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week's edition include:
** Museum offers help to artists affected by storm
"Many artists lost their studios, tools, artwork and even documentation of
their work," said CAM director Marti Mayo. "Some made a living at jobs that
no longer exist."
** L.A. art museum to sell 42 pieces
In November, the museum, in its largest art culling since 1982, plans to
sell off 42 pieces, including paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, Camille
Pissarro, Alfred Sisley and Max Beckmann
** Albert Einstein the genius and lover revealed
Albert Einstein was the outstanding genius of the 20th century, but he was
also an ordinary man who had many affairs during his two marriages
** Green roof for a green museum
California Academy of Sciences will be a growing concern in more ways than
one
** Maritime & Seafood museum plans to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina
"I never in my life thought I'd see something like this," said Boudreaux,
who started as a deckhand on one of the boats 15 years ago. "There were
boats in the trees, up in the woods."
** Royal approval for new museum
The Duke of Gloucester went on a tour of Yarmouth's Tide and Tide Museum
before opening its new exhibition - The Death of a Hero - focusing on Nelson
and how the nation responded to his death
** Museum's Pigeon Plan Riles Neighbours
Four months ago, the art museum in Golden Gate Park started blasting
recordings of a hawk's distress to roust hundreds of roosting pigeons that
have damaged the museum's copper-covered walls with their droppings
** Museum's closure could affect Dock
Dock managers said they were "disappointed and concerned" when they heard
the museum was likely to close by April for up to four years
** Peaches, pears highlight new High Museum sculpture
The gargantuan fruit, made from reinforced plastic, is part of a pop-art
sculpture by the husband-wife team of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
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** Map thieves in daring raid on British Library
The security of national treasures held in the British Library is under
question after the theft of three maps worth an estimated £70,000
** Stolen Rembrandt painting confiscated
The four men, two Iraqis, a Swede, and a Gambian, were caught red-handed
while showing the painting to people they thought were potential buyers.
** Elf Finger Found In Box Of Keebler Cookies
Pine Meadow resident Ed Swaney made a gruesome discovery, when he opened a
package of E.L. Fudge Sandwich Cookies and found a tiny, golden-fingernailed
appendage believed to be an elfin index finger
** Maritime museum wins Sydney award
The Australian National Maritime Museum has received an award recognising it
as Sydney's best visitor attraction
** New Field addition opening, but you may never see it
There may be nothing sexy about the Collection Resource Centre - even its
name seems as dry as dust - but the CRC has Field employees feeling A-OK
** Tuscan Treasures
Italy's first truffle museum explores a prized - and odoriferous - local
delicacy
** Lonely Garbo's love secret is exposed
Private letters released in Sweden to mark the centenary of the film star's
birth throw a new and tragic light on the tormented life of the pauper girl
from Stockholm who became 'The Face' of Hollywood in the Thirties, made 27
films and spent the last 50 years of her life as a recluse
** Propeller has story to tell
A plane crash more than 70 years ago is responsible for the latest addition
to the South Canterbury Aviation Museum's collection
** Bengal museum to reconstruct excavated Buddhist site
The new gallery will recreate the ancient site of Jagjivanpur with valuable
antiquities recovered from there, which include the remains of a monastery
built by a hitherto unknown Pala king, Mahendrapala
** Theft of rare books, even by scholars, puts libraries on notice
An X-Acto knife glinting on the floor near the seat frequented by one
researcher was so out of place that a guard confronted E. Forbes Smiley III,
demanding to know whether the implement was his
** The Real Heroes of New Orleans
Eyewitness account by UC Davis professor Lyn H. Lofland of the confusion and
heroism in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
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** The third annual AXA Art conference - Rogues Gallery: An Investigation
Into Art Theft
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** Free Disaster Relief Workshop Natchez, Mississippi
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