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week's edition include:
** Cheap booze is museum party's undoing
The martini fete at Milwaukee Art Museum ended with drunk guests passing
out, throwing up and clambering over artworks
** 12-year-old sticks gum onto $1.5M painting
The boy, who was not identified because of his age, was part of a school
group that was visiting the museum last week when officials said he took a
piece of gum out of his mouth and stuck it on the 1963 painting
** D.C.'s Oldest Art Museum Cuts Staff
The Corcoran Gallery of Art has dismissed half its curators and two other
department heads as part of a restructuring
** Museum to honour lost trawlermen
For many visitors it will be a place to quietly reflect on lives lost at
sea - about 6,000 people who sailed out of Hull never returned
** The History of Cocaine
He renamed it Coca-Cola: the temperance drink "offering the virtues of coca
without the vices of alcohol" and marketed it as the perfect beverage for a
"turbulent, inventive, noisy, neurotic new America."
** Peru says will sue Yale to recover Inca artefacts
Peru plans to sue Yale University to recover thousands of artefacts
excavated from Machu Picchu more than 90 years ago, after negotiations broke
down and the sides accused each other this week of bad faith
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** Arts world beginning to look like giant game of hide-and-seek
While there is now broad agreement that the design was filched from plans
for an unbuilt Mayan temple, the source of the perforated copper cladding
remains in dispute - Vladivostok shipyard? Belgrade bunker? Akron car parts
factory?
** Rotation Of Earth Plunges Entire North American Continent Into Darkness
Millions of eyewitnesses watched in stunned horror Tuesday as light emptied
from the sky, plunging the U.S. and neighbouring countries into darkness
** Andean maize 1,000 years older than thought
The scientists were looking for plant remains to determine the diet of the
people who lived in the area long ago when they discovered microscopic
grains of maize, potato and arrowroot on the floor of a circular stone house
and on grinding tools in the settlement of Waynuna dating between 3,600 and
4,000 years old
** China's largest ebony museum to open in Sichuan
After being buried under riverbed silt for tens of thousand years as a
result of diastrophism, large tracts of ancient trees were turned into ebony
when brought to light by quarry workers
** Thieves steal royal artefacts from Brazil museum
Two armed men broke into Rio's City Museum and stole silver swords and
household objects used by Brazil's royal family in the 19th century
** British Museum to hold display in Beijing
The world's oldest national public museum - the British Museum will display
part of its collection in China for the first time this month
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** Police make arrest in Bata Shoe Museum robbery
On Jan. 22, thieves managed to swipe a pair of Royal Indian slippers valued
at $160,000, a gold anklet worth $45,000 and a gold toe ring from the museum
** Stolen Rio art put on sale online
Henri Matisse's Luxembourg Gardens, which was taken from the Chacara do Ceu
museum in Rio de Janeiro, was advertised on a Russian website. More -
Painting may have been burned
** 14th-Century Shipwreck Found in Stockholm
Experts say they might be able to bring the ship up on land, as was done
with the 17th century warship Vasa, which is now housed in a museum that is
one of Stockholm's main tourist attractions
** Museum eyes odd exhibition
A collection of glass eyes on display at the South Australian Museum is
bringing attention and appreciation to the craft, and to the work of the
only man in Australia who still makes them
** Catherine, the great collector
Has there been even one powerful king whose achievements as a monarch are
hidden from us now by a mountain range of smut?
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** Europe's digital library taking shape
At least 6 million books, documents and other cultural works will be made
available online over the next five years under a planned European Digital
Library
** Lahore Zoo will stuff rare animals only
The Lahore Zoo Management Committee has decided to stop stuffing the animals
that die at the zoo, other than rare species if required by an institution
or the zoo itself
** Ancient Egyptian artefacts and rituals revealed at Queensland Museum
South Bank
** How Much Leadership Do Museums Need? - Landesmuseum Kärnten, Klagenfurt,
Austria
** Astronomy Centre of Hawaii Opens
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