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** Can billion-dollar investments put Qatar on the cultural map?
Work on the art institutions in the UAE, however, has stalled, and wrangles
continue over building contracts and the delayed delivery of Abu Dhabi's
$27bn (£16.8bn) museums district; meanwhile, Qatar has proven to be the
come-from-behind horse, quietly stealing a march on its rivals by unveiling
its own completed projects with little of the preceding fanfare
** The Greatest Fake-Art Scam in History?
None of the architects, lawyers, university professors, and other Freiburg
residents knew the first thing about where their hosts had come from, nor
how they had amassed their wealth
** Ancient fish holds key to teeth origin
The fossil data was analysed with data from comparisons with living
vertebrates, and the team was able to make virtual reconstructions showing
the tooth developmental stages in Compagopiscis
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** 9000 butterflies die for Hirst's art
An exhibition by the 47-year-old, featuring thousands of live butterflies,
saw more than 9,000 of the beautiful insects die - around 400 a week
** British called upon to stem illicit trade of artefacts
The Glasgow project is distinguished by its interdisciplinary structure,
linking to fields such as criminology, archaeology, international relations,
politics and economics
** It's a cut above most other exhibitions in Paris
You might be having a bad hair day but you wouldn't give your hair much more
thought than this; yet hair is rich in cultural connotations
** Museum collection saved in embattled town
Syrian rebels said Friday they have removed part of a collection of mosaics
from Maaret al-Numan's museum in a bid to save the relics from the regime's
bombardment of the northwestern town
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** Singapore's indoor museum walking event draws the crowds
Over 2,000 people visited the Asian Civilisations Museum in an indoor
community event over the weekend that blended cultural education with
walking activities
** Dutch art thieves were no 'Ocean's 11' team
Experts said the structure and location of the museum, which was designed by
renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, may have attracted criminals
** Shalom Chicago
In part, the show reflects the shift in the museum's mission over the past
few years from a collections-based institution (i.e., lots of labeled items
on display) to one that emphasizes helping patrons make personal connections
through oral history and other elements
** Japanese Lake Sediment Advances Radiocarbon Dating for Older Objects
The research team extracted cores of beautifully preserved layers of
sediment, containing organic material (such as tree leaf and twig fossils),
from the bottom of the Japanese lake where they had lain undisturbed for
tens of thousands of years
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** Academy reveals plans for Hollywood history museum
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will be designed by architects Renzo
Piano and Zoltan Pali, and will be located next to the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art on Wilshire Boulevard in the mid-city area of Los Angeles,
inside a 300,000 square-foot building that was once a department store
** A visit to the world's only eunuch museum
Sadly, five centuries after his death, there is no record of what happened
to Tian Yi's pouch at his mausoleum, which also serves as the world's only
Eunuch Museum
** Online, a Genome Project for the World of Art
An extensive free repository of fine-art images and an online art
appreciation guide, it is predicated on the idea that audiences comfortable
with image-driven Web sites like Tumblr and Pinterest are now primed to
spend hours browsing through canvases and sculpture on their monitors and
tablets, especially with one-click help
** Fashion museums around the world
Thanks to their rotating exhibitions and permanent collections, they help
visitors connect the cultural dots between the history of fashion and what's
happening now
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** Take L.A.'s Museum of Jurassic Technology with a grain of salt
Bemused, amused and thoroughly confused by what I have just experienced
inside perhaps America's strangest museum, I searched for a higher plane of
consciousness to try to make sense of it all
** Feature Site - MetPublications
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched MetPublications, a major online
resource that offers unparalleled in-depth access to the Museum's renowned
print and online publications, covering art, art history, archaeology,
conservation, and collecting
** Museum of London showcases 'bodysnatchers'
Many surgeons in early 19th Century London faced a stark choice: should they
hone their skills on stolen corpses or practise on their living patients?
** Vienna museum to cover nude male posters after outcry
A prominent Vienna museum has decided to cover the "intimate parts" of three
naked male soccer players on big posters put up in the Austrian capital
after they caused an outcry
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** Ottawa's plan for museums met with skepticism, outrage
Ottawa's plan to rename the Canadian Museum of Civilization and create a new
network of history museums across the country is being met with skepticism
in academia and outrage in opposition ranks
** This Week's Horoscopes
Virgo - You've never paid much attention to abandoned offshore oil platforms
before, but suddenly everyone seems to think they'd be perfect for you
** Racist Stereotypes and Cultural Appropriation in American Sports
American Indian Museum - Thursday, November 1, 2012, 10 AM - 5:45 PM
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** Royal BC Museum hosts the world's earliest printed maps
The new Royal BC Museum season has opened with Envisioning the World: The
First Printed Maps, 1472-1700 an exhibition of thirty rare world maps drawn
from the Wendt collection
** Living Maya Time / Viviendo el tiempo maya Webinar
Meeting Description: Living Maya Time / Viviendo el tiempo maya: A
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Website on the Maya
Calendar and the Year 2012.
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