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week's edition include:
** Haunted museum mask caught on video flinging itself to the floor
It's not the only time the case in the corner of the museum has been the
site of strange occurrences - in 2010, a tiny amulet of Egyptian goddess
Ta-weret twisted itself around backwards inside the locked case, although
the rest of the contents remained undisturbed
** How the power of superstorm Sandy is painted into a nation
Amid scenes of natural devastation, the National Gallery of Art in
Washington reminds us how east coast artists have long been fascinated by
the menace and mysteries of the wild
** Museum program to focus on life in a 14th century village
The goal of the project is to understand the relationship between the Oneota
and local people of the Mississippian cultural tradition who had occupied
the area for several centuries
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** Buried with a stake through a heart: the medieval 'vampire' burial
The discovery of a skeleton found with metal spikes through its shoulders,
heart and ankles, dating from 550-700AD and buried in the ancient minster
town of Southwell, Notts, is detailed in a new report
** China looks to clamp down on forgeries
As reported by Legal Daily, the publication of Committee of China's
Political and Legislative Affairs, Beijing will crack down on what it calls
the "three fakes" in the current art market: fake works, fake sales, and
fake auctions, which have damaged investor value as well as Chinese art's
reputation on the international market
** Silk Road treasures to tour Australia
Rare artefacts from Afghanistan's national museum will tour Australia next
year in the first sign of the government's renewed push to embrace culture
in Asia
** First major Dubuffet review for nearly 50 years
We have also lost the habit of locking up the insane, and Dubuffet would no
doubt be pleased about this; the French painter took inspiration from the
art of marginalised people
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** Still fresco at 500
The ceiling of the chapel, where cardinals meet in secret conclaves to elect
new the pope, includes one of the most famous scenes in the history of art -
the arm of a gentle bearded God reaching out to give life to Adam in the
creation panel
** Lucy's Kind Had Joints Fit for Climbing Trees
Last year the discovery of a foot bone revealed that, more than three
million years ago, the hominid species whose most famous member is known as
Lucy probably walked upright
** Exhibits That Only Researchers Usually See
The samples in the mist are part of more than 32 million biological
specimens and cultural artifacts owned by the museum, only a tiny fraction
of which are seen by the public
** For Dakota Paleontologist, It All Started With a Turtle
Unlike humans and other vertebrates, which have flexible rib cages, turtles
uniquely have an immovable rib cage - fused to, and part of, the shell
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** Peru's "Sistine Chapel" shines again
The World Monuments Fund has worked with regional and national bodies to
return San Pedro Apóstol to its former splendour and draw attention to other
churches on the Andean Baroque route
** Seattle's Living Computer Museum: not just for techies
Visitors of a certain age are also almost guaranteed to see the first
personal computer they ever touched - Radio Shack TRS-80 or an early Apple,
perhaps - but the centerpieces of the collection are the bigger, older,
flashier machines
** Henry VIII's court recreated at Buckingham Palace art exhibition
Among the work on display is a portrait of Sir Thomas More who rose to the
position of Lord Chancellor before his opposition to the king's split with
the Catholic Church led to prison and his eventual execution
** What Place Do Politics Have In The Museum?
The more important questions, though, hover outside the institutions and go
directly to art's role in America at a time when contemporary art feels
increasingly disconnected from the culture at large, even as the art
business and museum world have never been bigger: Should public museums be
places where political argument happens?
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** The Artwork That Infuriated Big Coal
An angry university funder is harder to defy than an angry student group,
especially if the funder is the coal industry and the university is in
Wyoming
** Museum's Treasure! exhibit offers valuable lessons
Because scuba gear is used by divers to recover treasure from sunken Spanish
galleons, the history of the Aqua Lung, invented in 1943 by Jacques Cousteau
and Emile Gagnan, is featured in the exhibit
** Halloween Curator's Choice: A Dark Mirror from the Museum of Witchcraft
During his life, most people had never been quite sure whether Cecil was
involved in magic personally or just ran the museum as a business, but this
was obviously something he'd used himself and provided us with lovely
evidence that he really had been practising magic
** This Week's Horoscopes
Libra - Venus is descending in your sign this week, but you're better off
not knowing exactly what that means
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** Where Creations Faced Destruction
Gallery owners and employees - some calm and philosophical, some too
distraught to speak - spent Wednesday sorting through the artworks that had
been hanging on their walls or were packed in their storage rooms,
separating those that were irrevocably damaged from those that stood a good
chance of being restored
** Was the Rotterdam museum robbery a smash-and-grab or the work of a rogue
Symbolist collector?
Poor Meyer de Haan, the Symbolist hunchback who was to die in obscurity soon
after he painted the work that has just been stolen in Rotterdam
** ROM Researchers Publish New Theory on Origin of Flightless Birds
Two Longstanding Conflicting Views May Both Be Accurate
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** How should we approach the rebuild of Christchurch's Centre from an arts
and culture perspective?
Returning to Christchurch in 2006, after more than thirty years away, I was
continually struck by how overwhelmingly empty the central city was.
** EVA / MINERVA 2012
The 9th Jerusalem Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
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