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The headlines this week:
** Pyramid Pieces for Sale on Web
Anyone for a piece of the Great Pyramid of Cheops? That is what one
anonymous seller is advertising on the U.S. online auction site eBay Inc.
** Decapitated 'King' Rises to Challenge Historians
A mysterious execution some 1,300 years ago could force historians to
rewrite the history of the Stonehenge standing stones
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** Palace of Gold & Light
One of history's most powerful empires is highlighted by this exhibition of
imperial jewels and treasures from the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey.
** Yoko Sues Tokyo Subway Company
Yoko Ono is up in arms about a different "Ticket to Ride" - she's suing a
Japanese subway company that manufactured a fare card featuring a likeness
of her late husband
** This Week's Horoscopes!
Taurus: Though you often dismiss it as "only a game," you really ought to
take your job as a liquid-petroleum fuel-truck driver a little more
seriously
** New Net Exhibit: But Is It Tate?
Heaps of praise from the world's leading art and architecture critics have
been lavished upon London's new Tate Modern, a glass-crowned power station
on the bank of the River Thames
** Historic Clipper May Be Lost
The historic clipper City of Adelaide is in growing danger of being lost to
the state
** Peter the Penguin gives his adoring fans the slip
The half-meter-tall black and white bird shot to stardom after completing a
750km swim from Port Elizabeth to his home on Robben Island
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** Imaging Technology Helps Sell Baseball Card for $1.265 M US
History was rewritten once again, as the rarest and most valuable baseball
card in the world, the T206 Honus Wagner, changed hands
** The General Motors Center for African American Art
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) announced today the creation of the
General Motors Center for African American Art as a new curatorial
department and resource center at the museum
** Carstens Toy Train Collection Coming to Colonial Williamsburg
Most of the trains in the collection were made in the first half of the 20th
century, the classic period for toy trains
** Birmingham Museum of Art Features Exhibit of Matisse Works
The exhibit marks the largest U.S. tour of Matisse works from this
collection in more than 20 years.
** Achieving Excellence: Museum Leadership In the 21st century
September 6-9, 2000 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
** A dot-com call to art
Tech companies are driving artists out of San Francisco, but tech
millionaires could save them
** Museums told sharing is better than hoarding
Regional museums, libraries and archives should think the unthinkable,
selling parts of their collections, sharing items with other institutions
and taking exhibits to pubs and schools
** Vaal Triangle to get human rights museum
While many foreign tourists flocked to Soweto every day to see heritage
sites put up in the area, there was very little for anyone to see in
Sharpeville that told the story of the township
** The art that fashion forgot
The German Symbolists were long thought a gloomy breed. But a new show is a
revelation
** Web site of the Week - Something Fishy!
AMOL's excellent Australian Fish Collections online.
** How was this disgrace allowed?
Under relentless pressure from the Government to boost museum attendance
figures, directors are dumbing down our visual culture with trendy thematic
hangs, meretricious contextualisation and intrusive displays of contemporary
art in galleries containing Old Masters
** New Wireless Information System for Museum
The American Museum of the Moving Image, in Astoria, Queens-the only
American museum dedicated to the art, history, technique, and technology of
the moving image-is partnering with Organic, Inc
** The Vasa Museum celebrates its tenth anniversary
Sweden's most famous museum, housing the warship Vasa which sank on its
maiden voyage in 1628, is currently in the midst of its 10th anniversary
celebrations.
** Why not actually sail a Tall Ship, rather than just watch them ?
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