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week's edition include:
** Stolen Picasso and Monet art 'burned' in Romanian oven
Romanian investigators have found the remains of paint, canvas and nails in
the oven of a woman whose son is charged with stealing masterpieces from a
Dutch gallery in October last year
** FBI and Scotland Yard Veterans to present "The World of Art and the Fine
Art of Crime" seminar
Explore the professional art world this fall with retired art crime
specialists from the FBI and Scotland Yard at "The World of Art and the Fine
Art of Crime," a unique five-day seminar offered October 14-18, 2013, at SMU's
Meadows School of the Arts
** Russian Government Decides Against Recreating Museum Shut by Stalin
The decision sets to rest, for now at least, a dispute that was addressed
directly to President Vladimir V. Putin on live national television and
prompted a monthslong war of words between the State Pushkin Museum of Fine
Arts in Moscow and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg
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** The 10-year-old artist who's earned £1.5m
Ten-year-old Kieron Williamson's oil paintings have earned him £1.5m so far,
and now his pieces are expected to fetch £50,000 each - video
** Hobbits' Size Not Likely Linked to Growth Disorders
So much about the extinct little people nicknamed hobbits remains roundly
contentious 10 years after their fossils were discovered on the Indonesian
island of Flores
** Petersen Automotive Museum takes a major detour
The L.A.-centric Petersen Automotive Museum is selling a third of its 400
classic cars and will put more emphasis on motorcycles and French vehicles
** British Library and Lincoln and Salisbury Cathedrals to unite surviving
Magna Cartas
Seen side-by-side for the first time in history, the four surviving original
copies of Magna Carta, King John's charters of medieval England, will be
made viewable for free to 1,215 lucky ballot winners on the 800th
anniversary of their creation
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** How the east was lost
His breath stinking from scurvy, his hair crawling with lice, and starving
in his fine clothes, Nikolai Rezanov was as unlikely a suitor as he was an
ambassador
** Gene breakthrough shows Neanderthals in new light
Now the Neanderthal epigenome - the system of on/off switches that modify
gene activity - has been deciphered, allowing us to directly assess the
mental life of our extinct cousins for the first time
** New Baroque Gallery in the Residence in Bamberg opens with restored
paintings
The gallery has been largely remodelled with 77 recently restored Baroque
paintings from state and municipal collections now displayed in eight rooms.
It has been possible to integrate numerous paintings in the new presentation
originally from the Residence in Bamberg
** Science Museum prepares to welcome steampunk science in summer Energy
Show
Consumed with flaming methane bubbles, exploding liquid nitrogen, Plasma
Ball lights, hydrogen rockets and a Van de Graaff generator, the futuristic
duo promise to unleash an extraordinary array of chemicals and gadgets as
they race against time to prove their knowledge of energy
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** Steamy Wait Before a Walk in a Museum's Rain
Since May 12, Mr. Guo and tens of thousands of others - art lovers,
technology buffs and the merely curious - have trooped to the Museum of
Modern Art for a chance to experience "Rain Room," a temporary installation
in which water rains down except where sensors detect people, giving
visitors the illusion of walking between the drops
** World's Oldest Calendar Discovered after 10,000 Years in Scotland
Archaeologists analyzing a row of pits unearthed at a site in Northern
Scotland believe the pits represent a calendar nearly five thousand years
older than an ancient calendar from Bronze Age Mesopotamia that previously
held the world's oldest title
** Getty Museum's Rembrandt Acquisition Hits a Snag
The painting, executed on copper, had been for sale at an obscure auction
house in England six years ago where it was attributed to a "follower of
Rembrandt''
** Micro-museum devoted to goats
The museum is only about 200 square feet - perhaps one of the smallest in
the mid Willamette Valley - but it's filled with goat legends and facts
reaching back 10,000 years
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** China Museum Shut Down as Exhibits Shown to Be Forgeries
Chinese authorities forced the closing of a museum curated by a local
Communist Party boss in northern China after determining that almost all of
the items in its 50 million-yuan ($8.1 million) collection were fake
** Its Bubble Popped, Hirshhorn Takes Stock of the Future
Now, as the Hirshhorn approaches its 40th anniversary next year and
contemplates its future, the question of whether the bubble's demise signals
the end of the museum's troubles, or a new drop in a downward slide, seems
to depend on how one viewed the project to begin with
** Top Museum Directors Protest L.A. Times Arts Reporter Layoff
This is one of the reasons I like covering art here, which is that it is a
community filled with really dynamic people who are not afraid to take a
stand, and I was really moved that so many museum directors would organize
so quickly to support arts writing in L.A.
** Archaeologists unearth 'vampire graves'
Decapitating a suspected vampire was common practice in medieval times
because it was thought to be the only way to ensure the dead stay dead
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Pisces - You'll be trapped in a hell of your own making, forcing you to
admit that you really should have put in more bathrooms
** Istanbul Museum Parses '1001 Faces of Orientalism'
In the case of architecture, while Europeans historically considered baths,
tents and mosques to be "Turkish," the exhibition explains that some of the
neo-Islamic structures in Istanbul were actually inspired by European
buildings that had recycled intricate details from a centuries-older Moorish
palace - the Alhambra in Spain - or from Islamic Indian buildings
** Museum reverses decision to banish Nishga Girl
The decision infuriated Japanese Canadians, because the Nishga Girl,
constructed in 1967 by Japanese Canadian boat-builder Judo "Jack" Tasaka,
symbolized the more than 1,000 gillnet boats seized by the government from
Japanese-Canadian fishermen during the Second World War
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2014 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar
** Recent thefts of Central and Eastern European maps
The Penn State Libraries was recently victimized by this thief or thieves
and we are distributing this message as broadly as possible.
** Opening Doors
2014 Virginia Association of Museums Annual Meeting
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