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week's edition include:
** Hitting the Louvre ceiling
Whatever that goal may be, some of the museum's short-term contemporary art
exhibits have shocked visitors to such an extent that disgruntled art lovers
wrote petitions calling for a stop to Loyrette's contemporary shows
** Monkey Business in a World of Evil
As the exhibition points out, at least outside of the books' frames, Curious
George really did save the day, and more than once
** Chewing gum artist sought
The Royal Society of Chemistry is stuck in its attempts to reach a
remarkable artist who paints miniatures on street chewing gum splodges and
is now offering £117 to the first member of the public who can give the
organisation his mobile telephone number
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** Monkeys taking over as London Zoo allows visitors and primates to
interact
Thousands of visitors can now join the monkeys in the "bio-dome" where
humans and primates interact freely, with no bars or glass in the way - a
model for the rest of the zoo's exhibits
** Picasso revealed as a feminist in new exhibition
The exhibition at Tate Liverpool will display previously unseen
correspondence between Picasso and feminist organisations, which reveal that
he donated works and money to a host of women's campaign groups
** Arts cutbacks would dent chances of 'social recovery'
The heads of Britain's most prominent museums, galleries and theatres
yesterday launched a "cultural manifesto" urging the Government to uphold
public arts spending
** Mummy Hermione among revelatory treasures
The Lawrence Room at Girton contains a range of unique pieces including
Anglo-Saxon treasures recovered on the college site in 1881 and, perhaps
most importantly, Hermione Grammatike, a named portrait mummy of a young
female classics teacher from the Fayum city of Roman-era Egypt
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** Zimbabwean police return pictures of human rights violations to gallery
The return of the pictures was applauded by guests, who included the British
and American ambassadors, at a reception on the gallery lawn
** National Gallery cuts 27 positions
The National Gallery of Canada has eliminated 27 positions as part of a
sweeping reorganization, leaving 18 people out of a job
** Stolen gun used in John Brown slave revolt returned to museum
A gun used in a defining moment of American history and stolen from the
Chicago History Museum in 1948 is now back in Chicago, thanks to the
generosity of a history buff from Pittsburgh
** Kenyan divers join search for Chinese wreck
Kenyan and Chinese divers will embark on an undersea mission to find the
wreckage of a Chinese vessel that sank off the East African country's coast
600 years ago
** Curator who survived six months in South Pole tent returns to Museum
A curator who survived sub-zero temperatures and savage storms in a
gruelling impersonation of Captain Scott's immortal South Pole expedition
has returned to the Museum of Science and Industry
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** Bumblin Thieves tossed priceless necklace
Two incompetent Irish thieves who threw priceless 4,000-year-old Irish
jewellery into a dumpster have received suspended sentences for the crime
** The Museum of Unworkable Devices
It houses diverse examples of the perverse genius of inventors who refused
to let their thinking be intimidated by the laws of nature, remaining
optimistic in the face of repeated failures
** Skeleton of dog of war from 'Mary Rose' goes on display
The skeleton of a two-year-old dog discovered at the bottom of the sea with
the wreck of the Mary Rose was yesterday reunited with other artefacts from
the Tudor warship
** What will be on Mob Museum's cutting room floor?
As one of a handful of still gainfully employed Las Vegas journalists who
covered those days and wrote about Cleanface, the skim and those intriguing
wiretaps, I'll be looking at the museum from the perspective of whether it's
honest and accurate as well as entertaining
** China corruption museum seeks nominations
A planned anti-graft museum in southwest China is asking the public to
nominate the 100 most corrupt officials of the past century
** Parochial ugliness hounds out a breath of fresh air
What is it about this country that we must destroy the spirit of someone
with a sense of style, who dares bring about change to our institutional way
of life?
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Aries - The stars would love nothing more than to reveal your future this
week, but unfortunately, they're just large luminous balls of plasma held
together by gravity in space
** Leonardo or Michelangelo: who is the greatest?
Every photographic device the 21st century can invent, from the slenderest
mobile phone to the most phallic telephoto lens, is being raised above the
crowd to point at the woman isolated in her glass box
** Art by the Yard: Women Design Mid-Century Britain
On view at The Textile Museum May 15, 2010 through September 12, 2010
** The Navy: A Century in Art
A new travelling exhibition by the Canadian War Museum had its national
premiere earlier today at Calgary's Military Museums.
** Rihanna picture features in exhibition by young talent
Walker's Teen Pop Portrait
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