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week's edition include:
** World's most bizarre food museums
Going to a museum is no longer considered an upper-crust activity - that is,
as far as the world's first pizza museum is concerned
** Professors sue to stop ancient bones transfer
Two skeletons that rested undisturbed on a San Diego cliff top for nearly
10,000 years are at the center of a modern court battle
** Rwanda's Rwesero Museum begins hosting foreign artists
A new policy of guest exhibitions by Rwandan and foreign artists has been
implemented by Lia Gieling, a Dutch woman who is just one year into her job
as arts curator at the museum
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** The Art of German Stoneware
From the fourteenth through eighteenth centuries, stoneware ceramics from
Germanspeaking centers in modern-day Germany and the Low Countries were
valued and widely traded throughout northern Europe
** Archaeology expands beyond traditional scope into other sciences
The popular perception of archaeology is a team of dusty individuals in
wide-brimmed hats unearthing treasures from a pharaoh's tomb or an ancient
collection of Native American artifacts
** A Promising Skeleton in the Quarry
Not long after arriving, Martha Richter literally stumbled across a partial
skeleton of a terrestrial vertebrate, or tetrapod, preserved in a few pieces
of rock in one of the quarry spoil piles
** Warhol odd man out
His late foray into abstract painting, which mostly came after his dreams of
being a Hollywood movie-maker didn't pan out, set the bar pretty low
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** Kuwait museum to host Iranian cultural week
A large collection of sculptures, illuminations, calligraphic paintings,
handicrafts and Persian paintings will be put on display during the festival
** Life in the Sea Found Its Fate in a Paroxysm of Extinction
No wonder it is called the Great Dying: Scientists calculate that about 95
percent of marine species, and an uncountable but probably comparable
percentage of land species, went extinct in a geological heartbeat
** All this culture was going on anyway; so why make an Olympiad out of it?
It would have been a lot cheaper and a lot more comprehensible simply to
direct visitors to Britain to the wealth of artistic events happening
anyway, the art exhibitions, the plays, the gigs, the festivals, the opera
and dance which contribute to the cultural golden age we are rightly told we
are living through at present in the UK
** Was Edvard Munch a One-Hit Wonder?
University of Chicago economist David Galenson has compiled a list of
one-hit-wonder artists in recent history, based on the number of mentions
their masterpieces have received in scholarly literature, compared to
mentions of their lesser works
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** Cambridge's Museum tells story of ancient China
"The Search for Immortality," exhibition features more than 300 pieces of
treasure in jade, gold, silver, bronze and ceramics from the Han Dynasty
(202B.C.--220A.D.), which were recovered from tombs of the royal families
** Maya exhibit at Penn Museum in Philadelphia seeks to dispel apocalypse
myth
If the world ends on Dec. 21, 2012 - as some believe the Maya predicted -
that leaves plenty of opportunity to see a new exhibit that examines the
civilization's ancient kingdoms, intricate calendar systems and current
culture
** Researchers say patch on 425-year-old map yields new clue to fate of
Lost Colony
A new look at a 425-year-old map has yielded a tantalizing clue about the
fate of the Lost Colony, the settlers who disappeared from North Carolina's
Roanoke Island in the late 16th century
** House of awe comes back
For more than a century, this ordinary red-brick rowhouse built in 1847 by
John Johnson, a prosperous African-American Hudson River sloop captain has
fiercely guarded its secrets
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** Getty to trim 34 jobs in its museum division
The education department will be hit hardest, with the loss of 19 employees
and the $4.3 million in expected annual savings will be redirected to art
acquisitions
** Six held in $32-million Chinese art thefts from British museums
Six people have been arrested on suspicion of stealing Chinese artifacts
worth more than $32 million from two British museums
** Child, 13, Catches Error at the Met
The Connecticut seventh-grader and history buff was checking out a permanent
exhibit on the Byzantine Empire when he spotted the problem: A map that
purported to show the empire at its height was missing Spain and a section
of Africa
** This Week's Horoscopes
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** Koch gives Smithsonian $35M for new dinosaur hall
An energy businessman is donating a record $35 million to the Smithsonian's
National Museum of Natural History to build a new dinosaur hall on the
National Mall
** The madness of King Edward VIII: Shocking letters hidden for 76 years
A darker side to the Archbishop has emerged, with newly discovered Lambeth
Palace archives revealing that he betrayed King Edward VIII - the Monarch he
was supposed to serve - and orchestrated the Abdication crisis
** Heritage Impact 2012
Impact measurement, impact drivers and business strategies for heritage -
University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton, UK
** The Age of Plastic: Ingenuity + Responsibility
The Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute (MCI) will convene an
interdisciplinary symposium on the topic of polymer composite materials (aka
PLASTIC) on June 7-8, 2012 in Washington DC.
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** The Fate of Raoul Wallenberg: An Update
The Swedish American Museum invites you to welcome back Marvin Makinen and
Ari Kaplan, prominent investigators on the fate of Swedish humanitarian
Raoul Wallenberg, on Wednesday, May 23, at 7 p.m
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