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** Philanthropists pledge over $330 million to help Detroit art museum
U.S. philanthropic foundations have pledged more than $330 million to help
preserve the Detroit Institute of Art's collection and assist in shoring up
the cash-strapped city's employee pensions, the mediators overseeing
Detroit's bankruptcy negotiations have said
** Real King Kong may have been brought down by fruit
Nearly 80 years ago, Dutch anthropologist Gustav Heinrich Ralph von
Koenigswald discovered a giant human-like tooth in a drug store in Hong
Kong, and named the animal it came from Gigantopithecus
** The Museum With a Bulldozer's Heart
It's all the same flimflam: flexible spaces to accommodate to-be-named
programming, the logic of real estate developers hiding behind the magical
thinking of those who claim cultural foresight
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** Museum of India cinema to open in Mumbai
It will portray the footsteps of Indian cinema right from the silent films
to the studio period, then recreate the times when stars and mega-stars
dominated the silver screen
** V&A reveals details of how baroque and rococo galleries will be
transformed
They contain some of the objects most full of joie de vivre in the V&A's
vast collection, yet the baroque and rococo galleries themselves have for
decades been dingy, dark and disorientating
** Sotheby's says disputed $8.2 million Chinese scroll is authentic
Sotheby's has rebutted claims that an $8.2 million Chinese calligraphic
scroll it sold at auction in New York last year is a fake, defending its
reputation as it seeks to gain a foothold in the fast-growing China art
auction market
** Scottish industrial history could have sparked prehistoric economy
Scotland's industrial roots may have been forged by sophisticated
blacksmiths as long ago as 490BC, according to new research on Broxmouth,
the prehistoric settlement of roundhouses, elaborate hill fort entrances and
an exceptionally rare Iron Age cemetery
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** Information Destruction Through History
Information Destruction Through History infographic from Global Data Vault
explores and quantifies the worst data disasters in history
** Digging up Kings - Remains of King Alfred or his son found in
Winchester?
A fragment of human pelvis excavated in Winchester is 'very likely' to be
part of the remains of King Alfred the Great (849-899), or his son Edward,
archaeologists have announced
** Star-aligned temples hint at Pompeii's religious mix
If confirmed, the discovery could offer a unique perspective on the blending
of religions in the heyday of the Roman Empire; Pompeii had been a Greek and
Phoenician port of call for hundreds of years before it fell under Roman
rule in 80 BC
** Titanic museum, shipwreck simulator to anchor Chinese theme park
Bernard Hill, who played Captain Edward Smith in the movie and flew to Hong
Kong to show his support for the Chinese replica, dismissed suggestions that
building a theme park based on a tragedy was inappropriate
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** Thousands of vintage and rare vinyl records boost fine arts music
collection
Thousands of vintage and rare vinyl records and tens of thousands of compact
discs have found a new home at the Fine Arts Library at The University of
Texas at Austin
** Alexander the Great Poisoned by Flowering Herb?
Now, research finds that if poison killed Alexander the Great, the toxin may
well have come from an unassuming plant called white hellebore (Veratrum
album) that may have been slipped into his wine
** The Georgian era saw the middle class flaunt a new-found wealth
As the royals don't appear to be planning to celebrate the tercentenary of
the arrival of their German ancestors from Hanover in 1714, the British
Library has stepped in with a stylish exhibition of their own on the
Georgians
** Giant Digital Pin Art To Morph Faces At Olympics
Hailed as the "Mount Rushmore of the digital age," the MegaFaces Pavilion's
25-foot facade from designer Asif Khan will morph into a 3-D display of
visitors' faces
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** NYC's Met museum shows off football trading cards
The 150 cards, beginning with a series from 1894, are part of approximately
600 football cards from the museum's vast collection of 300,000 trading
cards donated to the Met by the late card collector and cataloger Jefferson
Burdick
** Treasure hunter finds 400-year-old English coin in Victoria
One theory is that Sir Francis Drake explored the BC coast on a secret
mission in 1579; he was supposedly giving coins of the realm to the Native
groups as proof the English had laid claim to the land
** The British Museum celebrates 255 years with record visitor numbers
In 1759, around 75 people a day would trickle to the newly opened British
Museum to see the array of remarkable exhibits, everything from the skull of
a rhinoceros hornbill and a Dürer watercolour to a model of the church built
on the site of the crucifixion
** What was in that grog? Scientists analyze ancient Nordic drink
Ancient Scandinavians quaffed an alcoholic mixture of barley, honey,
cranberries, herbs and even grape wine imported from Greece and Rome, new
research finds
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Libra - A man's home is his castle. This week prepare to have your castle
stormed by a marauding horde of phone bills
** Paws, Pee and Mice: Cats among Medieval Manuscripts
Although the medieval owner of this manuscript may have been quite annoyed
with these paw marks on his otherwise neat manuscript, another
fifteenth-century manuscript reveals that he got off lucky
** Researchers Reveal Covert World of Fish Biofluorescence
A team of researchers led by scientists from the American Museum of Natural
History has released the first report of widespread biofluorescence in the
tree of life of fishes, identifying more than 180 species that glow in a
wide range of colors and patterns
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** 20th Annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists
Istanbul. September 2014
** Building Museums® 2014
March 16-18 - Miami, Florida
** Renewal in the Renaissance City
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Association Annual Meeting in Florence, Alabama February 10-11, 2014.
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