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week's edition include:
** Gap founder proposes world-class art museum for San Francisco
The founder of Gap Inc. has proposed building a vast museum near the foot of
the Golden Gate Bridge to house his world-class collection of contemporary
art, much of which has remained hidden from public view
** Finds test human origins theory
The new fossil evidence reveals an overlap of about 500,000 years during
which Homo habilis and Homo erectus must have co-existed in the Turkana
basin area, the region of East Africa where the fossils were unearthed
** Mother of the Gulag
The site has gone back to its pre-revolutionary use as a monastery, and part
of it has been turned into a museum that pays homage to the camp's inmates,
and the unknown millions killed nationwide in Soviet purges
** Alexander's Gulf outpost uncovered
Beneath the sun-baked sands of Failaka, archaeologists hope to unearth the
secrets of an earlier conquest - a settlement established by Alexander's
general, Nearchus, in the 4th Century BC
** Stolen Picassos found in Paris
Police have found two paintings and a drawing by Pablo Picasso stolen from
his granddaughter's apartment in Paris in February. More
** Collections lose to dealers' delight
For the first time in anyone's memory, a state-run gallery had declared its
hand on the eve of an auction, hoping to scare off private and institutional
competitors and secure the painting for its collection
** Monitor's secrets chipped away
Five years of painstaking archaeological work came to an end this week when
conservators at The Mariners' Museum chiselled the last stubborn pieces of
concreted sand and rust from the inside of the USS Monitor gun turret
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** Row sparked by US tour of 3.2m-year-old Lucy skeleton
Scientists at the Natural History Museum in Addis Ababa arrived at work to
find that the remains had been quietly removed from the vault
** An Artist and His Sub Surrender in Brooklyn
Duke Riley, a heavily tattooed Brooklyn artist whose waterborne performance
projects around New York have frequently landed him in trouble with the
authorities, spent the last five months building the vessel as a rough
replica of what is believed to have been America's first submarine, an oak
sphere called the Turtle, said to have seen action in New York Harbour
during the Revolutionary War
** Eccentric gardener's 'shed life'
The life of an eccentric gardener and writer, who knew HG Wells and once
lived for years in a shed, is being celebrated in an exhibition in Conwy
** A whole lotta movin' and shakin'
Managers of Presley's famous home want to overhaul its tourist complex -
with a new visitors centre bigger than a football field, a convention hotel
and high-tech museum displays that bring the King to life digitally
** Four priceless paintings stolen from French museum
Hooded and armed men have staged a brazen afternoon heist at a museum in the
French Riviera city of Nice, making off with four priceless paintings: two
Bruegels, a Sisley and a Monet
** Tu questioned in museum probe
Prosecutors summoned Minister of Education Tu Cheng-sheng for questioning
over any knowledge of a corruption case concerning the renovation of the
National Palace Museum's main exhibition hall
** Aviation museum unveils refurbished plane
Seven years ago the plane, used by the Royal Canadian Air Force to train
pilots, sat rusted, dented and in pieces in the field of an Alberta farmer
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Explorer recovers booty from pirate shipwreck off Cape
A boat has towed a 10,000-pound mass of cannons, gold coins, and other
artefacts from the sunken pirate ship Whydah to a pier in Provincetown, a
find that is expected to yield more secrets and treasure from the nearly
300-year-old wreck
** Great head, pity it's no Van Gogh
Overnight, the NGV collection rooster become a feather duster and while
experts agree it is still a very good portrait, Head of a Man no longer
offers gallery visitors a chance to see a Van Gogh up close and personal
** Vuitton shop will be part of Los Angeles public art exhibit
What's happening in museums is that the lines between commerce and pure art
are increasingly blurred so with respect to the Murakami show and the
Vuitton shop, one has to wonder whether it is meant as a celebration of the
trend, a critique of the trend or a satire?"
** New Van Gogh Painting Found
Chavannes said she became a "little bit obsessed" with the painting, and
took the x-ray with her when she went home to Holland on vacation
** Aztec Leader's Tomb Found
Using ground-penetrating radar, they have detected underground chambers that
could contain the remains of Ahuizotl, who ruled the Aztecs when Columbus
landed in the New World
** New Jersey Forum - Call for Papers
** Project Preservation - a workshop institute conducted by the Ridgewood
Historical Society in the Schoolhouse Museum in Ridgewood, NJ
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