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The international headlines (for the full story visit the webzine) in this
week's edition include:
** Madonna presents top art prize to bare room
To win the 20,000 pound Turner Prize, Creed fought off competition from a
video about two gay cowboys, a dusty storeroom piled high with junk and a
film of a disheveled alcoholic being brought a cup of tea by his wife
** Lost Office Space brings Director's Resignation
The director of the Prado, Spain's most popular art museum, has resigned
over a management dispute
** Sotheby's ex-chairman found guilty of price fixing
The case rocked the rarefied world of art auctions with accusations of
deceit, backstabbing and shady dealmaking between the two houses
** Possible Smithsonian Budget Cuts Called 'Devastating'
The Bush administration has proposed a series of cuts in the Smithsonian
Institution's budget, trims that lawmakers say would "cause serious and
irreparable harm" to the museum complex
** Children, birds, churches (and the odd flea)
After lunch we descend into King Ramhai's tomb, which has two stone coffins
** Museum-Hopping In Your Living Room
With school officials and vacationers calling off trips out of concern over
terrorism and with committed tourists and locals avoiding landmark
buildings, books become a more important vehicle for art to reach its
audience
** Newseum to Close Until 2005
The Newseum, an interactive museum that is devoted to journalism, will close
in March and not reopen until its new home near the Capitol is ready in 2005
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** Excavation of Submarine Complete
The mystery could take some time to solve as scientists sift through blocks
of sediment removed from inside
** Lone Smart Aleck Ruins RV Hall Of Fame For Serious Visitors
A lone smart aleck spoiled the RV Hall Of Fame for serious visitors Monday,
making sarcastic wisecracks about the various exhibits
** Our cheap but not cheerful museums
As you read this, I will be off to perform my duty by cavorting round the
Passengers gallery at the National Maritime Museum, enthusing about liners
and emigrant ships and great seaborne migrations
** Museum at Soviet internment camp opens in Germany
A new museum opened at the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp today,
recalling the internment of 60,000 people there under Soviet occupation
** Bronze Age village unearthed near Naples
A cluster of huts that once formed part of a Bronze Age village have been
unearthed some 3,500 years after they were buried in a volcanic eruption
** Armed Forces Museum offers realistic reminders of battle
The curator of the new Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby gets as big a kick
out of the immersive World War I trench as the visitors
** Ark relic found in cupboard
In Hollywood movies, the ark of the covenant is usually uncovered by a
whip-wielding hero abseiling into a cave, but in Edinburgh they do things
rather differently
** Mystery man is Gauguin, by Van Gogh
Researchers have discovered that a previously little-known painting that had
languished in the vault of the Van Gogh Museum is the work of the Dutch
Master
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** Prehistoric man 'was never a teenager'
Scientists believe that one of our ancestors, Homo erectus, may have
developed more like an ape and missed out on adolescence
** Order's earthly treasures will be sold for charity
The texts - rare Bibles, literary masterpieces, historic letters -- are
expected to fetch $5 million when they go on the block Friday in New York
** Plucky Entrepreneur Plans Chicken Museum
Jim Burnette's menagerie includes monkeys, llamas and wallabies, but it's
his chickens that have given him an idea for the state's first poultry
museum
** 'I'd rather dig them up myself than buy them'
Makovicky is the new curator for dinosaurs at the Field Museum, the first
full-time dinosaur expert they've ever hired
** Menorah Signals Triumph Over Tyranny
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, long famous for its annual Christmas tree
lighting and baroque Nativity display, is celebrating Hanukkah for the first
time this year
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** Live Butterflies Return to Discovery World
** "Creating Collections with Young Children"
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