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soup and bones a murky green ** Museum of Contemporary Art commissions,
then paints over, artwork
In the strange case of a massive antiwar mural
that made a brief appearance downtown last week, it was the Museum of
Contemporary Art that both commissioned and removed the
works
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** Art school reject wins Turner
An art school reject who once sang over
the public address system at a branch of Tesco has won this year's Turner
Prize ** The A-listers' antique shop and the fakes made from
wardrobes
From behind his discreet shopfront in London's Belgravia, John
Hobbs spent two decades selling high-end antiques with six-figure price
tags to a glittering array of clients that ranged from Gianni Versace to
Jennifer Aniston ** From the blogs - Installing the Delhi Durbar
Painting
The painting commemorates the coronation of King Edward VII, which
was celebrated with a procession led by the Viceroy Lord Curzon and his
wife, then followed by the Duke of Connaught and his wife, and then the
Maharajas in order of importance ** Memories of the high seas
We went
along to the Voyager New Zealand Maritime Museum in the Viaduct on a Sunday
afternoon and found ourselves transported back in time to a different world
when New Zealanders were utterly dependent on boats for everything they
needed
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National Museum of China in Beijing after Italian culture minister Sandro
Bondi and his Chinese counterpart Cai Wu signed a cultural co-operation
deal in Rome ** Bell and Drum hutong safe from wrecking ball
Construction
of the Beijing Time Museum near the Bell and Drum towers began late last
week, finally burying a previously proposed plan for a massive
redevelopment of the ancient area ** Apron exhibit draws on memories
For
those of a certain age, the rope line itself triggers nostalgia of "washday
Mondays" and a family's weekly laundry hanging in the yard to dry in a warm
breeze ** Lost Civilization Under Persian Gulf?
Jeffrey Rose, an
archaeologist and researcher with the University of Birmingham in the U.K.,
says that the area in and around this "Persian Gulf Oasis" may have been
host to humans for over 100,000 years before it was swallowed up by the
Indian Ocean around 8,000 years
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Giant Storks May Have Fed On Real Hobbits
In the "Lord of the Rings" books,
hobbits were rescued by giant eagles, but real-life hobbits might have been
hunted by giant storks, scientists find ** The Proceedings of the Old
Bailey, 1674-1913
A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts
detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745
criminal trials held at London's central criminal court ** Met Museum
Sued Over Cezanne Painting Stolen by Bolsheviks
A Parisian engineer is
suing New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to recover a Paul Cezanne
painting that he says the Bolsheviks stole from his great- grandfather
during the Russian Revolution ** Canadian scientists using ancient coins
to map trading routes
Canadian scientists probing the metal content of
coins exchanged thousands of years ago in Mediterranean Europe have
discovered a new way to map ancient trade patterns, to retrace economic ups
and downs at the dawn of Western Civilization and even to shed new light on
the collapse of the Roman Empire
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Museum put on new war footing with £71m rebuild
With the death of the last
of the First World War veterans last year, the museum wants to revisit the
way it explains the Great War to future generations ** Nudity courts
controversy in Qatar's new museum
With exhibits showing nudity and
politically radical ideas, Qatar's brand new modern art museum may raise a
few eyebrows in the traditionally conservative Middle East ** Scent As
Art Form
The Center of Olfactory Art dedicated to scent as an art form was
launched at the Museum of Arts and Design on Thursday ** Jewish museum in
Warsaw now half-complete
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a
skeleton of concrete walls and white winding tubes on a vast square in what
was once the heart of the Warsaw Ghetto ** Rare window into life of
tsarist Russia
A rare window into life in imperial Russia is due to open on
Monday, when hundreds of letters, postcards, photographs and even menus
from the court of Tsar Alexander III are put up for auction in Geneva **
Audience research in an age of austerity: Ensuring continued support for
the visitor voice
Visitor Studies Group AGM 2011 and Conference, Weston
Theatre, Museum of London ** Australia's National Museum acquires racing
treasure
One of Australia's earliest sporting trophies has been added to
the collection of the National Museum of Australia. ** On the Surface:
The Heritage of Mines and Minings
14-16 April 2011, Innsbruck, Austria.From
pre-historic times to the present, the Earth has been mined for a vast
variety of minerals and geological materials
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