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week's edition include:
** Earliest modern gait found in ancient footprints
More than a million years ago an ancient human ancestor walked across a
sandy plain in eastern Africa, leaving footprints that scientists are now
hailing as the earliest evidence of modern upright walking
** Iraq museum that was looted reopens, far from whole
Well over half the exhibition halls in Iraq's National Museum are closed,
darkened and in disrepair and yet, the museum whose looting in 2003 became a
symbol of the chaos that followed the American invasion has officially
reopened
** Mystery ends: Agatha Christie's country home opens
Craftsmen worked for two years to restore the 18th-century home, Greenway,
and the rooms are much as they were when Christie lived there, complete with
books, papers, boxes of chocolates and bunches of flowers
** Inmate offers tip on '90 Gardner heist
An inmate serving a life sentence for murder asserts that just before his
friend died 18 years ago, he confided that he was involved in the 1990 theft
of more than $300 million worth of artwork from the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum and had stashed the masterpieces at an undisclosed "safe house" in
Maine
** For love or money
Over the course of 40 years John Constable produced perhaps 100 portraits of
men, women, children and family groups. - most were done for money, some for
love
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** Museums lending to commercial galleries: the debate
There is not a museum in the world that does not cultivate relationships
with galleries, which often represent the work of the living artist whom the
museum wants to exhibit or the estate of the deceased artist who is of
interest
** Polish PM urges Merkel to bar ally from museum post
The subject of the 12.5 million Germans expelled from Poland, Hungary and
Czechoslovakia after the Nazi defeat has strained relations between Germany
and Poland ever since the war, in which 6 million Poles died
** 'Early Leonardo portrait' found
After months of restoration work, the image was aged using criminal
investigation techniques and compared with older self-portraits of Leonardo
** Chance to own a Francis Bacon (from his tufted period)
Bacon's early life as a rugmaker is almost forgotten, and his output so
small that an example held by the Victoria and Albert Museum was thought to
be one of only three to exist
** Experts trying to decipher ancient language
The enigmatic pattern of inscribed symbols curled symmetrically around the
upper part of the rough-edged, yellowish stone tablet and coiled into the
middle in a decorative style typical of an extinct Iberian language called
Southwest Script
** Glasgow's Cabinet of Curiosities
It has only recently been revamped - and it is one of the most imaginative
and beautiful of any contemporary museum installation I've seen
** New fish species is psychedelica
University of Washington scientists have identified a bizarre reef fish that
can splay out its face, look straight ahead and clamber across the bottom on
fins a bit like legs
** Argentina Withholds German Art Loan
Argentina's National Museum of Fine Arts is withholding some key art pieces
from an exhibition in Frankfurt out of concern that German bondholders would
seize them
** Torture pit where Robin Hood was imprisoned found
A bottle-necked pit where hated outlaws including Robin Hood were imprisoned
and starved or driven to insanity in the Middle Ages has been discovered by
archaeologists in the underground caves of the Galleries of Justice Museum
in Nottingham
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** Site Of Interest - Vintage Asian Advertising Posters
A large collection of digitally restored vintage advertising posters,
originating from Japan, China and Manchukuo, 1920's-1930's, a body of work
that took more than 14 months to complete
** Hi-tech research shows Neolithic axes have travelled from the Alps
Four Stone Age axes, dating from a time when people had stopped hunting
woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers and turned to farming, are giving
clues to the origins of settled human life in the county
** Sunken Greek treasures at risk from scuba looters
A corroded mechanism recovered by sponge divers from a sunken wreck near the
Greek island of Antikythera in 1902 changed the study of the ancient world
forever
** This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius. Nov 22 to Dec 21 - Any well-read person will notice several
parallels between the story of Beowulf and your disastrous housewarming
party this week
** 'New Deal' exhibit opens at American Art museum
As the nation grapples with its worst recession since the 1930s, the
Smithsonian American Art Museum is opening an exhibition of paintings from
the first U.S. government program that supported the arts nationally during
the Great Depression
** Bank welcomes Adolf Burger, the forger who short-changed the Nazis
The man who forged the equivalent of £3 billion in a Nazi plot to bring down
the British economy during the Second World War was invited to the Bank of
England this week to inspect one of his counterfeit banknotes
** Art Revealed by Industry
The Potteries of Trenton Society, together with the New Jersey State Museum,
presents its 2009 spring symposium
** Museums in Conversation Conference
Join us March 29-31, 2009 in Tarrytown NY for the Museums in Conversation
Conference.
** Art of the Korean Renaissance
International Loan Exhibition of Korean Art Opens at Metropolitan Museum on
March 17
** Hybrid Material Culture: The Archaeology of Syncretism and Ethnogenesis
Southern Illinois University Carbondale and its Centre for Archaeological
Investigations announces the 26th Visiting Scholar Conference
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