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week's edition include:
** After Gauguin, can galleries cope with crowds?
Tourists flocking from around the world to London's art exhibitions are
fuelling a surge in "gallery rage" as the art world's connoisseurs bemoan
overcrowding at an elite list of blockbuster shows
** Old dog, new tricks: 9,400-year-old mutt
Nearly 10,000 years ago, man's best friend provided protection and
companionship and an occasional meal
** Fishing Museum Is Symbol of Waste in Georgia
For now, local school groups come by the busload for tours of aquariums
displaying fish from Georgia's various regions - from mountain streams to
the Piedmont lakes to the coastal swamps
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** Reviving the taste of an Iron Age beer
The business side of Celtic ruler revelries was located in a nearby brewery
capable of turning out large quantities of a beer with a dark, smoky,
slightly sour taste, new evidence suggests
** The Museum of the Moving Image Is Bigger, Better, Shinier, and Finally
Reopened
After two years of scaffolding and shut doors, Astoria's Museum of the
Moving Image reopens to the public this weekend, in its all its newly
renovated, vastly expanded, quite improved glory
** Caligula's tomb found after police arrest
The lost tomb of Caligula has been found, according to Italian police, after
the arrest of a man trying to smuggle abroad a statue of the notorious Roman
emperor recovered from the site
** Fur caution at the V&A
In this politically correct day and age, the Victoria and Albert Museum in
London has kindly notified visitors to its exhibition "Imperial Chinese
Robes from the Forbidden City" that several exhibits incorporate...fur
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** India to soon have its first aviation museum
India will soon have a national aviation museum to commemorate the 100th
year of the first domestic flight in the country in 1911
** South Korea's Mr. Toilet House Museum
The reason Jae-duck created the home was to give greater recognition to the
humble toilet and the heavy load this under-appreciated fixture must bear,
each and every day
** My flower-power dress has found a new home
For us the dress - its tie-dye fabric, loose, flowing design, iconography
and socio-political message - is a piece of material culture that perfectly
embodies the era it comes from
** Shackleton's South Pole whisky returns to Scotland
The scotch was buried beneath a hut used by the explorer Ernest Shackleton
during his unsuccessful 1907 to 1909 expedition to reach the South Pole
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** Roman rise and fall recorded in trees
An extensive study of tree growth rings says there could be a link between
the rise and fall of past civilisations and sudden shifts in Europe's
climate
** Museum of Censored Art Shows Controversial Video to the Public
The Museum - which houses one piece of controversial art in a trailer that
occupies two parking spaces - opened on Thursday in front of the National
Portrait Gallery
** Bernie Madoff memorabilia in the Fraud Museum
It's a hall of fame for the infamous - a collection of artifacts from con
men, large and small, who swindled, stole and cheated to get everything from
bread money to billions
** This Week's Horoscopes
Gemini - You'll finally start to get calls about that invisible hovercraft
you have for sale when the CIA declassifies thousands of previously
classified ads
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** The Average Salary of an Art Historian
Art historians use their knowledge of art to evaluate, collect, preserve and
educate people about artifacts; they are generally employed in museums,
colleges, galleries and other organizations or businesses that deal with or
teach about history and art
** Whisky Galore as bottles from SS Politican are lined up
As news of the incident spread, thirsty islanders in small boats began
descending on the stricken vessel to help themselves to the precious tipple,
which was under strict wartime ration
** Alexander the Great at the Louvre for a unique exhibition
The curator of the department of Greek and Roman antiquities of the Louvre
Mrs Sophie Deschamp has travelled to all Macedonian cities in Northern
Greece in order to select the 668 objects which are going to travel to Paris
** Flickr Photos Gets Man Sued by Erotic Art Museum for $2 Million
The museum is concerned that visitors to Hawk's Flickr account will somehow
assume that he and his page are officially affiliated with the museum
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** Lizzie Borden museum gets 40 whacks
The attraction's opening spurred criticism among some Salem residents who
believed it ill-suited for the city, home of the infamous witchcraft trials
some 200 years before Borden was accused and then acquitted of the ax
murders
** The Institute for Cultural Entrepreneurship
May 1 - 4, 2011, Cooperstown, New York
** Stuff, the meanings of materials
The Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on the Decorative Arts
and Design
April 28 and 29, 2011, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York
** Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria
Saturday, Feb. 12. Noon - 4 p.m. Bring your family and friends to VMFA as
the museum celebrates an historic landmark - the opening of the newly
reinstalled African Collection and Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient
Nigeria.
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