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** Top auctioneers' paintings unmasked as expensive fakes
Panic is spreading through the art world after the discovery of forgeries
among 20th century paintings sold in recent years by leading auctioneers and
dealers worldwide, including Christie's in London
** Google to bring Dead Sea Scrolls online
The project will grant free, global access to the 2,000-year-old text -
considered one of the greatest archaeological finds of the last century - by
uploading high-resolution images that are exact copies of the originals
** Could a rusty coin re-write Chinese-African history?
It is not much to look at - a small pitted brass coin with a square hole in
the centre - but this relatively innocuous piece of metal is revolutionising
our understanding of early East African history, and recasting China's more
contemporary role in the region
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** Shots fired at Marine Corps museum
The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle took a bit of battle
damage over the weekend, as an unknown assailant shot at least five bullets
into upper level windows
** Stolen Holocaust art database launched
The database combines records from the US National Archives, the German
Bundesarchiv and records on repatriation and restitution held by the French
government
** Salem needs a new museum to explore its witch-trial past
Despite some area attractions based on the witch trials and a few
witch-trial events associated with Haunted Happenings, there is a crying
need for a serious museum to encourage the study of the trials and what
drove the hundreds of peaceful villagers to murderous hysteria
** Russians returning silent films to U.S.
Due to neglect and deterioration, America has lost more than half of its
pre-1950 films, according to the LOC and more than 80 percent of silent
films made in the U.S. from 1893-1930 do not exist in the country
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** Sanctions Are Ending For Museum
When the National Academy Museum sold two important Hudson River School
paintings in 2008 to pay its bills, the Association of Art Museum Directors
came down hard with sanctions, making the academy a pariah in the museum
world and a symbol for the evils of deaccessioning
** Movement becomes first UK gallery to open in gents' toilet at railway
station
In the age of family-friendly museums with no corner left unsignposted, a
forgotten toilet on the platform of Worcester's sleepy Foregate Street
station is a slightly less orderly proposition
** Extinct Megafauna
Seven-foot-tall kangaroos, rhino-size browsers, enormous flightless birds,
and a predator that could kill them all; such were the megafauna that once
dominated Australia
** Ancient treasures emerge from Vatican vault
More than 300 artefacts - collected by missionaries for an exhibition
commissioned by Pope Pius XI in 1925 - have been properly curated for the
first time, an event project leader Professor Margo Neil described
enthusiastically as "a miracle"
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Libra - The natives will shrink in terror when you demonstrate your lighter,
as even they know that smoking is horrible for you
** Dust-up at Tate Modern as curse of Turbine Hall strikes again
When he unveiled his monumental installation at the Tate Modern earlier this
week, Ai Weiwei enthused about how he wanted visitors to immerse themselves
in his 100-million porcelain sunflower seeds, by putting the painted kernels
into their mouths or building sandcastles if they so desired
** Statute of limitations ends trial of former Getty curator
Marion True has said says she is innocent of antiquities trafficking charges
in a case that brought to public view a history of questionable collecting
practices at American museums
** 400 years of highland lighthouse history
Some of the earliest lamps and chargers join fine works of art and
engravings, with the human side of coastal surveillance established by
portraits of rustic-looking keepers hanging out their washing or looking
gruffly fearless as gales beat at their brows
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** Museum displays finds from big fossil site
About 15,000 fossils have been recovered from the Fairmead landfill, and 20
more years of active digging are planned
** Collapsed mine and Camp Hope could be turned into museum attraction
However, the Phoenix Two rescue capsule - which would form the focus of a
new musuem - has become the topic of an unseemly struggle
** Titian and the renaissance of flesh at High Museum
Had it been Austin Powers, that swingin' '60s spy, leading a recent preview
tour of the High Museum of Art exhibit "Titian and the Golden Age of
Venetian Painting: Masterpieces From the National Galleries of Scotland," he
would have enthusiastically described some of the works as "very naughty"
** "Moss Man" Attempts Rock Museum Break-In
Deputies investigating a possible break-in at an Oregon rock museum were
surprised when they stumbled upon a man concealed on the ground by a
moss-like camouflage outfit
** Museums escape the worst in spending review
Chancellor George Osborne said museums would face a 15 percent funding cut
over the next four years, and, crucially to the sector, free admission to
museums and galleries would be preserved
** Applied Cultural Heritage: How telling the past at historic sites
benefits society
Kalmar, Sweden, 17-19 Nov 2010
** Does war belong in museums?
A joint event of the Styrian Armoury, the Museum Academy and ICOMAM
** Publishing On The Fly?
Outline of Proposal to Cambridge Scholars Press: "Rivers of Conservation:
Historical and Global Perspectives in Fly Fishing and Coldwater
Conservation"
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