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week's edition include:
** Italian researchers hope to dig up remains of the real Mona Lisa
Italian researchers are planning to dig up bones in a Florence convent to
try to identify the remains of a Renaissance woman believed to be the model
for the Mona Lisa
** Appeasing ethical karma
Accessibility in the other place was awful - not only did you have to enter
the college, which was a big psychological barrier, but you had to walk past
chemical bins, bike racks and security barriers
** Radical Art Group Wins Russian Ministry Prize
The radical art collective Voina has won a contemporary art award sponsored
by Russia's Ministry of Culture and the National Center for Contemporary Art
for a project that consisted of a 210-foot penis painted on a drawbridge in
St. Petersburg
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** China's New National Museum Has Global Ambition
Many international museums are clamouring to collaborate with China these
days, but the diplomatic fanfare surrounding this exchange puts it in a
league of its own
** Police suspect French art theft addict of more crimes
A grand-nephew of Alsatian painter Robert Breitwieser (1889-1975), Stephane
won infamy in 2002 when he admitted stealing hundreds of works from museums,
castles and palaces around Europe, supposedly for his own collection
** Art galleries draw big crowds
Brisbanes's twin art galleries the Gallery of Modern Art and Queensland Art
Gallery have for the first time stolen the crown as the nation's most
visited museums, after they attracted 1.8 million people last year
** Race to save Buddhist relics in former Bin Laden camp
A rescue operation is underway to save as much as possible from ancient
Buddhist monasteries in Mes Aynak, Afghanistan, before the mountains become
an open-cast mine and the site is destroyed
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** Should Curating Be Crowdsourced?
Indeed, a policy of inviting the public into the "pre-decisional" process
directly contradicts the panel's assertion that "curatorial freedom of
expression, expertise, and authority" are vital
** The price of a Picasso loan
The director of the Musée Picasso has defended her decision to organise an
international touring exhibition to raise money for the Paris museum's
renovation
** Nazi warplane lying off UK coast is intact
A rare World War Two German bomber, shot down over the English Channel in
1940 and hidden for years by shifting sands at the bottom of the sea, is so
well preserved a British museum wants to raise it
** Bird pelt thief gets suspended term
A student from who stole millions of pounds' worth of exotic bird skins from
the Natural History Museum in Hertfordshire has been given a two-year
suspended sentence
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** What caused Britain's Bronze Age 'recession'?
There is a 300-year period in British history between around 800 BC and 500
BC where experts still struggle to explain what happened, where bronze is in
decline and iron was not widely used
** Art Gallery of Ontario attendance falls 30 per cent
Despite the attendance decline, however, the AGO, one of North America's
larger art institutions, expects a balanced budget, thanks to savings in
programming, and not the $3-million revenue shortfall some had predicted
** In tanks and trenches
The Mk IV is a veteran of the conflict, as are the great majority of the
200-plus exhibits at Bovington, the showcase of the Royal Armoured Corps
** Man opens loo museum
Michael Berger is feeling flush after putting his collection of of lavatory
rarities and oddities on show in his own museum in Wiesbaden, Germany
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** In search of Genghis Khan's tomb
Through a website called Field Expedition Mongolia, which Lin and his
colleagues developed jointly with National Geographic, volunteers are
helping sift through 85,000 high-resolution satellite images of Mongolia
** Barcodes let visitors scan and label star items via phones at the
National Museum of Scotland
Visitors to the National Museum of Scotland will be able to scan barcodes on
dozens of objects in the Changing Nation gallery to find out more of their
secrets online in a pioneering smartphone project as part of the Edinburgh
International Science Festival
** This Week's Horoscopes
Gemini - While it's true that someone in Baltimore loves you, this is less a
reason for a jaunty T-shirt than a cause for genuine concern
** Southeast Asian music museum soon to be a reality
Two years from now, Thailand will have a new museum on Southeast Asian music
under a Mahidol University's College of Music project to honour the princess
of Thai heritage and culture
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** Rare Roman art ends up in museum after looting
The highlight of the collection, containing some 100 pieces including
exquisite examples of Roman sculpture and ceramics, is a marble sarcophagus
from the first century AD, richly carved with garlands, floral ornaments,
women's faces and figures of death
** Everyone Made Stone Tools: Exploring Methodology in Lithic Analysis
We would like to invite you to participate at an upcoming conference,
Everyone Made Stone Tools: Exploring Methodology in Lithic Analysis.
** Hot Science, Global Citizens
the agency of the museum and science centre sector in climate change
interventions Symposium,Sydney, Australia, 5-6 May 2011
** Art in Revolution: Liverpool 1911
City of Radicals exhibition features work by van Gogh, Matisse, Gauguin and
Signac.
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