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week's edition include:
** China's Reluctant Emperor
For nearly three decades of his 48-year reign (1572-1620), Wan Li refused to
read petitions and memorandums sent to him, replace officials who retired or
died or even attend his own morning audiences
** Where Every Second Counts
Why is this museum - the largest such institution in the country, with an
entrance evoking the Acropolis, and 12,000 clocks, watches, timepieces and
timekeepers displayed in 18,000 square feet - in a small town not far from
Lancaster, Pa., in the midst of Pennsylvania Dutch farm country?
** Seeing was believing
The sense of oddness is often compounded by the naive style of early amateur
artists and even sometimes by unforeseen semantic shifts; thus an emu is
labelled on an anonymous print of 1792, "A non descript Bird found at Botany
Bay", where the author means to say that it has not been previously
described, adding that the print is "from a drawing made on the spot", the
first of many such assurances, designed to forestall the reader's
incredulity
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** Oakland museum cancels exhibition created by Palestinian children
The decision to cancel the show, reached at a museum board meeting just two
weeks before the exhibition's opening, has left organizers stunned
** China warns museums after series of embarrassing thefts
China has ordered its museums to tighten security after a series of
embarrassing thefts, including at Beijing's Palace Museum, and will
temporarily shut those which don't meet standards, state media has reported
** Secrets of WTC Shipwreck Sleuthed Out
Unraveling the mystery surrounding the shipwreck found last year during
excavations of the World Trade Center site has resulted in several facts as
well as theories
** The English Renaissance: the rebirth of refinement
The scale of English Renaissance buildings remains human and intimate,
despite the sometimes colossal pretensions of the magnates who built them
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** Glittering gallery throws open doors
The biggest drawcards are 15 works by the likes of Picasso, Matisse,
Mondrian, Dali and Cezanne being donated by American philanthropist Julian
Robertson and his late wife Josie and flown out this week in the
billionaire's private jet from New York to go on show until October 31
** Prehistoric clay disks found in northwestern Alaska
The disks were found during a summer expedition in Noatak National Preserve,
at a site where archeologists have for decades been studying lakefront pit
dwellings that date back 1,000 year
** Pro-Palestinian Agitators Shut Down D.C. Museum Ceremony
The seemingly innocuous August 18, 2011 announcement of the engineering
award brought a storm of threats of public protest and other disruption that
the architecture-based museum staff found overwhelming, according to museum
sources
** Battleship Iowa to be Los Angeles museum
The Iowa has been laid up in the so-called Ghost Fleet in Suisun Bay for 10
years while a local nonprofit group negotiated with the Navy to berth the
ship as a museum and memorial in Northern California
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** Closest Human Ancestor May Rewrite Steps in Our Evolution
A startling mix of human and primitive traits found in the brains, hips,
feet and hands of an extinct species identified last year make a strong case
for it being the immediate ancestor to the human lineage, scientists have
announced
** Christchurch Art Gallery receives a bodacious post-quake care package
They wanted to contribute something big and joyous to our post-quake
reopening celebrations early next year, and they sure have
** Maori food on menu at museum festival
Hangi, raw fish, fermented corn and raupoo cakes will be among the dishes on
offer when the Kai Festival is held at Waikato Museum on Saturday, 17
September
** Cup Noodles Museum Opens In Yokohama
One momentous event in 1971 led to the construction of not one, but two,
museums: the invention of Cup Noodles (known as Cup O' Noodles in the US
until 1993) by Taiwanese-Japanese businessman Momofuku Ando
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** Borrowed Italian painting in US: ownership dispute
A Florida museum said it has been ordered to temporarily hang onto a
borrowed 16th Century Italian painting of Christ holding the cross, as U.S.
and Italian authorities seek to resolve questions of ownership amid claims
the work had been stolen from a Jewish family in World War II
** Boxing museum in the works for Myrtle Beach
Former heavyweight champion James "Bonecrusher" Smith wants to add boxing
legends and enthusiasts to the groups that already make Myrtle Beach a
destination
** Curators make hard choices at New York 9/11 museum
Some of the most potentially disturbing exhibits are being set aside from
the main exhibition spaces in special alcoves to allow visitors a chance to
decide whether or not to view it
** Apollo astronaut inspires space center crowd
His is an incredible story, full of fascinating twists and turns, on one
side exhibiting his breathtaking mastery of the skies in his T-38 Talon jet
or Hawker Hunter, and on the other showing him humbled by a case of human
frailty
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** ICOM's Latest Newsletter
British artist and film director Peter Greenaway treated members to an
inspiring presentation entitled The New Visual Literacy
** Social Media Case Study: Brooklyn Museum
Perhaps Brooklyn Museum would be better off focusing on one or two of the
tools and using those selected tools creatively
** Museum Records Management - free consultancies for London museums
The Renaissance London Information and Records Management Project has been
working with the former London Hub museums, and the Museum Development
Officers, to support museums to improve their information and records
management.
** 21st Century Learning in Natural History Settings
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is excited to announce
the 21st Century Learning in Natural History Settings Project.
** Feeding the Spirit: Museums, Food and Community
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museums.
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