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** Somerset Maugham's bequest finds a home at last
A major collection of theatre paintings - a generous bequest of the
playwright and author Somerset Maugham to the National Theatre, which has
been causing it major headaches ever since - will be among the stars at the
Holburne museum in Bath when it reopens in May after an £11m rebuild
** Hundreds of unknown Picasso works discovered in Paris
An extraordinary cache of hundreds of works by Pablo Picasso, painted during
his most creative period and worth a conservative estimate of £50.5m, has
been uncovered at the home of a retired French electrician. Gallery
** Masters of Math, From Old Babylon
If the cost of digging a trench is 9 gin, and the trench has a length of 5
ninda and is one-half ninda deep, and if a worker's daily load of earth
costs 10 gin to move, and his daily wages are 6 se of silver, then how wide
is the canal?
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** Michigan to get museum devoted to Ford's Model A
Organizers said it will be the largest public museum dedicated to the Model
A, which was built in the late 1920s and early 1930s following the wild
success of Ford's Model T
** Tax Filings Show Struggles for Guggenheim
The last two years haven't been easy on New York museums, but they've been
particularly challenging for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
** Extinct Beothuk may survive in DNA of Icelanders
A team of European researchers says the discovery of what appears to be a
strain of first nations DNA among a small group of Icelanders - which the
scientists have linked to Viking voyages to Canada about 1,000 years ago -
may represent the survival, at least genetically, of the Beothuk, victims of
Canadian history's most tragic cultural extinction
** New Zayed National Museum
Architecturally, the aim has been to combine a highly efficient,
contemporary form with elements of traditional Arabic design and hospitality
to create a museum that is sustainable, welcoming and culturally of its
place
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** Magic-Mushroom Reindeer Bored by Couples at $1,370 Museum Slumber
Parties
The whiff of the farmyard suffuses the foyer of Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof
museum, where couples are lining up to pay 1,000 euros ($1,370) for a night
with 12 castrated reindeer, 24 canaries, eight mice and two flies
** What the iPad can do for museums
It is seven months since Apple started to sell the iPad, and in the past
couple of months museums around the world have started to release apps or
make use of the device in interesting ways
** Nine held in China after emperor family tomb's raid
Nine people have been arrested after robbing the ancestral tombs of China's
first Emperor Qin Shihuang, Chinese officials say
** New hydrogen car centrepiece of climate gallery
The new 'atmosphere.Exploring climate science' gallery in the Science
Museum, London has opens to the public Saturday Dec 4 and the centre piece
is a hydrogen fuel-cell car built by UK company Riversimpled
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** Back out of the vault: secret life of the skull
The world's richest living artist has admitted that it was "crazy" to have
made an object that he couldn't keep in his own house
** An Akan drum and the British Museum's history of the world
It was in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, (an Irish doctor who was a
slave owner in Jamaica) whose items formed the founding collection of the
British Museum in 1759
** Flute player admits theft of 299 rare bird skins
A musician has admitted stealing rare bird skins from the Natural History
Museum at Tring in Hertfordshire to raise money for a new flute
** This Week's Horoscopes
Libra - Don't let people tell you that you can't be anything you want in
life. Surgical techniques and gene-grafting will soon allow anyone to assume
giraffe form.
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getting beyond the international style of museum presentation, the
homogenisation that means all museums across the world look the same, and
devise a new type of experience
** Years later, Mississippi still lacks civil rights museum
Mississippi bred some of the worst violence of the civil rights era, yet
nearly a half-century after a barrage of atrocities pricked the conscience
of the nation, it's one of the few civil rights battleground states with no
museum to commemorate the era
** National Portrait Gallery pulls controversial video of Christ
Complaints from a Catholic organization and members of Congress have
prompted the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery to remove a work of
video art that includes an 11-second section showing ants crawling over an
image of Christ
** Historic artifacts found at St. Augustine's new pirate museum
St. Augustine city archaeologist Carl Halbirt said the artifacts range from
commonplace to unusual including the hilt and guard of a British soldier's
dress uniform sword dating back to the 1750s, with hanger intact, as well as
a 1780s-1820s button and a man's knee buckle used to close the seams of his
breeches
** Put it down, minister!
Culture minister Ed Vaizey - presumably fancying a bit of bling - tried on a
£95,000 Bronze Age bracelet only to be scolded by British Museum staff
** Arab American Artists at 12th International Cairo Biennale
Arab American National Museum, U.S. State Dept. have collaborates to present
Arab American Artists at the 12th International Cairo Biennale information
is available at http://www.cairobiennale.gov.eg/.
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