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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:
** Experts sceptical on claim of new discovery in Da Vinci's Last Supper
If this computer analyst did not make a historic discovery, I hope he
created something artistically beautiful
** Museum to display racing car is made from hemp
With a shell made of hemp, brake pads made from cashew nuts and powered by
fermented wheat, Eco One can reach a top speed of 150 mph and has a power to
weight ratio to match a Ferrari Enzo
** Museum staff strike over pay row
More than 250 staff from Liverpool's museums and galleries are on strike in
a row over pay
** Henson Muppet collection coming to Atlanta puppetry museum
The Centre for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta is set to be the definitive Jim
Henson museum with everything from original puppets to sketches from his
personal collection
** Octopus finds ancient Korean porcelain trove
An octopus clutching a finely glazed plate helped lead South Korean
archaeologists to a major cache of ancient porcelain buried under the sea
for centuries
** New museum to showcase Oman's rich heritage
The museum, known as The Frankincense Land Museum, is aptly located at Al
Balid Archaeological Park, which houses the ruins of Al Balid Frankincense
Centre, a UNESCO heritage site
** Finishing School for Nazis to Become Museum
Deep in the Eiffel region of western Germany, a stone-clad reminder of
Hitler's racist ideology towers above the surrounding wooded hills - the
remains of a training college for aspiring Nazi leaders that was built in
the style of a medieval castle
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** Convention crowd a little wooden
Fort Mitchell, home to the Vent Haven Museum of ventriloquism, attracted
several hundred ventriloquists from all around the world this week to the
31st annual Vent Haven ventriloquist convention
** Aviation Hall Honours Ride, Fossett
The first American woman in space and a daredevil who was the first person
to complete a solo balloon trip around the globe were among five people
inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame
** Beware conformity in the march of McGuggenheims
These elements of sameness do not just speak to a universal yen for
cappuccino culture - the status symbols that today represent the cultural
capital of highly educated, globally mobile and generally affluent urban
dwellers
** Fresco fragment revives Papal scandal
Such was Alexander VI's unpopularity that when he died - perhaps by
poisoning, perhaps from the plague - in 1503 at the age of 72, that the
priests of St Peter's Basilica at first refused to accept his body for
burial
** Oh, Pablo ... you're so virile
He made art, he said, with no care for the future, and the first revelation
of Edinburgh's two riveting shows is just how absolutely free he seems,
turning out images of 'bulls, Greeks and nekkid broads', in Claes
Oldenburg's description of classical art, all the way through the modern-art
century
** Evidence found of city beneath Alexandria
Scientists have found hidden underwater traces of a city that existed at
Alexandria seven centuries before Alexander the Great swept through Egypt
during his quest to conquer the known world
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** Woman Faces Charges for Kissing Painting
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of kissing a painting by American
artist Cy Twombly and smudging the bone-white canvas with her lipstick
** Wiltshire's own lost city of Atlantis
In his overweening desire to create the perfect centrepiece to his new
pastoral vision, Brown decided in 1776 to move tenants of the village of
Mannings Hill out of their houses and flood the valley to create, in one
fell swoop, a 45-acre lake
** Restored Saturn V rocket unveiled
Houston's moist air and rain began rotting the aluminium underside of the
Johnson Space Centre rocket, which is on loan from the Smithsonian's
National Air and Space Museum collection
** Guggenheim exhibit explores the forms of space
It shows the Guggenheim trying to look like a museum and make active use of
its collection, rather than functioning mostly as a kunsthalle dedicated to
travelling blockbusters
** Woman Killed In Fall From Museum Roof
The two got onto the roof from a staircase on the outside of the building
and were trying to climb onto the museum's adjacent neon sign that overlooks
the water
** Scotty museum set to beam up fans
The birthplace of Scotty from Star Trek is to host an exhibition dedicated
to the cult sci-fi character
** National Gallery chief walks away from the old masters
Mr Saumarez Smith is aid to have been undermined by a cabal of his own
curatorial staff who belittled his intellect and thought him a poor
connoisseur; his area of intellectual interest is architecture and interiors
rather than Old Masters
** New Gallery for Modern and Contemporary Photography
** Historic Housekeeping and Collection Care for the non-Conservator
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