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week's edition include:
** Relic Hunters Descend on US, European Museums
China will send an expert team to trace and document relics taken from the
Old Summer Palace that are now in foreign countries
** Science Museum unearths unknown portrait of Medici lord
Art experts at the Science Museum think they may have found the world's
oldest painting to feature a watch in a hitherto unknown picture of a member
of the influential Medici family
** Odd collection of brooding artworks
Setting aside her lifelong dream of opening a child-care centre, the
70-year-old former public health professor runs the Seoul Museum of Chicken
Art, a private facility containing all things fowl
** Egypt Demands Return of Nefertiti Statue
The Nefertiti sculpture has been in Germany since 1913; but it is only now
that Egypt is demanding that this fragile and haunting object, perched alone
in a domed room that overlooks the length of the museum, be returned
** Thai museum covers up Hitler billboard after protests
A Thai waxworks museum has apologised and covered up a giant billboard of
Adolf Hitler giving a Nazi salute after the Israeli and German embassies
lodged complaints
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** Dig uncovers significant historical site in Narragansett
Buried just below the surface was a view to a world that archaeologists and
historians had seldom seen: remains from a cluster of Native American
structures dating to the 1300s and more than 20 circular pits in which
people had stored corn
** Indianapolis Museum of Art
The nearly 300 staff members at the Indianapolis Museum of Art will have to
take an unpaid week off during the coming months in the latest cutback for
the museum
** Sigmund Freud sculptor's bust of the Queen to be unveiled
While clearing the sculptor Oscar Nemon's attic after his death, his family
uncovered the plaster cast of an impressive bust of the Queen, the quality
of which stood out significantly from the rest of his discarded work
** Victim Or Fantasist?
A month after thieves allegedly broke into the mansion of the philanthropist
Richard Weisman, spiriting away valuable modern paintings, detectives have
named a new person of interest to their ongoing investigation: the supposed
victim
** Wild Thing
Gill and Epstein, a frequent visitor to Ditchling, photographed one another
naked and made ambitious plans to collaborate on carving a 20th-century
Stonehenge on the Downs, a gigantic group of godlike human figures
celebrating fecundity and virility
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** After Klimt, Vienna museum fears restitution of stolen Vermeer
Austria's culture ministry said that it had received a request for the
restitution of "The Art of Painting" by 17th-century Flemish artist Johannes
Vermeer, which has been on display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum since
1946
** Famed US aviator's hair actually piece of thread
An aviation museum in the US state of Ohio that believed it was displaying a
hair sample from famed flyer Amelia Earhart made an unfortunate discovery,
after DNA analysis revealed it to be a piece of thread
** Uncover the Secrets of Tomb 10A
After 4,000 years in a tomb, Governor and Lady Djehutynakht are displaying
their lavish ancient Egyptian lifestyle - and one of their mummified heads -
in a spectacular exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts
** Beatles to Bowie
This major exhibition explores the leading pop music personalities who
helped create 'Swinging London' in the 1960s
** Yesterday's man Damien Hirst tumbles from No 1 to 48 in art rankings
The list is drawn up by an anonymous panel of 20 art insiders from around
the globe including journalists, curators and administrators
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** Rival bid on football museum move
Two councils and a university have joined forces to fight the National
Football Museum's proposed move from Preston to Manchester city centre
** Toilet seat museum named wackiest in U.S.
A Texas museum dedicated to a retired plumber's artwork - decorated toilet
seats - has been named the Wackiest Attraction in America by a popular Web
site
** Modern man a wimp says anthropologist
Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200
meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aquarius Jan 20 to Feb 18. Your defence lawyer is one of the best, but he
will have a hard time blaming those 11 murders on the bossa nova, the dance
of love
** Medical Film Symposium, Philadelphia, January 2010
Registration is now open for the Medical Film Symposium, to take place in
Philadelphia, PA from January 20th-23rd, 2010.
** New York State's Museums in Conversation: What Inspires You?
Call for Participation!
** Taking Stock: Museum Studies and Museum Practices in Canada
Call For Papers
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