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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Mistresses a well-kept secret
An anti-corruption exhibition at Beijing's military museum reveals that more
than 60 per cent of recently disgraced communist officials were involved in
shady property deals and almost 90 per cent of them kept mistresses
** N.Korean Museum Said to Be Selling National Treasure
There have been rumors for years that North Korean leaders have been
secretly selling the country's cultural assets to collect foreign currencies
** Museum a Three Stooges treasure-trove
The statues of Larry, Moe and Curly are near the entrance to the Stoogeum,
home of Lassin's large and priceless collection of Stooges memorabilia
** Stolen paintings mystery lingers, 35 years late
Thirty-five years ago, three armed and hooded bandits broke into the
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts through a skylight under repair and made off
with 18 paintings and 37 objects of decorative arts and jewelry
** Now a museum for domestic appliances
They come from flea markets across Europe and the US, from Internet auctions
or dusty lofts - the vacuum cleaners and hot irons, toasters and pans from
the avantgarde of modern design, which French collector Jean-Bernard Hebey
has picked up over decades
** Playing Politics with the Romanovs
On July 29 archaeologists announced that they had discovered near
Yekaterinburg in the Urals the remains of a young boy and adolescent woman
thought to be the 13-year-old Crown Prince Alexei, son of the last Russian
Emperor Nicholas Romanov, and Alexei's sister, believed to be 19-year-old
Maria
** Fashion exhibitions upset fine art fans
Despite the booming attendance, some local artists, art dealers, collectors
and other frequent museumgoers have begun to question Buchanan's priorities,
wondering whether he is more interested in fluff than fine arts
** And I leave £1.5m to the village museum - please move it to my bedroom
A tiny rural museum whose prize exhibits include a small collection of
bicycle lamps and a 15ft-long python skin has been left £1.5 million by a
reclusive spinster
** Replacement canvas is not really a Rubens after all
On the eve of the 35th anniversary of the $2 million art heist at the
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, it has emerged that a "spectacular" purported
Rubens, unveiled with great fanfare in 1975, has been withdrawn from public
view, its original attribution to the Flemish master discredited
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** Tourists return to Ancient Olympia after fire
Surrounded by charred trees and still smelling of smoke, Ancient Olympia is
welcoming back tourists after a fire which almost destroyed the home of the
Olympic games
** Da Vinci's painting technique secrets uncovered
Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci avoided the palette and mixed colours
directly on the canvas, Italian researchers said after they reconstructed
his work step by step "as if watching him while he painted"
** This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius - November 22 to December 21. A passionate and intelligent
debate over semantics this week will unfortunately get bogged down by
pragmatics
** No plans to excavate mausoleum of first emperor Qinshihuang
Chinese researchers in 2002 confirmed that there was a huge underground
palace in the mausoleum by using remote sensing and geophysical exploration
technologies
** Museum closes section after ceiling falls
The ceiling's collapse is a wake-up call, suggesting that the museum, built
in 1910, is in a serious need of an upgrading
** Jackson Pollock mystery gets its first airing
Though the show features about 170 pieces, including paintings, drawings,
photographs and letters, the highlight promises to be about two dozen small
drip paintings discovered in a storage locker five years ago, labeled as
works by Pollock
** Collection reveals a Freudian mind
There was also the chance that his collection of antiquities may not arrive,
even though Freud had won clearance for it from the Nazi authorities
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** Rugby as art? Paris museum opens its doors
The museum also covered its roof over with green turf and turned it into a
mock playing field with a close-up view of the Eiffel Tower
** Van Gogh painted on tea towels
Artist Vincent Van Gogh, known for being always short of money and
materials, resorted to painting on tea towels according to the curator of
the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
** Museum gets big bucks for stuffed dogs
A British museum is getting nearly $175,000 to renovate a display of four
dozen stuffed dead dogs
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Project?
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Forum conference in New York City on October 21 - 23
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