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** Museum blends history of cocoa with Maya daily life
Cocoa was also a form of currency - you could buy a rabbit for 10 cocoa
beans, while a strong, healthy slave would set you back 100 beans
** Egyptologists refute video claims about artefacts looted from Egypt
Museum
Al-Ahram's Arabic-language news website and Ahram Online received a video
showing artefacts which, the source alleged, had been stolen from the
Egyptian Museum at the height of last year's Tahrir Square uprising and
subsequently smuggled to the Upper Egyptian governorate of Qena for sale to
the highest bidder
** Graffiti artist banned from all Olympic sites
A professional graffiti artist has been ordered not to go within a mile of
any Games site for more than three months after being arrested over year-old
allegations just ten days before the Opening Ceremony
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** Ex-director of the Getty Museum, reveals why he was forced to leave
The former director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Michael Brand, has revealed
more about the reasons for his abrupt departure from the Los Angeles
institution in January 2010
** British Library unveils online collaboration with Qatar
More than half a million pages of historic documents detailing Arabic
history and culture are to be made available online for the first time, as
part of the British Library's plans to make its content more accessible
** Visitors to get first up-close look at space shuttle in New York
The Enterprise exhibit is expected to boost attendance at the Intrepid Sea,
Air & Space Museum by a third and help bring nearly 1.3 million people a
year to the repurposed World War Two aircraft carrier docked on Manhattan's
West Side
** Gelato museum to open in Italy
The origins of gelato in Italy are said to stretch back to ancient Rome when
frozen desserts were made from snow and ice from the volcanic mountaintops
of Etna and Vesuvius and topped with honey
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** Forgeries? Call 'Em Faux Masterpieces
Over the next few years, Ken Perenyi says, the F.B.I. continued to keep a
close watch on him at his bayside bungalow here, tracking his work and where
it sold, and talking to his friends and associates
** Hell of Captain Scott's youngest Antarctic explorer revealed in letters
The correspondence by Apsley Cherry-Garrard describes his torment both on
the expedition and on finding the frozen bodies of his doomed companions,
his subsequent physical and mental breakdown, and the team's acute fear of
being perceived as failures back home because their Norwegian rival, Roald
Amundsen, had reached the South Pole a month before them
** The search for photos of China's past
The turbulent history of the 20th Century meant that many archives were
destroyed by war, invasion and revolution
** Vivienne Westwood shoes, Olympic athletes and false teeth look
Superhuman
In more than 100 artworks, there are body illustrations from the 1930s,
photographs of projects to create humanoid robots, a fully automated
wheelchair created by artist Donald Rodney, who has sickle cell anaemia, and
a 16th century engraving of a mechanical hand connected to a microchip
inserted into Kevin Warwick, a Professor who declared himself a cyborg
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** 5,300-year-old Mongolian statue pieced together
Archaeologists of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences have finished
reconstituting a 5,300-year-old pottery statue from fragments unearthed in
North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region
** 100 Curators for 100 Days
The Saatchi Art Gallery has launched an online venture aiming to promote
1,000 up-and-coming artists via a new web-based exhibition hosted on Saatchi
Online
** Artists Flee Los Angeles Museum Board, Deitch Draws Fire
The departure in the past week of four prominent artists from the board of
the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles has fueled speculation that
billionaire Eli Broad will step in and take over the 33-year-old institution
** Early humans settled in Arabia
Stone Age tools uncovered in Yemen point to humans leaving Africa and
inhabiting Arabia perhaps as far back as 63,000 years ago, archaeologists
report
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** Interactive website will immortalize songs about Tennessee
To the songwriters, Tennessee has always seemed worth singing about: a place
to go "down South," by night train or choo choo, to waltz with the belles
and boogie in the blue hills
** Boy dies in tragic accident at Beamish Museum
A seven-year-old boy has died following an accident involving a steam
traction engine and trailer at an open-air museum in County Durham
** Chicago History Museum's Digital Costume Collection Debuts
Given that Chicago isn't particularly known as one of the nation's most
fashion-forward cities, you might be surprised to find out it is home to the
world's second largest costume collection
** How Sweet Is That - M&M Maker Gives Smithsonian $5M
Candy maker Mars Inc. is donating $5 million to the Smithsonian's National
Museum of American History to create a new gallery focused on business and
innovation in the United States dating back to the 1700s
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** Two People Arrested After Trying to Sell Stolen Henri Matisse Painting
Two people were arrested after being found with a Henri Matisse painting
that had been stolen from a museum in Venezuela, prosecutors said Wednesday
** Canadian facing jail for 'breathtaking' theft of U.S. historical
artifacts
After a prominent U.S. presidential historian was sentenced to a seven-year
prison term for stealing thousands of invaluable documents from various
libraries and archives, the young Canadian man who served as his partner in
crime is also facing jail time for his role in the brazen plunder of
American heritage
** Managing Records on a Shoestring
A practical workshop exploring how to manage records in the Arts & Heritage
Sector
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environment
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** Agents of Change: Art as Activism
Call For Papers - Academic Symposium
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