Dear All,
I am subscribed to the H-Museum list and it is quite active.  based in
Germany, there are quite a few posting regarding European events and topics.
every week there are "Weekly News Digest" postings, one for US and UK and
another for Europe.

If I hear positive response, then I'll be happy to post the US, UK news to
arlis-l.

Cheers,

-- jack

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Jack Robertson.  Foundation Librarian.  Jefferson Library
Thomas Jefferson Foundation
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Subject: NEWS: Weekly News Digest ( USA, UK)


[Editor's note: The following articles are published in American and British
newspapers and magazines. The WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST service is made
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WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST
April 22 - April 26, 2003


-- April 22
++ American newspapers / magazines
Anxiety and Hope in a Mystical Fusion
After their deaths even prominent artists are often neglected for a time
before they are again appreciated. This has been the case with Marc Chagall.
This Russian-born painter lived to such a ripe old age that he was already
out of fashion when he died in southern France in 1985 at the age of 98.
Many critics considered that his best work was done a half-century earlier
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/arts/design/22CHAG.html

Armenians protest at museum
Hunger-strikers want increased displays at the Museum of Tolerance of what
many historians say was genocide.
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C50C25264

More dinosaur bones to be excavated in British Columbia
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W31C65264

SOMA home for science museum
San Francisco's Exploratorium is on the verge of announcing a more than $27
million deal to leave the Palace of Fine Arts for a spacious new home in the
South of Market area
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A42C21264

++ British newspapers / magazines
Obituary: Basil Greenhill
Single-minded director of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=399311

Memories recall town's history
A Conwy museum is searching for people to share their memories so that their
recordings can be used to build up a picture of the town's history
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/wales/north_west/2966947.stm

'Proof' of Roman fort found
Archaeologists in west Cumbria claim they have found remains of a Roman
fortress
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/cumbria/2965811.stm


-- April 23
++ American newspapers / magazines
A Heritage Rediscovered, Then Remade
Inside many a thin building is a fat one straining to get out. Frank Gehry
lets it out. Like many of his other projects, Mr. Gehry's new concert hall
for Bard College is a Balanchine dancer with the build of a Victorian banker
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/arts/design/23BARD.html

Simon Wiesenthal Bows Out
The Nazi hunter says his hunting days are over. Simon Wiesenthal, the
Holocaust survivor who devoted his life to tracking down fugitives
responsible for the mass slaughter of Jews in World War II, told an Austrian
magazine, Format, last week that he was closing his files
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/opinion/23WED4.html

Walls that speak of Russia's history
The land's tumultuous past is spelled out in the galleries of the
Hermitage -- what's in them and what is not
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G13C21264

Questions, few answers
Santa Barbara Art Museum's 'Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism' is
light on social commentary.
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W14C42264

Customs officials say media members attempted to ship paintings, other goods
out of Iraq
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F65C53264

Media, military investigated for taking art, artifacts from Iraq
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I26C51264

Obituary: John Strejan -- 'grand master' of pop-up books
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C17C62264


-- April 24
++ American newspapers / magazines
Boston museums ready to grow
Museums in Los Angeles and New York have had to shelve expansion plans
because of the struggling economy, but two major projects in Boston are
moving forward, the Boston Globe reported Wednesday
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B29C41264

U.S. Customs shows off Iraq contraband
Gold-plated weapon, kitschy paintings among articles seized
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P48C22264

++ British newspapers / magazines
Royal visitor opens Museums Quarter
The Museums Quarter in Hull has been opened by the Duke of Gloucester
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/humber/2974225.stm

Roman fort buried below park
Archaeologists have found a previously unknown Roman fort underground at a
park in west Wales
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/wales/south_west/2970729.stm

Minster loses long fight against entry charges
long and stubborn fight against admission charges at York Minster, one of
the most-visited buildings in Britain, has been defeated by debts which have
soared up to £600,000
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,942242,00.html

Sweeping reforms urged for National Trust
The National Trust is run by an old boy network leaving its 6,000 staff and
3 million members with no real idea how decisions are made and who makes
them, an independent report says today
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,942370,00.html

Obituary: Jim Mathieson
Unworldly sculptor who came late to his art from insurance
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=399880


-- April 25
++ American newspapers / magazines
Officials to Open WTC Memorial Contest
Come Monday, any adult, anywhere in the world will be able to submit a
design for the memorial that will be built at the World Trade Center site
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Attacks-Memorial.html

Arts Groups Fight Upstarts to Keep Their Buildings
There is a scramble on for buildings in postwar Baghdad, and it is as much a
struggle over ideas and power as real estate
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/25/international/worldspecial/25BUIL.html

Medium and Message Unite in African Objects
One of the most persistent debates swirling around art today concerns
whether art objects speak for themselves or whether, like ventriloquists'
dummies, they simply say whatever we decide. I suspect it is a little of
both, with the ratio affected by your penchant for art theory and your
willingness to examine carefully both an art object's visible
characteristics and your own inner, often unpredictable responses
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/25/arts/design/25SMIT.html

Aborigines' art comes out of the cave, into galleries
Collectors jostle for paintings with 30,000-year lineage
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M2AC12264

Natural high
Randall Museum, city's secret treasure, shows off its face-lift this weekend
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?L5BC21264

Ukrainian monks seize part of 1,000-year old monastery in latest dispute
over Soviet-seized property
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P5CC42264

++ British newspapers / magazines
A watery tale of two cities
The Museum of London will tomorrow host a conference - sponsored
by Venice in Peril - comparing the archaeology of Venice and London as
"cities on water". Surprisingly perhaps, London has far greater experience
of "riverside archaeology" than Venice has of "lagoonside archaeology"
(The Times)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-46-658113,00.html

Art connoisseur's body may be exhumed in Italy to settle row over £300m
estate
Five claiming to be multimillionaire's illegitimate relatives want DNA tests
in challenge to New York University
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,943221,00.html

Judge to rule on primacy of art over religion
A row that crystallises the old argument about religious art - does its
sacredness trump its value as art, or can it have different meanings for
different people? - is to be settled by an Italian judge
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=400098

Obituary: Joanna Drew
Arts Council exhibition organiser
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=400157


-- April 26
++ American newspapers / magazines
Obituary: Cole Weston, Preserved Legacy of Edward Weston, Dies at 84
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/26/obituaries/26WEST.html

A 100-proof auction slate
Spring sales include dispersal of the Seagram collection, ending a chapter
of N.Y. history.
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I5DC25264

++ British newspapers / magazines
Officials convinced museum was looted to order
From Stephen Farrell in Baghdad
(The Times)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-6047-659352,00.html

Rogers to transform Barcelona bullring
Catalan capital embraces British architect as it turns its back on the gory
past
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,943927,00.html

Tate Modern celebrates 'violence and ritual movement'
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,943916,00.html

A coalition of the willing
If it had been up to the Metropolitan Museum, Iraq and Syria would have been
honoured lenders to a major exhibition opening this month on the culture of
the first cities-and of the lands now embroiled in hostilities with the US
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=10998

"We want to dismantle the prejudice against Arabs"
International artists flock to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates as Sheikh
al Qasimi encourages its biennial to open up to the world
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=10991

New twist in the affaire Vasarely
Ex-president Debbasch is under investigation for money laundering
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=10994

Massive success for Breton sale
A final beau geste by the artist's daughter
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=10992


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