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week's edition include:
** Recession shatters Tate's bid to pay for glass box extension
News of the new exhibitions was overshadowed on the day by the disclosure
that only £4m of fresh donations had been received towards the redevelopment
of the Tate Modern, which will add a new 65-metre building to the existing
former power station and increase display space by 60 per cent
** Artists and academics fight animal rights activists in Supreme Court
US museums, art history departments and artists have joined together to
fight a federal law which makes it illegal to sell depictions of cruelty to
animals, arguing in the Supreme Court that it is unconstitutional
** Absolute power and abject surrender
Your features swim in and out of view, like a vision in smoke, in one of the
eeriest objects (and that's saying something) in this autumn's sensational
blockbuster at the British Museum
** In a Shark's Tooth, a New Family Tree
The idea of a close relationship between great whites and megalodon started
in 1835, when Louis Agassiz, a Swiss palaeontologist and fish expert,
formally named the giant species
** A chicken empathy museum?
An animal rights group wants to rent a prison building the state plans to
close and turn it into the nation's first chicken empathy museum
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** U.S. returns stolen fossils to China
Customs officials had seized the fossils, taken without permission from
China, and asked researchers at Chicago's Field Museum and the Virginia
Museum of Natural History to evaluate them
** Ghosts in the Museum
The Cleveland Museum of Art has gone to court for permission to draw up to
$75 million over 10 years from the interest paid out on two endowment funds
and two outside, restricted trusts for acquisitions
** Ex-museum director to surrender in theft of artefacts
The former director of Long Island University's Hillwood Museum is expected
to surrender Wednesday morning on charges he stole nine ancient Egyptian
artefacts from the collection and offered them for sale through Christie's
auction house
** Last letter of Mary Queen of Scots appears briefly
At 2 a.m. on a frigid February morning in 1587, Mary Queen of Scots sat at
her table and penned a last letter before her execution in the great hall of
Fotheringhay Castle in the English midlands
** A swag bag of Warhol
There was no shoot-out or dramatic getaway, broken windows or forced doors:
not so much as a motion sensor was disturbed when thieves entered a Los
Angeles mansion and stole a series of Andy Warhol prints depicting famous
sports stars including Muhammad Ali, Chris Evert and Pelé
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** Afghan 'Indiana Jones' hunts lost Bamiyan statue
Dr Tarzi, who has been mapping the landscape of Bamiyan for 40 years, is
renowned world-wide for his knowledge of the Buddhist civilisation that
flourished centuries ago in the central highlands of Afghanistan
** Da Vinci's entire Atlantic Codex on public display, first time ever
The entirety of Leonardo da Vinci's 1,119-page Atlantic Codex is going on
public display for the first time, in a series of 24 exhibits spanning six
years
** CIA, Atomic Testing Museum to discuss Groom Lake secrets
The men and women who laboured for years under a strict blanket of secrecy
will finally be able to bring their stories to the public
** Senator's death in duel prefaced Civil War carnage
Nearly two years before the first shots were fired in the Civil War,
simmering hostilities over slavery erupted on a "field of honour" in
California, where a pro-slavery judge mortally wounded an anti-slavery
senator in a duel
** Humans Were Using Flax Fibres 34,000 Years Ago
Archaeologists looking for signs of what the ancient climate was like in the
Caucasus Mountains have come across something else: signs of ancient craft
work
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** Banjo legend makes stop for opening of the American Banjo Museum
Examples include replicas of primitive banjos developed by African slaves in
the Old South, Minstrel Age instruments from 19th century, post WWII
instruments used in bluegrass, folk and world music, and museum's core
collection of ornately decorated banjos made in America during the Jazz Age
of the 1920's and 30s
** Record-sized tusks shifts focus to palaeontology in Greece
When Athanasios Delivos first found fossils where his cattle were grazing
near the tiny village of Milia in northern Greece years ago, he never
imagined they would lead to the startling discovery of two massive
prehistoric tusks - the largest ever found
** New York's Sept 11 museum to display hijacker perspective
A museum dedicated to the September 11 attacks will display written
quotations drawn from "martyrdom" videos made by the hijackers, along with
witness testimonials that will be screened to prevent sympathizers from
praising the perpetrators
** Extinct New Zealand eagle may have eaten humans
Sophisticated computer scans of fossils have helped solve a mystery over the
nature of a giant, ancient raptor known as the Haast's eagle which became
extinct about 500 years ago
** Henny Penny. is the Sky is Falling!?
The Maryland Association of History Museums
** Profit and Ambition: Canada's epic fur-trade story
The Canadian Museum of Civilization presents an epic story of fortune,
endurance and adventure on Canada's path to expansion and development
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