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week's edition include:
** Antiques Roadshow expert unearths oldest portrait of a transvestite
London art sleuth and specialist art dealer Philip Mould came across a
portrait of the legendary spy, diplomat and transvestite, Chevalier D'Eon,
in a New York auction house
** England Women celebrate 25 years of mauling
There were a few people watching - mainly family and friends and a few
interested spectators who seemed baffled that women were actually playing
rugby
** Tate director challenged to public debate over Hirst exhibition
Julian Spalding, who has headed some of Britain's foremost public galleries,
has laid down a gauntlet in a letter to the Tate director, challenging him
to a public debate to justify why the art gallery has spent taxpayers' money
on a Hirst exhibition when the "works aren't art"
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** Fossil Hunting Near 'New York,' Brazil
Using our GPS receivers and the satellite photos available on Google Earth,
we can get a good general idea of where these places are, but it can be
frustratingly difficult to be sure whether we're in the right place
** Viking-era 'piggy bank' yields silver treasure
A bronze, Viking-era "piggy-bank" containing thousands silver coins dating
from the 11th century has been unearthed on the Baltic island of Gotland in
what Swedish archaeologists have described as a "fantastic" treasure find
** Museum of Man retooling itself for the 21st century
The skateboard exhibit is part of the once-troubled, seemingly moribund
institution's efforts to transform itself into a museum for the 21st century
** Book of the Dead fragment found in Australian museum
Papyrus fragments from an Egyptian funerary text known as a Book of the Dead
have been discovered in the archives of the Queensland Museum in Brisbane,
Australia
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** Mission to map 10 million species in 50 years
Mapping the Biosphere is a grand plan that details how this could be
achieved. It has been produced by an international group of 39 experts and
was published last month in the journal Systematics and Biodiversity
** Marco Polo Was Not a Swindler: He Really Did Go to China
A thorough new study of Chinese sources by University of Tübingen Sinologist
Hans Ulrich Vogel dispels claims that Venice's most famous traveler never
truly went as far as China
** Queen Victoria archive goes online
Through documents from the Royal Archives, paintings and photographs from
the Royal Collection, audio and film clips, learn about Queen Victoria's
life and reign: from her childhood as a young Princess to her Diamond
Jubilee celebrations in 1897 and improvements of the Victorian era
** Shouldn't "The Dinner Party" be over by now?
Even if a historical corrective were needed, it's just a bad idea to isolate
art by gender; the separation only reinforces the divide
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** The Packed Lunch
The Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg, Centre County, interprets the
history of packaged rations for front line troops in its newest temporary
exhibit, "The Combat Ration"
** Culture for Your iPad
A sampling of the 27,000 prints held in the Research Institute's special
collections has gone on view in the new exhibition The Getty Research
Institute: Recent Print Acquisitions
** Virginia brooch returning to Cavan for the first time in almost 200
years
In the early nineteenth century, a silver brooch was discovered in Lough
Ramor; known as the 'Virginia Brooch', it dates from the ninth/tenth
century, making it over 1000 years old
** Fitzwilliam Museum theft: Taxi drivers asked to help
Taxi drivers are being asked for help to find thieves who stole Chinese
works of art worth millions of pounds from the Fitzwilliam Museum in
Cambridge
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** Art museum guard shoots himself by accident
A 63-year-old Metropolitan Museum of Art security guard shot himself in the
leg while handling a licensed weapon inside the museum's basement
** Newest Michigan museum showcases racist artifacts
The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia says it has amassed the nation's
largest public collection of artifacts spanning the segregation era, from
Reconstruction until the civil rights movement, and beyond
** Swedish museum evacuated after bomb threat
A bomb threat closed Stockholm's modern art museum last Tuesday, two days
after an exhibit about degrading stereotypes that black people have endured
prompted one Swedish organization to demand that the nation's culture
minister resign
** 18th Century shipping mapped using 21st Century technology
James Cheshire, of Spatial Analysis, has taken historical records of
shipping routes between 1750 and 1800 and plotted them using modern mapping
tools
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Gemini - You've tried over and over to snare your coworkers in the tangled
web you so carefully spin, but unfortunately, most people know the "Hertz
Donut" trick by the time they enter the workforce
** Italian Museum Torches Collection In Protest
An Italian museum has begun burning its collection of contemporary artworks
to protest against harsh budget cuts that have left many cultural
institutions out of pocket
** Aleph Bet
The recent Aleph Bet opening saw over many visitors come through the doors
of the Jewish Museum of Australia.
** International Museum Festival 'Intermuseum 2012'. Moscow
Main theme: "Museums and tourism: Museums integration into the tourist
industry"
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The C&O Railway Heritage Festival will be held in conjunction with the Magic
in the Mountains Festival sponsored by Clifton Forge Main Street.
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