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week's edition include:
** George Washington's Constitution fetches record $9.8 million
The non-profit Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union, which maintains
the historic Mount Vernon estate in Virginia that was Washington's home and
is now open to the public, was the successful bidder
** A more super super-eruption: Were Neanderthals driven out?
This super-eruption may have played a part in wiping out or driving away
Neanderthal and modern human populations in the eastern Mediterranean
** Ai Weiwei threatened with pornography charges over nude photograph
Chinese police have told dissident artist Ai Weiwei that he could face
bigamy and pornography charges and barred him from travel, despite lifting
strict bail conditions imposed after his detention
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** Roman jewellery found in ancient Japan tomb
It found that the light yellow beads were made with natron, a chemical used
to melt glass by craftsmen in the empire, which succeeded the Roman Republic
in 27 BC and was ultimately ended by the Fall of Constantinople in 1453
** "Paper!" at Phoenix Art Museum Is One Giant Missed Opportunity
Even the show's signage is glaring and flawed, forced, and perhaps a little
cheesy, with contrived sticky notes throughout reading "inspiration" and
"creativity" in fonts resembling handwriting
** Queen of Sheba - Genomics and African Queens
Researchers have found that the genomes of some Ethiopian populations bear
striking similarities to those of populations in Israel and Syria, a
potential genetic legacy of the Queen of Sheba and her companions
** Hammer vandals damage 5,500-year-old 'Stone of Destiny'
Damage has been caused in 11 places on all four faces of the Lia Fail
Standing Stone - also know as the 'Stone of Destiny' - which is mentioned in
ancient texts about the High Kings of Ireland
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** The many faces of nothingness
In a show devoted to various kinds of invisible art, the only really
crushing sense of nothingness is the feeling left behind by the bad
conceptual art
** Bath's Holburne Museum wins architecture award
The museum, which was the city's first public art gallery, was founded in
1882 and is home to fine and decorative arts built around the collection of
Sir William Holburne
** Bulgaria to Build 'Bulgarian Louvre' Museum Complex in 2 Years
The Bulgarian Louvre is expected to have large exhibition halls, and modern
storage facilities for art; the complex has been designed by architect Yanko
Apostolov
** $5M in stolen artifacts returned to Chicago museum
Stolen documents, military medals and other artifacts valued at about $5
million - including letters signed by Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson -
were returned Wednesday to Chicago's Polish Museum after being found in the
basement of a home decades after they went missing
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** Pablo Picasso Painting Vandalized at Houston Museum
A fellow museum patron's cellphone camera caught the moment when a man at
Houston's Menil Collection, which hosts nine Picassos, vandalized the 1929
painting. See also
** Hermann Goering as Art Collector: German Museum Puts His 4,263-Work
Stash Online
A cursory glance at the list of artists yields some surprises - the Nazis
considered modernism degenerate but Goering apparently had nine Picassos,
three Braques, a Leger, nineteen Matisses, and eight Cezannes in his
collection
** Early African dairy farms prospered in once-green Sahara
The sandy dunes of the Sahara may seem an unlikely place for a dairy farm,
but about 7,000 years ago, herders tended and milked cattle in what is now
desolate desert, new research shows
** Donated helium to lift NY museum's replica balloon
The hydrogen-powered Civil War balloon corps was begun in 1861 and went into
action on Sept. 24 that year when its commander, Thaddeus Lowe, ascended to
more than 1,000 feet near Arlington, Va., and telegraphed intelligence on
Confederate troops at Falls Church, Va., more than three miles away
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** Feature Site - War art in The UK National Archives
Hundreds of original wartime art works from the National Archive's stunning
collection of more than 2,000 pieces by war artists, working for the
Ministry of Information during the Second World War, have been put online
thanks to a digitisation grant from Wikimedia UK
** Music Box as Muse to Puccini's 'Butterfly'
The Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of mechanical musical instruments and
automata at the Morris Museum here received national attention after Martin
Scorsese's film "Hugo," which appeared last November
** Museum gathers 10,000th mammal item
The Museum of Natural History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
is home to some 400,000 specimens varying from fossilized plants from South
Dakota to a mammoth tooth found in Plover
** Alan Turing: why the tech world's hero should be a household name
A story of a genius whose mathematical insights helped save thousands of
lives, yet who was unable to save himself from social condemnation, with
tragic results
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** Greek octopus forms coalition with dolphin's genitals
Last week, he was making observations with a group of volunteers when a
bottlenose dolphin leapt in front of the boat with something attached to its
belly
** Reconstruction: conversations on a city
In acknowledging architectural heritage loss in earthquake ravaged
Christchurch's present and past, this visually rich outdoor exhibition
unfolds the ways in which dreams and values have been given form in our
built environment
** A Lofty Retreat from the Red Dust: The Secret Garden of Emperor Qianlong
Hong Kong Museum of Art, 10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon.
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** 2012 LEAD - International Network Engaging Museums and Theaters
The John F. Kennedy Center's LEAD conference engages staff from Museums and
Theaters in a conversation around accessibility, disability and inclusion in
the cultural arts.
** Two Festivals
Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
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