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** Is postmodernism Gaga, Warhol or a wooden toaster?
I'd come along early in the hope of finding a line of ironic overnight sleepers, a distracted gaggle of the self-aware emerging from kitsch tents and eating knowing bacon sarnies on uncomfortable-looking deckchairs fashioned from shopping trolleys

** Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition drawings on show
Pencil sketches depict the moment the explorer and his team discovered Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen had beaten them to the South Pole

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** Days of waves and hedonism
Surf City, an exhibition at the Museum of Sydney, opened by former world champion Layne Beachley, is the first show to focus on one city's contribution to the growing culture, as seen through the eyes of the wide variety of surfers at the time

** Call for Dutch Royal House to ditch allegedly offensive painting
“Homage of the Colonies” decorates one side of Queen Beatrix’s iconic gold-trimmed carriage, and depicts half-naked, brown-skinned women and men in servile poses bearing gifts to an enthroned white woman

** Google Earth reveals Nazca-like structures in Arabia
Kennedy says that many countries in the Middle East will not provide aerial photographs or permit flights for archaeological research, so Google Earth provides the only way to analyse the region

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** Fight in the museum: director accused of selling off exhibits
A dispute has broken out between the trustees of an award-winning Bristol museum and a fired former director they accuse of the unauthorised disposal of up to 150 exhibits

** Tracing Renaissance art to the birth of modern banking
Entitled "Money and Beauty: Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities," the exhibition in Florence's Palazzo Strozzi looks at how Florence's famous families got rich - and how they then used their wealth to commission works from some of the world's most celebrated artists

** Silence from South African art world following Venice Biennale controversy
The controversy arose when a blog revealed that gallerist Monna Mokoena and the Lethole Mokoena, listed on the Biennale’s website as South Africa’s commissioner, were one and the same person

** What would you name a new worm?
The British public will get to name five newly discovered species of this deep-sea worm, the Natural History Museum in London has said, as it opens its doors to explain that taxonomy - the practice of naming new species - is not taxing, but fun

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** Museum acquires World War II-era boxcar used to transport Jews during Holocaust
Believed to be one of the last in existence and the only to be exported to the U.S. from Germany, the 10-ton boxcar is scheduled to arrive at the Farmington Hills museum on Friday morning

** Archaeologists Uncover Evidence of Large Ancient Shipyard Near Rome
The discovery of this building has major implications for our understanding of the significance of the hexagonal basin or harbour at Portus and its role within the overall scheme of the port complex

** The Museum of Obsolete Objects
Sadly, as our daily lives become more and more digital some things fall by the way side as they are replaced by newer, "better" devices; but let us not forget those fallen appliances, tools and gadgets

** Placing Islamic Art on a New Pedestal
Treasures, in this case more than a thousand pieces from the museum’s extensive holdings of Islamic art, have been slowly populating newly constructed rooms, taking their places in gleaming new vitrines with Egyptian marble underfoot and mosque lamps overhead, amid burbling fountains and peaked arches framing views of 13 centuries of art history

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** Aboriginal Australians: The First Explorers
By sequencing the genome, the researchers demonstrate that Aboriginal Australians descend directly from an early human expansion into Asia that took place some 70,000 years ago, at least 24,000 years before the population movements that gave rise to present-day Europeans and Asians

** When a Nude is a Dude
Their decision to sell off eight paintings in order to purchase a piece by the Impressionist master Gustave Caillebotte is a interesting look at how sexuality, art, and commerce coalesce in the curation of high-end collections

** Largest pinball museum in U.S. to open
Decades after he slept under a pinball machine wedged into his cramped apartment, David Silverman will open the America's largest museum dedicated to speeding silver balls and fast-motion flippers

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** Found! Arkansas' lost moon rock turns up in Clinton files
For years, Arkansas historians have searched for a valuable lunar rock from the Apollo 17 mission, one of the moon rocks NASA presented to each state in the 1970s

** Air museum eviction 'immoral,' vet says
Second World War pilot Philip Gray says it is “immoral” that Downsview Park is evicting the Canadian Air and Space Museum. See also Toronto`s Canadian Air & Space Museum shut down

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