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week's edition include:
** Art Fund highlights fears for museum art collections
The charity found that 75% of the 276 UK museums it polled cited inadequate
funding and reduced spending as the biggest barrier to collecting
** Museum Board Member Caught in Russian Intrigue
The Guggenheim was the first among New York museums to seriously cultivate
relationships with rich Russian collectors, beginning in 2002 with the
election to the board of the businessman Vladimir Potanin, and continuing
with its 2005 exhibition "Russia!" for which Ms. Bullock helped raise money
** Virtual museum for Newport's medieval ship
The University of Wales, Newport, has designed an interactive view of the
medieval ship uncovered on the banks of the River Usk in 2002
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** All the Picassos in the Cupboard
There have already been several such haulings-out this year, and now comes
the biggest of all, "Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," a display
of nearly every scrap in the Met's scrappy Picasso collection: 34 paintings,
58 drawings, a dozen sculptures and ceramics, along with 200 of the museum's
400 prints
** Virginia museum restores slave cemetery
In a field beside Avoca Museum, dozens of neatly-shaped rocks serve as
gravestones for slaves believed to be buried there
** Giant Bamboo Artwork Rises Atop Met Museum
For the past two months, an elaborate bamboo structure has been rising
toward the sky from the roof garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
** Reducing Pay for New York Cultural Executives
Running an art institution can be glamorous, but it can also be gruelling
work that requires a capacity to manage budgets, buildings, programming,
artists, contributors, audiences, trustees and public officials across a day
that routinely stretches into nights of performances and donor events
** Grisly Afghan museum honours anti-Soviet jihad
The tribute is a stomach-churning reminder of the fact that Afghanistan
continues to be plagued with insecurity and is still hosting tens of
thousands of foreign troops
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** Wartime Museum to open in Prince William County in 2014
People will get a chance to feel what it was like to hunker in the trenches
during World War I or don medical gear and serve as a military nurse when
the Wartime Museum comes to Prince William County in 2014
** Museum set to uncork inaugural bottles of wine made from city-grown
grapes
The Queens County Farm Museum in Floral Park is poised to uncork the
inaugural bottles of its own wine, believed to be the first to feature
city-grown grapes
** Sarah Jessica Parker's Stylish New Gig: Museum Tour Guide
The museum has asked the tastemaker to record an audio guide for their
Costume Institute's annual fashion exhibit
** Europe's volcano flight chaos plays havoc with show shipments
The Van Gogh exhibition at London's Royal Academy was one of the first shows
to be hit, in terms of returning pictures following its closure on 18 April
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** Jewellery of Turkomen tribes
Imagine being covered in ornate jewellery - dangling from your ears, wrapped
around your arms, resting on your head and braided in your hair
** Sperm whale arrives for Deep exhibition
As flight travel chaos from the erupting Icelandic volcano starts to die
down, one journey went smoothly as a 7-metre sperm whale arrived at the
Natural History Museum
** North Carolina Museum of Art opens it doors
The 127,000 square foot building is made of up more glass than the typical
art museum, with some of the finest pieces spanning several centuries,
continents and genres
** A Cacophony of Musical Playthings in the Desert
There are complete skins of animals, dried, tied and knotted, their orifices
fitted with hollow canes and reeds
** A 'living lab' for nature in the middle of L.A.
Once their planned 3 1/2 -acre garden sprouts, operators of the Los Angeles
County museum are counting on birds, bees and other bugs discovering it and
moving in
** This Week's Horoscopes
Taurus - When life gives you lemons, why not blame them on your troubled
upbringing and consequent inability to show affection? It sure beats making
lemonade
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** Israeli museum unveils rare Renaissance manuscript
Experts at Israel's national museum have completed the restoration of a
15th-century Hebrew manuscript with exquisite illustrations made by master
Italian artisans
** Museums Take Their Lessons to the Schools
Over the last few years, many schools have eliminated or cut back on museum
trips, partly because of tight budgets that make it hard to pay for a bus
and museum admission, and partly because of the growing emphasis on "seat
time" to cover all the material on state tests
** Respecting Cultural Heritage for Our Common Future
ICOM Europe Tour and Conference 2010
** I-CHORA 5: Fifth International Conference on the History of Records and
Archives
London, 1-3 July 2010
** Workshop: Adventures in Preservation, 2010
Adventures in Preservation is a non-profit organization that has been
supporting community-based heritage preservation projects since 2002
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