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week's edition include:
** The Unsuccessful Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln
If the plotters intended to disrupt Lincoln's inauguration - now only six
weeks away - it was evident that any attack would come soon, perhaps even
within day
** Getty Museum review targets its antiquities collection
Records show that more problems are likely to be revealed as the Getty
attempts to verify the origins of its ancient art in the aftermath of an
antiquities scandal
** Design Museum buys collection from eBay
The permanent collection includes an iMac computer, a Kindle, a Dyson vacuum
cleaner, an Anglepoise lamp, 290 chairs, 24 televisions, a Vespa scooter, a
bus shelter, a K6 phone box designed by Giles Gilbert Scot and a nappy
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** History vs. history as China plans to rebuild past
District officials want to re-create a piece of China's glorious dynastic
past by rebuilding a square near the Drum and Bell towers in 18th-century
Qing Dynasty fashion
** Grace Kelly exhibit set for October
Pennsylvania's James A. Michener Museum is making plans for a royal visit
later this year from Monaco's Prince Albert, in concert with the U.S. debut
of an exhibit on his mother, Princess Grace
** Poland's National Museum expands modern art wing
Poland's National Museum in Warsaw has opened an expanded gallery devoted to
20th and 21st century Polish art, with officials hailing it as the most
comprehensive permanent collection of modern and contemporary art in the
nation's capital
** Art of economy moves £45m museum back from the brink
The prospect of soaring engineering costs forced the relocation and delay of
the V&A at Dundee project, one of the most eagerly anticipated new museums
in Scotland
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** NYC Museum Launches New Space Shuttle Enterprise Exhibit
A floating Manhattan museum has unveiled a temporary new exhibition devoted
to the space shuttle Enterprise while the prototype orbiter - NASA's first
shuttle - is being restored after a devastating storm
** Venezuela art exhibit focuses on Hugo Chavez
A group of Venezuelan artists has contributed paintings of President Hugo
Chavez for a new government-organized exhibit dedicated to the ailing leader
** Tate recognises 'need' to address LS Lowry oversight with major new
exhibition
The institution had come under fire for its failure to seriously cover Lowry
since his death, and only rarely displaying any of its seven paintings in
London
** New Showcase for a Neglected Era
When the curator of American art at the Brooklyn Museum began work on an
exhibition to coincide with next year's anniversary of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964, she happened on a trove of works from the Black Arts Movement, the
cultural arm of the black power movement of the 1960s and '70s
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** Picasso murals under threat after attack in Oslo
The buildings were severely damaged during the deadly terrorist attack in
the Norwegian capital in July 2011, and the government is now considering
whether to demolish the modernist buildings that form the
"regjeringskvartal," or government, quarter
** No 'lost Spitfires' buried in Burma
A week of excavation work at Yangon (Rangoon) International Airport found no
evidence for the claim that 124 Spitfires were buried in sites around Burma
at the end of the war, archaeologists stated
** Artist uses police techniques to recreate man at National Roman Legion
Museum
Containing the skeleton of a well-preserved male believed to have been
buried in around AD 200 and aged around 40, the discovery has been a
constant source of speculation at the nearby National Roman Legion Museum in
Caerleon, where it is has been on permanent display since 2002
** National Museum hits out at 'barbarian' merger
The National Museum of Ireland (NMI) has pleaded with the Government to
rethink controversial merger plans slated as "barbarian cannibalism"
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** Baltimore Museum Finds 19th-Century African-American Sculptor's Photo in
Antique Shop
While she was on sabbatical, the director of audience engagement at
Baltimore's Walters Art Museum visited a local antique shop and happened
upon a very rare photograph of the 19th-century African-American sculptor
Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907), one of only eight known pictures of the renowned
artist
** Hidden portrait of the Queen with 'a too long neck' finally goes on
display after 61 years
John Napper's portrait of the Queen was commissioned to mark her accession
to the throne in 1953 by Liverpool Corporation, but the council rejected the
painting as not a good likeness - the main criticism being that her neck was
too long
** Israel museum to exhibit reconstructed tomb in first major exhibition on
biblical King Herod
The display includes the reconstructed tomb and sarcophagus of one of
antiquity's most notable and despised figures, curators say
** The first solar-powered vertebrate
It has long been suspected, and now there is hard evidence: the spotted
salamander is solar-powered
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** Brooklyn Museum Finds Some Problematic Gifts Can't Be Returned
A quarter of the 926 works have turned out to be fakes, misattributions or
of poor quality, and the museum potentially faces a hefty bill to store the
229 pieces it no longer wants
** Missouri museum faces criminal probe over spending, document shredding
Known for its collections on the Lewis & Clark expedition, aviation pioneer
Charles Lindbergh and the Louisiana Purchase, the Missouri History Museum is
coming under fire for a more recent land deal
** Military Genius - Mighty Machines
Journey back in time to relive history and discover the life, the culture,
the determination and the engineering genius that carved the great Roman
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** Doing More, With Less
Mid-Atlantic 2013 Regional Meeting of the Association for Living History,
Farm and Agricultural Museums
** Arab American National Museum's Global Fridays concert series 2013
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