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week's edition include:
** Leonardo: What's a show like you doing in a space like this?
The truth is that the needs and wants of the transitory exhibition-going
public, as opposed to the more reliable gallery-familiar art lovers, have
never been a major concern for the subsidised national art institutions
** Computer History Museum launches online Steve Jobs exhibit
The exhibit, titled "Steve Jobs: From Garage to World's Most Valuable
Company," features photos and descriptions of objects from the museum's
permanent collection, as well as vintage Steve Jobs video footage
** Museums club together for future
The International Committee for Museums and Contemporary Art within the
council brings together museum directors and curators from across the world
and Australia, compared with Europe and North America, seems to have it
pretty good
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** Manet painting under export ban while £28m is sought to keep it in UK
An outstanding, unfinished Édouard Manet portrait of a woman sitting
sedately on a balcony has had a temporary export bar placed on it by the
government in the hope that someone will raise £28m to keep the painting in
the UK
** Christmas carol lyrics have unique history
Essentially an excuse for a booze-up, wassailing is a type of Christmas
trick-or-treating/extortion; peasants would turn up on the doorstep of the
feudal lord who owned their land and start singing
** Jars of Plenty
Wine flowed freely from ancient Greece during its golden age, but new work
suggests nuts and various herbs were also in demand
** True scale of alleged German forgeries revealed
It was the biggest art forgery trial in Germany for decades but now it seems
that the problems created by master forger Wolfgang Beltracchi and his gang
are far from resolved
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** Human Rights museum criticized at public meeting
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights was again forced to defend its proposed
content against questions and criticisms during the institution's first
annual public meeting in Winnipeg
** Oldest predator Anomalocaris had super sight
Excellent eyesight is essential if you are a top predator, like the
prehistoric sea creature Anomalocaris, an early arthropod relative that
patrolled the oceans over 500 million years ago
** Eat! Cultural identity the main course at the Jewish Museum
"Chosen Food: Cuisine, Culture and American Jewish Identity" is brimming
with delicious information about brisket, challah, bagels, matzoh balls,
potato latkes, gefilte fish and more guaranteed to spark an appetite
** Soyuz space capsule lands at Museum of Flight
In addition to bearing Charles Simonyi's name, the Seattle Museum of
Flight's new Space Gallery will contain the Russian Soyuz capsule in which
the tech billionaire returned from space
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** Coca-Cola moves formula from bank for 1st time to new vault at Atlanta
museum
The Coca-Cola Co. has made its secret formula the centerpiece of a new
exhibit at its corporate museum, ditching the confines of the bank vault
where the list of ingredients had been stored since 1925
** Hungarian national gallery director resigns in protest
Although some support a potential ?150m investment in a new museum quarter,
there is widespread anger over the government's decision to back Baán's
vision before there has been any public consultation
** Hurt by war in Iraq, a Baghdad museum reemerges
Priceless artifacts from the museum's incomparable 170,000-lot collection of
Babylonian, Sumerian, and Assyrian items disappeared, including the remnants
of a 5,000-year-old Sumerian alabaster vase and a headless stone statue of a
Sumerian king - thought to be 4,400 years old, and weighing hundreds of
pounds - which was recovered in the United States in 2006
** Cape Town Diamond Museum opens
The museum tracks the entire journey of diamonds - from mine to finger, how
they were shaped deep beneath the earth billions of years ago to how they
are cut and polished - making it a one-stop resource for anyone with an
interest in the glittering stones
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** Museum name change draws outrage
A furor has erupted in the Miami art community over renaming the Miami Art
Museum (MAM), thanks to a $35 million cash and art pledge to the museum by a
South Florida real estate developer who Time magazine has called "the Donald
Trump of the tropics."
** Roman ring found on Cefn Brithdir given to Winding House museum
The Romans had a strong presence in the area in the 1st Century AD, with
Caerphilly and Gelligaer included in a network of forts and roads to
consolidate their rule across Wales
** Campaign to buy Nelson's Ship in a Bottle
The National Maritime Museum has launched a fundraising appeal to buy Nelson's
Ship in a Bottle, the installation currently occupying the Fourth Plinth in
Trafalgar Square
** Rhino horn thieves gas Paris guards
The thieves reportedly broke in to the museum - a private museum of hunting
and nature full of taxidermied animals - at just after midday on Tuesday and
made off with a white rhino horn from the 1980s after 'paralysing' museum
guards with the gas
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** 'Green' museum to rise in QC's memorial circle
The social history museum will highlight the city government's efforts to
utilize urban planning in the preservation of the city's culture and
heritage
** This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius - You'll be taken completely by surprise when the Maritime
Administration declares you a derelict hulk and has you broken up for scrap
** Bringing Ancient Creatures to Life
Newly launched bilingual exhibition is the world's leading online Burgess
Shale resource
** Scott's Last Expedition
The Natural History Museum
Explore the captivating story of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's last
expedition to Antarctica in 1910-1913, the Terra Nova.
** International Conference on Volcanism, Impacts and Mass Extinctions
On March 27-29, 2013 London¹s Natural History Museum (NHM) will host an
international, multi-disciplinary conference that brings together
researchers from across the geological, geophysical, and biological
disciplines to assess the state of research into the causes of mass
extinction events.
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