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" - User Feedback *** Four Pages of the Latest Museum News & Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org . ** Chinese librarian replaced 140 masters paintings with works he painted himself In an audacious heist worthy of a Hollywood plot - a librarian at a leading Chinese fine arts gallery is accused of stealing 143 paintings by grandmasters over the course of two years and replacing them with his own forgeries ** Naked artist left dangling from tree by foot wins prize for performance piece The artist said she was stuck for so long her camera battery went flat and she was only rescued when cries of help were eventually heard by a friend ** Stolen Rodin sculpture recovered through lucky breaks, persistent chipping The tale began in 1991, when a Beverly Hills couple returned home from vacation to find that their house in the north side of town had been ransacked of $1 million in art and other personal items _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 3,562? 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Those who climb to the top of art's lofty pillar are constrained to stand until they can stand no more, until whatever meaning their rectitude originally had has been lost in a vortex of senseless repetition ** Gilded threads of gifting and looting These are essential detail: through them, the legacy of looting and gifting by which the museum collection was built becomes common knowledge ** Grevin's Seoul museum waxes lyrical about K-pop Psy, Paris Hilton and Queen Elizabeth II all made it, but South Korean President Park Geun Hye turned down her chance of immortality in the first Asian outpost of France's famous waxwork museum, Musee Grevin, that opened in Seoul ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 127K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,324 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** Teen finds 560,000 year-old tooth A 16-year-old French volunteer archaeologist has found an adult tooth dating back around 560,000 years in south-western France, in what researchers hailed as a "major discovery." ** Thousands of Exhausted Things While releasing this data with “No Rights Reserved” was a significant milestone for MoMA, a bigger cultural shift lies behind the records that are marked “not curator approved.” ** Museum, artist in row over 'political’ works One of Japan's best-known artists is locked in a fight with a public museum over claims that it threatened to pull the plug on works by him that are critical of the conservative government ** Spectacular Zaha Hadid-Designed Mountain Museum Opens in the Dolomites The Messner Mountain Museum (MMM) in Corones is the last in a network of six museums erected on mountaintops across South Tyrol in an ambitious museum project created by the renowned Italian mountaineer, Reinhold Messner ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,027 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** Gruesome Find: 100 Bodies Stuffed into Ancient House The remains of 97 human bodies have been found stuffed into a small 5,000-year-old house in a prehistoric village in northeast China ** Metropolitan Museum Draws Record Crowds Buoyed by strong international tourism, a spate of well-attended shows and a seven-day-a-week schedule, the Metropolitan Museum of Art drew 6.3 million visitors in the last year, the most since it began tracking these statistics more than 40 years ago ** The one museum show Donald Trump should see this summer If there’s just one museum Donald Trump goes to this summer, let’s hope it’s El Museo del Barrio ** Salvador Dalí’s Rare, Erotic Vintage Cookbook If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eating into a form of punishment, close this book at once; it is too lively, too aggressive, and far too impertinent for you ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 1,414 Pins, 292 Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Outrage as planned 'female museum' is dedicated to women killer Jack the Ripper Organisers are accused of duping London city planners into approving their tourist attraction by pretending to "celebrate the women of the East End" ** 8 oddities found at Phoenix-area museums Are these stone slabs maps reportedly discovered in the desert, maybe near Apache Junction, real or fake treasure maps? ** Museum fees are an abandonment of British ideals I was surprised to hear that a photograph of me giving an art lesson at the National Gallery had appeared on the Guardian website, particularly as it was used to illustrate an article I couldn’t disagree with more ** FIFA exhibit to open at America's national museum of organized crime The exhibit will examine the “kickbacks, secrecy and match-fixing” associated with FIFA “through photographs, media clippings and cover stories and expository narrative.” ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles – 197,128 in Circles. 8,008 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** A Motherlode of Research and it's Free The first 100 or so reports are online and free to download from the Council for British Archaeology ** Literature, Music and Cultural Heritage ICOM ICLM 2015 Conference ** Opening Doors: MP Seminar 15 September ** SAH International Travel Grant Program Deadline August 31, 2015 ** This Week's Horoscopes Aries - Not only will romance, adventure, and thrills refuse to come to you, they will also refuse to come to theaters near you. 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