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week's edition include:
** Doorman delivers lost art
The million-dollar painting that mysteriously vanished six weeks ago, was
displayed for part of the time on the bathroom wall of a Fifth Avenue
doorman - who told cops he found it in bushes outside the building where he
works
** Auschwitz museum bans tours organized by Holocaust revisionist Irving
Officials at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum have declared that
Holocaust revisionist David Irving will not be permitted to give tours on
the site, but will still be allowed to visit on his own
** Missing Iraqi antiquities located in PM Maliki's office
More than 600 antiquities have been returned to the Iraqi National Museum
after they were found in boxes in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office
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** Guggenheim Museum's YouTube Play Shortlist Announced
How does one curatorial team watch 23,000 YouTube videos in three months and
pick out 125 candidates to be considered for a spot in a Guggenheim Museum
display?
** Monet set to make an impression in France
The idea of Guy Cogeval, head of the Musee d'Orsay, the Paris museum of
19th-century art, is to repair decades of relative French neglect while the
Americans and British turned the artist of the waterlilies, haystacks and
cathedrals into an industry
** Spain IDs Previously Unknown Bruegel Masterpiece
An unidentified painting brought to Spain about 400 years ago has turned out
to be a previously unknown masterpiece by 16th-century Flemish painter
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
** Israel to build nuclear history museum
A bit of the veil of secrecy surrounding the Negev Nuclear Research Center
in the southern Israeli desert will soon be pulled aside following a
decision to build a nuclear museum
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** State Museum sees rotting whales as displays in the raw
It took eight men to wrestle the massive skulls out of the trucks, which
required a strong constitution and pinched noses as well as brawn
** From The Blogs - Crochet
Though no scholar has been able to pinpoint the exact origins of crochet,
within the European context it probably developed from tambour needlework, a
type of needlework originating in modern-day India, Pakistan and/or Turkey
but practiced by European women
** Jagger's ex-wife angry about painting
Hall said artist Lucian Freud painted over her face in a picture of her
breastfeeding Gabriel, the youngest of four children she had with the
British rock star and founding member of the Rolling Stones
** Ceremonial Temples 4,000 Years Old Found in Peruvian Jungle
A team of Peruvian archaeologists have discovered two ceremonial temples
more than 4,000 years old in Peru's northern jungle, which makes them the
most ancient in the country and identifies them with the Bracamoros culture
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** Whale of a Tale at San Diego Zoo
When construction crews hit a hard spot at the San Diego Zoo, nobody could
fathom what they would find in the depths of the dirt
** Museum of Flight moves World War II Boeing bombers
Eventually, once the space gallery is built, their next step is to build a
commercial gallery right next to it where they can display all these planes
in the way they should be displayed
** Undersea Cave Yields One of Oldest Skeletons in Americas
Apparently laid to rest more than 10,000 years ago in a fiery ritual, one of
the oldest skeletons in the Americas has been retrieved from an undersea
cave along Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula
** Giant horn frog Sumo hits 30 at the Manchester Museum
The frog lunged forward and grabbed hold of my thumb; horned frogs have huge
mouths and strong jaws, and I can remember how painful and powerful the bite
was to this day
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** The work (and fun) never stops as Anniston Museum hits 80th year
Visitors to Dan Spaulding's office are greeted by African lioness, frozen in
mid-pounce thanks to a taxidermist
** Toronto gets a film and arts museum rolled into one
The grandiose, $129-million screening and exhibition venue opened last week
to a mostly favorable reception - after years of delays and bureaucratic
tussles had created public unease about the project
** British archaeologist finds cave paintings at 100 new African sites
Striking prehistoric rock art created up to 5,000 years ago has been
discovered at almost 100 sites in Somaliland on the Gulf of Aden in eastern
Africa
** Warner Bros. donates $5M to Smithsonian
Warner Bros. Entertainment is donating $5 million to the Smithsonian's
National Museum of American History to create a theater to present the
history of American film
** Exploration and Endeavour: Science in the South Seas
The role of science in the voyages of discovery to Australia is explored in
a new exhibition at the National Museum of Australia.
** A Space Odyssey: Storage Strategies for Cultural Collections
Presented by the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts
** Museum Standards: Evolution or Revolution?
Call for Presentations. Eastern Illinois University
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