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** These Two Artists Are Living Together in a Gigantic Hamster Wheel
If you thought sharing a small apartment was difficult, imagine being these
two artists sharing a gigantic hamster wheel
** This Old Thing Is Turning Heads
The curator of decorative arts at the New-York Historical Society, called
the dress dazzling, saying her jaw dropped when she first saw it
** The Wonder of Birds
Eliciting a wide range of emotions from awe to fear, from pleasure to
cruelty – birds have intrigued humanity since the earliest of times
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** Getty makes 35 million photos free to use
By offering the ability to embed photos, Getty is saying it cannot
effectively police the use of its images in every nook and cranny of the
internet
** 125 years of inspiration: Vincent van Gogh
Activities will be organised throughout the year in various towns in the
Netherlands, Belgium, France and England that featured in the life and work
of the artist: prominent exhibitions, cultural events, apps etc
** Provenance research in Germany is not completely dire - but a happy
solution is still a way off
Over the past 15 years an estimated 12,200 objects, including entire book
collections, have been returned to their rightful owners or generally to
their heirs and beneficiaries
** Museum's creative thinking hustles up patrons
Hustle for History is just one of dozens of events the Wright offers every
month that would fit just as well at a neighbourhood community centre as at
an august history museum
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** Feature Site - Journey of the Treasures
The artefacts in Afghanistan: hidden treasures from the National Museum,
Kabul began their journey thousands of years ago, when the country we now
know as Afghanistan lay at the crossroads of the ancient world
** 30,000-year-old giant virus 'comes back to life'
The ancient pathogen was discovered buried 30m (100ft) down in the frozen
ground; Called Pithovirus sibericum, it belongs to a class of giant viruses
that were discovered 10 years ago
** Executed Vikings were inexperienced raiders who oozed smelly pus
The full story, as the findings surmise, is “hardly the picture” of an
“elite group of Viking warriors", living between 970-1025 AD under the rule
of Æthelred the Unready or Cnut the Great
** Israel reveals eerie collection of Neolithic ‘spirit’ masks
They are 9,000-year-old masks found in the Judean Desert, and they are going
on display for the first time next week at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem
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** Mini Museum puts skulls, gold, London Bridge in your pocket
These portable collections of fossils, bones, lunar rocks, and pieces of
history are painstakingly assembled by Fex who broke these covetable
specimens into smaller pieces, then embedded them in resin
** Pointing Fingers Over Heavy Death Toll at an Indonesian Zoo
Indonesian news outlets have taken to calling it the “zoo of death,” and it
has become a lightning rod for zoo critics around the world, as an
acrimonious debate unfolds here over who is responsible for the animal
deaths
** Was Stonehenge built for rock music?
Sound is ephemeral, and disappears as soon as it is made, so it is difficult
to know for sure that our ancestors used the stones as percussion
instruments
** In Queens Raid, Federal Agents Seize Artifacts They Suspect Were Looted
Agents from the Department of Homeland Security raided the Long Island City
warehouse and emptied a storage locker filled with objects from Afghanistan,
Pakistan, India and Cambodia, federal officials said
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** Should children be banned from museums?
The pleasures of a museum and a gallery are beyond them, so they’re bound to
be bored, or inappropriately excited by the joys of running up and down the
polished floors
** Italy Moves to Speed Up Maintenance at Pompeii After Collapses
The weekend storms caused several structures to collapse at the ancient
city, which was buried by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.; among
the losses were several stones from a support arch in the Temple of Venus
and the wall of a tomb near one of the principal entrances to the site
** Qantas woes tipped to curtail outback Qld aviation museum grant
An aviation museum in Longreach in central-west Queensland dedicated to the
history of Qantas says the airline's woes will impact on a planned donation
from the national carrier
** This Week's Horoscopes
Cancer - Ultimately there will be nothing your friends can do for you,
putting you in the position of having to find more competent friends
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** $5m idol 'may not be stolen'
Australia's most senior art gallery director has said he is not convinced a
$5.1 million Shiva he personally negotiated for the National Gallery of
Australia in 2008 was stolen from India
** Canterbury Museum suffers water damage
Museum staff were deployed this morning to clean up more than 20 areas
throughout the Museum and the Robert McDougall Gallery that had suffered
water leaks
** Corvette museum begins recovering cars from sinkhole
The National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky., has begun the extraction
of eight rare Corvettes that were swallowed by a 40-foot wide sinkhole that
opened up under the facility last month
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** Gems of Yixing Tea Ware from the Nanjing Museums exhibition
Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware (G/F)
** Baltic Amber across Time and Borders
You are very welcome to participate in the international research conference
“Baltic Amber across Time and Borders” in 19-20 September, 2014, in Riga
** No Rules: Fashion without Boundaries
Costume Society of America Northeastern Region Spring 2014 Symposium
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