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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Vandals attack Serrano photo exhibit in Sweden
A grainy video of four masked vandals running through an art gallery in
Sweden, smashing sexually explicit photographs with crowbars and axes to the
strain of thundering death-metal music has been shown of Youtube
** Russia bars "provocative" art from Paris show
Russian authorities have withdrawn several works of modern art from an
exhibition due in France next week for being too "provocative", including
one of two policemen kissing and caressing each other's buttocks
** Brit museum's cracked floor is work of art
A 548-foot-long crack in the floor of England's Tate Modern museum is
actually a work of art representing the gap between Europeans and the rest
of mankind
** Museum of Objects Left on the Sidewalk
One day, somebody had put in this wire coat hanger that somebody had moulded
into the shape of a shark
** More Brits Now Visit Art Galleries than Go To Football Matches
A recent Sharpie report shows the rise of Britain as a creative super power
and identifies the UK's Top 20 creative Towns
** Kipling's bungalow to be made a heritage museum
A century-old wood and stone bungalow nestles in the sprawling campus of the
famed JJ School of Art here, but it has long fallen into disuse, with
pigeons nesting inside
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** Intruders seriously damage a renowned work by Monet at Paris' Orsay
Museum
Intruders, apparently drunk, broke into the Orsay Museum early Sunday,
getting in by a back door, and punched a hole in a renowned work by
Impressionist painter Claude Monet, "Le Pont d'Argenteuil."
** The Museum that saved a city
The city's economic renaissance has been so dramatic since the opening of
the Bilbao Guggenheim in 1997 that the museum has become an icon of what
architecture can do for a city in decline
** France gets new immigration museum as DNA row rages
A new Paris museum celebrating the role of immigration in French history
opened to the public on Wednesday amid a fierce row over plans by President
Nicolas Sarkozy's government to introduce DNA tests for would-be immigrants
** Iran dam sparks row about ancient Persian relic
For 2,500 years, the tomb of Cyrus the Great has stood on the plain at
Pasargadae in southern Iran, a simple but dignified monument to a king
revered as the founder of the mighty Persian empire
** Gauguin retrospective opens in Rome
A massive retrospective of French Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin has
opened in Rome, pulling together 150 of his masterpieces from more than 50
collections around the world
** Australians encouraged to munch moths
Martyn Robinson, a naturalist who works at the Australian Museum in Sydney,
is another dedicated moth muncher, preferring to catch them on his
windowsill, hold them by the wings then pop them in his mouth
** Calls for a Museum of Chocolate
A descendant of the founder of the Fry's chocolate empire wants a Museum of
Chocolate to be built on the site of a Cadbury's factory near Bristol
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** From vases to manuscripts to Qurans, Islamic art on display at Louvre
The highlight is a Louvre show on Iranian art, with dozens of jewel-hued
manuscript pages showing fanciful illustrations of princesses, flowering
trees, horsemen and mythical flying beasts
** Is There a Future for Old-Fashioned Museums?
Are museums in the experience business, forced to reach for ever fancier
gizmos and blockbusters to compete with the sports world and Disney for
family time and money?
** Tiny Hammer Museum fights giant Hammer Museum
The Wall Street Journal reports this morning on a David-and-Goliath battle
between the Hammer Museum in Haines, Alaska, and the Hammer Museum in Los
Angeles
** Before there was email - forwarding jokes through history
We all take for granted the delight of checking our e-mail and finding a
collection of hilarious jokes, forwarded to us by a loved one, a friend or
Suzanne in Accounts Payable
** Scans reveal lost gravestone text
Illegible words on church headstones could be read once more thanks to a
scan technology developed in the US
** London show strips bare 2,500 years of er*tic art
An oversize fig leaf made to spare Queen Victoria's blushes from a glimpse
of the male anatomy greets visitors at an exhibition exploring the line
between art and obscenity
** Masks of China show spectacular face at Immigration Museum
** Digitization Expo - at the Tremont Grand Conference Centre in Baltimore,
MD
** Exhibitions and Case Design: Integrating Preservation in Planning - The
Conservation Centre for Art and Historic Artefacts (CCAHA)
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