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** Paris museum pins hopes on exhibition of the English artist Turner
With subsidies falling, sponsors pulling out and exhibitions being
postponed, museums in Paris are pinning their hopes on a 19th-century
painter to save the season with a blockbuster show that has just opened
** Mounties paint art thief into a corner
Mounties painted an alleged art thief into a corner when they found a stolen
limited edition print, dubbed "Busted," displayed on the wall of a Red Deer
home
** Doctor Who fans to battle for Daleks as BBC sells its DIY monsters
It is the Heath Robinson monsters that catch the eye, however, made in a
hurry from foam latex, fibreglass and electrical components that would not
look out of place in a school science experiment
** WWII bomber makes history its top mission
This plane, built toward the end of World War II in 1945, never saw combat
but is painted with the colours of the original Liberty Belle that went on
64 missions during the war
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** Sex at the museum: Swingers in Vienna art hall
In the name of art, an Austrian landmark is encouraging visitors to confront
their sexual inhibitions by having them walk through a swingers club to
reach one of Gustav Klimt's masterpieces
** Tin Toys Museum, Yokohama
The co-author of the esteemed Taschen Books tome "1000 Robots: Spaceships &
Other Tin Toys" (which clocks in at a whopping 704 pages!), the prolific
Kitahara-san is possibly the world's best-known collector of tin toys
** Re-enactor endured real trials for museum
Starting Feb. 6, Kelley, the curator of collections for The National Civil
War Museum, lived in a replica of the kind of log-and-chinking cabin that
would have been shared by four soldiers during the Civil War
** Art Appreciation
In a finding sure to evoke concern and curiosity among curators, newly
published research suggests presenting contextual information alongside a
work of modern art may be counterproductive in terms of eliciting enjoyment
or appreciation
** Bad PR move for museum
Auckland Museum's head of public relations has written a glowing Wikipedia
entry for his under-fire boss during business hours and omitted the
controversy that has plagued Dr Vanda Vitali's tenure as director of
Auckland Museum
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** Rare pink grasshopper Valentine's gift
Ronnie McLaughlin IV, a budding entomologist only 7 years old, was routinely
searching out crawling creatures when he made a backyard find so rare it
will go on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science
** Key document on Codex Sinaiticus discovered
The British Library's case for ownership of the disputed Codex Sinaiticus
has been strengthened by the discovery of a key document in the archives of
the Russian foreign ministry: It is an agreement signed by the Archbishop of
Sinai and a Tsarist official in 1869, transferring ownership of the earliest
known text of the Bible, dating from around 350AD
** Arts of Ancient Viet Nam
For decades, Vietnam existed in the American mind not so much as a
geographical place with its own history but rather, singularly, as a synonym
for conflict
** How a hobbit is rewriting the history of the human race
The possibility that a very primitive member of the genus Homo left Africa,
roughly two million years ago, and that a descendant population persisted
until only several thousand years ago, is one of the more provocative
hypotheses to have emerged in anthropology during the past few years
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** Michelangelo's Dream
The bulging money bag proffered by huge hands, the old man gathered up by
the scruff, flaccid as his own nightshirt, the thug about to brain his
victim: the images radiating round the sleeper run all the way from the
comic to the horrifying, erotic, incoherent and symbolic
** CSI: Egypt, Complete With DNA Tests of Mummies
The problem is that much of the new information was gleaned through DNA
testing on mummies, and the sight of men and women in lab coats peering at
test tubes and computer screens just doesn't make very good television
** Te Papa boss would ignore tramping advice
Former Te Papa boss Seddon Bennington never carried a compass but
instinctively knew how to find a hut in the bush, his estranged wife has
told an inquest into his death
** Historic Mount Vernon Receives Largest Gift in its History
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation has pledged $38 million to Mount Vernon,
the home of George Washington, to construct a new library destined to be the
international headquarters for knowledge about America's most famous
founding father
** Reviving Japonism through 'kogei' traditions
The Japonism Renaissance project, launched by the National Museum of Art at
the start of the year, has the ambitious aim of selling the world on the
appeal of Japan's many and varied handmade arts
** Russian museum honours US WWII vet
An exhibit has opened in Russia on the life of an American veteran believed
to be one the few soldiers to fight for both the U.S. and the Soviet Union
in World War II
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** Ted Bundy's VW goes on display at D.C. crime museum, but should it?
When the cloth came off, at a bizarre unveiling ceremony at the National
Museum of Crime & Punishment, it took work to be surprised by what was
underneath it: an unprepossessing tan Beetle, with a sunroof, looking a
little worse for wear with touches of rust, fading paint and a few missing
pieces of metal trim
** David Dimbleby's Seven Ages of Britain Visits The Wedgwood Museum
As part of the highly acclaimed David Dimbleby Seven Ages of Britain series,
the programme visits Barlaston's award winning Wedgwood Museum
** Staying Alive: The Hill-Fulper-Stangl Pottery in a Changing Marketplace
The Potteries of Trenton Society, together with the New Jersey State Museum
and the Trenton Museum Society, presents its 2010 spring symposium: Staying
Alive: The Hill-Fulper-Stangl Pottery in a Changing Marketplace
** Preparing for the Unexpected: Disaster Planning For Cultural Collections
Presented by the Conservation Centre for Art & Historic Artefacts (CCAHA)
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