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week's edition include:
** They will come
Extraordinary logistics went into staging this show: the Qatar Emiri Air
Force was enlisted to transport certain artworks, and Shell, an oil company,
provided purified water for the formaldehyde-tank sculptures
** 'Bionic man' makes debut at Washington's Air and Space Museum
A first-ever walking, talking "bionic man" built entirely out of synthetic
body parts made his Washington debut on Thursday
** Major gift of Japanese Art promised to the Harvard Art Museums
The Feinbergs' collection will have an important place within the Harvard
Art Museums permanent collections of Asian art, and their gift reinforces
Harvard University's status as a center for the study of Japanese art,
especially the history of Edo period art
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** 'Inhabitants of Madrid' Ate Elephants' Meat
Humans that populated the banks of the river Manzanares (Madrid, Spain)
during the Middle Palaeolithic (between 127,000 and 40,000 years ago) fed
themselves on pachyderm meat and bone marrow
** British Museum's El Dorado exhibition shines light on ancient Andeans
A new exhibition at the British Museum seeks to unpick the curious legend of
El Dorado and show the Andean peoples who inspired it in all their
complexity - as cultures who valued gold as highly as the European
adventurers who greedily deprived them of it, but not for its economic value
** First Navy submarine revealed as Gosport honours Holland 1
archaeological wreck
A century after the Naval and Military Record reported the "accident of the
Eddystone" which doomed the first submarine but "happily was not attended by
loss of life", the museum is commemorating the feat of engineering
** Banksy defaced: Graffiti artist's New York project ruined by spiteful
rivals
British graffiti artist Banksy's month-long 'residency' on the streets of
New York has already produced some witty, surprising and thoughtful
artworks - but almost all of the pieces have been defaced
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** Archaeologists want you to solve this 1,200-year-old Pictish puzzle
An online game will challenge computer users to solve an archaeological
puzzle: how to put together thousands of stone fragments to reconstruct the
chiseled design on a 1,200-year-old Scottish monument
** Skeletal $300 Chair Takes Cues From a $300 Million Museum
Almost every museum has a gift shop where visitors can buy a knickknack to
remember the time spent in front of a lovely Vermeer, but few galleries give
patrons the ability to purchase furniture inspired by the building's
architecture
** Stonehenge Treasures Reveal Worshippers' Sophistication
Hundreds of treasures from the golden age of Stonehenge have gone on
permanent display in England, revealing the story of the people who lived
amidst the area when the monument was one of the great religious focal
points of western Europe
** Museum of Flight to unveil Amelia Earhart exhibit featuring Lockheed
Electra
The 1935 Lockheed Model 10-E Electra airliner, with an extensive history of
its own, was restored in the mid-1990s to mimic the plane Earhart flew on
her fateful attempt in 1937 to fly around the world
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** Stolen Henry Moore sculpture fuels concerns over public art
Leading UK arts figures have questioned whether valuable sculptures should
be displayed in open locations after a "high value" Henry Moore bronze was
stolen from a site overlooking a reservoir
** U.S. government shutdown benefits art museum
The U.S. federal government shutdown forced the closure of monuments and
tourist sites across the country, but it brought some benefits to at least
one private art museum
** Getty Museum says Rembrandt self-portrait is cleared for export
The Rembrandt self-portrait that the Getty Museum recently purchased for an
estimated $25.1 million has been cleared by British authorities for export
and is expected to arrive in Los Angeles within one to two weeks
** Everybody's a curator
Depending on your dictionary, a curator can be "one who has the care of
souls," a thoughtful preservationist, or simply that person who selects a
few items out of many possibilities
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** Cave paintings reveal majority of prints were from female hands
Cave art paintings - long thought to have been made by male hunters to
commemorate their kills - may actually have mostly been the work of women,
according to a new study
** Museum Reveals Sherlock Holmes' Influence Not So Elementary
Sherlock Holmes, that legendary Victorian-era detective, reveals his
crime-solving secrets in a new exhibit currently on display at the Oregon
Museum of Science and Industry
** Hidden museum treasures you'll never see
We asked some local museums what they might have in storage that won't be on
exhibit any time soon for whatever reason - fragility, unsuitability with
the collection, or sheer size
** Bronze Age boiled brains shakes science
The finding of the preserved brains, which date back to the Bronze Age, is
unique and precious, and will not only shed light on the brain activities of
the ancient people but also add to the knowledge of paleontology and
forensics
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** Iraqi Jewish Treasures Displayed in D.C. Before Being Shipped Back to .
Iraq
The story of how these treasures of the Iraqi Jews were recovered from the
basement of Saddam's torturers is amazing enough to warrant space of its own
within the exhibit
** This Week's Horoscopes
Capricorn - Fears of being exposed as a fraud will be realized this week
when you're revealed to lack the fluid color, strong lines, and playful
style of Matisse's trademark works
** Treasure trove of gemstones
The glistening treasure trove lay underground for nearly 300 years after it
was buried between 1640 and 1666, the year of the Great Fire of London and
the end of the Great Plague
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** Wood Type Museum announces collaboration with font designer
Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum announces its collaboration with
internationally known type designer Erik Spiekermann.
** Ethics of public collections: public interest and private stakeholders
INHA Auditorium - 25-26 November, 2013. 2, rue Vivienne - 75002 Paris
** Inventing the Surveillance Society
Warner Bros. Theater, National Museum of American History
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