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week's edition include:
** Is postmodernism Gaga, Warhol or a wooden toaster?
I'd come along early in the hope of finding a line of ironic overnight
sleepers, a distracted gaggle of the self-aware emerging from kitsch tents
and eating knowing bacon sarnies on uncomfortable-looking deckchairs
fashioned from shopping trolleys
** Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition drawings on show
Pencil sketches depict the moment the explorer and his team discovered
Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen had beaten them to the South Pole
** Hidden Goya portrait discovered
A hidden portrait by Goya has been discovered under one of the artist's
paintings at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
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** Days of waves and hedonism
Surf City, an exhibition at the Museum of Sydney, opened by former world
champion Layne Beachley, is the first show to focus on one city's
contribution to the growing culture, as seen through the eyes of the wide
variety of surfers at the time
** Call for Dutch Royal House to ditch allegedly offensive painting
"Homage of the Colonies" decorates one side of Queen Beatrix's iconic
gold-trimmed carriage, and depicts half-naked, brown-skinned women and men
in servile poses bearing gifts to an enthroned white woman
** World's largest fish gets its own museum
Five whale sharks have found a new home at a purpose-built nautilus-shaped
museum in Yantai City
** Google Earth reveals Nazca-like structures in Arabia
Kennedy says that many countries in the Middle East will not provide aerial
photographs or permit flights for archaeological research, so Google Earth
provides the only way to analyse the region
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** Fight in the museum: director accused of selling off exhibits
A dispute has broken out between the trustees of an award-winning Bristol
museum and a fired former director they accuse of the unauthorised disposal
of up to 150 exhibits
** Tracing Renaissance art to the birth of modern banking
Entitled "Money and Beauty: Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the
Vanities," the exhibition in Florence's Palazzo Strozzi looks at how
Florence's famous families got rich - and how they then used their wealth to
commission works from some of the world's most celebrated artists
** Silence from South African art world following Venice Biennale
controversy
The controversy arose when a blog revealed that gallerist Monna Mokoena and
the Lethole Mokoena, listed on the Biennale's website as South Africa's
commissioner, were one and the same person
** What would you name a new worm?
The British public will get to name five newly discovered species of this
deep-sea worm, the Natural History Museum in London has said, as it opens
its doors to explain that taxonomy - the practice of naming new species - is
not taxing, but fun
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** Museum acquires World War II-era boxcar used to transport Jews during
Holocaust
Believed to be one of the last in existence and the only to be exported to
the U.S. from Germany, the 10-ton boxcar is scheduled to arrive at the
Farmington Hills museum on Friday morning
** Archaeologists Uncover Evidence of Large Ancient Shipyard Near Rome
The discovery of this building has major implications for our understanding
of the significance of the hexagonal basin or harbour at Portus and its role
within the overall scheme of the port complex
** The Museum of Obsolete Objects
Sadly, as our daily lives become more and more digital some things fall by
the way side as they are replaced by newer, "better" devices; but let us not
forget those fallen appliances, tools and gadgets
** Placing Islamic Art on a New Pedestal
Treasures, in this case more than a thousand pieces from the museum's
extensive holdings of Islamic art, have been slowly populating newly
constructed rooms, taking their places in gleaming new vitrines with
Egyptian marble underfoot and mosque lamps overhead, amid burbling fountains
and peaked arches framing views of 13 centuries of art history
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** Aboriginal Australians: The First Explorers
By sequencing the genome, the researchers demonstrate that Aboriginal
Australians descend directly from an early human expansion into Asia that
took place some 70,000 years ago, at least 24,000 years before the
population movements that gave rise to present-day Europeans and Asians
** When a Nude is a Dude
Their decision to sell off eight paintings in order to purchase a piece by
the Impressionist master Gustave Caillebotte is a interesting look at how
sexuality, art, and commerce coalesce in the curation of high-end
collections
** Largest pinball museum in U.S. to open
Decades after he slept under a pinball machine wedged into his cramped
apartment, David Silverman will open the America's largest museum dedicated
to speeding silver balls and fast-motion flippers
** This Week's Horoscopes
Libra - The stars are happy to announce that starting next week you will pay
your zodiac bill on time, if you know what's good for you
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** Found! Arkansas' lost moon rock turns up in Clinton files
For years, Arkansas historians have searched for a valuable lunar rock from
the Apollo 17 mission, one of the moon rocks NASA presented to each state in
the 1970s
** Air museum eviction 'immoral,' vet says
Second World War pilot Philip Gray says it is "immoral" that Downsview Park
is evicting the Canadian Air and Space Museum. See also Toronto`s Canadian
Air & Space Museum shut down
** Europe and The Spirit World or The Fascination with The Occult,
1750-1950
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg
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ICHORA 6: International Conference on the History of Records and Archives 6
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