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The international headlines this week (for the full story visit the webzine)
include:
** McGuggenheim?
Ever since Lorenzo de Medici first sponsored Michelangelo, the
commercialisation of art has been gathering pace
** Ship ahoy! Wrecks wash up under farmers' ploughs
Managing a farm in Europe these days is no easy task, what with problems
like mad cow disease and severe flooding
** Despair reigns in rubble of proud Indian city
The 400-year-old Aina Mahal (Glass Palace), home to a celebrated museum of
the ruling family's heirlooms, still stands, but lumps of masonry litter the
grounds and no one has yet ventured inside to assess the damage to the
collection
** Faked digs put archaeologists on defensive
Shock waves ran through Japan in November after it was revealed that revered
amateur archaeologist Shinichi Fujimura had planted findings of early
Paleolithic relics at two of his dig sites
** New tycoons give millions to charities
Entrepreneurs who have made fortunes in the City and in computers and
property are challenging established trusts as large donors
** Terra Museum fight takes to airwaves
Since the lawsuit, hundreds of calls have come in asking, "Are you still
open?" a foundation spokesman said..
** Authorities must retrieve all of Iran's stolen artifacts
The daily was referring to the `hundreds, and thousands' of archaeological
findings which have been smuggled out of he country, since the influx of the
European archaeologists to Iran
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** Stoned for centuries ... the true history of hard rock
In the shadows on your right are fossils from ancient wetlands ... the
Osmonds, Racey, Mark Holden, several members of the Jackson family and a
particularly fine Leo Sayer.
** Tax woes stall artifact return
British officials are trying to clear up a tax problem that has stalled the
return to England of artifacts recovered near the body of climber George
Mallory, who died on Mount Everest more than 75 years ago
** Sales of Old Master Paintings at Sotheby's Total $32.3 Million
Highlighting the sale was a Hans Hoffmann painting, ``A Hare in the
Forest,'' which sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum for $2.6 million
** Astronomical Globe, Sundial Exhibit Marks Pavilion Opening
An exhibit of astronomical globes and instruments goes on view Saturday at
the American Museum of Natural History in New York to mark the opening of
its Judy and Josh Weston Pavilion
** Kyoto museum returns Nazi-looted art to Russian owners' kin
The 1921 abstract pastel by Klee (1879-1940) was turned over to the kin's
proxy by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum in Kyoto
** Thieves hop it with golden pond phony
They came in the dead of night for a valuable ancient gold frog from South
America, smashing their way through three sets of doors at the Auckland
Museum
** Auschwitz Revisited
Prodded by Holocaust survivors and scholars, Auschwitz has been giving up
more of its last infernal secrets.
** 2 Explorers, Followed by Millions
History buffs thrill in retracing the path of Lewis and Clark. The
expedition's bicentennial is a tourism bonanza, but some environmentalists
and Indians are not enthralled
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** Popularity Boom Speaks Volumes About Libraries
More than $3 billion has been spent on libraries nationwide over the last
six years, giving rise to a new generation of airy, palatial community
gathering spots that offer everything from Internet access to espresso
** Troubled museums and galleries need new attractions
Fears are growing for the long-term future of one of Glasgow's most popular
galleries after it was subjected to stinging criticism by culture minister
Sam Galbraith.
** Divers study shipwrecks, artifacts off coast of Kenya
Diving in the shadow of a 16th-century fort off Kenya's coast, marine
archaeologists say they have found new treasures in the Indian Ocean and
conducted Africa's first undersea archaeological survey
** Man's germs wiped out mammoths
But now a leading paleontologist believes he has found the cause of the
extinctions: these great animals died because they caught coughs and colds
from human beings
** Devon in three-way battle over bones of shipwrecked slaves
A collection of human bones, thought to be the remains of about 40 African
slaves washed up on a Devon beach 200 years ago after a shipwreck, is at the
centre of a custody battle
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** Catastrophies and Catastrophe Management in Museums
** Setting Standards And Making It Real
** The Programme for Belize Archaeological Project (PfBAP)
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