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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** A Special Welcome to our increasing Australian readership
Global Museum has received in excess of 60 new subscriptions this past week
from readers in Australia who have opted to personally receive their G.M.
news postings. We welcome them.
** All that titters
A friend of the late Frankie Howerd is opening the comedian's home to the
public
** Museum row goes to court
Rows within the society stemming from allegations of staffing nepotism and
the handling of its gold-mining museum cafe's finances have all but split
Gympie
** Environmentalists score victory as Madrid trees get respite
The baroness had threatened to chain herself to the trees to prevent their
uprooting
** Ali's Louisville Lip
For years, popular myth had it that Cassius Clay, as he then was, hurled the
recently acquired gong off the Second Street Bridge in 1960 after being
refused service at a white-only lunch counter.
** The Lessons of Lascaux
Yanik Le Guillou, curator of cave paintings in the Midi-Pyrenees region
which includes the caves of Niaux, Gargas and Pech Merle, acknowledges that
Lascaux has been a "detonator of concerns for other caves"
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** V&A is UK's most romantic museum
Almost a fifth of respondents, 18%, said they had fallen in love while in a
museum or gallery
** CSUN artefacts could be fake
Experts on Chinese antiquities cast doubt on the authenticity of eight jade,
bronze and pottery artefacts donated by San Fernando Valley businessman
Roland Tseng
** Holbein art show reunites royals
Portraits of Henry VIII, his third wife Jane Seymour and their son Edward
are to be hung together for the first time since Henry himself owned them
** True Russian gems
Most of these conveniently portable assets left Russia with their humbled,
exiled owners after 1917, the grander pieces invariably dismantled so that
the more valuable stones could be sewn into hems and folds or swallowed
** TV backing for £4.75m lotto bid
Not everyone is aware, that Taunton has such a splendid medieval castle and
that it houses such fantastic collections in the museum
** Museum Leaders Confront Critics In Spirited Archaeological Symposium
While major museums and archaeologists agree that the looting of ancient
sites is deplorable, they have reached little consensus of how best to stop
it - despite more than seven hours of scholarly presentations, impassioned
speeches, and pointed debate
** Life stories in purses
Bejewelled, embroidered, crocheted or made of gold mesh or the most
sumptuous leather, these handbags and their contents - from gloves and
sunglasses to compacts and chewing gum - were brought together by a
collector who has a passion for purses
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** Greek police in second raid on former Paul Getty Museum curator
Agents from the Department of Smuggling of Antiquities searched True's villa
on the holiday island of Paros as part of a large-scale investigation after
hundreds of smuggled antiquities were discovered on the tiny Cycladic island
of Schoinoussa last month
** Bosnian Pyramids - Great Discovery or Colossal Hoax?
It's either one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of our time, or
man has made a giant pyramid out of a molehill
** Thieves replace stolen Monet with fake
Thieves cut a Claude Monet painting worth about $1-million from its frame in
the Polish National Museum and replaced it with a forgery
** NASA Announces Plan To Launch $700 Million Into Space
Cameras on the craft's exterior will capture images of the bills as they
majestically pirouette into the heavens, dotting the black void of space
with elegant spirals of green
** Watching the detectorists
In many European countries detectorists are not allowed to operate in order
to protect antiquities, but the practice still goes on clandestinely with
finds ending up on the black market
** Reopening of Orangerie Museum in Paris is delayed
The Orangerie, which houses eight mammoth murals of water lilies by
impressionist master Monet, will open following a six-year renovation
** Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference
** X/Y Axis: Capturing and Keeping Young Adult Audiences
** Natural Selections: Julie Dermansky
** UMAC Mexico City 2006 - New Roads for University Museums
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