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week's edition include:
** $9 million gift to support free admission, online access to collection
The Dallas Museum of Art has announced an anonymous gift of $9 million over
three years to ensure free general admission to the DMA and enable the
Museum to publish its entire collection online
** Concerns around climate change are shaping new Australian art
Yet with the slow disasters of our time, this surge of work reminds us that
contemporary art has a role to play in making sense of the world, and to do
it by reviving the core belief of western art: we must be humble in the face
of nature and recognise its importance to our survival
** Library Exhibition to Celebrate the Beatles' Time in New York
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' first visit to New York,
and the "Ed Sullivan Show" appearances that lit the fuse on Beatlemania in
America, the New York Public Library and the Grammy Museum are collaborating
on a multimedia exhibition, "Ladies and Gentlemen . The Beatles!"
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** King Kong platypus was an ancient bone cruncher
The tooth closely resembles the teeth of other extinct platypuses discovered
in South America and Australia, but wear patterns on the tooth suggest its
owner was more carnivorous
** Exhibit explores what inspires fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier
In a single conversation, seemingly a single breath, he covers the Chrysler
Building; the 1940s film "Falbalas" that started his love affair with
fashion; his beloved grandmother who inspired his fascination with corsetry,
and the Broadway production of "Nine" that reminded him of it
** Exquisite legacy of China's Ming Dynasty to visit Scotland
The iconic blue and white porcelain, sumptuous silk textiles, enamelled
cloisonné and jade and gold of the Ming Dynasty - the empire which ruled
China for nearly 300 years - will make their only appearance in a British
gallery at the National Museum of Scotland next year, following a cultural
agreement between the Scottish and Chinese governments
** Fossil Captures Ancient Insects Having Sex
Fossils of insects copulating - usually trapped in amber - are fairly rare,
with only about 40 found around the world known to date
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** Victoria and Albert exhibition could lend new glamour to Italian fashion
The exhibition will include the Bulgari diamond and emerald jewellery given
by Richard Burton as a wedding present to Elizabeth Taylor; a Mila Schön
gown worn by Lee Radziwill, sister of Jackie Kennedy, at Truman Capote's
1966 ball at the Plaza hotel; and several pieces by Emilio Pucci, whose
label was instrumental in introducing Italian fashion to the American market
** Mini Mammals: Ancient Warming Pared Body Size
A warm snap more than 50 million years ago caused the tiny, adorable
ancestors of modern-day horses to shrink, new research suggests
** Francis Bacon painting auctioned for more than $142 million, breaks
record
Painted in 1969, it is known as one of Bacon's most iconic works, as it
features Lucian Freud at the apex of his relationship with Bacon
** You snooze, but do you really lose? In defence of a cultural nap
Discussing video art, Perry cheekily wagered that the success of Christian
Marclay's The Clock was partly down to the comfy sofas provided for
gallery-goers, instead of the usual austere benches
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** 'Skeletons in the Closet': An Unnatural Look at a Natural History Museum
Photographer Klaus Pichler caught a glimpse of the Vienna Museum of Natural
History's storage rooms through a basement window, and was hooked
** Designer of the Bayeux Tapestry identified
The key to the discovery of the designer lies in scene 17 of the tapestry,
which depicts Duke William and Harold, on campaign against Brittany,
crossing the River Couesnon near the abbey of Mont St. Michel
** A Secret to the Building of the Forbidden City Revealed
Based on historical research and experiments in mechanical engineering, an
international study group has confirmed that Chinese workers in the 16th
century CE used artificially created ice paths lubricated with liquid water
to transport massive stones to the Forbidden City in Beijing
** Nazi art hoard: Allies 'returned some items' to owner
According to the Suddeutsche Zeitung report, Hildebrand Gurlitt lobbied the
Allies for the return of this collection, which had been confiscated in
1945, and at the time was stored at a United States depot in Wiesbaden, in
south-west Germany
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** Holocaust Museum Highlights Myanmar's Rohingya
Just a few blocks from the White House, where Myanmar's president was feted
for working for democracy, another side of his country is now on display at
a more haunting Washington landmark: the plight of its most beleaguered
people, the Rohingya Muslims, depicted in photos projected at night onto the
external walls of the Holocaust Memorial Museum
** Persian silk in Viking burials
After four years of in-depth investigation of the silk trade of the Viking
Age the Associate Professor at the Museum of Cultural History, University of
Oslo has found that the Norwegian Vikings maintained trade connections with
Persia and the Byzantine Empire through a network of traders from a variety
of places and cultures who brought the silk to the Nordic countries
** Assessing a Future From 120 Years Ago
In taking on Chicago's immense, perception-shifting "World's Columbian
Exposition," the Field - one of the nation's most important natural history
museums - also ends up examining itself: Its origins are in the fair it
surveys
** A Silk Road saga - the sarcophagus of Yu Hong
In 1999 a white marble sarcophagus, unlike any previous discovery, was
excavated in Taiyuan, the capital of China's Shanxi province
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Virgo - And to think you laughed when your high-school yearbook named you
Most Likely To Be Responsible For The Extinction Of The Frigate Bird
** A Museum Designed to Be Invisible Until You Look Down
Google Map a route to the Danish National Maritime Museum, and you'll end up
at an address with no visible building; you'll see the monolithic Kronborg
castle, the same castle that was the basis for Shakespeare's Hamlet, but
there's no maritime museum to speak of
** Uncertain future for Darlington's railway museum
The birthplace of the railways could lose its steam heritage museum, after
council bosses revealed it may be forced to close to cut costs
** Building Capacity for Evaluation: Individuals, Institutions, the Field
The 2014 Visitor Studies Association Conference is to be held July 15-19,
2014 in Albuquerque, NM
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Call for auditorium panel speakers - AAMG Annual Conference
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The 7th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage
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