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Welcome to another edition of your award-winning & FREE, international
ezine. This weeks international news stories include:
** Legionnaire's Outbreak Grows in Australia **
All the confirmed cases have been linked to an air conditioning system in
Melbourne's new aquarium and officials say the thousands of people who
visited the centre in mid-April could be at risk from the deadly flu-like
disease
** Iraq Reopens National Museum After 10-Year Break **
Iraq reopened its national museum on Saturday, displaying some of its
world-renowned archaeological treasures in public for the first time since
the Gulf War.
** Earliest evidence of art found **
Archaeologists in Zambia have uncovered evidence that early humans used
paint for aesthetic purposes far earlier than previously thought
** A Viking Chapter in American History **
The Vikings, when they discovered the New World, were probably less aware of
what they'd found than was Christopher Columbus
** China pays $7.3m to buy back relics **
China-backed entities paid a total of HK$33 million (S$7.3 million) to
recover two looted national treasures
** Britain shines in the art of diplomacy **
Usually, new government buildings forage for their furnishings and
decoration after the builders have left. Art is an afterthought. But in
Moscow the British government specially commissioned furniture, textiles and
works of art by British artists while the building was still under
construction
** Onwards and upwards **
Anyone looking for grandiose gestures at the remodelled National Portrait
Gallery, where Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones's new Ondaatje Wing is opened
by the Queen tomorrow, will be disappointed
** China's Foremost Ordeal Artist Emerges in America **
Zhang Huan has always wanted to do large-scale pieces, but in China he had
trouble getting people to take their clothes off
** On a mission to bring Flinders back to Australian shores **
The State Library of New South Wales is seeking rare items from around the
world for a national touring exhibition marking the bicentenary of Matthew
Flinders' voyage around Australia
** Art's biter bit in the Big Apple **
New York's notoriously avant-garde Whitney Biennial show has been making
waves for 70 years. The 2000 biennial is no different
** Anyone can respect the past, but managing it is not so easy **
Memento mori: Glasgow's museums and galleries, such as the Kelvingrove, are
attracting some lottery funding but still have a long way to go to recover
after years of decline
** Seattle's `Toe Truck' Has Suitors **
A history museum wants it. An online auction house beckons. A candymaker
even dreams of its image in white chocolate
** Brush paintings by North Korean child featured in Seoul exhibition **
Oh Eun-byol, 20, the featured artist, was hailed in North Korea and
throughout the world as a child prodigy when she started producing
critically acclaimed artworks at age 2
** Smithsonian Collects Net Stuff **
The Smithsonian Institution is collecting examples of inventive and useful
achievements in the information technology field to capture "a snapshot of a
global revolution-in-progress."
** The nutty 19th-century professors **
In the 19th century the dons of Oxford and Cambridge emerged as a distinct
social class, with their own peculiar and privileged way of life, mysterious
to the outside world
Scottish HEIGHT DAY - a touch of "May Madness"
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