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** Outside the Citadel, Social Practice Art Is Intended to Nurture
In Detroit a contemporary-art museum is completing a monument to an
influential artist that will not feature his work but will instead provide
food, haircuts, education programs and other social services to the general
public
** Museum illustrates philanthropist's passion for Islamic Art
Intelligent, daring, and independent, Doris Duke used her wealth to pursue
her interests, many of which were considered unconventional at the time, but
today reveal her prescience as a free-thinking adventurer
** Remembering the Last Great Worldwide Sailing Expedition
As Wilkes and his men zigzagged across the oceans, filling in borders that
had only been loosely sketched, they gathered a mountain of artifacts:
mummies, plants, a nose flute, the bodies of over 2,000 birds, a dog sled
and a raven-feathered cape
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** Mega Volcanoes May Have Caused Mass Extinction
The release of gases from giant eruptions caused climate change that led to
the End-Triassic Extinction, the widespread loss of land and sea species
that made way for the rise of the dinosaurs, the research says
** Inspired by Nature, The Traditional Cosmetics of Korea
The history of Korea's cosmetic culture runs back to the Three Kingdoms
period, from the women depicted in the murals of tombs shown with rouged
cheeks and lips as well as delicately shaped eyebrows
** Pre-Viking tunic found by glacier as warming aids archaeology
The greenish-brown, loose-fitting outer clothing - suitable for a person up
to about 5 ft 9 inches tall - was found 6,560 ft above sea level on what may
have been a Roman-era trade route in south Norway
** Museums across Scotland celebrate bicentenary of David Livingstone
Failed expeditions up the Zambezi River and in search of the source of the
Nile saw him fall out of favour, but when he died of dysentery and malaria
in Chief Chitambo's Village, North Eastern Rhodesia in 1873, two devoted
servants brought his embalmed body back to the UK, and he was buried a hero
with full honours at Westminster Abbey
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** Kon Artist?
The first time I heard this, I didn't believe it: the islanders have a rich
tradition of making up their own history, and they naturally wanted to seem
like the shrewd ones in this relationship
** Automotive Museum Announces Alternative Fuel Symposium
The event, which features a public symposium and an alternative fuel
technology display, will explore the driving forces, such as high gasoline
prices, increased consumer and corporate environmental awareness and the
emergence of new technology that have created a "perfect storm" for
alternative fuel vehicles
** Chew on this: UCL exhibition showcases the men who swallowed everything
from knives to balls of hair
A macabre new exhibition at University College London looks at the
18th-century "extraordinary eaters" who would gobble up things one should
not at sideshows
** A Building Boom as Chinese Art Rises in Stature
Museums - big, small, government-backed, privately bankrolled - are opening
like mad; in 2011 alone, some 390 new ones appeared and the numbers are
holding
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** 2,400-Year-Old Myths of Mummy-Making Busted
Contrary to reports by famous Greek historian Herodotus, the ancient
Egyptians probably didn't remove mummy guts using cedar oil enemas, new
research on the reality of mummification suggests
** Library of Congress to Preserve 1st Message from Space
The first audio message to be relayed from outer space will be preserved as
part of the National Recording Registry alongside Pink Floyd's "The Dark
Side of the Moon," Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence," and Chubby
Checker's rendition of "The Twist," the Library of Congress has announced
** Paris Auction Goes Forward Despite Heritage Claims
Sotheby's in Paris went forward with a two-day sale of pre-Columbian
artifacts despite claims by four Latin American nations that many of the 313
items had been illegally exported
** London museum cancels heavy metal gig, fearing noise damage
London's famed Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has canceled an experimental
concert by extreme metal band Napalm Death, fearing the noise level could
damage the 104-year-old building
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Aquarius - You've been on hold for three years now and are beginning to
suspect that your call isn't important to them after all
** How Beer Gave Us Civilization
Since the 1950s, many scholars have found circumstantial evidence that
supports the idea that some early humans grew and stored grain for beer,
even before they cultivated it for bread
** Gorilla's childhood caretaker says goodbye at Field Museum
Before the rest of the world fell in love with Bushman the gorilla at
Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, the popular primate captured the heart of a
little girl in Africa who helped care for him as a baby
** Technology That Serves to Enhance, Not Distract
When a visitor touches an image, the screen enlarges it, arranges itself
near similarly themed objects, and offers information like the location of
the actual piece
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** David Bowie exhibition at London museum draws record ticket sales
The exhibition brings together more than 300 objects, including sheet music,
lyrics, videos, instruments and extravagant costumes, many from Bowie's
personal archive
** Varied Duties, and Many Facets, in a Museum Guard's Life
Museum guards find the lost, shepherd the confused and save runaway toddlers
from impending collisions with immovable sculptures; the job demands long
hours, constant vigilance and a reservoir of patience to put up with illicit
picture takers, soda smugglers and pontificating amateur art critics, among
other annoyances
** SteamPunk'd
At the Aigantighe Art Museum. Tired of your
everyday-temporal-reality-conundrum?
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** Controversy, Connections and Creativity
Call for papers for CIMUSET and MPR meeting in Rio
** Paleontology Digitization Workshop
iDigBio, the National Science Foundation's national HUB for Advancing
Digitization of Biological Collections is pleased to announce the fourth in
a series of preparation-specific workshops
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