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** Daylight shines on Tate Britain's 500-year gallop through art
Director denies that the Tate was "dumbing down" for the average tourist,
saying the layout offered better access to everyone from school children to
art experts, put works in context with their contemporaries, and would be
uncompromised by temporary shows
** $325,000 stem cell hamburger to be eaten soon
The resulting burger will probably have more in common taste-wise with a
patty from McDonald's than a gourmet burger from a fancy restaurant
** Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery to Crowdfund Yoga Exhibition
According to a spokesperson, Sackler will use the crowdfunding site Razoo,
which, unlike Kickstarter, allows fundraisers to keep any money they make
even if they don't reach their goal
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** Czechs turn Soviet nuclear warhead depot into Iron Curtain museum
A former secret Soviet nuclear warhead shelter in the Czech Republic is
being turned into a museum inviting visitors to learn about the Cold War
atomic race
** I might have been on LSD but I definitely didn't paint THAT
What is not in dispute is that in 1979, Doig, the son of an Edinburgh
accountant, moved to London from Canada to enrol in art school and started a
journey which made him one of the world's most in-demand painters
** Syphilis, sex and fear: How the French disease conquered the world
Two years earlier in 1495, a French invasion force including mercenary
troops back from the new world, had dallied a while to enjoy their victory,
and when they left, carried something unexpected and deadly back home with
them
** Nature calls at the Museum Of Bad Art
The latest collection, entitled 'Mother Nature Abhors a Vacuum - And All
Other Housework', features a stunning selection of "art too bad to be
ignored"
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** Have archaeologists discovered the mysterious lost city of gold, Ciudad
Blanca?
The legend of Ciudad Blanca ("The White City") has captivated Western
explorers ever since the Conquistador Hernan Cortes mentioned it in a letter
to Spanish Emperor Charles V in 1526
** Small grants programme to help commemorate First World War
They will focus on the identification, recording and preservation of local
heritage and the creation of community archives or collections, as well as
exhibitions, trails, smartphone apps and creative material such as plays and
music based on heritage sources
** Victorian Era Brits Were Smarter Than Us
The presence of dysgenic fertility for IQ amongst Western nations, starting
in the 19th century, suggests that these trends might be related to
declining IQ
** A look inside the taxidermy lab at The Natural History Museum
On the fourth floor of the museum is a temperature controlled taxidermy lab
with no windows - that keeps the skins from fading in the sunlight
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** National Railway Museum seeks Mallard crew for anniversary
A search for people who crewed the record-breaking steam locomotive Mallard
has been launched by the UK's National Railway Museum
** Bust of Richard III, 3D-Printed From a Scan of His Recently Exhumed
Skull
The results of this endeavor are fairly creepily Tussaudian: The
twisted-spined king, in the form of a 3D-printed bust, looks essentially
like a decapitated wax figure
** Protests mar Barbie museum opening
The demonstrators also included a topless member of the Ukraine-based
international feminist group Femen, who held a burning cross with a Barbie
doll attached to it to show her opposition to what she saw as the clichéd
image of women promoted by the Barbie museum
** Cambodia Presses U.S. Museums to Relinquish Antiquities
Buoyed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's decision this month to return two
stolen statues, Cambodia is asking other museums to examine any Khmer
antiquities they acquired after 1970, when a 20-year period of civil war and
genocide gave thieves free range to loot the country's ancient temples
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** Antebellum slave cabin in S.C. to be restored for African American
History Museum
When curators from the Smithsonian's new African-American history museum in
Washington visited this marshy island last year, they found exactly what
they were looking for: an antebellum slave cabin that captured the stark
life of plantation workers before emancipation
** Bulldozers destroy Mayan pyramid in Belize
A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest
Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a
road-building project
** Hundreds of bicyclists pour through national museum in Amsterdam again
after 10-year detour
It has taken Amsterdam's pro-bike lobby years of fighting to overcome
architects, museum directors and a local government that sought to have the
path closed forever
** This Week's Horoscopes
Cancer - Continuing a proud, age-old tradition, you will hand down your
family's priceless heirlooms to the next generation of Chinatown pawnbrokers
this week
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** National Museum Wales: 23 posts go, 111 jobs to change
Twenty three posts will be lost and another 111 jobs changed under a major
restructuring of National Museum Wales, it has been announced
** Surrey museum's suffragette badge loan 'seized'
The Australian MP who sent the replica Women's Freedom League "Holloway"
badge said officials in Coventry seized it because the stated value was
above £30
** Whale Research at the Smithsonian - Past, Present and Future
Smithsonian Libraries and the National Museum of Natural History extend an
invitation to attend a symposium, free and open to the public, for the
forthcoming "Whales: From Bone to Book" exhibition in the Evans Gallery of
the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, in
Washington, D.C.
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