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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 links) in this
week's edition include:
** Hangin' with big boys
A painter secretly hung one of his paintings in the Brooklyn Museum earlier
this month - and it remained for two days before museum officials discovered
it and snatched it off the walls
** Emperor Nero's rotating dining room discovered
Archaeologists in Rome believe they have found the remains of a legendary
rotating dining room which the Emperor Nero built to entertain his guests
** The man behind the mouse
Housed within a former military facility with a sweeping view of the Golden
Gate Bridge are original artworks from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and
other Disney classics, early animation artefacts, Academy Awards and family
mementos, including the miniature train that ran around Walt Disney's
backyard and provided inspiration for Disneyland
** Aviation martyr memorial museum opens in E China
Chen Xiangmei, president of Council for International Cooperation (CIC) and
wife of General Clair Lee Chennault, captain of the renowned Flying Tigers,
donated the diary and medals of her husband to the museum
** Skull piece thought to be Hitler's is from woman
The cranium fragment is part of a collection of Hitler artefacts preserved
by Soviet intelligence in the months after Hitler and Eva Braun reportedly
committed suicide in a Berlin bunker in April 1945
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** 'Fake' painting revealed as Dutch masterpiece
When the Courtauld Institute of Art was presented with a copy of a Dutch
Golden Age painting by the arch-counterfeiter Hans van Meegeren, the
gallery's director accepted the work as a fake of the highest order '
** Tories pledge extra £40m for Britain's heritage but arts may lose out
Britain's great heritage of castles and religious buildings stands to
benefit by a boost of up to £40m under a Conservative government, the shadow
culture secretary has revealed
** Why We Demolished Museum's Property
In continuation of its beautification process of the capital city of Benin,
Edo State Government has demolished three buildings within the premises of
the National Commission for Museum and Monuments within King Square, in the
capital city
** Mexican prosecutors probe possible Frida fakes
The Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Trust filed a complaint saying signed
paintings, notes and drawings featured in two recent art history books are
fake
** 200 valuable porcelain artefacts found on ancient Chinese merchant
vessel
Chinese archaeologists have discovered more than 200 precious porcelain
artefacts on an 800-year-old merchant ship in the southern province of
Guangdong
** Museums honour the engine that drove America
One marketing experiment, the Dodge LaFemme, was America's first
mass-production pink car, long before Mary Kay Cosmetics starting giving
pink Cadillacs to its top sellers
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** First underwater observatory live online
Live images are streamed online from the observatory under the sea, which
means scientists anywhere in the world are now able to study processes in
real-time, helping them better understand how marine ecosystems work
** Tate Modern to stage 'racist' exhibition
The work in the Leo Castelli gallery in 1992 led to an explosive response by
critics, virtually ending Early's career, and putting a stop to Pruitt's for
the next seven years, as galleries refused to show any of his work
** Why flatfish have both eyes on one side
Darwin was troubled by how fish such as flounder and sole had made the
seemingly improbable evolutionary leap from being symmetrical to having two
eyes on the same side of their face
** Dr Granville's mummy was killed by TB, not a tumour
The mummy, from about 600BC, belonged to a woman in her 50s whose remains
had been recovered six years earlier from the necropolis at Thebes, and
brought to the British Museum
** Nadir Of Western Civilization To Be Reached This Friday At 3:32 P.M.
From the prehistoric Lascaux cave paintings to the stirring symphonies of
Mozart to today's hot-dog eating competitions and action films with comical
gerbils, culture has descended into a festering pool of mass ignorance
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** Magritte Painting Stolen in Brussels Museum
The man then pointed a gun at the museum attendant while an accomplice went
inside; the thieves made museum workers and visitors kneel in a courtyard
while they left on foot with a 1948 painting, "Olympia," a nude portrait of
Magritte's wife
** Glowing, Glowing, Gone
The museum, which has been in downtown since 1981, is moving to larger
quarters across from Americana at Brand in Glendale and the announcement has
disappointed many downtown
** Teaching Cops to See
The officers, all captains or higher in rank, were attending "The Art of
Perception," a course designed to fine-tune their attention to visual
details, some of which might prove critical in solving or preventing a crime
** Titanic exhibit being prepared
Louisville is one of the first cities to land a scaled-down version of the
Titanic exhibit that has been specifically developed for midsized markets
** Buttoned-up Washington, D.C. will get a jolt of Japanese style
The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
** Paintings depict prosperous cities of Ming and Qing dynasties
** Auckland Museum Celebrates Its 80th Birthday
On Friday 30 October Auckland Museum marks the 80th birthday of its iconic
building by unveiling its exciting new exterior lighting
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