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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:
** Museum gives klutz the boot
A hapless visitor who accidentally smashed a set of rare 300-year-old
Chinese vases at a British museum after tripping up on his shoelaces has
said he has been banned from returning
** Rare Anglo-Saxon coin to go on show at British Museum
A 1,200-year-old gold coin depicting an ancient English king is to go on
display at the British Museum in London after the government put a temporary
ban on it being exported out of the country
** Bizarre gadgets and gizmos show
Visitors will be able to guess the obscure purpose of a host of eccentric
contraptions collected over the past 30 years by Maurice Collins
** Display jar stolen outside museum
Just two weeks before the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit comes to Charlotte, a
piece of the promotional display outside Discovery Place was stolen
** Body battle leaves one museum in the cold
Health exhibitor pulls cadaver show as science gallery steals its thunder
** Infertility link in iceman's DNA
The scientists behind the latest genetic research now speculate that Oetzi's
possible sterility could have been a factor that led to this violent end
** Biennial or bust
It seems cities all over the world, from obscure backwaters to teeming
megalopolises, have decided biennials of contemporary art might make them
more interesting places
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** Museum Will Showcase Advertising Icons
A couple of years ago, Bernstein bought 1,000 icons from a Florida man, and
the idea of building a museum was born
** This Week's Horoscopes
Virgo August 23 - September 22. Subjecting your waitress to the observation
that all restaurants are in fact revolving restaurants due to the invariable
rotation of the earth on its axis will more than explain why you're dining
alone
** Metropolitan Museum Offers to Return 20 Disputed Works to Italy
If the proposal is accepted by the Italian government, the museum said in a
statement that it would receive long-term loans of art from Italy of
``equivalent beauty and importance.''
** Blood-splatter artist takes it to court
Fifteen years after Istvan Kantor splashed his blood onto a wall of the
National Gallery of Canada, earning him a lifetime ban, the controversial
performance artist is asking a judge to force the museum to let him back in
** Design Museum to change site and director
The Design Museum is to move from its London riverside home in a £50m
expansion and relocation project
** Ancient rite to settle artefacts suit
A federal judge is offering Native Hawaiian groups the chance at an ancient
mediation process to settle their dispute over a cache of priceless
artefacts
** Plunder or politics? Clash on Inca artefacts
Peru contends that it essentially lent the Machu Picchu objects to the
university nearly a century ago and that the university has failed to return
them
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** Paris Modern Art Museum Reopens
The Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris - an austere 1930s building lined
with columns and perched on the banks of the Seine - has been closed for
more than two years as workers brought it up to fire-safety standards
** Ofer cancels $20m donation to Tel Aviv Art Museum
Businessman Sammy Ofer is cancelling his $20 million donation for
construction of a new wing of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Ofer and his wife,
Aviva, published the cancellation in the "Ha'aretz" Hebrew daily in an
announcement entitled, "Excuse Me for Wanting to Donate."
** Six to stand trial in Norway for 'The Scream' heist
Six suspects in the violent and brazen 2004 heist of Edvard Munch's
still-missing masterpiece "The Scream" will go on trial in Oslo on February
14
** Egypt Mummy Shows Taste for Pork
Ancient Egyptians - unlike their Muslim modern descendents - had a taste for
pork, according to a mummy autopsy
** Scientists discover 'Lost World' in remote Indonesian jungles
Stephen Richards of the South Australia Museum in Adelaide said he and other
team members got a glimpse of what the island "was like 50,000 years ago,
because there's been no hunting, no impact of transport or anything like
that."
** Fundraising for the Arts in New York City
** International Conference on Halloween
** The fourth season of the Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School
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