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** Dutch police arrest Romanian woman in connection with art heist
Dutch police arrested a 19-year-old Romanian woman on Monday in connection
with the audacious theft last October of paintings including a Picasso and a
Monet from an art gallery in Rotterdam
** Henry the eighth he was, he was
Precious jewels, carved ivories, extravagant silver, sumptuous clothes,
royal portraits and even a stuffed pelican are on view in "Treasures of the
Royal Courts: Tudors, Stuarts & the Russian Tsars" at the Victoria & Albert
Museum in London until mid-July
** Dig it: is archaeology the new art?
Yet in drawing all eyes to the stupendous beauty of things that survive from
the past, archaeologists are returning to the origins of their subject
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** Art Of The Olympians: Museum Celebrates Art, Sports And Their Confusing
Intersection
Unlike other museums, it doesn't show great things; it is basically just a
random cross-section of art by a group of people that isn't particularly
artistically talented
** Archaeological Crusade: US Tries to Save Ancient Treasures
Minus any bullwhips, the real-life U.S. State Department works with other
federal departments in a journey to protect important archaeological sites
and ancient treasures in the face of conflict, according to professional
archaeologists Morag Kersel and Christina Luke
** Indianapolis Museum of Art announces staff reductions in cost-cutting
move
The Indianapolis Museum of Art cut its staff by 11 percent as it tries to
lower costs and place less emphasis on its endowment
** Chavez Corpse Becomes Museum Exhibit
Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro has announced that the late
President Hugo Chavez will be embalmed and his body displayed forever in a
Caracas military museum
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** Behind the Field Museum's 'bad bet on debt'
The Tribune piece notes that, like many local cultural institutions' woes,
the Field Museum's troubles are the result of a decade-long spending and
borrowing spree and that the museum's troubles "cannot be blamed entirely on
the recession. .
** Middle East's first women's museum lifts lid on rich history
The museum, Bait al Banaat, or House of Women, in Dubai was officially
opened at the end of 2012 by Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al
Maktoum, showcasing the contribution of women to the country's history
** Facebook's breast police censor famous art museum
The latest to hang their heads in horror are the social networkers of the
Jeu De Paume, a highly respected art museum in Paris; in all Gallic
innocence, they posted an extremely artistic photograph of a blonde lady
covered merely in a sheet.
** George Lucas proposes museum in San Francisco
"Star Wars" creator George Lucas wants to build a museum dedicated to visual
storytelling in San Francisco's Presidio that would house an art collection
he amassed over more than four decades
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** In the Bronx, Where Art Is Still Free
How did the Bronx Museum of the Arts, an institution on the Grand Concourse
that is far removed from the tourist precincts of Manhattan's Museum Mile,
boost its attendance by 50 percent last year?
** Canterbury Museum upgrade 'not cheap'
A massive and costly project to protect Canterbury Museum's $700 million
worth of assets could see the popular attraction shut for two to three years
and officials say if the improvements are not made the museum could become
an international pariah and no overseas museum will risk lending it their
collections
** Visitors to Met museum in NYC sue over "deceptive" admission fee
They argue the museum employs misleading signs and other techniques to dupe
its 6 million annual visitors into believing they must pay to gain access
** Arrest in Oakland Museum burglaries
A parolee with a long criminal history has been arrested and charged in
connection with two burglaries at the Oakland Museum of California, and
police have recovered a 19th century artifact that was taken during one of
the break-in
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** Gifts to Gardner endows more curators
Just over a year after opening its new wing, the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum has received gifts totaling $8 million that will endow three of the
museum's five curatorial posts
** A Museum's Games Are Not on Pedestals
"Applied Design," a new installation at the Museum of Modern Art - and an
important one because it is the first time the museum has displayed the 14
video games it acquired in November - attempts to isolate this relationship
** New York Fashion Museum Shows its 'Shoe Obsession'
With examples both from established design houses like Prada and Chanel, and
rising young designers from Europe, the U.S. and Japan, the FIT museum show
is about the increased popularity of luxury designer shoes, highlighted by
the television show, "Sex and the City"
** This Weeks Horoscopes
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account statement, monthly service charges, looming overdraft fees, and
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** Tacoma Art Museum's sale of Chinese artifacts a thorny issue
The family of the donors - Chinese Americans who'd given their collection in
the 1970s to help TAM grow - said the process has been inaccurate, deceptive
and culturally disrespectful - an echo of Tacoma's expulsion of local
Chinese residents in 1885
** Old museum in San Diego haunted?
Built in 1850, the William Heath Davis House is the oldest standing
residence in the Gaslamp Quarter; it was originally a saltbox-style prefab
home from Portland, Maine, which was shipped around Cape Horn to San Diego
** A Hundred Chinese Paintings from the Hong Kong Museum of Art
Hong Kong Museum of Art
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