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week's edition include:
** AGO loses $3M on costly flop
The lethal combination of low attendance and revenue shortfall threatens to
trigger a financial crisis before the end of the fiscal year for an
institution already shaken by layoffs and a revolving door of departures at
the senior management level
** Tony Curtis and Tutankhamun: coffin hoarders
Tony Curtis was buried on Monday with many of his earthly possessions,
according to the Las Vegas Sun, but how does he compare with that other
famous tomb hoarder?
** 100-Year-Old Museum Time Capsule Found Spoiled
Inside officials found 11 cents in change, two lead soldiers, a tattered
silk flag - and rotted news pulp, Confederate currency and a photograph
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** Probe planned of students replacing museum staff
A university has suspended a work-study program under which dozens of
workers lost their jobs so the Indianapolis Museum of Art could replace them
with students paid mainly with federal financial aid
** Live animals call museum home
Drake is a bearded dragon , and she's very responsive when people come by,
and Hercules is always curious when people walk up to the tank
** Museum of Broken Relationships exhibits lesbian's axe and artificial leg
Among those in their collection are an axe a woman used to chop all her
lesbian lover's furniture after she was dumped
** Veteran Korean actor to donate $44M art center
Veteran Korean actor Shin Young-kyun has announced that he will donate an
arts center and museum worth 50 billion won ($44.5 million) to the film and
arts industry
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** Muses instead of guns
The program entitled the "Grand Hermitage" envisages the complete
restoration of the historical complex and its inclusion to the Hermitage
museum area together with the Winter Palace and part of Palace Square
** Drug Enforcement Administration Museum
Displays include Coca-Cola's early use of cocaine in its secret formula a
century ago and graphic images of a crack casualty in the District
** Olmec 'Baby,' Age 3,000
In 1994, Mexican archaeologists exploring a river-laced region of Veracruz
called La Merced uncovered hundreds of ornately carved stone axes beneath an
ancient bog. Many were arranged in neat rows or flower-petal formations-a
signal that the objects were created to be shrine offerings left on the
banks of a sacred spring
** Berlin Researchers Crack the Ptolemy Code
A 2nd century map of Germania by the scholar Ptolemy has always stumped
scholars, who were unable to relate the places depicted to known settlements
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** Just a click away: Italian masterpieces go online
In Caravaggio's "Bacchus," for example, the trace of a tiny self-portrait
that the artist painted in the wine jug becomes detectable, as do the wine
bubbles on the rim of the jug
** Museum reborn after ravages of war
They might have been lifted from the most ghoulish of horror films: more
than 200,000 jars containing more than a million snakes, monster frogs,
bats, stunted fish, outlandish lizards and serpents, all garishly
illuminated on nearly eight miles of theatrically back-lit shelving
** The Columbus you never knew
The newspaper learned that the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem has found the
long-lost diaries from Columbus' initial voyage, hidden behind a box of old
fans and a rare 17th century La-Z-Boy recliner
** No more contemporary art in Versailles' royal rooms after Murakami
The director of the Palace of Versailles denies he has caved in to the
demands of traditionalist protest groups opposed to his contemporary art
programme by agreeing to no longer use the chateau's royal apartments as an
exhibition space
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** Neolithic tomb found in garden 'extremely significant'
When Hamish Mowatt decided to investigate a mysterious mound as he tidied an
Orkney garden, he had little idea he would uncover a hoard of bodies that
had lain untouched for around 5,000 years
** 18th century ship found at World Trade Center has a name...and worms
During one sweltering week this July, the team of two conservators, two
marine historians, three archeologists, one photographer and a few
construction workers worked to unearth the ship, which they dubbed the "SS
Adrian," after the superintendant of the construction crew
** Paul Gauguin the artist erases the flawed man
At first he is shown as a respectable stockbroker, next as a budding artist
in his wife's family home in Copenhagen, then as a peasant in Brittany, a
brigand and lothario, and finally a syphilitic old man
** Slice of the past
A large number of menus are from the Bohn-Bettoni Collection; from
restaurants across the country and around the world and many date to the
late 19th and early 20th centuries
** Riba Stirling Prize win for Rome's Maxxi museum
The award, to London-based Zaha Hadid Architects, is given for the building
deemed to have made the greatest contribution to British architecture
** Discover Ancient Ireland This October
Public Tour: Prehistoric Ireland
** Fine Arts And Flowers
The 10th Fine Arts & Flowers exhibition will capture the beauty and pleasure
of seventy-six floral designs October 13-17, at the Virginia Museum of Fine
Arts. Each floral design, placed beside its companion artwork, offers a
creative interpretation or expansion of the artist's vision. Surprising use
of materials and inventive concepts are hallmarks of the special event.
** The World's Your Oyster
OysterFest is November 6 at CBMM
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