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week's edition include:
** Forging an Art Market in China
The market is flooded with forgeries, often mass-produced, and has become a
breeding ground for corruption, as business executives curry favor with
officials by bribing them with art
** Shaping the Future, in the Kitchen and Beyond
Shoehorned into half the Museum of Modern Art's design department,
"Designing Modern Women 1890-1990" is a confusing exhibition but an
excellent conversation starter
** Picasso Museum Makeover Drags On
The project has been troubled by internal conflict that surfaced last year
in headlines warning that the Musée Picasso was edging toward an "implosion"
and a "nervous breakdown" under Ms. Baldassari's management
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** Devotion and Desire debuts over 170 never-seen-before objects
Acquired through various means, including gifts from individuals, donated
funds, and government funds, the objects on display enrich the heritage of
Singapore
** Viking Graves Yield Grisly Find: Sacrificed Slaves
Viking graves in Norway contain a grisly tribute: slaves who were beheaded
and buried along with their masters, new research suggests
** Banksy's latest prank on New York art world hangs in thrift shop
The thrift store's oil painting is a commonplace landscape featuring a
mountain and a bench that Banksy bought and then added to, painting a Nazi
soldier sitting on the bench gazing at the scenery
** Warrington returns Toi moko mummified Maori head to New Zealand's Te
Papa Tongarewa
By the 1980s, like a lot of museum people, we became conscious that the
world had moved on and the interpretation of some of these galleries could
be perceived as racist or insensitive
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** South Australian Museum says layers of treasure to be uncovered on
Kangaroo Island
Since fossilised animals from the early Cambrian period (half a billion
years ago) were discovered at a new quarry in 2007, Museum scientists have
been visiting, collecting and analysing specimens from a very special site
** The art market may be obscene - but should we be so angry?
More importantly, though, I feel no anger about the age-old cycle of art
because evidence suggests that the best of it will end up in our free
museums anyway
** Ancient mural may be first picture of volcanic blast
Was humanity's first depiction of a volcanic eruption daubed on the wall of
a house in Turkey 8500 years ago? Geological evidence now supports this
controversial claim
** Kraken Rises: New Fossil Evidence Revives Sea Monster Debate
It sounds like a Halloween tale, but researchers who first suggested the
existence of this ancient sea monster in 2011 say they now have more
evidence backing up their controversial theory
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** European Roots for Native Americans?
Native Americans may not have descended from East Asians who crossed the
Bering Land Bridge more than 15,000 years ago, according to a new genomic
analysis of a millennia-old Siberian skeleton
** Museum Series Engages Art Lovers Who Have Alzheimer's
On the first Wednesday of each month, a group of special visitors gathers in
one of three participating Cincinnati museums for a tour designed expressly
for them
** The great exhibition of China: Scrolling back the centuries with 1,200
years of Chinese painting
You can't fault the V&A for ambition when it comes to its latest blockbuster
show: spanning 1,200 years, Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900
celebrates one of the world's oldest artistic traditions via a display of
more than 100 works on silk and paper, many exceptionally fragile, that has
taken curator Hongxing Zhang years to gather
** Archaeologists to investigate network of Roman ports
Archaeologists will conduct fieldwork 'in situ' at eight of the 31 ports,
surveying sites with the latest geophysical techniques (similar to
underground scanning) at Ephesus, Pitane and Kane in Turkey; Gades and
Tarraco in Spain; Portus and Puteoli in Italy and Utica in Tunisia
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** Vienna museum director quits in Nazi looted art row
The director of Vienna's Leopold Museum, home to extensive collections of
work by Austrian artists such as Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, has quit in
a row over Nazi-looted art
** Museum celebrates shrimping heritage
Husley has poured hours of research into the new museum, collected thousands
of photographs and has secured artifacts such as a shrimp peeling machine, a
steam kettle which factories used to cook shrimp in the can, and a labeling
machine for cans
** Museum Explores The Power of Poison
To keep things lively, there will be a Detecting Poison theater, featuring a
live presenter, film clips and Monty Python-like animation, in which the
audience helps track a true poisoning case involving a household outside
London that fell ill in 1833
** Ellis Island museum reopens after Sandy's floods
The island that ushered millions of immigrants into the United States and
became a monument to its mosaic of ancestries has reopened for the first
time since Superstorm Sandy, adding a chapter to the narrative of hard-won
recovery on the eve of the storm's anniversary
Jersey
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** Ghostly Isles of Scilly shipwreck photographs to go under the hammer
Taken by four generations of the Gibson family of photographers over nearly
130 years, the 1000 negatives record the wrecks of over 200 ships and the
fate of their passengers, crew and cargo as they travelled from across the
world through the notoriously treacherous seas around Cornwall and the Isles
of Scilly between 1869 and 1997
** Enzyme Humbled To Have Played Part In Successful Biochemical Reaction
Calling itself "just a catalyst, nothing more," humbled enzyme a-amylase
confirmed Monday that while its contributions to a recent biochemical
reaction significantly sped up the breakdown of starch into maltose, the
formation of the disaccharide was, overall, a team effort
** Serving Museum Patrons Something More
If the term "museum restaurant" once summoned up institutional dinnerware,
dank steam tables, cafeteria trays and dishwasher odors, Mr. Bolton's
aspirations are immeasurably higher
** Assessing and Managing risks to your Collection
Trinity College Library, Dublin
** History in Prints: The 1911 Revolution in Guangdong exhibition
Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum
** Celebrate Native American Heritage Month this November at the
Smithsonian
Raven Steals the Sun: A Family Celebration of Tlingit Culture
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