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week's edition include:
** Leading Indian artist finds exhibition of his work full of fakes
India's art world is reeling from one of its most embarrassing forgery cases
after S.H. Raza, one of the country's foremost artists, inaugurated an
exhibition of his paintings in Delhi - only to discover that most were fakes
** Guantanamo the museum?
Guantanamo Bay Museum would be a cultural and historical showcase dedicated
to reinstating America's most important values, liberty and justice, giving
the detainees fair trial in the eyes of the outside world
** Boudicca's gold hoard unearthed
The solid gold staters - each weighing just over 5g - were made between 40BC
and AD 15, most of them in the final 35 years of that period
** Museum director who ruffled Kiwi feathers
The Canadian has ruffled more than a few Kiwi feathers introducing new ideas
to enhance the museum's connection with the city
** Militant Druids fight museum over a 4,000-year-old skeleton called
Charlie
Archaeologists fear that if the Druids' claims are successful, they could
open the floodgates to increasingly bizarre demands, stripping museums of
their collections
** Stakes Rise for Nazi-Looted Art as Lawyers Move In
The canvas of brightly coloured flowers, thought to have been destroyed in
an Allied bombing raid on Frankfurt, has belonged to a Swedish art museum
since 1967, and Deutsch's heirs have been fighting for five years to get it
back
** Casino supporting Plains Art Museum seeks new home
In the last six months of 2008, Henze said that the casino brought $77,000
to the museum - the total accounted for about 10 to 11 percent of the
museum's income during that period
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** Cuba's Vast Underwater Heritage
Cuba has 2,820 shipwrecks registered, as well as 120 archaeological sites
and a collection of some 5,000 objects taken from those sites
** Victory for baroness in art feud
Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, owner of one of Europe's finest private
art collections rivalled only by that of the Queen, has emerged victorious
from a bitter feud with her stepdaughter
** Italian police recover stolen masterpieces
Italian police have recovered 10 masterpieces, including a painting
attributed to an artist who worked on the Sistine Chapel, that were stolen
in 2004 from an ancient religious complex in Rome
** Sarkozy plan for history museum fails to stir France
The president, whose emphasis on French pride and "national identity" has
already caused controversy, declared this week that an all-encompassing
history museum would reinforce "French identity"
** The man who saved Russia's imperial treasures
New research has revealed that a former director of the Kremlin Museums in
Moscow helped save several precious items formerly owned by the Tsars - but
his efforts culminated in his death on a Moscow railway line in 1930
** Navajo Foods Highlighted
Kruger first showed the audience some of the traditional items that were
used in making blue corn mush, such as a grinding stone and a brush made out
of plants
** Museum unearths historical 'Cheese Mites'
The new Science Museum exhibit also includes 1936's "Enough to Eat," a film
by Julian Huxley that introduces the revolutionary world of so-called
vitamins to the general public
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** Bee-nevolent Bee-yond Bee-lief
The girls are the newest bee crusaders says the chair of the UC Davis
Department of Entomology and director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology
** Please don't squeeze the janitor
A do-not-molest sign near the popular lifelike sculpture at the Milwaukee
Art Museum has helped a lot, but we can't seem to keep our hands off the guy
** Library thief convicted
Hakimzadeh was a member of both the British Library and the Bodleian Library
and he committed his crimes by looking at books in the library reading rooms
and while doing so, he would carefully remove particular pages from a book
and then return it in its damaged condition
** Bulgarian lavatory to be removed from controversial EU artwork
The art work portrays Slovakia as a Hungarian sausage or, possibly, a human
body tied by a red-green-and-white string, the national colours of Hungary,
in a reference to historically tense relations between the two neighbouring
countries
** Gift to WWI museum would have been blasts in the past
Many are exotic specimens that will allow the museum to display the
evolution of the grenade during the first truly industrial war
** In Capital Museums: That Patriotic Spirit
Buying a lot more toilet paper is generally not an issue for a museum
director, but in these unusual times Susan Fisher Sterling, director of the
National Museum of Women in the Arts, said she was covering all the bases
** Star Quality
The World of Noël Coward - Museum of Performance & Design
** Fashioning Felt
The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present the
exhibition "Fashioning Felt," a comprehensive overview of the varied uses of
felt in contemporary design
** Announcing the 2009 AAM Muse Awards
Recognizing outstanding achievement in museum media, the American
Association of Museums' Media and Technology Committee announces the 20th
annual Muse Awards competition.
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