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week's edition include:
** British Museum announces major autumn exhibition celebrating China's
Ming dynasty
The exhibition will explore the years 1400 - 1450, a pivotal 50 year period
that transformed China during the rule of the Ming dynasty
** Modern art: I could have done that... so I did
If thinking "I could have done that" while walking around a contemporary art
exhibition is the mark of a philistine, aren't you a philistine, too?
** Israel Museum rejects claims it neglected to return Nazi looted art to
owners
Among the many textiles, most of which were dyed using substances derived
from plants, were two purple-bordeaux colored textiles - parts of tunics
that were double dyed utilizing two of the most expensive materials in
antiquity: Murex trunculus (Hexaplex trunculus) and American Cochineal
insect
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** Judge Orders Renoir Painting Returned to Museum
A federal judge awarded ownership of a disputed Renoir painting to a
Baltimore museum, citing "overwhelming evidence" that the painting had been
stolen from the museum more than 60 years ago
** Eating 'Paleo?' Don't Forget Worms and Tubers
A new study from Oxford University says meat wasn't making it for our
ancient ancestors: 2.4 million years ago, man survived mainly on "tiger
nuts" -- edible grass bulbs still eaten in parts of the world today
** Indiana boy wins trip to DC as museum advocate
The American Alliance of Museums recently selected Spencer as one of its two
"great American museum advocates" for his dedication to The Children's
Museum, which nominated him
** Why it will take 6,000 dead goats to build the High Speed Railway
This curious statement comes from an old technicality as Acts of Parliament,
when passed into law are still printed on vellum, which is typically made
from goat skins
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** Singapore Museum Mulls Action against U.S. Gallery
A government-run Singapore museum says it is considering legal action
against a prominent New York art gallery accused of selling stolen Asian
artifacts
** Museum adds Elvis' guitar to vast collection
A slightly smashed acoustic guitar played by Elvis Presley on his final tour
in 1977 now greets visitors in front of the museum's main galleries
** Stone Age mural ups the stakes in quest for oldest map
Who were the first cartographers? This Stone Age mural may be the oldest
known depiction of a volcanic eruption, according to a newly published study
of the drawing
** Acorns were starch enemies of Prehistoric tooth care
Inspecting the dentures of 52 adult hunter-gatherers found in Taforalt, a
set of protected Moroccan caves, the Natural History Museum team says that
starchy foods, rather than the accepted link between oral disease and
farming, could have caused tooth decay between 13,700 and 15,000 years ago
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** Historic, Eccentric Wills Go Online
Author Jane Austen bequeathed most of her worldly assets to her sister
Cassandra, while Britain's most famous playwright William Shakespeare
famously left money to his daughters, and a bed to his wife
** Oldest Human Footprints in North America Identified
A hunter-gatherer who trekked through a desert oasis a hundred centuries ago
left the continent's most lasting impression: the oldest known human
footprints in North America
** Ancient Greeks Used Portable Grills at Their Picnics
The ancient Mycenaeans have a reputation as palace-builders and warriors,
but they were also quite sophisticated cooks; more than 3,000 years ago,
they used portable grill pits to make souvlaki and non-stick pans to make
bread
** Soft opening for Yuz Museum in Shanghai
The museum's 2,000 sq. m main hall, converted from old aircraft hangars by
Sou Fujimoto Architects to accommodate the mostly large-scale installation
works of Chinese contemporary art that will be the core of the collection,
stood cavernous and clean
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** British Museum buys Picasso linocuts
One of Europe's most influential and celebrated artists of the 20th century,
he made more than 2,500 prints throughout his long career - using etching,
lithography and linocut
** Museum shuts lab with USS Monitor artifacts
The Virginia museum that holds the famous turret of the sunken Civil War
ironclad warship, USS Monitor, says it is closing the laboratory that houses
the artifact because of a lack of federal funding
** MoMA to demolish Folk Art Museum building despite critics' rage
The New York arts behemoth will smash down the former museum to make way for
its expansion, even though the American Folk Art building has been
celebrated as a daring work of contemporary architecture
** A Career Defined By 'LOVE' No Longer
These days, Indiana is working on a photographic autobiography, documenting
his life's journey from Indiana to New York to the coast of Maine
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** Arthropod Museum's 3D technology grant
For the arthropods that will be used in the database and put into the
collection the curator of the museum uses a powerful camera that moves up
and down taking hundreds of photos of every angle of an arthropod
** This Week's Horoscopes
Libra - A cleansing fire will sweep across the land, purifying countless
souls, purging all guilt and sin, and defrosting a number of delicious
Hungry-Man dinners
** No Scrounging for Scraps
University of Cincinnati archaeologists are turning up discoveries in the
famed Roman city of Pompeii that are wiping out the historic perceptions of
how the Romans dined, with the rich enjoying delicacies such as flamingos
and the poor scrounging for soup or gruel
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** International Course on Conservation of Japanese Paper - Tokyo, Japan
ICCROM and National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo are
pleased to announce this international course
** When Water Emergencies Strike Your Collection: Response Training and
Workshop
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** National Sporting Heritage Day
The 30th September 2014 will see the first ever National Sporting Heritage
Day!
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