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week's edition include:
** Venus of Willendorf still hot at ripe old age of 25,000
The Venus of Willendorf, a small ochre-coloured figurine from the
Palaeolithic period, takes her name from the village in northern Austria
where she was excavated on August 7, 1908 by three Austrian palaeontologists
** Beware of where modern art lurks
We went in furtively and there was Christ, impaled, poor lamb, on a fighter
aircraft, with a stuffed horse suspended from the ceiling by leather
slings - we fled
** Museum funding level 'unethical'
The Otago Museum chief executive has threatened to instruct his staff to
stop authenticating historic treasures brought in by members of the public,
as a long-running dispute between the museum and a government department
comes to a head
** Last missing Bill Reid artworks recovered
The last of a dozen Bill Reid works of art stolen from the Museum of
Anthropology at the University of B.C. in May have been recovered by RCMP
and returned to the museum
** Canada seeks Arctic ships missing 160 years
For more than 160 years, the fate of British explorer Sir John Franklin and
his men has remained locked in the frozen Arctic, but warming temperatures
are threatening to change that
** Museum echoes to sounds of the past
Profoundly hard of hearing from an early age, Edison, who was considered one
of the most prolific inventors in history, was not comfortable hearing the
sound of his own voice
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** Egypt to test foetuses for Tutankhamun family tree
British archaeologist Howard Carter found the mummified foetuses when he
discovered Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922
** Review: Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History
Museum
A departed head of science at the museum, hired to eliminate redundancy, was
regarded as a loose cannon. . . . with wild hair and a lopsided grin
produced by many years of smoking a disgusting old pipe, he often looked
like the kind of geezer who approaches you on stations to request a small
loan More
** Francis Bacon: behind the myth
Bacon said that he wanted his art to record life in the 20th century, and
throughout his career, he pushed his painting to the boundaries of what was
socially acceptable
** The battle to rehabilitate Zulu's Henry Hook
Private Hook,VC, spent several decades after the war working at the British
Museum; he was married twice and had two sons and four daughters
** Blackbeard? He was just a pussycat
Captain John Green, his chief mate John Madder and gunner John Simpson
became victims not only of a nation's determination to offset its
embarrassment and shame over the Darien Scheme's massive failings but an
obsession with tales of high seas villainy and cut-throat piracy played out
in exotic locations thousands of miles from Scottish shores
** Tracksuit chic explored in London exhibition
A new exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert Museum explores how high
fashion and sport have paired up over the last decade to become a potent
clothing and retail force just in time for the Olympic Games in Beijing
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** Da Vinci: Artist, inventor, matchmaker?
Born 500 years too early to put her photo on an online dating site, this
young woman tried a different matchmaking approach - a portrait by Leonardo
Da Vinci
** 5,000 Year-old Sahara Graves Found
The slender arms of the youngsters were still extended to the woman in
perpetual embrace when researchers discovered their skeletons in a
remarkable cemetery that is providing clues to two civilizations who lived
there, a thousand years apart, when the region was moist and green
** Pacific dives recover novel fish
The most spectacular recovery was of the bright blue damselfish found 120m
down off Palau, described recently in the scientific literature by
team-member Dr Richard Pyle, from the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
** 18th-century UK sailor's journal up for auction
Born in Tynemouth in north-eastern England, Hodge first served as a cabin
boy on coal vessels working between the northeast and London
** Endangered Manatee Struggles To Make Self Understood To Congress
Despite valiant efforts to make itself understood, an endangered West Indian
manatee failed to communicate its urgent-sounding message to members of the
House of Representatives Tuesday
** Brooklyn museum to show off fake Egypt sculptures
The Brooklyn Museum, which recently announced its prized collection of stone
sculptures from ancient Egypt was cluttered with fakes, is planning an
exhibit with these pieces to raise awareness of forgeries in the world's art
collections
** Discovering the Power of Transformation
The 2008 AASLH Annual Meeting, Discovering the Power of Transformation will
be held in Rochester NY
** Popular Art, Architecture and Design
We are now calling for papers in the area of Popular Art, Architecture and
Design for the 2009 National Conference of the Popular Culture Association
and American Culture Association
** Shelly Zegart Retrospective at Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
Louisville, Kentucky, August 14, 2008 - Shelly Zegart: Passionate About
Quilts - Challenging Assumptions, Creating Change, Making Connections
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