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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:
** Talking sculpture an earful for creator
Not even the creator can take prolonged periods of listening to his "sound
sculpture" at the Tate Modern Museum in London
** Ma, Protector of Chinese Art, Dies at 77
Anticipating the Red Guards' arrival at the museum, Ma ordered staff to
disguise as Red Guards themselves and paint revolutionary slogans over glass
display cases
** Fire destroys vintage planes at historic Michigan airport museum
An immense fire swept through the Yankee Air Museum in Van Buren Township
late Saturday, destroying vintage aircraft and aviation artefacts, including
the wooden World War II-era hangar that housed the museum
** This isn't a squiggle . . . it's the new transport museum!
Love it or loathe it, the design concept for what will undoubtedly be the
city's most futuristic building is the brainchild of a top international
woman architect from war-torn Baghdad
** Items stolen from Zimbabwe museum
Police in Zimbabwe are investigating the disappearance of animal skins and
historic artefacts from one of the country's leading museums
** Art in a storm
Claims of bullying and dumbing down, calls for an inquiry, senior staff
leaving in droves. Has something gone terribly wrong at the Waikato Museum?
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** Alexander Calder and Joan Miro featured
In 1929 Calder and Miro were simply two bachelors on their way to a dance or
to a gym to practice breathing and exercises
** Restoring Baghdad's museum to its former glory
Sumerian jewellery, Babylonian steles, Assyrians reliefs, Abbasid walls
covered with calligraphy and many other beautiful objects used to be on
display here, in 32 galleries, testifying for 55 thousand years of history
and civilization that existed in Iraq
** Bishop Museum ends 'Native' claims
The Bishop Museum board of directors has given up its plan to claim cultural
artefacts as a "Native Hawaiian organization" under a federal native-burials
law, but yesterday reaffirmed its intent to hold claims made by others to a
stricter standard
** Europe's oldest wooden staircase found in Austria
A 3,000-year-old wooden staircase has been found at Hallstatt in northern
Austria, immaculately preserved in a Bronze Age salt mine
** Painting of Nude Bush Removed From Museum
Expected to formally open this month, the show, including the Bush painting,
was abruptly shut down Monday after some of the artists' themes were
considered unsuitable
** Made-up Things are Real, New Study Shows
Researchers at the Istituto di Patafisica Clandestino have made an exciting,
though insignificant discovery that imaginary objects, dreamt-up dreams,
ruminations, hallucinations, metaphors, abstractions and delusions are
actually real - and that they should "matter" to science
** Lincoln's handball, Ali's robe on show
An account in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society puts the
future president in an alley off the public square in Springfield, Ill., in
1859 "vigorously engaged in the sport as though life depended upon it."
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** Shah's car collection is still waiting for the green light
A classic car enthusiast's untouched paradise - 140 vintage and classic
vehicles belonging to the former Shah of Iran and other exiled private
collectors - sits undisturbed in a murky warehouse outside Teheran
** Contest illuminates small, strange beauty
Seth Coe-Sullivan thought he was just having a bad week at work when he
couldn't get his microscope image of quantum dot nanocrystals to come out
right
** It takes a gadget to test a gadget
The Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports, has a museum of
sorts filled with some of the unique contraptions it has built since its
inception in 1936--some of it "really, really bizarre stuff"
** Italian struggles with art crime wave
Police in Italy are warning of a potential growth in the number of famous
art works illegally being taken out of the country - as the art world
struggles in the grip of a crime wave
** Treasure hunter, state battle over 17th century ship
A 17th century vessel under Lake Michigan, considered by some the Holy Grail
of Great Lakes shipwrecks, may have been found, but its ownership is mired
in a storm of a court battle
** Model of famed Japanese battleship on display
The model, down to detailed deck surfacing and rails around the decks, is
built entirely from scrap - mainly disposable chopsticks and old window
screening
** Vatican to display art from Columbia museum
A 1637 painting from the Columbia Museum of Art will be displayed at the
Vatican along with other art works from the Louvre in Paris, the Prado in
Madrid and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Political Theatre: A Contradiction in Terms?
** Electrifying Exhibition
** BAFM British Association of Friends of Museums - The Changing Landscape
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