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** Restoring paintings is one job; knowing the artist's intent is another
Mention the words "art conservator" and the image that comes to mind is
someone hunched over a venerated old-master landscape, painstakingly filling
in sections of paint lost over the centuries
** Singapore's new maritime museum opens
A 360-degree multimedia theatre called the Typhoon Theatre is available,
with visitors given the opportunity to "board" an Arabian-bound ship that
encounters a storm
** Arctic Convoys, 1941-1945
A new photographic exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich
looks at the grim task faced by the crews of the Arctic convoys in the
Second World War
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** Computer Scientist Cracks Mysterious 'Copiale Cipher'
The mysterious cryptogram, bound in gold and green brocade paper, reveals
the rituals and political leanings of an 18th-century secret society in
Germany
** Occupy Museums to protest at art exhibits in New York
No longer will we, the artists of the 99%, allow ourselves to be tricked
into accepting a corrupt hierarchical system based on false scarcity and
propaganda concerning absurd elevation of one individual genius over another
human being for the monetary gain of the elitest of elite
** Rare Moss Collection Donated to Canadian Museum of Nature
The Canadian Museum of Nature has received a donation of more than 1,500
plant specimens that includes rare and endangered species of mosses
** What colour should gallery walls be?
Presumably this is supposed to recreate the original appearance of the
house, but I find it incredibly distracting to look at a Fragonard painting
against a background of brilliant, shiny, blue
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** Liverpool museum to open more galleries
The £72m Museum of Liverpool, which opened in July, has revealed that it
will open its new ground floor Great Port area and a first floor boasting
three more galleries on 2 December
** Strike hits opening of revamped Orsay museum
Strike action at Paris' Orsay Museum on Thursday delayed the unveiling of
its new impressionist gallery, which was set to reopen to the public
following a two-year, multi-million-euro revamp
** New beetle species discovered in Palawan
Dr. Henrick Freitag and and Dr. Michael Balke of the Senckenberg Museum of
Zoology Dresden and the Bavarian State Collections of Zoology in Munich
described the new species of the Spider Water Beetles (Ancyronyx) as having
"extremely long legs, often accompanied by an eye-catching cross-like
elytral color pattern, reminding them of spiders."
** Viking burial site discovered in Scotland
Archaeologists say they have discovered the remains of a Viking chief buried
with his boat, ax, sword and spear on a remote Scottish peninsula one of the
most significant Norse finds ever uncovered in Britain
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** Gallery reveals treasure trove of early Frances Hodgkins paintings
From Monday 5 November, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki will exhibit never
before seen paintings by one of New Zealand's best-loved expatriates,
modernist artist Frances Hodgkins
** Kevorkian's Estate And Museum Feud Over Artwork
The Massachusetts-based Armenian Library and Museum of America is refusing
to surrender 17 paintings by assisted-suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian
** "The Sensorium": A Journey into Scent
The world's first pop-up scent museum "The Sensorium: Lucid Dreams from the
Sensory World", is an interactive, multimedia experience designed to explore
the emotions and instincts behind scent
** Computers Piece Together Scattered Medieval Scrolls
It's like something out of "The Da Vinci Code": hundreds of thousands of
fragments from medieval religious scrolls are scattered across the globe
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** Las Vegas Mobster Museum Files for Bankruptcy
The dwindling attraction built within the Tropicana Las Vegas resort along
the infamous casino strip filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday
after its sexiest exhibit - interactive audio visual technology that put
visitors face-to-face with notorious gangsters - were seized for nonpayment
several weeks ago
** This Week's Horoscopes
Capricorn - Look, just because someone puts a diving board somewhere doesn't
mean you have to jump off it in order to fulfill the social contract
** Nazi Death Camp Art On Show At Auschwitz Museum
Photos of 20 drawings and other artifacts clandestinely made by inmates at
Nazi death camps during World War II are on show at the Auschwitz museum and
are to travel next to the United States
** Museum to tell tales of forgotten war horses
Joey the horse, Jimson the mule and other forgotten four-legged war heroes
are to be remembered in the first exhibition to focus on war horses in
British military history at the National Army Museum in London
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** Restored Citadel is Symbol of Hope in Afghanistan
While there was mention of the recent attacks, several officials at the
ceremony were warning of another threat: Uncontrolled development that is
endangering other historical sites in the city along the famous Silk Road
that linked Europe and Asia in ancient times
** Ursula, museum's oldest bear, dies
When animals die, staff members usually keep some small, tangible memento -
whiskers, hair or even shed snake skin and we have our bag of fur from
Ursula
** Universal Design in Museums, Archives and Historic Sites
Call for Presentations
** Viennese Actionism
Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow
** 5 Dutch Days
5 Dutch Days is a five-day cultural event that takes place in New York City
every November. 5 Dutch Days celebrates the continuous influence of Dutch
arts and culture in New York City and brings together arts and cultural
organizations from across the city.
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