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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** After an Age of Rage, Museums Have Mastered the Display of Commotional
Restraint
At the height of the Brooklyn Museum's "Sensation" scandal in 1999, Arnold
Lehman wore a bulletproof vest
** Where Art and Palaeontology Intersect, Fossils Become Faces
If you find yourself face to face in a museum with Homo habilis,
Australopithecus afarensis or Paranthropus boisei, you may be looking at his
work
** Vikings in Nunavut?
One of Canada's top Arctic archaeologists says the remnants of a
stone-and-sod wall unearthed on southern Baffin Island may be traces of a
shelter built more than 700 years ago by Norse seafarers - a stunning find
that would be just the second location in the New World with evidence of a
Viking-built structure
** American art gets a higher profile in U.S. museums
They suggest at least three forces: a national coming of age, a thirst for
new artistic territory and a critical mass of American material that has
made its way from private homes to public museums
** Witch bottle is uncorked to discover spellbinding content
Take a small heart-shaped piece of leather, a handful of iron nails, eight
brass pins, a lock of hair, some nail clippings, a pinch of navel fluff and
place them in a bottle
** Rajasthan's erotic garden paintings
The gardens of Marwar come to London this summer with the British Museum's
exhibition Gardens and Cosmos - 56 works from the royal court at Jodhpur
never before been seen in Europe
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** Munich's Brandhorst Museum is eye-catching inside and out
The eye-catching building, near the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich's
museum complex, shimmers with colour on the outside, while the inside
functions on the white cube principle, with well-filtered light and space in
abundance, no décor to distract and plain yet imposing oak floors and
staircases
** The U.S.S. Enterprise, in Strange New World of Museum
You might, in other words, start to mistake this as an exhibition of real
objects, even though on some the labels read not "prop" but "replica of a
prop."
** Cat domestication first took place in Cyprus 9,500 years ago
The discovery comes from Cyprus, where 9,500 years ago an adult human of
unknown gender was buried along with an eight-month-old cat, whose body was
oriented in the same direction as the human's - a sure sign of closeness
between the two
** How to preserve the future of museums
Questions around who 'owns' such objects, where they should be and what
meanings we draw from them are at the heart of a debate currently raging
amongst archaeologists, museum professionals, nation states and various
claimant groups
** Five things you might not have known about the samurai
While we usually associate the samurai with a distinctly Japanese aesthetic,
the samurai loved exotic items, not just from elsewhere in East Asia but
from distant locations in South and Southeast Asia as well
** Ex-payroll manager at Brooklyn Museum busted in $600G scam
The Brooklyn Museum's former payroll manager was busted Thursday for
stealing more than $600,000 by issuing bogus paychecks that he funnelled
into his own pocket
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** New Beatles museum opens in Hamburg
A new museum dedicated to the Beatles has opened in Hamburg, 49 years since
the band, at that time a five-piece with no Ringo Starr, first played in a
run-down strip club in the German city
** Crime and Picasso: The Shadowy Underworld of Art
Art theft has become one of the world's most lucrative illegal activities,
an estimated $6 billion black market business, with more than 50,000 heists
occurring each year
** This Week's Horoscopes
Libra - Sep 23 to Oct 23. A bizarre chain of existential mishaps will result
in your third viewing of the hit romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle this
week
** Ants get their place in Smithsonian exhibit
The Natural History museum is also home to the National Collection of Ants,
a reference collection launched in 1881 and now containing more than 1
million specimens representing more than 5,000 ant species
** Museum teaches Mexican youths economics
As Mexico struggles in the worldwide economic slump, officials are using a
flashy museum to educate young Mexicans about fiscal responsibility and keep
the country from slipping back into the boom-and-bust cycle that haunted it
for decades
** We talked of eggs and bacon till it drove us mad
The two men, who had very different experiences as prisoners of war, both
helped the Imperial War Museum North, in Manchester, to compile its
exhibition Captured: The Extraordinary Life of Prisoners of War
** Identity of Tank Man of Tiananmen Square remains a mystery
One anonymous writer, identifying himself only as a Hong Kong academic,
produced a detailed article saying that the man was an archaeologist who
eventually found safety in Taiwan, where he worked for the National Palace
Museum and had chosen to live in secrecy
** Shrine built for pipe dreamer
As of this week, the 20th century surrealist who famously painted a pipe
with the comment "this is not a pipe" finally has his own temple, in the
heart of his home city of Brussels
** Preserving Photographs in a Digital World
Seminar, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
** Sonic Museum - On now
Auckland Museum has joined forces with some of the biggest names in New
Zealand music
** Cecil Beaton: Portraits
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 26 June - 31 August 2009
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