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week's edition include:
** Rhino heads and horns worth £428,000 stolen from Irish museum storage
The keeper of the museum's natural history division said staff had taken the
decision to remove its rhino horn collection from public display in 2011,
following a spate of "smash and grab" thefts from museums across Europe
** Roman-Era 'Cosmetics' May Have Treated Eye Chlamydia
Roman-era toiletry sets consisting of tweezers, scrapers and other artifacts
have long been interpreted as beauty aids, but it's possible the tools had a
more gruesome use: to treat a type of Chlamydia that infects the eye
** Uniqlo to sponsor MoMA events amid US push
Japan's cheap chic clothing chain Uniqlo says it has signed a multi-year
sponsorship deal with the Museum of Modern Art in New York amid an
aggressive international expansion push
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** Stonehenge Settled 5,000 Years Earlier Than Thought
Excavation near Stonehenge found evidence of a settlement dating back to
7,500 BC, revealing the site was occupied some 5,000 years earlier than
previously thought
** Want a Helicopter? Air and Space Museum Unloading Parts of Its
Collection
Among the items listed are wing assemblies, rocket valves, engine parts,
spacesuits, and even whole satellites, helicopters, and rocket engines
** Sandbagging underway at Museum protects Titanic exhibition
The museum, featuring an exhibition of artifacts from the Titanic, is taking
the precaution, along with many other sites along the Grand River, in the
face of record flooding in West Michigan
** Deal Fell Through; Painting Lives On
What this means for art lovers in New York is a chance to see another
commanding Velázquez at this already well-stocked museum, and to appreciate
that this artist's politically savvy portraits are more than just tools of
statesmanship
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** Could Life Be Older Than Earth Itself?
Two geneticists have applied Moore's Law to the rate at which life on Earth
grows in complexity - and the results suggest organic life first came into
existence long before Earth itself
** National Postal Museum receives donation of original artwork
The material complements the Postmaster General's Collection, a
one-of-a-kind philatelic resource with unusual, rare and unique holdings, on
long-term loan from the U.S. Postal Service
** Abu Dhabi's Louvre museum offers first peek at growing collection ahead
of 2015 opening
Objects including a medieval nude sculpture and Christian icons suggest the
Abu Dhabi Louvre will not steer clear of themes such as sexuality and
religion that could draw fierce criticism in many other parts of the Islamic
world
** San Francisco Museum Is Sued by Former Curator
She charges her dismissal is related to her appearance at a union protest
and to objections she raised about the changing of an appraisal that she
"believed fraudulent and unlawful"
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** Why St Pancras's Clouds sculptures are on the right track
The ideology that guides art commissions for St Pancras Station looks
clearer than ever: its guiding lights, who fought against philistine
modernists to save this 19th-century architectural masterpiece from decay
and destruction, have no truck with trendy "modern art"
** Wrapping up History Museum controversy
What was startling was not that Mr. Archibald used the museum's funds like
they were his own, but that the city's elite - aided by St. Louis Mayor
Francis Slay and St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley - put up such a
rousing defense of the museum director
** Imperial War Museum Duxford reveals photo archive of the Americans in
WWII Britain
Two highly contrasting worlds met with mixed results, despite the fact that
both US and British authorities made great strides to maintain good
relations between American servicemen and women and their hosts
** S.O.S., Seaport Museum says it's getting pushed out
The museum was on the road to curatorial and financial stability when
Superstorm Sandy struck, severely damaging the electrical systems in the
museum's Fulton St. premises
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** In Trinidad, the Archaeology of Cricket
Murray cautions that the museum is simply a start - a way to begin to
collect the plethora of artifacts and keepsakes still unclassified, still
undocumented hiding in various corners of the Oval
** The Real 'Hobbit' Had Larger Brain Than Thought
The 18,000-year-old fossils of the extinct type of human officially known as
Homo floresiensis were first discovered on the remote Indonesian island of
Flores in 2003
** Margaret Thatcher museum: Good way to spend $23 million?
Conservative Way Forward has unveiled plans for a Margaret Thatcher library
and museum that will feature her signature blue Aquascutum suits and
handbags, as well as a number of donated and loaned items
** Jewish history museum opens at Warsaw ghetto
Residents of the neighborhood are aware of its history, that hundreds of
thousands of Jews were imprisoned and sent to extermination camps where they
died in gas chambers
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** A Museum Expands; Not Everyone Is Cheering
That the finest building on the Museum of Modern Art's campus, recipient of
a Best Building in the World award in 2002, will be demolished because it
doesn't conform to the museum's vision of uniform glass windows and aligned
floor plates says something about Modernism itself
** Smithsonian Doesn't Know Which Art Galleries Will Close Due to
Sequestration
Ask spokespeople at any Smithsonian art museum whether they're planning to
temporarily close galleries due to sequestration, and chances are, they'll
say the same thing: "We don't know"
** Risk Assessment and Management of Collections Professional Workshop
The three-day professional level workshop Risk assessment and management of
collections is being offered 15th to the 17th of May 2013 at the Haute Ecole
Arc, Conservation-restauration, Espace de l'Europe 11, 2000 Neuchâtel,
Switzerland.
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** National Park Service's 2013 Archaeological Prospection Workshop
The National Park Service's 2013 workshop on archaeological prospection
techniques entitled Current Archaeological Prospection Advances for
Non-Destructive Investigations in the 21st Century will be held May 13-17,
2013, at the Cedar Point Biological Station near Ogallala, Nebraska.
** New Zealand artists of the 5th Auckland Triennial announced
With less than a month to opening on 10 May, New Zealand artists
participating in the 5th Auckland Triennial have been revealed today.
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