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week's edition include:
** Family Feud Imperils a Prized Spanish Art Collection
Standing in the serene, sunlit galleries of Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza
museum, the average art lover would never suspect that behind the sublime
beauty of, say, Fra Angelico's Annunciation, roils a family dispute of such
sordidness that it would make Jon and Kate look like the Waltons
** The worlds of David Hockney
He's gone back and forth between his two countries for years, referring to
himself as an "English Los Angeleno"
** Engine dramas stall outback-bound flight
The Qantas Founders Museum in Longreach says it has already spent about
$500,000 buying the plane and preparing it for a 30-day flight to the museum
** Egypt to demand the Rosetta Stone from British Museum
The security standards of our new museums in Egypt are better than the
standards of security at the British Museum and therefore I decided that we
are not going to ask for a loan; we are going to bring it back for good
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** Tycoon wants to save 'party venue'
Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov has offered to pay for the naval
cruiser Aurora, whose gun signalled the start of the 1917 October
Revolution, to be a museum rather than a party venue
** What Exalts Stradivarius? Not Varnish
In a finding that is sure to add to one of the longest-running debates in
music, a detailed analysis of the varnish on five instruments made by
Antonio Stradivari reveals that he coated the wood with a rather humdrum mix
of oil and resin
** Tips for making your next museum visit rewarding and enjoyable
Whether you are considering a visit to a superb local collection or if you
are going to go to a grand museum in a major international city, here are
few tips to make your museum visit efficient, exciting and enjoyable
** Quickie tour of Philippines National Museum for 'balikbayan'
The 16th-century galleon San Diego, recovered off Manila Bay in the '90s, is
a wondrous return to the history of adventure and daring by intrepid Spanish
and Filipino crew who crossed the Pacific Ocean, taking up to five months to
get to the Americas
** Italian police seize £90m art stash from Parmalat founder
Among the 19 masterpieces were paintings by some of the world's most famous
artists, including Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet, Cezanne, Modigliani, Manet and
Degas
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** : Can paintings reveal how our ancestors ate?
Peyton interviews some of the world's greatest chefs - including
Michelin-starred chefs Yannick Alléno and Christopher Kostow - to explore
everything from the significance of beef in the work of Hogarth to Paul
Klee's use of seafood
** From coal to culture
The euro150 million ($226 million) Louvre-Lens museum, to open in 2012, is
part of a strategy to spread art beyond the traditional bastions of culture
in Paris to new audiences in the provinces
** Student finds letter 'a link to Jefferson'
In a nondescript conference room tucked inside the library at the University
of Delaware, a graduate student found a historian's equivalent to a needle
in a haystack
** Showdown at city's museum
Auckland Museum director Vanda Vitali, and the museum trust board are
embroiled in a performance dispute, and both sides have hired top lawyers
** Prince of Liechtenstein threatens major Royal Academy show
The Royal Academy's 2010 exhibition of treasures from the Liechtenstein
Collection faces cancellation because one of Prince Hans-Adam II's paintings
has been impounded in London
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** Te Papa gets new head from Wales
Before his 2003 appointment as director general of the National Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru, a group of seven museums, Mr Houlihan spent five years as
the first chief executive of the National Museums and Galleries of Northern
Ireland
** Christmas film footage from the past
Why not take a cinematic journey into Christmases past this winter with some
of the free Yuletide footage on British Pathé and other online film
archives?
** Robots enlisted by British Library to help preserve nation's memory
Much of the sorting and carrying at the futuristic building in West
Yorkshire is done by robots, which operate along 131 miles of
environmentally controlled storage
** Museum closings loom over weekend as labour strike continues
According to the Paris Tourism Office, workers are voting day by day on
whether to continue the action, which makes it difficult to predict which
facilities will be affected on any given day. Groans as strike holds
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** Historic grass socks
An Alutiiq artist from Old Harbour is 70 hours away from completing the
first pair of traditional uuleegux socks to be made in decades
** From young Mozart to black holes, 350 years of the Royal Society go
online
Isaac Newton held a clear glass prism to the sunbeam that penetrated the
shutters of his darkened room and watched in awe as the wall of his office
danced with all the colours of the rainbow
** Original Children's Book Illustration Art on Exhibition at Tarble Arts
Centre
Original art by noted children's book illustrators will be on exhibition at
the Tarble Arts Centre, Eastern Illinois University
** Big Stuff 2010 - Call for Papers
6th - 8th October 2010 at Imperial War Museum Duxford
** Cleaning 2010: New insights into the cleaning of paintings
May 26th-28th , 2010
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain)
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