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week's edition include:
** The Getty Museum gets a masterpiece out of England
Britain's preoccupation with the Titians, coupled with the meltdown in the
international financial markets, helped the J. Paul Getty Museum spirit a
new acquisition out of London, where the painting had been on long-term loan
to the National Gallery there
** The strange fall of the Museum of the Weird
The place never looked exactly the same way twice but a visit generally
involved staring at things like a homemade Bed of Nails, a giant model of a
heart, an oversized papier-mâché wasps' nest, and the Dome of Silence, an
isolation tank that Dolan fashioned from an outdoor hot tub
** Chinese war museum casts U.S. in harsh light
Here at the Museum of the War to Resist American Aggression and Aid Korea,
it's as if the clock stopped 55 years ago
** Virtual exhibit deals with human rights
The Canadian Museum for Human rights may not be set to open until 2012, but
it has launched its first virtual exhibition
** WTC survivor staircase moves again at ground zero
The 22-foot-high staircase was the last above ground remnant of the original
trade centre complex after the 2001 terrorist attack; survivors took the
stairs from the outdoor trade centre complex to the street below before the
towers collapsed
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** Nine UK museums combine web experiences into social site
Creative Spaces will pull together the online assets of the Victoria and
Albert Museum, British Museum, Imperial War Museum, National Portrait
Gallery, Natural History Museum, Royal Armouries, Sir John Soane's Museum,
Tate and Wallace Collection to enable users to browse and search their
collections and create a personalised space
** Matchbox museum offers small view of big history
In the late 1930s, inspired by his father's friends trading old coins and
other collectibles, the 10-year-old son of a Chinese gold dealer in the
northern Thai town of Nakhon Sawan took a shine to a used matchbox
** A 2,000-year-old Greek computer comes back to life
The mystery of how the Greeks had made a machine that appeared to be 1800
years ahead of its time and why that knowledge was seemingly lost is
fascinating
** 100s items missing from Russia's Hermitage
Mikhail Piotrovsky is downplaying the significance of missing objects,
saying many were insignificant or went missing before World War II
** Here's How to Rescue a Museum at the Brink
The first thing to be said about the fiscal crisis facing the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, horrendous as it is, is that it could be a
lot worse
** A manifesto for the Parthenon Marbles
It stands like a giant modernist spaceship that has belly-flopped by curious
accident opposite one of the most important cultural sites on the planet
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** Rare sealskin jacket stolen from Aberdeen museum
The rare 19th-century parka had been worn by an Inuit kayaker and came to
the museum in 1920 as a gift
** British Museum breaks up midwinter gloom to forecast an Indian summer
The task of creating the perfumed garden in the pigeon-haunted surroundings
of the museum's front doorstep, plagued by the eternal reek of frying onions
from the burger stalls outside the gate, falls to the Royal Botanic Gardens
at Kew
** Were Neanderthals stoned to death by modern humans?
Human aerial bombardments might have pushed Neanderthals to extinction,
suggests new research
** This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius November 22 to December 21- Don't let other people influence
your future; that's what a vague and arbitrary set of cosmic indicators are
for
** Soaring in Art, Museum Trips Over Finances
Now the California attorney general has begun an audit to determine if the
museum broke laws governing the use of restricted money by nonprofit
organizations
** Seaport Museum Plans Staff Cuts
The bad news came at a time when Mystic Seaport saw a solid year of
attendance records
** Record, study and hear music at new Grammy Museum
Enter the new Grammy Museum and run head-on into 160 musical genres; photos
and footage from 50 years of awards ceremonies; historic costumes and
instruments; plus dozens of interactive displays that illuminate popular
music's origins and cultural impact through the decades
** Exhibition without a hair out of place
Hairs probably from Charles Darwin's beard, and other long-lost family
keepsakes, are on show for the first time at the Natural History Museum's
new blockbuster exhibition, Darwin
** 1914! The Avant-garde and the Great War
Few historical events were of such crucial importance as the 1914 war to the
development of the early avant-garde art movements
** The Phillips Book Prize
The Phillips Collection Centre for the Study of Modern Art offers an annual
prize for an unpublished manuscript presenting new research in modern or
contemporary art from 1880 to the present.
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