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** Monet's water lilies: How the iconic paintings almost never made it to
the canvas
If the French Impressionist's neighbours had had their way, the instantly
recognisable series of paintings, which have influenced generations of
artists, may never have made it to the canvas
** Ugly Statue Of Nefertiti Removed After Public Outcry
A piece of public art aesthetically comparable only to the DIY restoration
of Ecco Homo in 2012, was briefly installed at the entrance of Samalut City
in Upper Egypt last week
** UNESCO Remembers the Alamo
The Alamo has received the sought-after designation of being a world
heritage site from the United Nations cultural body, UNESCO
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** Pirate Treasure A Leaden Claim
The account of an American underwater explorer who says he found a silver
ingot that belonged to 17th century pirate Captain Kidd in Madagascar is
false
** The Victorian craze for photography
From the pin-sharp daguerreotype and the more textured calotype process of
the early years, to the wet collodion method pioneered in 1851, photography
developed as both a science and an art form
** Foiling the thieves
The theft of rare books and manuscripts from libraries is not new; medieval
abbots used to attach precious volumes with chains to stop touring scholars
from leaving the monastery with them
** Delaware Art Museum pushes ahead after selling works
Not too many museum CEOs can say their first year on the job involved an
unprecedented board decision to sell multiple works of art to pay the bills,
resulting in a public lashing from museum leaders and art buffs nationwide
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** Franz Marc's Letters and Sketches from the Front Lines of World War I
The last works by Franz Marc (1880-1916), a founder, with Vasily Kandinsky,
of Der Blaue Reiter, are contained in a sketchbook he kept while on the
front in World War I
** On wrestlers, rodents and rare discoveries
The statue needed six years of conservation work eradicating soluble salts
and harmful chlorides, removing layers of maritime encrustations,
consolidating cracks and breaks, and building an internal support, to
restore it to the exceptional condition it is in today
** Experts warn against new social media trend called Sunburn Art
People are sharing photos on social media of a new type of body art: designs
created by exposing certain parts of the skin to the sun without protection
** Return Of The Giant Crab
Japan sent several of its young citizens to Rutgers in the late 1800s to
receive a Western education, and it showed its appreciation to the
university in a big and unique way - with the gift of an 11-foot-wide
exoskeleton of a giant spider crab native to that country's waters
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** Klimt and the Ringstrasse: A Showcase of Grandeur
The Vienna Ringstrasse is one of the most striking ensembles of architecture
in the city and a fundamental part of the World Heritage Site, the "historic
centre of Vienna"
** Indian ship likely to convert into docked museum
INS Viraat, the oldest active aircraft carrier in the world, is likely to be
converted into a docked museum when the ship decommissions next year
** Wild Walk Gives NY Museum Visitors Treetop View of Forest
The just-opened $5.5 million Wild Walk is set on 80 wooded acres at the Wild
Center, an interactive natural history museum beside a twisty oxbow of the
Raquette River in Tupper Lake
** Kimono Days Draws Complaints Of Stereotyping
In an episode that speaks volumes about cultural institutions, ethnic
sensitivity, and the power of protest in the digital age, the Museum of Fine
Arts is hastily pulling back on an event
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** Evolution of sneakers explored at Brooklyn Museum
The cultural impact of designs such as the Air Jordan and Rick Owen's
high-end efforts chart how the footwear went from casual run-around to chic
statement
** Museum tells story of California water conflict
Thousands of feet below in the Owens Valley, the Eastern California Museum,
which houses an exhibit on a pivotal moment in the state's water history,
has failed to see an uptick in attendance
** British Museum on high terror alert to protect priceless antiquities
from ISIS fanatics
The museum is home to Assyrian artefacts, which contains numerous and
priceless treasures originally from cities whose ruins have been targeted by
the terror group
** GeaCron: An Explorable Atlas of the World's Past (Starting in 3000BC)
GeoCron's World History Atlas is an fascinating tool for peering back into
the past and getting perspective on how different the world has been
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** How Did The Practice Of Women Jumping Out Of Giant Cakes Start?
No one threw a dinner party like the Ancient Romans did, and they may have
been the first to seriously combine food and entertainment; that is, the
food often was also the entertainment
** New Moroccan EcoMuseum
A new created Ecomuseum is located in one of the most secular Moroccan High
Atlas valley, the Ait Bougmez valley.
** MWA2015 Draft Program Online
Early Registration Open
** Call for Papers: Inaugural Symposium of the Association of Print
Scholars
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY
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** Timeline Of Mass Extinction
Despite dire warnings of many within the scientific community, increasingly
alarming assertions that another mass extinction could be imminent are
largely ignored by dinosaur community
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