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week's edition include:
** Unclear Origins: Swiss Investigate Museum Collections for Nazi Looted
Art
Transparency is not just a matter of current events because of Wikileaks'
war on corruption, it is now a newsworthy topic in the art world too
** Neanderthal faces were not adapted to cold
He said there had long been a view of Neanderthals as living on frozen
tundra in the last glaciation, but it was more likely that they lived in
temperate refuges, eating fruit and berries as well as meat
** Data Matrix Codes Used to Catalogue Archaeological Heritage
Researchers at the Centre for the Studies of Archaeological and Prehistoric
Heritage (CEPAP) of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have implemented
an innovative system to register archaeological artifacts which eliminates
problems in manual markings, such as errors in writing or erosion of data
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** Smithsonian's chief says removal of video was hasty
G. Wayne Clough, the Smithsonian Institution's chief executive, has said
that Republican House leaders' threats of budgetary consequences factored
into his Nov. 30 decision to remove a video from a National Portrait Gallery
exhibition of work done primarily by artists who are gay and lesbian
** Mr Curator misses little
How nice it is to think that the cowardly little boy in glasses, hiding by
the wall in the school playground can look up to Mr Brave as a bespectacled
role model, and one who unlike Superman, keeps his glasses on when he is
being heroic
** Monet exhibit open around the clock
The first retrospective of the late French impressionist artist Claude Monet
in 30 years could draw more than 900,000 visitors
** London museums urged to show more 'hidden' artefacts
Museums in London are being urged to get more of their collections out of
storage and on display as funding cuts will mean fewer landmark exhibitions
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** National Museum Cardiff receives monumental Chinese carvings
Curators at National Museum Cardiff are preparing for one of their biggest
exhibitions in years as they take delivery of a series of monumental
carvings from China
** The Thorny Path to a National Black Museum
As part of the Smithsonian, the museum bears the burden of being the
"official" - that is, the government's - version of black history, but it
will also carry the hopes and aspirations of African-Americans
** Peruvian discovers new species of Cretaceous squid
Hönninger said the fossil was a Baculite cephalopod that had a shell a foot
long, was two inches in diameter and is approximately eighty-five million
years old
** NYC museum to display Navy Yard's 200-year history
For more than a century, tens of thousands worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
building some of the nation's most storied warships - sailing frigates,
Civil War ironclads, gunboats, sloops and 20th-century warships and
submarines
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** Honoring Count Noble, the 'Man O'War of English setters'
Count Noble, a champion dog whose passing rated an 1891 obituary in The New
York Times, left the confines of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
basement more than a decade ago
** Heath Ledger exhibition planned for Perth
An exhibition about the life of Heath Ledger, with displays including the
diary he kept while developing his Oscar-winning character The Joker in the
movie The Dark Knight, is being planned by the WA Museum
** First glimpse of museum's 'adult Disneyland'
The public is getting its first glimpse of Australia's largest private
museum, which has been billed as a "subversive adult Disneyland"
** The story of the Amon Carter Museum
Carter's third wife, Minnie, did not share his enthusiasm for the Western
works, however, so he installed his treasures in his office at the
Star-Telegram, in his suite at the Fort Worth Club, at the Fort Worth Public
Library and at Carter Field, the airport he built near what is now D/FW
Airport
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** Guggenheim Considers a Museum in Helsinki
The mayor said he began talks with Guggenheim officials more than a year
ago, inspired in large part by the success of the Guggenheim Bilbao in
Spain, which, ever since it opened in 1997, has brought attention and
revenue to the economically challenged Basque region
** This Week's Horoscopes
Gemini - Just as the ancient Babylonians were wise to restrict the telling
of the future to a mere dozen signs, you would be wise to start new projects
at work this week
** Mineworker killed at National Coal Mining Museum
A man has died while working underground at the National Coal Mining Museum
in Wakefield
** Researchers aim to resurrect mammoth in five years
Japanese researchers will launch a project this year to resurrect the
long-extinct mammoth by using cloning technology to bring the ancient
pachyderm back to life in around five years time
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** Royal rumpus over King Tutankhamun's ancestry
Lorenzen adds that many people - not just the Hawass team - have handled the
mummies since they were first unwrapped; the authors should have tested
non-human samples from the tombs as negative controls, she says
** EdCom Awards and Fellowships
Deadline extended to February 18, 2011.
** Canadian Museum of Civilization brings exhibition of Inuit prints to
Japan
The Canadian Museum of Civilization is proud to announce that a spectacular
exhibition of Inuit prints will be unveiled at the Canadian Embassy in
Tokyo, Japan on January 21, 2011.
** JPC 2011 International Course on Conservation of Japanese Paper
ICCROM and National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo are
pleased to announce the following course JPC 2011 International Course on
Conservation of Japanese Paper
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