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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Woman doing handsprings attacks art at German museum
A woman doing handsprings hurled herself into two art installations at the
controversial exhibition of a collection belonging to the billionaire heir
of a Nazi-era arms supplier, damaging both pieces
** Stolen bugs break staff hearts at museum
While the three-year-old museum has experienced thefts before, this was the
first time so many specimens have been taken in such a short period of time
** MoMA Neighbours Sad to See Museum Go
"It would be good if they stayed open," said the owner of the Thompson Diner
in front of MoMA QNS, and who expects to see a 5-to-10 percent drop in
weekend customers. "I wish I could go into Manhattan with them." (See also
story below)
** Woman Inherits Rare Shakespeare Book
A British woman is planning to auction a rare edition of a Shakespeare book
that she inherited from a distant relative she didn't know existed
** Rembrandt On Sale For $46M
Flanked by gun-toting guards and security cameras, one of the few Rembrandt
paintings not in a museum or private collection goes on public display
Saturday and on sale with an asking price of $46 million
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** Fall man dies at Concorde Museum
An elderly man has died after falling 15 feet from an aircraft doorway at
Bristol's Concorde museum
** $20 MoMA Admission Will Give You Art Attack
Art isn't all that will amaze at the new Museum of Modern Art - the ticket
price will be more startling than Picasso's cubism
** Bikini Atoll victim exhibition opens
An exhibition has opened at a Tokyo museum of about 100 letters of sympathy
sent in 1954 to the family of a fishing boat crew member who died six months
after being exposed to the U.S. bomb experiment at Bikini Atoll
** Science Museum film to set new 3-D standard
A partnership of cosmic proportions may propel the Science Museum of
Minnesota and Twist Films to the forefront of 3-D movie-making for museums
across the country
** Museum seeking security lesson
Hazard and Pequot museum Director of Security George Eleazer will get a
special tour of the Smithsonian Institution's newest and final addition to
the National Mall to see if there are any advances in security technology
that they can bring to Mashantucket.
** Signs of an earlier American
Within days, the affable archaeologist expects to read the results of lab
tests indicating that stone tools he recently found in South Carolina are
25,000 years old - or older
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aries: (March 21 - April 19) You're getting tired of living out of boxes,
but if you stop now, you'll damage your reputation as the patron saint of
the cardboard cubist lifestyle
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** City comes to aid of museum
The city of Denver has stepped in to rescue the financially struggling Museo
de las Americas
** Review: Museum of the American Indian
Cardinal and his U.S. collaborators were fired by the Smithsonian
Institution in 1998, about halfway through the design process
** V&A's £70m Spiral extension axed
The Spiral was part of the museum's Future Plan - a project to develop
different parts of the institution including the garden, some galleries and
the building's north and south courts
** Paris builds primitive art museum
The Quai Branly will combine collections currently housed at the museums of
Mankind and of African and Oceanic Arts and at the Louvre, which lacks space
to exhibit all its pieces
** The Long Wok
With "Have You Eaten Yet?"- an exhibit named after a traditional way of
greeting friends that underscores the Chinese cultural obsession with all
things edible - the odd ubiquity of the Chinese restaurant in America is
given its due as something more than a marketing quirk
** Museum targeted by Chechens?
Some reports suggested the planned attack might have targeted a museum on
the road where Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov had invited mayors from other major
cities at the weekend
** Museum salutes queen of floral art
Every trendy florist who ties up an ornamental cabbage and a few bent willow
twigs for the price of a winter coat should murmur a silent prayer of
gratitude to Constance Spry, queen of English flower arrangers
** Worker falls to death at NYC museum
A contractor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art fell to his death through
glass panelling while doing maintenance work in the museum's skylight area
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** Creating Collections with Young Children
** Good Chemistry: Opening of New Sciencentre in Qld Museum
** Calligraphy Workshop Slated
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