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week's edition include:
** Long-Lost Silent Films Return to America
A late silent feature directed by John Ford, a short comedy directed by
Mabel Normand, a period drama starring Clara Bow and a group of early
one-reel westerns are among a trove of long-lost American films recently
found in the New Zealand Film Archive
** The Angel Museum
Includes a smoke alarm angel, a pie whistle angel and a trio of boozed up
angels from liquor decanters
** Beatles to Bowie: The 60s Exposed in pop picking fashion
More than 150 classic and previously unseen photographs show how image,
music, fashion and performance combined to make these musicians the icons
of their time and London the world's most important cultural capital
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** Italian criminal probe targets Princeton U. museum curator
Italian authorities have launched a criminal investigation focusing on a
curator at the Princeton University Museum of Art who allegedly was
involved in the exporting and laundering of stolen Italian artifacts
** Oswald's getaway cab to be auctioned in Texas
Oswald hailed the cab after the bus he tried to escape in got stuck in
traffic moments after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated
** Lehman art auctioned to pay debts
The collection, which Sotheby's says is valued at more than US$10 million
($NZ13.6 million), includes works by some of the leading artists of
contemporary art, including Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince
and Julie Mehretu
** Schoolgirl gets first glimpse inside new-look Museum of Science and
Industry after complaint
Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry has used a complaint by a local
schoolgirl to apologise to visitors for disruption caused by the centre's
£7 million redevelopment programme during half-term week
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** Archaeologist publishes first complete look at Clovis technology
Until recently, Clovis technology was believed to represent the Americas’
earliest human inhabitants, having arrived in the hemisphere from Asia by
walking across the Bering Land Bridge between 11,000 B.C. and 8,000 B.C.
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** Artist wants your underwear to tour the world
"Smalls isn't small at all," she tells us, pointing to the thought bubbles
sparked by taboos and calling woven undergarments "a binding together of
possibilities and thoughts"
** Armenian church sues Getty museum over Bible pages
The Armenian church has sued the J. Paul Getty Museum to demand the return
of seven pages ripped from a sacred Armenian Bible dating back to 1256
** One of the worst cases in conservation history
Conservators finally have the necessary expertise and funds to treat a
painting that was considered to be one of the most seriously damaged during
the great Florence Flood of 1966
** Museum exhibition Ozzy Osbourne
The Black Sabbath rocker - who has battled problems with drink and drugs
over the years - believes he's a "medical miracle" for surviving all the
substances he has put into his body and believes his corpse should be shown
off at London's Natural History Museum
** Historian questions coal displays
These concerns put Harris at odds with the state Division of Culture and
History, which oversees the museum and has dismissed the questions he's
raised about the displays
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** Museum is not about soul food but soul of a people
Like stories that were passed down as oral history when slaves weren't
allowed to read, cooking collard greens was something your grandmother
taught your mother, who taught you
** Italian museum on way in Bahrain
The Unesco nomination covers three oyster beds north of Bahrain and a
three-kilometre historical trail for visitors that will start at the
seaside and continue through the streets of Muharraq, allowing tourists to
visit homes belonging to divers, captains, pearl traders and jewellers
** Venerable British Museum Enlists in the Wikipedia Revolution
The British Museum has begun an unusual collaboration with Wikipedia, the
online, volunteer-written encyclopedia, to help ensure that the museum’s
expertise and notable artifacts are reflected in that digital reference’s
pages
** Dealers see no beauty in new fee
Despite widespread industry support for the government's legislation to
return royalties to the artist or estate on works that have appreciated in
value, the scheme has been criticised as ill-prepared and confusing
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius - If you've ever regretted not pursuing a career in
bullfighting, this week may bring an accidental chance to start over
** Zaha Hadid's new Roman gallery joins the pantheon of the greats
Maxxi's curatorial direction has always been a little vague, beyond the
broad ambitions to be forward-looking and "multi-disciplinary and
multi-purpose", which means, for example, that it will exhibit a lot of
architecture as well as visual art
** Bletchley Park WWII archive to go online
Millions of documents stored at the World War II code-breaking centre,
Bletchley Park, are set to be digitised and made available online
** Preservation Management Institute
Applications are now being accepted for the 2010-2011 Preservation
Management Institute through Rutgers University
** Disaster Planning for Electronic Records
From a quick overview of “what’s an electronic record” to the nitty gritty
details of dealing with electronic records in a disaster situation, this
seminar is packed with useful information
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