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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Painting 'lost' in the post auctioned by Royal Mail for £20
It had travelled safely 10,000 miles from Australia but went missing in the
British postal system, ending up in the pile of thousands of items of lost
post which are sold off every year
** Mexico mass grave may be Aztec resistance fighters
Archaeologists digging in a ruined pyramid in downtown Mexico City say they
have found a mass grave that may hold the skeletal remains of the Aztec
holdouts who fought conquistador Hernan Cortes
** Hampton Court Palace recovers jailbreak portrait after 360 years
A painting of a princess that was removed from Hampton Court Palace as part
of one of the most courteous jailbreaks in English history has been returned
after 360 years
** Depths of despair: £2.5m funding crisis threatens mining museum
The Lady Victoria Colliery, which now houses the Scottish Mining Museum, is
in danger of being lost forever unless funding is found to save it from
collapse and, ultimately, closure
** Why University Museums Matter
Cease and desist is the advice I give university administrators toying with
thoughts of closing their campus museums and peddling the art, as Brandeis
recently threatened to do
** A Presidential Portrait In Pastry
When viewed from above, the installation looks something like an exercise in
large-scale cupcake pointillism - each cupcake acts as one pixel in the
image
** Wary Taiwan museum withholds treasures from China
Taiwan museum will not lend any of its art treasures to China, from where
they were originally taken, despite a goodwill loan of similar artefacts
from Beijing
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** New museum brings art to war-weary Algerians
Algerian artists are no longer the target of gunmen but some see a new
threat from an upsurge in traditionalism and religious conservatism across
the Arab world
** British academics protest Israel museum exhibit
A group of anti-Israel academics chided London's Science Museum for renting
space for an exhibition celebrating Israel's scientific achievements
** Wayne Clough is still trying to connect the Smithsonian Institution
Founded in 1846 by the bequest of English scientist James Smithson, the
Smithsonian began as a science-based institution and expanded into history,
arts and culture
** Major cache of fossils unearthed in L.A.
Researchers from the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea tar pits have
barely begun extracting the fossils from the sandy, tarry matrix of soil,
but they expect the find to double the size of the museum's collection from
the period, already the largest in the world
** Obama Signs Stimulus Bill At Denver Museum
Obama signed the newly passed $787 billion economic stimulus bill at the
Denver Museum of Nature And Science in Denver on Tuesday - the first time a
sitting president has ever visited the museum
** Uncovering ancient secrets beneath the surface
Using modern X-ray and spectral imaging , researchers are uncovering two
ancient manuscripts by Archimedes, who lived in Sicily in the third century
B.C.
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** Museum of American History Defines Itself Too Broadly
What does the visitor take away about American history from Julia Child's
home kitchen or the "Thanks for the Memories" gallery, which contains
Dorothy's ruby-red slippers from the Wizard of Oz, boxing gloves from Joe
Lewis and Muhammad Ali, Roberto Clemente's baseball uniform and Phyllis
Diller's wig?
** ROM brings the Book of the Dead back to life
The Book of the Dead of Amen-em-hat will be displayed with a collection of
over 130 rarely seen Egyptian artefacts, some displayed for the first time,
such as coffin masks, amulets used to protect the dead in the after-life,
funerary portraits, the head of a stone sarcophagus lid dating from 320
B.C., and a coffin dating back to approximately 960 B.C., belonging to a
woman of the priestly class
** Feature Site - The Sixties
Reel back the years at the York Castle Museum and travel back to a time when
the cultural changes were massive but the cars and skirts were mini
** Green light for Mary Rose museum
Plans to build a new £35m home for the Tudor warship Mary Rose in
Portsmouth's historic dockyard have been given planning approval
** Darwin's Theory of Evolution Has Changed Beyond All Recognition,
Scientists Say
By comparing the version held on the University's Intranet alongside the
original it became clear that the two were no longer the same
** Scientists unravel Neanderthal genome
The extraordinary feat gives scientists an unprecedented opportunity to
clarify the evolutionary relationship between humans and Neanderthals that
may ultimately shed light on the great mystery of how we became the most
formidable species on the planet
** German guile won Queen Nefertiti
Newly published documents show how a German archaeologist used trickery to
smuggle home a fabulous sculpture of the Egyptian queen, Nefertiti
** The Collage Book
Join us for the spring books arts workshop with Bea Nettles
** Workers' Society for Art
Art to the People 1936-2009
** Straight Talk: Museums Rising to the Financial Challenge
AAM invites you to register today for a new 4-Part web conference
** Going Public: Cross-disciplinary perspectives on presenting women's
history
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