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week's edition include:
** How Caravaggio saw in the dark
The Italian master was a scoundrel and a killer, but did he also use a
machine to help him 'cheat’ as he created his paintings?
** Allure of the Pacific Mona Lisa
It is thought the crew would have known this was Cook's last journey to the
Pacific - it took place between 1776 and 1780 - and so a final opportunity
to escape to a paradise of warm weather, abundant food, available sex and
freedom from the restrictive class structure of home
** Poppy the Trolley Dolly
Whatever way you slice it, Auckland’s stories can be told through food:
from the extraordinary wealth of people and cultures, to its fertile
abundance of land, sun and sea
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** New Museum Tells Krakow's Stories of World War II
A guide wearing acid-green sunglasses led us in the footsteps of both
Schindler and Mr. Spielberg, on a route that mixed celluloid and reality,
Hollywood and the Holocaust
** Dummies Go to the Smithsonian
Washington's Smithsonian National Museum of American History has acquired
the costumes and assorted body parts of the dummies Vince and Larry that
were used as part of the road-safety TV campaign through the 1980s and
1990s
** Virginia museum's bust of Stalin is an atrocity by any name
Officials at the Bedford memorial respond to the controversy with typical
museum-speak about their "educational mission" to examine "global contexts
and consequences" while being a "catalyst for serious discourse."
** 30 nights at the museum
The Museum of Science and Industry is looking for someone to spend a month
at the museum - a living experiment, where the winner of a contest will
spend 30 days at the museum this fall
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** New Species Changes Idea on When Humans, Monkeys Split
Our lineage might have diverged from our monkey relatives later than
previously thought, a new primate fossil from Saudi Arabia now suggests
** Tycoon Ivanov Vies Faberge, Boosts $2 Billion Museum Collection
While it doesn’t have its own space (the Baden Baden museum is part of the
Russian National Museum; it displays part of that collection), selected
items have been shown at exhibitions in Russia and abroad
** Pamplona bull running museum to feature virtual adrenaline
Spain's Pamplona is to open a museum dedicated to the city's San Fermin
festival where visitors can experience virtually being chased down cobbled
streets by a pack of thundering bulls
** A Closer Look at the Art, Until ‘Beep!’
The Cloisters, in Fort Tryon Park, at the northern tip of Manhattan, may
resemble a somber medieval monastery, but the beeping security devices that
constantly warn people to keep their distance from major - and often
spellbinding - works surely help bring visitors back to reality
** German museum finds rare Kirchner in cellar
A German museum has discovered what it believes to be a previously unknown
work by German Expressionist artist Ludwig Kirchner that languished in its
cellar for decades
** J. Edgar Hoover trove for new museum
The donation includes the papers of longtime FBI spy Morris Childs who
infiltrated the U.S. Communist Party from the end of World War II to 1980
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** Clues of Britain’s First Humans
The last time the British Museum claimed that the earliest known human was
British, some 98 years ago, its evidence was the Piltdown skull, which the
British archaeological establishment did not concede was a forgery until
1953
** Getty Museum Buys Turner for $45 Million
The sale represents a coup for the Getty, whose Turner holdings currently
consist of an 1844 choppy seascape, "Van Tromp, Going About to Please His
Masters," and a pair of watercolors
** Art Trial Reveals Clash of Russian Cultures
Two prominent intellectuals, facing a verdict of up to three years’
imprisonment over a museum exhibition in 2007, issued dire warnings on
Thursday that Russia was starting to resemble Nazi Germany, contemporary
Iran and the Soviet Union in the harshness of its growing nationalism,
dominance of the Russian Orthodox church and fear of modern art
** Amateur unearths 52,000 Roman coins worth $1m
An amateur treasure hunter armed with a metal detector has found over
52,000 Roman coins worth $1 million buried in field, one of the largest
ever such finds in the UK, said the British Museum
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** Roy Rogers' stuffed Trigger sells for $266,500
Rogers had Trigger preserved with taxidermy and mounted rearing on its hind
legs in 1965
** Museum's Lennon works may be forgeries
A Waukesha man who lent his private collection of John Lennon drawings and
memorabilia for an exhibit at a local museum in 2008 now fears the works
were forgeries, and has sued the Hawaiian dealer that sold him some of the
items
** Opulent and Elegant, Dresses as Art
From a breezy American summer frock of purple-striped cotton, made in the
1890s, to a lustrous 1908 Parisian dinner gown encrusted with lace,
sequins, velvet, beading and chunky embroidery, the garments in “The
Dressmaker’s Art: Highlights From the Bruce Museum’s Costume Collection”
reward the same intense scrutiny we give other masterpieces
** A Space Odyssey: Storage Strategies For Cultural Collections
Register Now for Storage Strategies for Cultural Collections coming to St.
Paul, MN!
** EarthScope workshop
Applications are being accepted for an EarthScope workshop for interpretive
rangers and museum educators in the Yellowstone - Snake River Plain - Teton
region. The workshop will be held September 9-12, 2010 at the Teton
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