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week's edition include:
** Phillips Collection exhibition links the box camera and painters
The artists tried not to follow their photos exactly, for any attempt to
reproduce a photo in paint was looked on in artistic circles as a kind of
cheating
** Ohio museum restoring former first lady's dresses
The 19th century dresses of first lady Ida McKinley are undergoing a
thorough cleaning, and detailed embroidery and beading have complicated the
work
** The Bloomberg Balloon
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's upcoming "bubble" project has a
new name: the Bloomberg Balloon
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** Saab Museum reopens in Sweden
Part of the sideshow in the Saab revival circus has been the waning and
waxing fate of the Saab Museum Trollhättan, Sweden
** Human fossils hint at new species
Computed Tomography (X-ray) scans of their brain cavities indicate they had
modern-looking frontal lobes but quite archaic-looking anterior, or
parietal, lobes
** No Indian museum among world's top 100
Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed said that it did not go well with India,
which was on track to become a global power and which had rich art heritage
to share with the world, not to have at least one popular world class museum
** Watches missing from Silverton museum
There were no signs of forced entry into the locked glass case that housed
the Davenport watch; in fact, the case was locked when Hutton discovered the
item was missing
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** Museum sharing its Civil War trove, Lee's sword with Appomattox
The sword Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee had at his side when he surrendered
to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant is returning to Appomattox as the centerpiece
of a new museum examining the post-Civil War struggle to heal the nation
** Beer and Bling in Iron Age Europe
If you wanted to get ahead in Iron-Age Central Europe you would use a
strategy that still works today - dress to impress and throw parties with
free alcohol
** Academy of Natural Sciences displays 200 years of curiosities -
including 'Frankensquid'
The flying squid had been dissected, then sewn up, and is now floating in an
antique glass jar on the second floor of the academy's building on the
Parkway
** Museum discovers 'new' Van Gogh painting
A painting dismissed for years as the work of an unknown artist has been
identified as a piece by Vincent Van Gogh, after x-rays revealed an image of
two wrestlers fighting underneath the floral still life
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** Brazil's exhibition boom puts Rio on top for art attendance
Rather than a US, European or Japanese institution, a Brazilian one, the
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil's (CCBB) Rio de Janeiro space, comes top
** World Reacts to Jerusalem Antiquities Forgery Trial Verdict
On the criminal side of things, witnesses in the trial revealed a dark
portrait of the Holy Land antiquities trade, including the looting of
burials and under-the-table West Bank exchanges of large amounts of cash
** 45-foot paper airplane glides over Arizona desert
It was built as part of the Pima Air & Space Museum's Giant Paper Airplane
Project, designed to get kids psyched about aviation and engineering
** John Wayne Gacy joins serial killer lineup at Crime Museum
Personal belongings of John Wayne Gacy, including two costumes worn by the
'70s-era "Killer Clown," have been added to the gruesome lineup of A-list
serial killers in the Crime Museum in Washington
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** Wax museum spurs sticky situation in Iraq
An exhibit of wax statues depicting some of Shiite Muslims' most beloved
clerics, aimed at paying tribute to this Iraqi holy city's contributions to
culture, has been dipped in controversy as some Sunnis decry the figures as
heretical
** Ichiro museum opens window to Japan's baseball icon
Run by his mother and father, the Ichiro Exhibition Room in his hometown of
Toyoyama, Japan, has everything from his baseball awards to the desk where
the Mariners star studied in elementary school
** In India, History Literally Rots Away
India has taken a much easier route: it has allowed many priceless papers
and other items to slowly disintegrate in, or be stolen from, institutions
starved of funding, bereft of proper facilities and trained staff, and
lacking proper security
** Sometimes a Museum Needs to Get Outdoors More
Within a few hours, he had pulled his exhibition team members away from
their computers and loaded them into a small trailer, which they took turns
driving around the Marina, searching for the best views from the pinhole
camera
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** Visions of Mughal India
Howard Hodgkin says he knew he was going to be a painter at the age of five,
and began collecting Indian art in his teens; these two obsessions have
dominated his life ever since
** For battlefield thefts, man gets 366-day term
When authorities caught up with him last year, they recovered more than
9,000 rusty relics, including bullets, buckles, cannonballs, breastplates
and buttons during a search of his home
** Urban Archaeology of Vienna 17th International Conference on Cultural
Heritage and New Technologies
To Reach and Unveil the Hidden Spirit of the Town (Urban Archaeology and
Excavations)
** Football in Museums: Interpreting the global game
The third annual symposium of the International Football Institute
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The Twenty-First Annual Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium On
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