask to be auctioned
The auction of treasures still owned by Clive's descendants is a blow to the
Victoria and Albert Museum, which has displayed the flask on loan for many
years
** Smithsonian collections get single chief
The 168-year-old Smithsonian Institution is bringing all of it's art
collections, research, and outreach programs together under one manager
** Piedmont's first look at West Mexican tomb figures
The large ceramic figures of people and animals reveal how the ancient
people who once lived in what are now the Mexican states of Jalisco, Nayarit
and Colima viewed their culture
** Tiny Fossil Could Be Oldest Known Insect
Encased in translucent rock called chert, the fossil is about an eighth of
an inch square and reveals a pair of triangular jaws that are strikingly
similar to those found only in winged insects, said David A. Grimaldi,
curator of entomology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York
** Cannibalism more widespread than we thought, say art historians
Cannibalism may be a more widely practiced proclivity than social scientists
had realised, according to a new study by a team of art historians from the
University of Missouri.
** Non-profits' executives avoid scrutiny, valid reforms
A review of media accounts and public information reveals that many of the
same questionable transactions detailed in the corporate scandals are
occurring in the world of non-profits
** MFA to add underground gallery to expansion project
Rogers didn't say much about the museum's $425 million campaign-$180 million
for the building, $180 million to endow programs and staff, $65 million for
operations and projects-other than that fund-raising is going well and he
will make announcements later in the year.
** Anzac fury at Gallipoli fee plan
And plans for a sound and light show, restaurant and cinema and a light rail
have been slammed for turning the sacred peninsula into a Disneyland.
** Reunited cross to go on display
A newly-restored altar cross is going on display at the British Museum for
the first time in 100 years
** Controversial exhibition focuses on pain
"Are you looking for Pain?" asked the woman at the entrance to the Science
Museum. "Follow me."
** Celebration of Darwin is not for all
It is, after all, dedicated to opponents of evolution who "through the silly
nature of their arguments or actions, have inadvertently done the most to
promote evolution as a fact".
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** 13th International Salzburg Summer Academy For Arts Management (ISAC)
** The British Archaeological Awards
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