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week's edition include:
** Museum Director in Ukraine Paints Over a Mural She Doesn't Like
The general director of the Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kiev, the largest art
institution in Ukraine, has been accused of censorship and catering to
church and state after she painted over in black a mural she had
commissioned from the contemporary artist Volodymyr Kuznetsov
** Museum Bondholders Could See Tiny Recovery
Unhinged from their dream of running a museum crowded with tourists who are
eager to learn about young America's Westward expansion, officials at the
Great Platte River Road Archway Monument in Nebraska will settle for
mediocre attendance and no more bond debt
** Cambridge Centre of Computing History opens
The museum also features a Sinclair C5 vehicle and BBC computers from the
1980s, which will be used to teach young people computer programming
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** War museum honors Bob Hope, who made troops laugh
Bob Hope entertained 11 presidents at the White House, hosted the Academy
Awards 19 times and told thousands of jokes to some 10 million U.S. troops
over the course of four wars
** China Maritime Museum
China's first ever Maritime Museum is situated on the shore of a five square
kilometer artificial lake that has been reclaimed from the Sea - the lake
being the core piece of the new city development
** Genome of horse linked to extinct human species decoded in Russia
Russian scientists say they've decoded the genome of a 50,000-year-old horse
whose remains were found alongside those of an extinct subspecies of humans
** Field Museum cutting costs, losing scientists
The museum has slashed millions from its research budget; merged its
anthropology, zoology, geology and botany departments; and sparked fears
that it is going - in the words of a curator at Harvard's zoology museum -
"from being a major research institution to being a local museum where
people go to see things"
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** Metropolitan Museum to inaugurate Global Museum Leaders Colloquium
Designed to stimulate and broaden international dialogue on museum
management and collections care among directors from collecting
institutions, it will bring together 12-15 directors, in particular from
museums in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
** Danish museum acquires Fourth Plinth rocking horse
The sculpture, Powerless Structures, Fig. 10, which was on view in London
until April this year, will soon be set up in front of the Arken Museum of
Modern Art in Ishoj, on the coast of the Baltic Sea south of Copenhagen
** Ancient Feathered Shield Discovered in Peru Temple
Made by the Moche people, the rare artifact was found face down on a sloped
surface that had been turned into a bench or altar at the site of Paņamarca
** Ink Blot or Bird Sh**? Museum Design Tests L.A.'s Urban Psyche
While the challenges of fundraising and questions over whether to preserve
the museum's hodgepodge of current buildings have received the most
attention, the mega-building's impact on the surrounding streets has
received little
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** The Inner Life of a Museum
It's unclear if the museum visitors who crowd the film bought admission that
day or are hired actors and the galleries a set
** 'Secret' CIA museum features Osama bin Laden's AK-47
Tucked into various hallways at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., the museum
displays the gadgets, artifacts and trophies of 70 years of spycraft, from
World War II through the War on Terror
** Ice core data supports ancient space impact idea
New data from Greenland ice cores suggest North America may have suffered a
large cosmic impact about 12,900 years ago and the climate flip has
previously been linked to the demise of the North American "Clovis" people
** When Reality Triumphed Over Transcendence
The show itself is really about two histories, major and minor, but
interlaced: Homer's history as an artist, and the history of two people who
collected his art
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** Mayor Boris Johnson is cock-a-hoop as giant blue cockerel roosts on
London's Fourth Plinth
Boris Johnson hailed the new sculpture to adorn the fourth plinth of
Trafalgar Square as a monument to British dominance in the Tour de France
but warned art lovers may not be able to Google the work under new proposals
from the Prime Minister
** Imperial War Museum Duxford explores the role of animals in war
One pigeon, named GI Joe, saved the lives of hundreds of soldiers by flying
a mile a minute to call off an Allied bombing raid as British troops
captured an Italian town during World War Two
** Wealth of finds at site of Richard III's grave
This site keeps on giving - first King Richard III, then an intact medieval
stone coffin which, when opened, contained a largely intact lead coffin
** Mothballed NASA telescope may get new life as asteroid hunter
NASA is considering re-activating a mothballed space telescope to help find
asteroids that could be on a collision course with Earth, according to a
senior U.S. space agency official
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** Zoologists: Ape Neurology Much Like That Of Banana-Obsessed Humans
Though their brain size and specific cerebral functions differ, apes share a
striking and uncanny common neurological bond with humans who spend the vast
majority of their waking life thinking about bananas (humour)
** Smithsonian Eyes Trayvon Martin Hoodie for Museum Exhibit
The shirt became a powerful symbol of the case after Zimmerman described
Martin as wearing a "hoodie" the night he killed the teen, claiming
self-defense
** Detroit art museum warns auction could be death knell
A top officer at the Detroit Institute of Arts predicts near-certain closure
for the museum if Detroit sells major pieces from the 60,000 works in the
institute's art collection as a way to address the city's dire financial
situation
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