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SCOOP – Pull FORBES – Dan Lanigan gets the opportunities any Disney fan would
out your calen- kill for. In the first episode of his new Disney+ series, Prop Culture, he
dar. Keeping gets to wander through the Walt Disney prop warehouse, bringing together
their schedules iconic pieces from your favorite films with the actors who once used them.
flexible, Marvel Lanigan’s series is built for
and Sony have Disney lovers, as well as those
changed the who find history in unique
release dates for pieces of ephemera. According
the upcoming Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, to Lanigan, “Disney has done one
and Thor movies. Spider-Man 3 has been moved to November 5, 2021, of the better jobs of tracking
about four months after its previous date of July 16. Into the Spider-Verse pieces down or keeping pieces,
2 has moved dates from April 8 to October 7, 2022. Marvel and Disney but the problem is they make a
have moved Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to March 25, lot of movies and it’s hard to
2022, about four months later than the original November 5, 2021 date. keep all this stuff after the film.
Thor: Love and Thunder was moved forward from February 18, 2022 to It’s made with a purpose and it
February 11. Several other Marvel character movies were previously given isn’t until time passes that you
new dates, including Black Widow now set for November 6, 2020, The really decide whether or not this is an important film to society and,
Eternals releasing on February 12, 2021, and Shang-Chi and the Legend thereby, these pieces have magic.” Prop Culture is streaming on Disney+.
of the Ten Rings moving to May 7, 2021.

NYT NEWS SERVICE – The Charles Dickens Museum in London has
LONDON – Ready, Steady, Draw! fallen on hard times. For 95 years, the collection, in the home of the Oliver
Independent watchmaker Ressence and Twist and Great Expectations author, has been financed by ticket sales and
Sotheby’s Watch Division joined forces other earned income. But with no visitors since March, its director fears
against coronavirus this season and launched that its temporary closure could
a competition to design a unique watch. For become permanent. All but about
the first time ever, watch-lovers had the chance 5-7% of the world’s museums are
to create their own interpretation of one of currently shuttered because of the
Ressence’s latest models, the Type 1 Slim. coronavirus pandemic according to
Their creativity will support medical research. The competition ends Peter Keller, the general director of
May 12. the International Council of
Museums. According to its
research, 1 in 10 may not reopen.
SHROPSHIRELIVE – Campaigners are up in arms at news that More than 30 respondents to a survey conducted by the Network of
Historic England has relaxed its concerns over development in the his- European Museum Organizations said they feared they would have to close.
toric landscape of Old Oswestry hillfort. The government’s statutory “It would be a terribly complex process for us,” a spokesperson for the
heritage consultee is currently advising on a planning application for Dickens Museum said. “One of the largest ‘pieces’ in our collection is
91 houses in the near this house in which Dickens lived. We can’t even think about how you
setting of the 3,000-year-old take a collection and locate it in another museum.”
Iron Age monument. The
outcry comes as Historic
England’s representation ART AND OBJECT – At 355 years old,
appeared on Shropshire the Girl with a Pearl Earring still has
Council’s planning portal secrets to reveal. Thanks to the efforts of
just hours before the close of a two-year study at the Mauritshuis
public consultation (on April Museum in The Hague, we now know
21). The current application is the third set of plans in 12 months to be sub- what lies beneath the surface of
mitted by the planning agent, prompting floods of objections each time. Johannes Vermeer’s iconic painting. The
The 3,000-year-old hillfort is widely referred to as ‘The Stonehenge of Mauritshuis’ research project, called
the Iron Age’ for its unique design and pivotal importance together with The Girl in the Spotlight , used non-
its hinterland landscape for the understanding of Iron Age society. invasive techniques – digital microscopy
and paint sample analysis. These new tech-
nologies reveal that Vermeer used differ-
BUSINESS INSIDER – A ent pigments and paint mixtures to
Midwesterner’s ultra-rare paint the Girl’s face. The macro-X-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF) map for
Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster iron, created shows that Vermeer painted eyelashes using a brown paint.
that had been hidden away for Also, the painting’s glossy black background was revealed to once have
more than 40 years just sold for been emerald green folded curtains. Her true identity remains a mystery.
more than $1 million. Besides
being tucked away in a barn for four
decades, this particular 300SL NEW YORK – Who has worn vintage to the Met
Roadster came with a known owner- Gala? Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have always
ship history, making it particularly been mavericks on the Met Gala red carpet—never
valuable. The Roadster was purchased by its previous owner in 1976 and too on-the-nose when it comes to the theme. The
was stored soon after, so it shows less than 15,000 miles on the odometer. keen Olsen observer would also know that the sisters
It’s one of only 249 300SL Roadsters built for 1960, according to the often wear vintage on the red carpet, and they’re
dealership that sold it (Gullwing Motor Cars in New York in a private sale), two of the few celebs who do. As always, they’re
making it an exceedingly rare car. ahead of the curve.

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