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address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Russian artist fined over exhibition
Lawyers for the two convicted museum workers said they hoped the decision
would be overturned on appeal, but human rights groups said the court had
already shown how far post-Soviet Russian courts were from protecting free
speech
** Antarctic Oil Painting Shrouded in Mystery
As art restorers in London inspected a 230-year-old painting by master
landscape artist Thomas Hodges, they noticed the canvas was thicker in some
areas than others
** Radiation holds key to Inca riddle
OSU researcher Leah Minc used neutron activation analysis to identify the
compositional elements of 15th century pottery found in several sacred
burial sites
** Witch Craft Museum owner earns commendation
Firemen searching the museum directly after the flood were horrified to
discover a woman's body in the mud. Fortunately it turned out to be the
resident waxwork witch 'Joan'.
** £14m facelift to drag gallery into tourist age
It has become a byword for faded glory but the fortunes of the Scottish
National Portrait Gallery are about to be dramatically reversed
** From darkness of Holocaust, to light
Marcus, now a 79-year-old grandmother living in retirement in Israel, was a
warrior who rode bicycles and trains around France under the nose of the
Gestapo, collecting blank residency forms, municipal stamps, and lists of
names that could be forged successfully
** Exhibit showcases art of medical quackery
For hundreds of years, the flamboyant sellers of patent medicines relied not
only on exorbitant claims and theatrical presentations to push their
panaceas, but also employed accomplished artists to create advertisements
for their too-good-to-be-true elixirs and gadgets
** Behind the IT Scenes: The U.K.'s Science Museum
The museum is using the WiMAX technology to connect the various hangars,
each crammed with stuff
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** Lincoln Museum gets 'Assassination Carriage'
Almost a century-and-a-half ago, Abraham Lincoln took the last ride of his
life in a black leather carriage with silver mountings that delivered
Lincoln and his wife to a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington
** Atlanta agrees to help pay for new Coke museum
The $96.4 million attraction will be more than twice the size of the current
Coke museum
** Prankster invades some of greatest art museums
It was not nearly as dangerous as the time he sneaked into the elephant pen
at the London Zoo and scrawled a graffiti message from the point of view of
an elephant
** Expert aid in tiger search
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery has offered to become a Tasmanian tiger
"crime scene investigation" partner with a national magazine
** N*ked Women Lose Out to Stuffed Shark in $20 Billion Art Market
It comes with some mighty negative implications in a contemporary-art market
prone to rewarding perplexing fads, such as a Cattelan sculpture of a
stuffed squirrel named Bidibidobidiboo committing suicide with a pistol at a
kitchen table.
** Tate benefits from Turner payout
The Tate Gallery plans to invest £1m in cataloguing the works of artist JMW
Turner, and £10m on new art, following an insurance payout of £17m
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** Found, in an Oxfordshire field: the 'lost emperor' who briefly ruled
western Europe
When Brian Malin's metal detector emitted a faint beep on a spring evening
two years ago, he would have had little idea that his discovery, far from
adding a footnote to local history, was about to rewrite that of the ancient
world
** Toulouse-Lautrec and His Demimonde Draw a Crowd
For drugs it offers absinthe, a concoction made from wormwood, which though
now illegal in most countries was easily available in the nightclubs of the
district
** Visible storage catches on in museums
This is Luce Centre for American Art, and it is among a growing number of
visible storage centres in the world. Art experts say visible storage is a
good option for museums to show the public the breadth of a specific
collection, but they caution that it must be used to complement, not to
replace, traditional exhibits
** Looted Manuscript to Be Returned to Italy
A 12th century manuscript belonging to the British Library is to be returned
to Italy because it was looted in the Second World War
** Dubai company to buy Tussauds for 1.5 billion dollars
A Dubai investment company said it would acquire Tussauds Group, which runs
Madame Tussauds wax museum and the London Eye among other sites
** Roman Sculpture of Venus Exhibited For the First Time Since It's
Discovery
Unearthed in Beth Shean, in the Jordan Valley, this exquisite work is one of
the most remarkable life-size sculptures ever found in Israel
** Indian centre is missing artefacts
More than 270 American Indian works of art and artefacts are missing from
the financially beleaguered Mid-America All-Indian Centre
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** Tourism and Performance: Scripts, Stages and Stories
** Cushing Library to Host Cervantes Symposium and Exhibit
** Pangea Institute announces our first Shark Tooth Trek adventure.
** The Mold Came on Little Cat Feet
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