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week's edition include:
** Detroit museum says it will act to protect art
The Detroit Institute of Arts says it remains committed to taking action if
city-owned parts of its collection are threatened by the city's bankruptcy
** Assistant to Accused Antiquities Smuggler Pleads Guilty
One of the items Mr. Freedman is accused of helping steal and conceal is
valued at $15 million and is among the rarest and most cherished statues
missing from India
** Artist as entrepreneur: the American model or same old American dream?
As European-style government funding for the arts is unlikely to continue
even in Europe, and as the idea of the American model of arts funding is
promoted abroad, it seems ever more urgent that we have a conversation about
the strengths and weaknesses of arts funding in America and how to bring
coherence, sustainability and resilience to the cultural ecology
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** Mummy Mystery: Multiple Tombs Hidden in Egypt's Valley of Kings
Multiple tombs lay hidden in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, where royalty were
buried more than 3,000 years ago, awaiting discovery, say researchers
working on the most extensive exploration of the area in nearly a century
** She's behind you: The 'hidden mothers' on the late-19th century
equivalent of the selfie
Most draped the "ghostmothers" in black sheets, lace curtains, or even some
incongruous damask; though some photos show the odd nose, lowered eyelids,
and arm after arm propping up the infants, most important was that these
"ghosts" held their babes perfectly still
** Cristiano Ronaldo is building a museum to himself in Portugal
Ronaldo said he would be there in person on December 15 for the opening of
the museum in Madeira's capital Funchal, which will showcase memorabilia
including footballs, photographs and trophies
** German industrialist gives collection of postwar art to British Museum
Count Christian Duerckheim is giving 34 modern German drawings and loaning a
further 60 prints and drawings for an exhibition that will be staged at the
museum next year
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** Field Museum science show host airs her frustration about sexist
comments
The spunky, 20-something science show host wasn't joking when she went
online last week to blast the sexist "honking" coming from some of the males
of her own species
** A Century of Museum Records Reveal Species' Changing Lives
Museums hold hundreds of thousands of specimens and observations collected
around the world for centuries - even in places that lack other
conventional, modern record-keeping
** Is This New York's Most Underrated Museum?
The Queens Museum was first constructed as the New York Pavilion of the 1939
World's Fair-and is the only building still standing from that exposition
** Egypt museum hurt by political turmoil
Inside the Egyptian Museum, there are 200,000 items showing the splendor of
the country's history - and few tourists to see them
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** Opening the Mona Lisa at the end of WWII, 1945
On the eve of World War II, curators at the Louvre swathed the museum's most
priceless painting - the "Mona Lisa" - in layers of waterproof paper, boxed
it up, and spirited it to the French countryside for safekeeping
** New Museum Taps Techie
The incubator is intended to serve this cohort - designers, artists and
technologists fresh out of school - a group for whom there is not enough
support
** Humans Are Becoming More Carnivorous
The study estimates that humanity's global median trophic level was 2.21 in
2009, which puts us on a par with other omnivores, such as pigs and
anchovies, in the global food web
** Sweet Architecture: Gingerbread Art Museums
The two food artists built recreations of 7 famous museums including the
Guggenheim in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Louvre in Paris, the
Karuizawa Museum in Nagano, Museum Aan de Stroom in Antwerp, the Maxxi in
Rome, and Museo Soumaya in Mexico City
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** Baffling 400,000-Year-Old Clue to Human Origins
Until now, Denisovans were known only from DNA retrieved from
80,000-year-old remains in Siberia, 4,000 miles east of where the new DNA
was found
** How British Empire's dirty secrets went up in smoke in the colonies
As the sun finally set on the Empire, diplomats scurried to repatriate or
destroy hundreds of thousands "dirty" documents containing evidence that
London had decided should never see the light of day
** Oakland Museum's resident 'de-bugger' saves art
Burke and a student helped craft the now widely used insect eradication
method called modified atmosphere treatment, which drains the bugs of oxygen
** Sharjah Car Museum touts vintage car history
While car lovers nowadays pay more attention to a vehicle's specifications
such as horse power and engine and rim sizes, they can now acquire a better
understanding of the historical value behind a collection of cars dating
back to the 1900's at the Sharjah Classic Car Museum
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** Biologist Completes 5-Minute Study Of Pathetic Organism In Mirror
Based on previous findings, the research took a detailed look at the bipedal
sad sack's anatomy, making note of its receding hairline, distended gut,
double chin, and weak facial features that identify it as a highly
undesirable mate (satire)
** 80 Female Skulls Found in Neolithic City Were Human Sacrifices
Archaeologists in China have discovered the skulls of 80 women who were used
as human sacrifices in the Shimao Ruins, the country's biggest Neolithic
city ever found
** Volunteers Build Replica of Bell X-1, Speed of Sound Aircraft
A replica of the Bell X-1 aircraft flown by Captain Chuck Yeager on October
14, 1947, and which broke the sound barrier, now hangs above visitors at the
San Diego Air and Space Museum
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** Selling Dreams: One hundred years of fashion photography
Auckland Museum
** The 10th Conference on Fossil Resources
The 10th Conference on Fossil Resources (CFR) is currently being planned for
May 13-15, 2014 in Rapid City, South Dakota
** Met Opens Two Collections for Research
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives announces the availability for
research of the Joseph Breck records and the Bachstitz, Inc. records.
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