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week's edition include:
** An Architect's Blueprint for Overexposure
An Iowa-based philanthropist and architecture aficionado has offered a $300
million reward to any city anywhere in the world that dares to hire someone
other than Frank Gehry to design its gleaming new art museum
** Tibetan encyclopedia provides evidence of ancient brain surgery
The book said that the patient was suffering from a severe headache and
repeatedly knocked his head on hard objects to ease the pain
** 17th century Swedish warship won new lease after salvage
A more than 300-year-old Swedish warship that sank on her maiden voyage
could well have faded into the mists of history but for a successful salvage
conducted 50 years ago
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** Outrage at Marco Polo claim
The outcry came after a museum dedicated to the Venetian explorer in the
Chinese city of Yangzhou was opened by a former President of Croatia,
Stjepan Mesic
** Forget Vermeer: For Centuries Metsu was the star
As late as 1878, Vermeer's Young Woman With a Water Pitcher set a record
price only because it was sold as a Metsu
** A 150,000-Pound Hand-Me-Down. Yay?
Imagine that someone offered to dump 1,100 busted washing machines onto a
prime piece of riverfront property in Midtown Manhattan, pitching the idea
as a potential tourist draw and educational attraction
** Winterthur Museum Acquires One of the Earliest Known American Depictions
of the Easter Bunny
Together with the Christmas tree, the custom of the Easter rabbit and
colored eggs was brought to America by immigrants from southwestern Germany
in the 1700s, and has become a favorite American tradition
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** It's oil money that fuels our museums
An organisation called Liberate Tate is in a state about one the most
generous funders of the arts - British Petroleum - and are demanding the
millions be refused
** Town carves niche as the wooden duck capital of world
A relatively recent addition to the 25-year-old museum, the "What Is a
Decoy?" exhibit not only explains the history behind the imitation birds but
also the precise work that goes into making them
** £87m Cultural Olympiad will be a one-woman show, says boss
At least £87m has been spent commissioning art, including 30ft crocheted
lions, 10-metre-high puppets and a football pitch hidden within a forest
that is unlikely ever to be used
** Museum to boost math by adding fun, subtracting bore
MoMath, which will center on the wonders of mathematics and its connections
with art, science and finance, is scheduled to open in New York City
sometime next year with the help of a $2 million grant from Google
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** Austrian Museum Begrudgingly Agrees to Return Nazi-Stolen Klimt Painting
Haslauer should have been more gracious and left out the part about how
"painful" it's going to be for "all of Austria" to return the Gustav Klimt
painting
** Taiwan to put 660-year-old painting together for first time in centuries
The Yuan Dynasty painting was torn into two pieces more than 300 years ago
by a private collector who tried to burn it as he was dying, but a relative
quickly saved it from the flames
** CIA recipe for invisible ink among newly released WWI-era documents
One document listing seven formulas is on Department of Commerce letterhead,
and a chemist at the Bureau of Standards recommends that some of the
invisible ink solutions be used with a quill pen rather than a steel pen
because of the risk of corrosion
** Harry Houdini exhibit to appear at Skirball Cultural Center
Ehrich Weiss, the Budapest-born son of an immigrant family, ran away from
home at 12 to join the circus; not the least bit interested in becoming a
rabbi like his father, he wanted to be an entertainer
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** First map of Great Britain put online
A beautifully detailed hand coloured atlas which was the first to
comprehensively cover Great Britain is to get a digital revamp by the
Cambridge University Library in celebration of its 400th anniversary
** The big picture: Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1950s Moscow
Cartier-Bresson sought to capture with his camera what he called decisive
moments, coincidentally graceful arrangements of people or objects that
other observers would have overlooked. He wandered through foreign cities
like a libertine on the prowl, poised to take advantage of any opportunity
for visual seduction
** When art becomes the target
The controversial work - a photograph of a wooden crucifix submerged in a
glass tank of the artist's urine - was targeted in Avalon, France by a trio
of protestors
** National Latino Museum Plan Faces Fight
Seven years after opening its National Museum of the American Indian, and
four years before the scheduled unveiling of its museum of African-American
history, the Smithsonian Institution is being urged to create another ethnic
museum on the National Mall, this one to recognize the history and
contributions of Latino Americans
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** New Aussies: Ancient Snail-Chomping Marsupials Discovered
Strange hammerlike teeth seen in two newfound species of ancient
marsupials - teeth unknown in any other mammal - were the weapons they once
used to smash open snail shellss
** World Conference on Paleontology and Stratigraphy
The World Conference on Paleontology and Stratigraphy (WCPS 2011) is an
international conference held in order to celebrate His Majesty the King's
84th Anniversary on December 5, 2011.
** Care and Identification of Photographs (from daguerreotypes to digital)
June 20-23, 2011 - hosted by the New Mexico History Museum (Santa Fe, NM)
** Sustaining a Community of Learners
24th Annual Visitor Studies Association Conference - Sustaining a Community
of Learners
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