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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Harlots, rakes, Frenchmen, and worse
The world of 18th century British satirist, William Hogarth, was not a
pretty one, yet it continues to delight art lovers
** Soviet-era submarine museum sinks
A Cold War-era Soviet-built submarine that was being towed to a museum in
Thailand took on water and sank off north-western Denmark
** China's terracotta army to invade British Museum
The new finds are included in the biggest exhibition of treasures ever lent
overseas from the emperor's burial site in Xian, which will open at the
British Museum this September
** Museum's fossil stirs ire of Kenyan bishop
Against him is one of the planet's best-known fossil hunters, Richard
Leakey, whose team unearthed the bones in 1984 at Nariokotome in West
Turkana, in the desolate, far northern reaches of Kenya
** Bobcat released after wandering into museum gift shop
A bobcat has been released after it wandered into the Museum of South Texas
History's gift shop, where customers briefly mistook it for an exhibit
before animal control officers were called
** Scots mining museum must dig deep to beat collapse
The future of Scotland's national mining museum is under threat because part
of the ageing Lothian colliery in which it is based is in danger of
collapsing
** Christchurch pips Motat to host national railway museum
Auckland has been bypassed in favour of a historic Christchurch site for a
new $6 million national museum celebrating New Zealand's rail history
** Tomb-finder Howard Carter was the right archaeologist at the right time
In his late teens, the London-born Carter was a talented artist who came to
the attention of Flinders Petrie, a noted turn-of-the-century anthropologist
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** Why Ancient Greeks are Always Nude
Greek males, it is generally agreed, did not walk around town naked, they
did not ride their horses naked, and they certainly did not go into battle
naked
** A Pollock, in the Eyes of Art and Science
The differences are particularly pronounced in the commercial art world,
where tens of millions of dollars can hang on decisions about a painting's
authenticity
** V&A under fire over Kylie show
Kylie Minogue is to be celebrated at the Victoria and Albert Museum in an
exhibition that has drawn accusations of dumbing down from critics
** Even Titian was jealous of Tintoretto's talent
As the story goes, Jacopo Robusti - who became known as Tintoretto because
his father was a dyer, or tintore - was born in 1518 and entered Titian's
Venice workshop at the age of 12, lasting 10 days before the master booted
him out, jealous of the kid's potential
** This Week's Horoscopes
Cancer June 22 to July 22 - Your entire life will flash before your eyes
this week, an insignificant blip made all the more trivial by the Benny Hill
theme that will accompany it
** Looters Still Ransacking in Afghanistan
More than five years after the fall of the Taliban regime, the plundering of
Afghanistan's archaeological sites and museums not only continues but has
evolved into a sophisticated trade that could be financing the country's
warlords and insurgents
** Mastodon Tooth Fossil Remains a Mystery
A mastodon tooth fossil found in an Ontario, Canada attic remains a mystery,
after a palaeontologist concluded it does not belong with a skeleton that is
one of the world's most complete
** Ancient Middle East fascinates Mexican museum goers
Fascinated by cultures as old as their own, Mexicans are pouring into museum
exhibitions in wonder at ancient Middle Eastern artefacts never before seen
in the Western Hemisphere
** Getty Trust revises staff ethics codes
The Museum will undertake due diligence to establish the legal status of an
object under consideration for acquisition, making every reasonable effort
to investigate, substantiate, or clarify the provenance of the object
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** Neolithic village found near ring
Archaeologists have unearthed a Neolithic village near Stonehenge where the
people who built Britain's ancient stone circle apparently lived,
** Natural history museum may come to Springfield
Southwest Missouri may be getting the state's first major natural history
museum, thanks in part to an ice age cave that is drawing national attention
** Doves and Dreams: A major retrospective of the forgotten Glasgow Four
** Legal Issues in Museums Administration
** Lost and Found - Discovering the Past on the N15Bundoran - Ballyshannon
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