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week's edition include:
** Mrs. Lincoln, I Presume? Well, as It Turns Out...
In reality, the painting depicts an unknown woman and was created by an
anonymous 19th-century artist, said Barry Bauman, the independent
conservator who uncovered the fraud
** History museum might want your old underwear
The museum is planning a major exhibit on the evolution of women's underwear
and needs the public's help to round out its collection of old-fashioned and
modern unmentionables
** 'Gone with the Wind' artifacts feared lost after Museum storage building
burns
Museum officials are waiting to see whether memorabilia from the classic
film "Gone with the Wind" was ruined when a fire heavily damaged the
facility near Atlanta where it was stored
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** Woodrats: How the Desert's Smallest Librarians Contributed to Scientific
Discovery
With each midden surveyed, paleontologists get another chunk of extremely
detailed data on the ecological history of the surrounding fifth of an acre
** German soldiers preserved in World War I shelter discovered after nearly
100 years
As well as the bodies, poignant personal effects such as boots, helmets,
weapons, wine bottles, spectacles, wallets, pipes, cigarette cases and
pocket books were also found
** Sit. Stay. Good Art
With the opening on Monday of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in its
136th year it seemed to be a perfect time - in the no-bones spirit of Mr.
Hockney - to give New York City a good look as a dog-art town
** Warhol's work with cars on display at museum
A 1972 BMW M1 painted with chunks of red, green and blue sits in the middle
of the lobby of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh; to the right is the
floor-to-ceiling window that had to be uninstalled in order to bring inside
the car, which came from Munich, Germany
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** Darwin's Papers Show the Evolution of His Ideas
Just in time for Charles Darwin's 203rd birthday, the American Museum of
Natural History is unveiling the first phase of its online Darwin
Manuscripts Project, a collection of more than 15,000 digitized manuscript
pages and thousands of other documents drawn from Cambridge University
Library, the Biodiversity Heritage Library and other institutions around the
world
** Pablo Picasso and his influence on British art
If denigration is deemed necessary, it should perhaps be handed out to the
timid officials of public collections, particularly, of course, the Tate
Gallery which emerges with little credit in the British acknowledgement of
Picasso
** Tour guide at St. Louis County museum accused of stealing Civil War-era
coins
The coins - a silver dollar and five gold coins dating from between 1849 and
1862 - vanished from four glass display cases, probably just before the
museum's 5 p.m. closing time, authorities said
** Dickens 2012: On the Trail of Charles Dickens
In case you hadn't noticed, Britain's most famous British novelist
celebrates his 200th birthday in 2012; Dickens 2012 is an international
celebration of his life and legacy
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** Cotton Global Threads
Although must of us put cotton against our skin almost everyday, in the form
of socks and T-shirts, the story of cotton is far from everyday, which is
why it has been turned into an extensive exhibition at the Whitworth Art
Gallery, Manchester
** Science Museum shows Chilean miners' rescue capsule
The capsule used to rescue Chilean miners trapped underground for two months
goes on display at the Science Museum in London - the first time it has been
seen in Europe
** Faith Fashion Fusion
Over the past year staff at the Powerhouse Museum have been developing
content for the exhibition Faith, Fashion, Fusion: Muslim women's style in
Australia opening in May this year
** Volunteer transcribers put pages of human culture and history online
People donate their free time to reading and typing up everything from
historical bird-spotting cards to turn-of-the-century menus from New York
City restaurants to every public-domain book in the world
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** Maldives mob smashes Buddhist statues in national museum
Police said Wednesday a mob had stormed the Maldives national museum and
smashed Buddhist statues, an act of vandalism which former president Mohamed
Nasheed blamed on Islamic radicals
** Met Aims to Build Itself a Museum-Quality Plaza
More than 40 years after its last makeover, the plaza in front of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art is showing its age: the fountains are leaking,
the sidewalk is crumbling, and the trees are dying
** Central museum exhibit shows evolution of the dog sled
Toboggans, used by Indians throughout the boreal forest stretching across
the northern regions of North America, were ideally suited for winter travel
through deep powder snow
** Museums snub 'threat' to behind scenes work
Sheffield tourism ambassador and natural history expert Professor Ian
Rotherham has told of the 'hidden damage' he believes will result to the
city's museums after losing a major funding bid to the Arts Council
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** Man Pleads Guilty In Theft Of 4,000+ Historical Documents
A New York City man accused of stealing historical documents from museums
throughout the Northeast pleaded guilty in Baltimore Tuesday to conspiracy
and theft charges
** Preservation of Plastics
This long-term project from the the Getty Conservation Institute aims to
rapidly gather information on the properties of a wide range of plastics in
order for conservators to understand why certain plastics are more unstable
than others and to establish protocols that will slow down this process
** Flint Mining Settlement - Field School
Carpathian Ancient Resource and Technology Project
** The Fleeting Structures of Early Modern Europe
The National Gallery of Art, Washington
** The Emerging Arts Leaders Symposium
The 2012 EALS committee is excited to invite you to The Emerging Arts
Leaders Symposium at the American University in Washington, DC on Sunday,
April 15, 2012.
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