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week's edition include:
** Greeks Should Stop Wasting Energy Moaning About Elgin Marbles
No argument goes on for this long - it has been simmering for around 200
years now - without both sides having a certain amount of justice in their
cause
** Indonesian elephant fossil opens window to past
Indonesian scientists are reconstructing the largest, most complete skeleton
of a prehistoric giant elephant ever found in the tropics, a finding that
may offer new clues into the largely mysterious origins of its modern Asian
cousin
** Titian secrets revealed as Cupid and the lion become public property
The acceptance of this painting has only been possible because of the
combined efforts of Government and private donors and again demonstrates
what is possible when the tax system acts as an encouragement to private
philanthropy
** CU museum puts rare Navajo textiles on display
The collection contains more than 800 Navajo, Pueblo and Spanish American
weavings dating from the mid-1800s, and includes some collected by John
Wesley Powell during his surveys of the West
** Were Grandma Wagner and Hitler lovers?
Wagner's 31-year-old great granddaughter Katharina says she wants to
establish the truth about her ancestors' links to the Nazis - most
particularly whether her grandmother was the Fuhrer's secret lover
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** Long Beach, meet Josef Stalin
City officials are threatening to sell paintings from the collection of the
Long Beach Museum of Art to pay off a $3-million construction bond that
comes due in September
** It's a man, baby! Scan reveals NY mummy is male
A scan performed at a suburban New York City hospital shows an ancient
Egyptian mummy thought for centuries to be a woman is a man
** Salvage operation after Cologne archive disaster
Since the disaster, fire-fighters, archivists and hundreds of volunteers
have been working almost non-stop on what has become a massive
archaeological dig
** Reel history is best when it's not like real history
The most splendid recent example is of course, the remake of 10,000 Years
BC, in which sabre-toothed tigers co-exist alongside sextants, fire-honed,
smithy-forged weaponry and gleaming mouthfuls of Invisaligned pearly whites
** Chicago nature museum and its chief part ways
After only a few weeks on the job, Marie Trzupek Lynch has resigned as
president and chief executive officer at the Chicago Academy of Sciences and
its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, citing differing strategic visions for
the museum's future
** Researchers explore mysteries of the deep
VIMS researchers have departed for a 6-week expedition to the deep waters of
the North Atlantic as part of the Census of Marine Life, a global, 10-year
study of the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans
** museum wins £100,000 Art Fund prize
The result is even more impressive because the building, which tells
Wedgwood's story via original ceramics, manuscripts, factory equipment and
models, only opened last October, after nine years of planning and
fundraising
** Feud over family fortune and $10bn art collection
Today they are engaged in an epic inheritance struggle for a fortune that
includes private jets, yachts, stables, mansions and, above all, an art
collection that is the stuff of legend
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** Deliciously dark
As part of her new one-woman performance, Eating Secret, Smith transforms
herself into Mertle - a 1950s housewife - who encourages strangers to
confess their peculiar eating habits
** Swedish museum looks back at 50 years of Ikea design
Ikea, the low-cost Swedish retailer that has furnished millions of homes
around the globe, moved into the world of fine art with a Stockholm museum's
retrospective of its 50 years of liveable design
** From The Museum Blogs - Brer What-the-Sam-Hill-Is-This Beast?
This thing somehow crawled inside our window - I really and truly hurt
myself running away from it
** It's Okay for Artists to Make Money.No, Really, It's Okay
When art and commerce are mentioned in the same sentence, many people become
bad tempered or think something needs fixing
** In Athens, Museum Is an Olympian Feat
Greece will finally, after decades of preparation, procrastination and
acrimonious debate, have a large-scale, architecturally ambitious and modern
centre for the care and display of artefacts from its most important ancient
site
** Barrel monster: Is it a crime, or is it art?
Only months after the arrest of Shepard Fairey, the Obama "Hope" poster
artist who's battling the Associated Press over copyright issues, another
guerrilla artist is facing charges - this time for creating a hitchhiking
"monster" out of stolen orange traffic barrels
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** The World Museum Community reflects on solutions to escape the economic
crisis
As in previous years, 300 representatives from 155 countries met in the
General Assembly in order to review the actions taken by ICOM and its
members on important questions traditionally concerning the world of museums
but also the organisation itself
** Candy Unwrapped
The exhibition, "Candy Unwrapped", will be held at the Hong Kong Science
Museum at 2 Science Museum Road, Tsim Sha Tsui East from June 26th.
** A Rising Tide: Sustainable Practices, Green & Beyond
Western Museums Association
** Reptile and Amphibian Appreciation Day
On July 11, the NHM hosts a one-day celebration of reptiles and frogs from
the museum's collection, and special animal guests from around the world
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