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week's edition include:
** Smithsonian and 27-Year Employee in Battle Over Asbestos
Nearly 45 minutes into the session, the museum's safety coordinator said
something that Richard Pullman thought at first he'd misheard: there was
asbestos in the museum walls
** Those nice Vikings did a lot for us - and it wasn't all pillaging
They illustrate how between the 9th and 13th centuries, the Vikings became
an integral part of social and political life in Britain and Ireland and
changed both countries more profoundly than is generally realised
** BlogSpeak - Give them some space !
Anyone who wants to know why some contemporary artists rise like zeppelins
while others stay modestly earthbound might like to consider the scene that
is about to unfold across Britain
** Tripping back to the world of psychedelia
From a graphic design standpoint, psychedelia marked the switch from the
strict modernist style of clean lines and clear type into a hodge-podge of
influences, references and experiences
** Tracing anthrax's American roots
The team speculates that anthrax arrived in North America over the
now-vanished Bering Land Bridge that connected Asia and Alaska during a past
Ice Age
** How to put the nation's pupils off great art for ever
Who cares? Forget getting 'cross-curricular' - the reverberating buzz word
in museums' education packs - look at that exploding constellation of stars
** Billionaire Pinchuk to Host Biggest Hirst Show at Kiev Museum
Steel billionaire Victor Pinchuk 's namesake private museum in Ukraine's
capital, Kiev, will hold the largest show of British artist Damien Hirst's
works next month even as the nation wallows in economic and political woes
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** Archaeology office lets 7,000-year-old boats rot away
A pair of stone-age boats, thought to be the oldest in Europe, have been
allowed to rot in a partially collapsed shed while the northern German
regional archaeology authorities stood by broke and helpless
** Getty Trust to slash budget as investments tumble
The J. Paul Getty Trust, envied as the economic Goliath of the museum world,
is slashing its operating budget nearly 25% for the coming fiscal year, an
emergency response to investment losses that have totalled $1.5 billion
since July and nearly $2 billion since mid-2007
** Museums lose nearly 200 artefacts
Details obtained under the freedom of information act show that museums
including the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum, the Imperial War
Museum and the Royal Armouries have lost 198 items since 2000
** Museum reveals secrets of drug smuggling
Virgin of Guadeloupe sculpted in the handle of a gun, high precision rifles,
a mobile phone with diamond and gold incrustations, clandestine laboratories
for drug processing and many more items that once belonged to drug
traffickers are displayed in this private museum used by the military to
show the soldiers the lifestyle of the Mexican drug lords
** Till death do us sculpt: Russian to render human bodies into art
materials
Andrei Molodkin, who will represent Russia at this year's Venice Biennale,
claims that after spending three to six months in a high-pressure machine, a
corpse becomes oil that can be used to power cars or be moulded into a
permanent memorial statue to sit on the mantelpiece
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** Fix the yo-yo walk at the museum with an iPhone
So here's my suggestion for museums and art galleries around the world:
don't put a teeny tiny information card beside the art work
** Bronze at British Museum may be loot
Dating from 770-476 BC, the drum stand is decorated with three intertwined
dragons. It probably comes from the tomb of a ruler, from a site that is
unknown to archaeologists, possibly in Shanxi Province
** Hands off, Wembley
It has 2,000 items on show at any one time, ranging from the world's oldest
football shirt - worn by Arnold Kirke-Smith when playing for England against
Scotland in 1872 - to Stanley Matthews's kit from the 1953 FA Cup final
** Danish Museum Resists Return of Disputed Artefacts
At the core of the dispute are Etruscan and Greco-Roman objects that the
Glyptotek bought from Robert Hecht, an American antiquities dealer now on
trial in Rome, where he is accused of receiving and selling stolen artefacts
and conspiracy in the antiquities trade
** A Wounded Museum Feels a Jolt of Progress
While its hodgepodge of a collection delights some visitors, its odd mix of
treasures and tchotchkes, in galleries so dark as to offer only a dusky view
of some objects, leaves others perplexed
** Humour Spot
Experts Agree Giant, Razor-Clawed Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat
** What happened to Pharaoh's workers?
It appears that the workers, or should we say workmen and artisans, the
people who built the rock-cut tombs of the Pharaohs in the Valley of the
Kings from about 1500 BC onwards, may have later been employed on a project
aimed at "emptying" and "recycling" their contents
** Early 'Peking Man' was older, colder
The famous early ancestor of humans was able to thrive in glacial weather
that would send icy shivers up the spines of most modern people, new
research shows
** Restoration Field School 2009
Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest announces its 2009 Restoration Field School
** Met To Cut More Staff
As part of an ongoing, and increasingly challenging, effort to maintain
budgetary equilibrium in this worsening national economic climate
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