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week's edition include:
** How Ai Weiwei built a pavilion in London - by remote control
It may be one of the most spectacular pieces yet by China's most famous
dissident artist, but there's a good chance that Ai Weiwei won't get to see
his latest work of art, the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London - at least
not for the time being
** Degas bronzes controversy leads to scholars' boycott
Degas experts boycotted a Hermitage colloquium arranged in part to discuss a
group of controversial Degas bronzes, cast from a set of plasters recently
discovered at the Valsuani foundry outside Paris
** Cannibalism exhibition defended by gallery
The film-based installation focuses on the controversial 1971 "discovery" of
the Tasaday people in the Philippines, who were purportedly still living
primitively and untouched by civilisation
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** Craft and Folk Art Museum's baseball exhibit celebrates timeless game
The current show, which takes up an entire floor of the museum, demonstrates
how baseball resonates within our collective imagination and how it shaped
the work of folk artists beginning in the 19th century
** Seal Proves Bethlehem Existed Long Before Jesus
Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a 2,700-year-old clay seal with the
name of Bethlehem, showing that the town existed centuries before it was
revered as Jesus' birthplace
** An equestrian expert on The Horse: from Arabia to Royal Ascot
The British Museum exhibition is very much about the development of the Arab
horse and its arrival in Britain, where it was cross-bred with native horses
to become the thoroughbred
** Mice and Coffins
When a dig for a housing development in the Arbury area of Cambridge during
the 1950s found a coffin containing the body of a middle-aged woman from
Roman Britain, her corpse wasn't all archaeologists would find inside the
lead and stone tomb
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** Do-it-yourself Smartphone App Builder for Museums
Museum App Builder 2.0 is a programming-free content platform that provides
a way for organizations to create an app that will work on smartphones,
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** Ancient anchor offers clues to Indo-Arab trade
Scientists of the National Institute of Oceanography have found an
Indo-Arabic stone anchor off the Kutch coast in Gujarat that offers
significant clues to the Indo-Arabic and Indo-Persian trade of the first and
second century BC
** Israeli Approves Plans for Einstein Museum
The German-Jewish physicist who overturned centuries of science with his
theory of relativity left all his scientific and personal papers to Hebrew
University, the academic institution he helped establish in the 1920s
** NY court: Gold tablet must return to German museum
There's been speculation that sometime in the 1940s, Holocaust survivor
Riven Flamenbaum may have swapped a pack of smokes for a gold tablet no
bigger than a Post-it note, which he kept until his death
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** Artifacts found on Pacific island solve Amelia Earhart mystery
Now, new information gives a clearer picture of what happened 75 years ago
to Ms. Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan, where they came down and how
they likely survived - for a while, at least - as castaways on a remote
island, catching rainwater and eating fish, shellfish, and turtles to
survive
** Human genome to be museum exhibit's focus
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is developing its first
major exhibit on the human genome with a $3 million pledge announced last
month from a biotechnology company
** Cambodia Says It Seeks Return Of Met Statues
The Cambodian government is convinced that two life-size 10th-century
statues that have anchored the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Southeast Asian
galleries for nearly two decades were looted from a jungle temple and plans
to ask for their return
** National Museum on Oman to open next year
In addition to the National Museum, the ministry also plans to open in the
wilayat of Sur the Maritime History Museum, which will highlight Sultanate's
maritime history and culture
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** Discovery's 'American Chopper' at the Museum
In Indianapolis, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art is
a world-class museum that tells the American story through objects on a
daily basis
** France in the Nineteenth Century
This new web feature from the National Gallery of Art introduces the
recently reinstalled galleries devoted to impressionism and
post-impressionism in the West Building, which reopened on January 28
** This Week's Horoscopes
Cancer - Okay, the stars are sorry that they made you wear a gorilla suit
all last week for what turned out to be no reason, but it's really, truly,
vitally important that you wear a Carmen Miranda fruit hat everywhere for
the next few days
** At Museum on 9/11, Talking Through an Identity Crisis
It seemed self-evident at the time: A museum devoted to documenting the
events of Sept. 11, 2001, would have to include photographs of the hijackers
who turned four passenger jets into missiles
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** Art Buttock Attacker Sentenced
A woman who punched, scratched and slid her buttocks against a $US30 million
painting by abstract expressionist Clyfford Still at a Denver museum has
been sentenced to two years of probation, and will have to undergo mental
health treatment
** Museum Goes to Court to Save Raccoon
Roscoe, a northern raccoon that is part of the museum's Animals of the World
exhibit, recently bit a Heard staff member
** Creative Communications
This year, the Marketing and Public Relations International Committee of
ICOM is meeting in sunny Palermo from the 9th-12th September 2012.
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** A Queen and Her Country
The Museum of Civilization commemorates Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee
** What's That Beastie?
On 26 June Creating Capacity has asked Robert Child of Historyonics to
return with What's that Beastie?: Understanding and managing insect pests in
cultural collections
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