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week's edition include:
** Alarm over Greece's National Museum security
Inspectors found a series of key omissions which not only gave the thieves
easy access to the building but meant the police had even less evidence to
work with than they would have otherwise after the raid
** Museum drama runs afoul of the law
In a scene straight out of a Leslie Nielsen movie, Worcester police Friday
night handcuffed an actor portraying the gun-toting criminal Smiling Rocky
in a downtown theatrical ghost tour led by the Worcester Historical Museum
** Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames
The oldest known copy of Handel's Water Music, Bazalgette's original
contract drawings for the construction of the Thames embankment, Anne Boleyn's
personal music book, the magnificent stern carvings from the Royal Yacht
Victoria and Albert III, a remarkable collection of paintings by Canaletto,
and a stuffed swan - just some of the hundreds of diverse objects brought
together by the National Maritime Museum to illustrate the royal history of
London's great river in a major new exhibition
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** Titanic spat over Picasso (now in 3D)
The Artists Rights Society has sent the film director James Cameron a letter
claiming compensation because the movie "Titanic 3D" includes a reproduction
of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907
** A Curious Tooth Collection
Over the past couple of days, we found some very impressive teeth specimens
that belong to a little-known but still existing group of sharks called the
Holocephali
** Unleash your inner child
Each visitor picks a species (e.g., human, Wookiee, Ewok), genetic traits,
personality traits, a mentor and so on, ending up with one of 50 million-odd
possible personalized "heroes," which are projected in virtual poster-form
on a big screen in the last room, and shareable on social media
** Nobel winner Pamuk opens novel museum in Istanbul
Nobel prize-winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk has realised a long-nurtured
dream with the opening of an actual "Museum of Innocence" - a collection of
relics of a half-century of ordinary life - as depicted in his 2008 novel of
the same name
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** Merseyside Maritime Museum Beer Goggles' event promotes personal safety
As part of a two-day event that aims to highlight the importance of personal
safety and wellbeing, the site is challenging guests to put on special
eyewear which will graphically demonstrate what it's like to drink too much
alcohol
** Newark Museum presents exhibition on fossil fuel alternatives
Unlike fossil fuels which are created by breaking down organic materials
from animals and plants that inhabited the earth millions of years ago,
renewable energy is naturally replenished
** A State Looks at Itself in a New Mirror
Many events on that timeline are hardly Rocky Mountain-size milestones: the
opening of the Coors Brewery (1873); the declaration of the Columbine as the
state flower (1899); the pardoning of a convicted cannibal, Alfred Packer
(1901); the town of Longmont's starting "Pumpkin Pie Days" and serving
10,000 pies (1908); and the naming of one Phil McCarty as Colorado State
Liar (1933)
** Tate Modern fills tanks with live performance
The Tate is looking to take performance and live art into the mainstream
with the world's first ever dedicated gallery space launching later this
year
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** Russian oligarch demands £1.7m refund from Christie's for 'fake' work
Mr Vekselberg, who is believed to be worth more than £7billion and is rated
64th richest person in the world, will call on a number of leading art
experts to argue Odalisque is by an unknown artist
** Cleopatra and Antony's Children Rediscovered
An Italian Egyptologist has rediscovered a sculpture of Alexander Helios and
Cleopatra Selene, the offspring of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII, at the
Egyptian Museum in Cairo
** Sculptors in full swing as they tee up a crazy course
The first bespoke fine art mini-golf course in the UK has nine holes, each
being designed by well-known artists, including Jake Chapman and David
Shrigley
** German town gets world's first Rolling Stones museum
The museum, in the small eastern German town of Luechow, will show
"thousands of pieces" of memorabilia, including an original signed pool
table the group took on tour, instruments, posters and a Stones pinball
machine
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** Moles dig up buried treasure where human trowels are banned
Archaeologists find it hard agree about the relative merits of excavating
the ancient past or leaving it undisturbed until we have the resources and
technology to preserve its remains indefinitely above ground
** The museum must go on
The tornado's winds smashed windows and water and humidity rushed in,
dealing a severe shock to the artifacts, including the furniture, clothing,
paintings, books, manuscripts and so much more
** Rubik's Cube Focus of Museum Exhibition
It's a puzzle, a metaphor, a hit toy, will soon be a museum exhibition and
is getting ready to celebrate it's 40th anniversary with a worldwide tour
** Ancient Horse Bones Tell Story of Tibetan Plateau
Details about the horse suggested that at the time it died, the Zanda Basin
would have been about 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) above sea level, on par
with the current elevation of that region of Tibet
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** Museum aims to help popular science fully evolve in the Philippines
As the curator of The Mind Museum, the Philippines first modern,
purpose-built science museum, Maria Isabel Garcia's work now is a lot more
palpable and potentially contentious than her newspaper column
** What can dirt on pages tell us about medieval manuscripts and their
readers?
A new technique invented by Dr Kathryn Rudy, lecturer in the School of Art
History at the University of St Andrews, can measure which pages in medieval
manuscripts are the dirtiest, and therefore, the most read
** Dr Sun Yat-sen's First Wife, Lu Muzhen
The Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum is holding a new exhibition, "Collection
Highlights - Artefacts of Dr Sun Yat-sen's First Wife, Lu Muzhen"
** Textiles and Politics
Join us in Washington, DC, September 19 - 22, 2012, for "Textiles &
Politics."
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