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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Rocky Start to 2005
A section of sheet rock falls in the Brown County Historical Museum Annex,
but nothing in furniture collection damaged
** Louvre goes global
Under the terms of the collaboration, the French museum is to lend hundreds
of its works to the High Museum for an indefinite period in return for an
undisclosed sum, estimated at $10 million for the first three years by The
Atlanta-Journal Constitution
** Scientists Can't Examine Columbus' Tomb
Authorities say that more discussions are needed before a Spanish research
team can examine a tomb purportedly holding Christopher Columbus' remains,
setting back efforts to determine if claims that he is buried in Spain are
true.
** Ancient Egyptians Sold Fake Cats
The machine saw through a mummified cat dated to approximately 500 B.C. that
contained only twigs and cotton
** The mysterious end of Essex man
Archaeologists now believe two groups of early humans fought for dominance
in ancient Britain - and the axe-wielders won
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** Tutankhamen Treasures to Go on Display in Dome
The pharaoh's gold crown will be among 50 artifacts excavated from his tomb
to go on show at the Millennium Dome
** Portland Museum ponders mystery
If you think you are a keen-eyed art lover, here's a test: Have a go at
assessing an unusual exhibition at Louisville's Portland Museum that invites
viewers to jump into a significant art-history mystery
** Traditional art in digital form
The National Palace Museum in Taipei may have the most appealing collection
of Chinese artifacts, but it also has the most unattractive display areas
** Experts: Frescoes May Not Be by da Vinci
"They look absolutely standard 1480-ish bird studies," Martin Kemp, art
history professor at the University of Oxford and a renowned Leonardo
specialist, said in a telephone interview from Britain.
** Prehistoric Site Under Attack by Birds
The four-story Casa Grande Ruins, the hand-built centerpiece of a
prehistoric American Indian village, have withstood Arizona's desert sun and
its rains for perhaps seven centuries
** A joyless triumph in Saatchi's labyrinth
By now, I am introduced to the publisher of the exhibition catalogue as "an
extremely hostile critic" and dragged off to be converted to the bloody
action-splatter paintings of Austrian performance artist Hermann Nitsch
whose work is the most pointless, old-fashioned and downright bad in the
show
** Museum keeps 'wild' in wildlife
24 hours after Lindsay Wildlife Museum workers used anti-swelling medicines
they had tested on other injured birds, the raptor stood on its own feet and
glared like a fierce hunter
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** 'Da Vinci Code' to Be Shot Inside Louvre
A production team has already visited the Louvre to select locations in its
Grand Gallery, where the opening of the novel is set, according to the daily
newspaper Le Parisien
** Renowned Art Historian Sacked over Death Threat
The South Dakota woman's "sin so grave it can only be paid in blood" was
taping a rare Jackson Pollock sketch to her refrigerator, because she had
mistaken it for one of her son's art projects (spoof)
** War firefighters reveal gripping stories
It will tell the vivid stories of brigade veterans who witnessed the blitz
and the devastation of the V1 and V2 rockets
** Nelson - All At Sea On Patch
Nelson would not have needed to wear a patch because his blind eye was not
disfigured
** Museum exhibit showcases skill at shaping, sculpting sugar
Flowers made of sugar, airplanes made of sugar, dolls made of sugar and even
human skulls made of sugar created by several artists are on display at the
terminal in an exhibit created by the Natural History Museum of Sugar, which
is still looking for a permanent home to celebrate the sweet substance
** Guggenheim museum decides money isn't everything and sends billionaire
packing
A long-simmering conflict between the director of a leading museum and its
most generous benefactor - who also happened to be its chairman - came to a
head in New York this week
** Museum offers space memorabilia appraisal opportunity
The fund-raising aspect is especially important to the museum this year
because the new owners of Searstown mall did not accept the terms of the
museum's previous lease agreement
** 'Priceless' Stone Relics Are Returned to Iraq
Three thimble-size artifacts looted from a Baghdad museum and sold on the
black market for $200 to a scholar-turned-smuggler were returned to the
Iraqi government
** War of words over museum display
A Palestinian exhibition at the South Australian Museum has angered the
state's Jewish community, which claims parts of the display are "patently
wrong
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Call For Papers and Session Proposals - 2005 Ohio Valley History
Conference
** The Visual Resources Association - 23rd annual conference in Miami
Beach, Florida March 6-10, 2005.
** The Mississippi Museums Association Annual Meeting will be Jan. 29-31 in
Jackson, MS.
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