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week's edition include:
** Brooklyn Museum’s Populism Hasn’t Lured Crowds
The Brooklyn Museum has long faced criticism that its populist tack and
exhibitions on topics like the “Star Wars” movies and hip-hop music have
diminished its stature
** Exhibit Photoshops Churchill's cigar: PC gone too far?
A comparison of the image with the unretouched photo leaves little doubt
that someone deemed it prudent to deprive the the great English statesman
and military leader of his much-beloved smoke
** North Texas History Center sues over documents damaged at storage
facility
Thousands of irreplaceable documents and artifacts from the North Texas
History Center in McKinney suffered water damage at two self-storage units
it was leasing, according to a lawsuit filed by the museum
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** David Hockney drawn to hi-tech
The photographs that go on display to the public this week are so large
that an iPad would be unable to cope, but Hockney believes that the new
Apple touchscreen computer will have a transformative effect on art
** A core sample of grand Europe
Along with his art and his splendid house, Staedel left one million
guilders to Frankfurt and its citizens
** Guggenheim and YouTube Seek Budding Video Artists
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and YouTube are aiming to
short-circuit that exclusionary art-world system, at least briefly, in much
the same way that other hierarchical systems have been blown apart in the
Internet age
** Leonardo da Vinci – Paleontology Pioneer
In a new paper in the journal Palaios, Andrea Baucon shows that he was a
pioneer in the study of both “body fossils,” or the remains of once-living
organisms, and of “trace fossils,” such as the footprints, burrows and
coprolites organisms left behind
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** Harvard museum gets its hooks into visitors
The Harvard Museum of Natural History’s latest exhibit gives new meaning to
the word “horny”
** The woman who captured Robert Capa's heart
For decades, their relationship has been a well-kept secret: but now the
story of Robert Capa, whose images of the Spanish Civil and Vietnam wars
made him one of the greatest photographers of all time and his teenage
sweetheart, Kati Horna, can be told
** Skull of 6th Iranian saltman found
The fourth phase of the Chehrabad archeological excavations has led to
discovery of the skull of Iran's sixth saltman two years after a snowstorm
hit its resting place
** Museum shark helps investigate smell
A drop of blood a kilometre away is no problem for a shark’s sense of smell
and this skill could prove useful to scientists in other areas where
detecting chemicals is important, such as underwater exploration,
environmental pollution such as gas leaks from underwater pipelines, or
even counter terrorism
** Giza pyramids has Ayrshire museum in stitches
It's not all about BC items as a set of three jaunty, mini knitted Giza
pyramids were recently left on the steps of the Dick (no doubt inspired by
the display)
** Curators need to become truly global
Part of the problem is that the UK’s public resources—notably the Heritage
Lottery Fund—are still devoted almost entirely to buying “heritage” art:
little is available for buying contemporary work of any kind
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** The Comedian as Politician, and Often Vice Versa
Hope’s quips about politics as a variety of show business and political
speeches as a form of fertilizer have almost lost the gentle edge they once
had
** This Week's Horoscopes
Leo - Despite the offer of a brand new car, an all-expense-paid trip to
Greece, and a four-piece living room set, you'll once again go for the box
with the question mark on it
** Henry Ford Museum honors auto racing pioneers
The Henry Ford showcased plans for a new initiative called Racing in
America with hopes of raising $15 million to house a 22,000-square foot
exhibition dedicated to telling the story of American auto racing
** Initial stages of new Egyptian museum completed
The main achievement so far is the construction of the new conservation
centre to restore damaged antiquities and already 122 conservators are
restoring and preparing 6800 artefacts that will one day be showcased in
the Grand Museum
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** Galileo's fingers in Florence museum
Two of Galileo's fingers, removed from his corpse by admirers in the 18th
century, have gone on display in a Florence museum now named after the
astronomer
** Mystery solved as Italian masterpiece is unveiled
During his long career as one of Victorian England's most acquisitive
gentleman explorers, William Bankes rightly gained a reputation for
spotting a good bargain
** This Shoe Had Prada Beat by 5,500 Years
Perfectly preserved under layers of sheep dung (who needs cedar closets?),
the shoe, made of cowhide and tanned with oil from a plant or vegetable, is
about 5,500 years old, older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids
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** Canadian War Museum acquires historic Victoria Crosses
The Canadian War Museum is pleased to announce the acquisition of two
Victoria Cross medal sets of outstanding significance to Canada’s military
history and to the Museum’s own collections. One was awarded during the
First World War to Lionel B. (“Leo”) Clarke, a Canadian soldier who
single-handedly defeated a force of about 20 attackers while armed only
with a pistol
** The Smithsonian and Synchrotron Soleil Join to Analyze Antiquities,
Cultural Heritage Materials
The Smithsonian Institution and Synchrotron Soleil of France announced a
new partnership between the organizations to use the power of the
third-generation synchrotron to study and preserve priceless collections at
the Smithsonian
** Collaboration: Building Bridges in the 21st Century
Call for Proposals: Papers, Sessions, and Workshops
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