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week's edition include:
** Bill would protect Detroit museum's art from sale
Pledging a fight to prevent the sale of treasured works at the Detroit
Institute of Arts in a potential city bankruptcy, a top state lawmaker has
introduced a bill to do just that - although it's not clear a state law
would suffice in a federal bankruptcy court
** Exhibition explores the influence of immigration on 20th-century
photography
Displaced Visions builds on the Israel Museum's dedication to expanding new
scholarship in the field of photography by reconsidering the impact of place
on 20th-century émigré photographers
** Serra Work Gains Protected Status in Ontario
A battle that has dragged on for years over the protection of an early
outdoor sculpture by Richard Serra in a field north of Toronto has finally
been settled, in favor of the sculpture
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** The top 10 new species
The list is a kind of scientific shock-and-awe campaign, shocking us at what
we did not know about our own planet and leaving us in awe over the
diversity, complexity, wonder and beauty of the living world
** Exploring Antarctica: The Final Expeditions of Scott and Shackleton
A perfectly-preserved biscuit tin, found on Scott's frozen body, also leaps
out, as do Frank Hurley's ice-swathed subsequent pictures, made while
shadowing Shackleton
** Faberge Museum announces major new acquisitions plan to offset losses
The museum has an ambitious acquisitions plan, aiming to buy as many as 300
Faberge items this year, in part motivated to compensate for recent losses
to the museum's collection due to a divorce settlement between Mr Ivanov and
his former wife
** Coins and Kings: The Royal Mint looks rare and lucrative
Other stories include the harsh punishments for tampering dished out during
the 13th century reign of Edward I and, three centuries later, the reign of
Elizabeth I, who rigorously restored a "purer" mint following its
difficulties under her father, Henry VIII, whose imagery on each coin earned
him the name "Old Coppernose"
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** 'Dawn bird' sees Archaeopteryx return to bird fold
One day the most famous flying dinosaur - Archaeopteryx - is a direct
ancestor of all modern birds; the next day it belongs to a different
dinosaur group, suggesting that feathered flight evolved twice
** Giant garbage patches of the sea become "national" art in Venice
Five huge patches of rubbish floating in seas around the world will have
their own unofficial national pavilion on the sidelines of the world's
largest non-commercial art fair in Venice
** Artists afraid of losing sponsors 'are self-censoring'
Some controversial works are held back from public display because directors
are worried they will cause offence to financial backers or minority
interests, claim researchers
** Morocco desert museum for Little Prince aviator
The life of the celebrated aviator-author is told on the walls of the
museum, from his birth in Lyon in 1900 to his mysterious death in 1944
during a reconnaissance mission in the Mediterranean, after having survived
a Sahara desert crash in 1935
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** Chinese schoolboy, 15, exposed as Egypt's ancient temple graffiti vandal
The parents of a Chinese teenager who scratched his name into a
3,500-year-old Egyptian artwork have apologised for his actions after
internet users tracked down the boy to name and shame him
** V&A museum appoints first ever 'game designer in residence'
Fans of the Victoria and Albert Museum may soon be able to experience its
collection in a totally different way: by playing a computer game
** RAF Museum set to raise Nazi bomber from English Channel
The plane, one of a formation of German Dornier Do-17 that Hitler sent to
the southeast coast of England in his efforts to blast the country out of
World War II, has sat in a shallow grave 60 feet under water since 1940
** Johnny Cash Museum opens in Nashville
At a media walk-through in late April, Cash siblings Joanne Cash Yates and
Tommy Cash smiled to see their brother's old Martin guitar with a folded
dollar bill stuck through the strings: In the 1950s, before he had a
drummer, Cash used a dollar bill to create a percussive effect when he
strummed the instrument
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** Ancient Egyptians Used Meteorites as Jewelry
Researchers from the Natural History Museum in London, the Open University
in Milton Keynes and the University of Manchester used a combination of
electron microscope and X-Ray CT scanner to demonstrate that the nickel-rich
chemical composition of the 5,300-year-old Gerzeh bead confirms its
meteorite origins
** 19th-Century Research Confirms Century of Warmings
Studies conducted during an ocean-going research expedition 135 years ago
have helped provide the latest evidence of climate warming and sea level
rise
** Woman finds late boyfriend's diary in museum
Before Cpl. Thomas "Cotton" Jones was killed by a Japanese sniper in the
Central Pacific in 1944, he wrote what he called his "last life request" to
anyone who might find his diary
** Mary Rose museum opens in Portsmouth at cost of £35m
The 16th Century hull will once again be on display at the Historic Dockyard
museum - yards from where the Tudor warship was built 500 years ago
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** Founder of Military Museum Is Killed by Police in Connecticut
The museum grew from Mr. Valluzzo's original focus on World War II and now
holds more than 10,000 artifacts covering the military history of the United
States through the 20th century, according to the museum's Web site
** World's largest Model A museum opening
The Model A Ford Foundation raised money to build this monument to the car
that saved Ford in the late 1920s and 1930s when the wildly successful Model
T was being overtaken by more modern rivals
** Velvet in Italy Study Tour
From the 15th century, Italy emerged as the West's greatest maker of silk
velvets
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