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week's edition include:
** Louvre gets diamond brooch; once part of crown jewels
The Louvre Museum has acquired a diamond-encrusted brooch that is among the
few intact pieces of the crown jewels once worn by French royals
** Groundbreaking study deconstructs Mona Lisa's smile
The analysis of the layers was done using a multi-spectral camera that can
measure 100 million luminous spectrums in as many points on the painting
** New Year's card sent by Anne Frank found
A Dutch school director preparing an exhibition on Anne Frank has found a
holiday postcard signed by the Jewish teenage diarist
** Arts institutions feeling impact of ailing economy
Museums and symphony halls that financed renovations with seemingly safe
municipal bonds saw interest rates spike in recent weeks; other arts
institutions are suffering from low returns on investments; and some arts
executives are worried that recession fears could take a bite out of
donations and ticket sales
** U.S. gives Cambodia $2 mln for genocide museum
Cambodia is to build a Khmer Rouge genocide museum and library, funded by
the United States, as a permanent reminder of the "Killing Fields"
atrocities of Pol Pot's guerrilla movement
** Infantile capitalism
At the centre of Takashi Murakami's new exhibition is a shop - even Andy
Warhol never went that far
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** Gangster Museum Opens in Hot Springs
Hot Springs' gangster heyday has been traced by many to Owney "The Killer"
Madden, who moved to Hot Springs in the 1930s after spending time in New
York's Sing Sing prison for manslaughter and parole violations
** Sultan of Sulu brought pygmy elephants to Borneo
New research supports a long-held local belief that Borneo's pygmy elephants
may be descendants of Javan elephants unintentionally saved from extinction
by the sultan of Sulu several centuries ago
** Peru Asks Yale To Return Artefacts
The government of Peru is asking Yale University to return all - not just
some - of the pottery, human bones and other artefacts that one of its
professors took from the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu nearly a century
ago
** Rare Gallipoli film to screen on museum wall
Jackson, the Oscar-winning director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and a
World War I buff, approached the Australian War Memorial several years ago
about restoring the film
** Quake may have felled Saginaw Art Museum sculpture
A professor of physics at Saginaw Valley State University who also teaches
geology courses, said the magnitude-5.2 quake that struck could have caused
the sculpture to fall only if it already was unstable
** NZ Museum numbers as dynamic as their displays
New Zealand's museum industry has shaken off its ageing dinosaur image and
is undergoing a growth spurt
** Compromise averts dustup over Native American relics
Archaeologists who want to study the artefacts, tribe members who want to
see the bones laid to rest, and a developer who wants to see construction
completed
** Indiana Jones and the Heap of Old Junk
The 12 surviving Aztec crystal skulls are cherished by museums, revered by
New-Age writers, and have a starring role in Harrison Ford's new movie
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** Basement treasures
It is very easy to attack our museums and galleries for having more works of
art than they display, and it is a destructive and unpleasant game, often
played in a spirit of either populism or good economic housekeeping
** Highland bagpipe is a recent invention for nostalgic Scottish émigrés
In a new book, to be published by the National Museums of Scotland, Mr
Cheape claims the Highland bagpipe was never used to lead the Scots clans
into battle against the English, nor was it used to play laments to fallen
chieftains
** New Orleans Museum to Reclaim Artefacts
After Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans' French
Quarter evacuated 200,000 artefacts to Baton Rouge, where they've sat in
storage ever since.
** Dry spell almost killed off race
An international genetics project has found that modern humans almost became
extinct 70,000 years ago
** Call For Papers
MESDA Conference on American Material Culture
** Art in the Age of Steam - major new exhibition
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
** Melbourne Cup to join heart that stops the nation
Phar Lap's heart will soon be joined by an exciting new acquisition at the
National Museum of Australia
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