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** The Prado and a New Royal Museum Duel Over Paintings
If he is waiting to have the paintings in his place, he has to wait until
hell freezes over says Prado's Chairman
** Botched Repair Ruins Priceless Roman Mosaics in Turkey
Restoration work on a series of Roman mosaics in Turkey dating from the 2nd
century to the 6th century has gone horribly wrong thanks to a botched
repair job at the Hatay Archaeological Museum in the southern city of
Antakya
** The Tretyakov gallery targeted by investigators in paintings scam probe
In one of the most high-profile scandals to hit Russia's art world in recent
years, the powerful Investigative Committee has launched a probe into
paintings allegedly smuggled out of the country after experts from the
Tretyakov Gallery assessed them at a fraction of their true price
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** The Penis Worm was a fearsome Cambrian period predator with teeth like a
cheese grater
Studies of Penis Worm fossils from the Burgess Shale, a great depositary of
Cambrian era fossils in Canada, have revealed it could turn its mouth
inside-out to expose a tooth-lined throat that looked like a cheese grater
** Massive tomb complex discovered in Beijing suburb
The 129 tombs, which were found in the Daxing district of the city, contain
human skeletons, pottery, porcelain and lacquerware as well as small
funerary gifts
** Fear of censorship fuels debate over cash from oil industry
Critics say that institutions broke ties with tobacco and arms manufacturers
in decades past and should now take an ethical stand against the fossil-fuel
industry
** Stolen LS Lowry paintings traded as 'currency' and 'collateral' by
criminal gangs
Works of art seized in a smash and grab raid nearly ten years ago at a
Cheshire gallery are probably being passed between drug bosses as a form of
"collateral"
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** Tourists break piece off priceless 'Statue of the two Hercules' in Italy
while trying to take a selfie
Two tourists have managed to break off a piece of a priceless Italian statue
which smashed to the floor after they tried to climb it and take a selfie
** Ancient Copy of Ten Commandments Has First Showing in Israel
A 2,000-year-old copy of the Ten Commandments - the oldest known complete
version - has gone on display for the first time in Israel
** 'Monuments Men' group returns historic paintings taken after World War
II
The family of an American tank commander who won three historic paintings
playing poker during World War II returned the stolen art treasures their
rightful owners
** Microbes found at bottom of ocean are our long-lost relatives
An entirely new group of organisms discovered at the bottom of the Arctic
Ocean are our closest simple-celled relatives ever found
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** Dear Artists: Putting Food Coloring In A Beloved Natural Geyser Is A
Crime
We've said it before and we'll say it again -- but hopefully, not too many
more times -- artists: please don't make Mother Nature your canvas
** Feathery fossils peg early birds to even earlier date
Scientists in China have described a new species of early bird, from two
fossils with intact plumage dating to 130 million years ago
** New York City Museum Honors Earthquake-Stricken Nepal With Special
Installation
When a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on April 25, staff and curators at
New York City's Rubin Museum sprang into action to honor the country's
cultural and religious heritage that many feared would be lost in the
disaster
** Museum professionals have to meet higher demands due to cuts
The majority (65%) of museum professionals said that management had placed
greater demands on them as a result of funding cuts, according to research
conducted by the Museums Journal
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** Whitney Museum Hangs Jackson Pollock Painting the Wrong Way
We initially planned to install it horizontally, but we felt it had a
greater sense of scale when you turn it vertically
Japanese American Museum Acquires Internee Artifacts
It's truly fitting that this material will reside in perpetuity at an
institution dedicated to sharing the Japanese-American experience and based
on the West Coast, the site of the evacuation
At museums, selfie sticks poke holes in the idea of anything goes
How is it that we ended up with one big idea governing museums, and such a
self-destructive one?
Dislocating the Powerhouse
For some twenty-five years the museum has struggled to demonstrate a sense
of institutional coherence in terms of what it does, what its collection is
about, what its audience is and how it communicates its mission and purpose
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** Ghostly Voices From Thomas Edison's Dolls Can Now Be Heard
For years, the dolls sat side by side inside a display cabinet, bearers of a
message from the dawn of sound recording that nobody could hear
** From Aerostats to Drones: aerial imagery in Archaeology
2nd International Conference of Aerial Archaeology
** Explore Children's Education in Museums at the 10th International Hands
On! Conference
13 - 16 October 2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
** Fighting as One: Reminders of the Eight Years' War of Resistance in
Guangdong and Hong Kong
Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence
** This Week's Horoscope
Cancer - The stars will wait patiently while you look up the album art for
Ted Nugent's Cat Scratch Fever, because they want you to know exactly what
you look like to them.
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