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week's edition include:
** Plans for Jackson museum, project expand
Joe Jackson, the Jackson Five manager and an aggressive entrepreneur who led
the family to fame, recently told an "Access Hollywood" television reporter
he is helping with museum plans
** Field Museum Scientist Describes First Vertebrate To Live In Trees
In the Late Paleozoic (260 million years ago), long before dinosaurs
dominated the Earth, ancient precursors to mammals took to the trees to feed
on leaves and live high above predators that prowled the land a Field Museum
palaeontologist has concluded
** Saving the gems of the Stone Age
Experts warn as many as 10,000 historic sites around Scotland are at risk of
being swept away, many of them unexcavated and unprotected
** UNESCO recognises Magna Carta with Memory of the World award
The four surviving copies of Magna Carta, one of the most famous and
significant documents in the history of constitutional law, have been
awarded Memory of the World status by the UN Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
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** A Museum That Puts Fashion First
The real draws are in the galleries, starting with a permanent collection
that takes in the sweep of fashion history from early tunics, doublets, and
delicately embroidered accessories of the 16th century through the French
influence of the Bourbon and Napoleonic eras of the 18th and 19th centuries,
up to great 20th-century couturiers like Fortuny, Balenciaga, and Dior, and
finally contemporary designers like Montana and Miyake
** Rodin's 'Thinker' contemplating indoors for a bit
For the next few months, The Thinker will ponder whatever a half-ton of
bronze ponders when whisked from its usual home amid the hurly-burly of the
Parkway, in front of the Rodin Museum
** New life for ancient Syrian sculptures
A group of 30 monumental sculptures from Tell Halaf, in Syria, have been
reconstructed after being pulverised into 25,000 fragments in a bombing raid
in World War
** From The Blogs - The Museum of Asian Puppetry
Readying this set for the museum collection will involve researching each
puppet individually in order to identify the character and the story that
they belong to, to determine when and how each puppet was made, and to
ascertain the physical condition of each puppet
** Museum makeover marks motor links
An East Sussex museum has reopened following a £2m makeover to celebrate the
town's links with the birth of British motor racing
** Major image archives at London's Courtauld Institute under threat
From September, they would only open one day a week and effectively cease to
collect: this proposal is causing great concern amongst art historians, as
well as the art trade, since it is a major resource
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** Pigs, Worms and Pink in the Atrium at MoMA
High-definition projections will spew out a panoply of slow-motion,
larger-than-life images: There are a lush bed of tulips and a sea of
abstract, fire-colored branches that evoke the bronchial system
** Museum employees flunk professionalism test
Nearly 90 percent of museum employees in China had not received a university
education, and still fewer have majored in museum studies, experts said at
the ongoing 16th congress of the International Union of Anthropological and
Ethnological Sciences
** Museum believes it has found the worst album covers ever
The display demonstrates that even some of the world's most respected
musicians and entertainers weren't immune from the curse of the bad art
director
** Criminal trials from 18th and 19th centuries go online for first time
A murderous doctor who claimed to be Jack the Ripper, the crook thought to
have inspired Fagin, and a notoriously inept highwayman are all listed in
the carefully handwritten ledgers that can be browsed on the ancestry.co.uk
website
** In Wolfe's clothing
This is what I discovered about putting on a historically accurate,
18th-century British officer's uniform and standing on the Plains of Abraham
in Quebec City pretending I was General James Wolfe: I might have looked
like an overgrown lunatic playing dress-up, but when I actually slipped the
coat and hat on, it felt surprisingly grave
** More 'Oldest Things' Discovered?
St. Petersburg, Russia (2,500 years old): First mini golf course, in which
one had to hit the ball through the carcasses of a boar, duck, and dog, and
then over a little bridge
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** Discoveries in ancient sinkhole:'bombshells'
From the bones of extinct mammals to artefacts like a 9,000-year-old wooden
stake, the discoveries paint a picture of a state that looked more like East
Africa than South Florida, and they're finding more with every dive
What are these people drinking?
You'll excuse me, but the logic of needing to stop the program in order to
rethink it sounds suspiciously like the apocryphal Vietnam War rationale
that "we had to burn the village to save it."
** Amassing Treasures in Southeast Asia
Collecting in Southeast Asia in the late 19th century and early 20th century
was often driven by scientific objectives, like the desire to learn about
the area's unique flora and fauna, or to better understand the indigenous
tribes living on the region's many islands
** The mystery of MoCA China's fleeing founder
The founder of the short-lived Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) China in
Hong Kong left the country soon after the museum opened last autumn, leaving
behind massive debts, several sources confirm
** A Fine Yarn About Wool
For more than 200 years, wool has been part of Australia's social and
economic history.
** Finding Hard Cash in Hard Time
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** Making History A 21st Century Enterprise
To address the need of tighter budgets and limited travel, you're invited to
participate in the first-ever Online AASLH Conference!
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