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week's edition include:
** 'Lethal Beauty' at the Currier Museum
What other warrior class ever carried a gunpowder flask shaped like a pear,
let alone made from (among other materials) hawk eggshell, lacquer, ivory,
and silver?
** National Gallery of Australia examines traditional indigenous art of
Vanuatu
The practice of kastom is at the heart of all cultural values and practices
in Vanuatu - it is a way of thought and expression; it is a spiritual
connection to ancestors and to land
** Extinction: Not the end of the World? asks Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum is attempting pick the bones out of this
dichotomy by going "beyond the dodos and the dinosaurs", looking at how
extinction has been a force for change, life and diversity on planet earth
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** World of life's jewelled beauty in new museum shrine
You might think that a museum adding 2000 new exhibits would need to build a
whole new wing but the new Micrarium gallery was converted from an office,
creating a space just big enough to hold one or two visitors at a time
** On Pins and Needles: Stylist Turns Ancient Hairdo Debate on Its Head
Her amateur scholarship is sticking a pin in the long-held assumptions among
historians about the complicated, gravity-defying styles of ancient times
** Picasso's Genius Revealed: He Used Common House Paint
X-ray analysis of some of the painter's masterworks solves a long-standing
mystery about the type of paint the artist used on his canvases, revealing
it to be basic house paint
** Belgrade 'Museum Of Violence' Shows Serbia's Ugly Side
An exhibition at the Belgrade Cultural Center's Podrum Gallery this month
uses X-rays, medical reports, and personal testimonies to document the role
of violence in Serbian society
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** 'Redskins' deemed racial slur at Washington museum
Hurtful names and racial stereotypes of all types were discussed and
dissected Thursday in a daylong symposium at the Smithsonian, and the
Washington Redskins were at the top of the list for nearly all those who
spoke
** Art collector says he found head from Courbet's explicit nude
A French art collector claims to have found the head from the nude body that
appears in a famously explicit 19th Century oil painting of a woman's
genitalia
** Delacroix Liberty painting defaced in Louvre
French police have detained a woman accused of defacing an iconic Delacroix
painting, Liberty Leading The People, at a branch of the Louvre Museum
** Man who lost finger at Perot Museum Sports Hall plans to sue
The man said he was at the Sports Hall exhibit called "Jump" where patrons
can test their vertical leap compared to athletes by jumping and pushing a
button
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** South Asia's flagship art fair bursts out of its basement venue
There were two grand hopes for Singapore's flagship art fair when it first
launched - that it would become a central meeting point for the nouveau
riche in South Asia's mushrooming art market, and that it would provide the
nation's own emerging art scene with an exhibiting platform
** Stolen Matisse painting to be returned to Venezuela museum
It was discovered to be missing in 2002 after Venezuelan collector Genaro
Ambrosino sent an email to various people expressing surprise and outrage
that the work had been put up for sale in Miami
** Museum manager suspended for claiming town had been offered Margaret
Thatcher statue
Ms Robb, who was appointed to the job in September, has been suspended today
from her position due to an 'erroneous' claim that the statue has been
offered to Grantham Museum
** Museum garden replaced Ghasr prison inaugurated in Tehran
A museum garden which replaced Ghasr Prison in Tehran, the first prison in
Iran in which the prisoners got their legal rights, was inaugurated on
Sunday 4 November - video
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** What's the biggest problem with women artists? None of them can actually
paint
Germany's Georg Baselitz has dismissed centuries of female artists at a
stroke - from Artemisia Gentileschi and Frida Kahlo to Bridget Riley and
Paula Rego - in his claim that women lack the basic character to become
great painters
** Earliest placental mammal ancestor pinpointed
The creature that gave rise to all the placental mammals - a huge group that
includes whales, elephants, dogs, bats and us - has at last been pinpointed
** Is a son of Richard III buried in Eastwell in Kent?
His son is believed to have ended up at Eastwell as an elderly man, and
worked for Sir Thomas Moyle, the lord of the manor, as a gardener and
bricklayer
** This Weeks Horoscopes
Aries - You're beginning to wonder exactly who is in charge of quality
control for all those treasure maps
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** Your Paintings: artworks to be projected on UK landmarks
Buildings around the UK are to have art projected upon them later to
celebrate the completion of a website showing the national collection of oil
paintings
** Half-million-year-old human jawbone found in Serbian cave
The jawbone, which may have come from an ancient Homo erectus or a
primitive-looking Neanderthal precursor, is more than 397,000 years old, and
possibly more than 525,000 years old
** Out Of The Ordinary: Preserving Paper-Based Ephemera
Providence, RI - Save the date! May 2, 2013
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** Louvre Abu Dhabi Exhibition, Birth of a Museum
The second exhibition showcasing a selection of the museum's collection
acquired to date
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