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** To ban or not to ban photography

Permitting photography led to constant tension between those who wanted a clear view for their camera and those who wished to look at the Van Gogh Museum's paintings

** Famous Chinese artists on board missing Malaysian plane

A group of Chinese artists travelling home after an exhibition in Kuala Lumpur were on the Malaysian Airline flight that was lost over the South China Sea

** Ancient gold coin left by dynasty with Jesus blood line link

An “extremely rare” 7th century gold coin, thought to come from the Merovingians – the dynasty linked to the blood line of Jesus Christ in Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code – is part of a new exhibition opening in Glasgow

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** Descent into madness entwines Van Gogh, Artaud at Paris exhibition

The shrieks of mad women assault visitors entering the Musee d'Orsay's new exhibit on Vincent Van Gogh, an arresting look at the painter's work as seen through the eyes of the late avant-garde French theatre director and playwright Antonin Artaud

** Milwaukee Public Museum's taxidermist has eye for detail

The Milwaukee Public Museum's taxidermist turns pelts, skins, feathers and fur into leaping, crouching, prancing, regal animals so lifelike they could make a living lion or bear salivate and think of dinner

** Ernest Hemingway letter to 'dearest Kraut' Marlene Dietrich to be sold

A surreal, graphic letter from Ernest Hemingway to Marlene Dietrich, in which the author addresses the film star as "Dearest Kraut" and imagines her "drunk and naked", is set to be auctioned to the public

** US college museum sanctioned for selling work to London’s National Gallery

The board of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) has voted to sanction the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College in Virginia for selling a painting by George Bellows to support the college’s general operating budget

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** Ruin Lust at Tate Britain

From Turner to Tacita Dean, across painting, film, and sculpture, this exhibition explores the idea of the ruin “of the mind” as well as the real human history that underscores these monumental and often beautiful wrecks

** Iraq commemorates 1920 revolt against Britain in new museum

Iraq opened a museum in the Shiite pilgrimage city of Najaf on Thursday commemorating a 1920 uprising against British occupation in a building that once housed captured soldiers

** Singapore's National Museum, Asian Civilisations Museum to undergo revamp

Both the National Museum and Asian Civilisations Museum are set to undergo a revamp - these are part of efforts by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth leading up to celebrations for Singapore's 50th anniversary

** History may turn on a shilling

An amateur treasure hunter with a hand-held metal detector may set Canadian history on its head by finding a 16th century shilling buried in clay on the shores of Vancouver Island

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** Sarawak Museum mulls over decision to display WWII plane wreckage

The Sarawak Museum Department is mulling whether to display the wreckage of a US aircraft shot down by the Japanese forces during the Second World War

** German archaeologist suggests British Museum's Warren Cup could be forgery

A Roman silver drinking vessel that depicts two sets of male lovers is one of the most prized jewels in the British Museum, singled out by director Neil MacGregor for his critically acclaimed History of the World in 100 Objects

** Met Museum launches MetCollect

MetCollects will feature one work each month, selected from the hundreds that the Metropolitan Museum acquires through gifts and purchases annually, pairing spectacular photography with curatorial commentary for further contextualization of the works

** Warm, Wet Times Spurred Medieval Mongol Rise

The great Mongol empire was made possible not by brilliant leadership alone, but by a 15-year period of abnormal moisture and warmth in central Mongolia in the early 1200s

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** Childhood museum to tackle hard facts

The themes of child labour, poverty, exploitation, bullying and racial and gender stereotyping could be included under the new plans and people will be invited to say what they think should be included in the museum

** Sir Ranulph Fiennes joins fight to stop photographs being sold abroad

Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has joined a Cambridge museum’s fight to stop historic photographs of Captain Scott’s doomed South Pole expedition being sold abroad

** Museum adds 'Indiana Midget' memorabilia to collection

According to a pamphlet published by Barnum titled “The True History of the Indiana Midget” - which the donor also gave the museum along with the shoes - Keeler was born in 1868 and by the age of 11, stood at only 28 inches tall and weighed in at 11 pounds

** This Week's Horoscopes

Leo - Raise your voice in anger and rail against the Gods all you want, but they only have it in blue and not in your size

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** Ancient bison allows scientists to travel back in time - 9,000 years

Currently, scientists continue a full anatomic autopsy, taking out and describing every organ, with a simultaneous microbiological, genetic and histological tests, as well as studying of animal's parasites

** UDC’s Postal Museum looks at US history with China

Highlights include an 1849 letter to an American opium trader, rare proofs of stamps from the China Bureau of Engraving and Printing and original artwork from the U.S. Postal Service’s Lunar New Year stamps

** After the deluge, High River’s museum thaws out Alberta’s history

The floods wreaked such a massive emotional (three deaths, immeasurable trauma) and financial ($6-billion by some estimates) toll on southern Alberta, few but a coterie of history buffs noticed the rich cultural heritage that was lost

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** XXI ICOMON Meeting Serbia

Invitation to the XXI ICOMON Annual Meeting, that will take place in Belgrade, Serbia

** The Land Between...

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