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WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST
May 26 - May 31, 2003

-- May, 26
++ American newspapers / magazines
Of nature and culture
Sculptural installations by Rosamond Purcell address the rise of science as
a way to understand the world and suggest a powerful role for art
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K6CB237C4

++ British newspapers / magazines
Viola's video
An international art-share initiative intrigues our critic
(The Times)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-47-692501,00.html

Artist says British Museum does not know left from right
There are several ways of looking at the troubled history of the Parthenon
marbles. The argument now is over whether the British Museum knows its elbow
from its armpit. As international controversy rumbles on over future of the
marbles, the new bones of contention are in a shattered fragment of a
2,441-year-old arm
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,963391,00.html

Historic buildings face blitz of destruction
A visit to Speke Hall outside Liverpool has become a game of chance.
Described by Pevsner as one of the four finest Tudor buildings in the
country, nothing will alter its status as an architectural gem
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,963594,00.html


-- May, 27
++ American newspapers / magazines
Renovation Project Will Close Islamic Galleries at the Met
The Islamic galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which hold one of
the most comprehensive displays of Islamic material in the world, will close
on Monday for four years for expansion and renovation
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/arts/design/27ISLA.html

An Often Misunderstood and Marginalized Category of Art
The difficulties the Metropolitan Museum of Art is having in coming to grips
with its considerable if undercataloged holdings in Islamic art are by no
means unique. And the marginal stature Islamic material holds for Western
audiences is at least as much a product of basic cultural biases as of
institutional failures
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/arts/design/27SIDE.html

Cartier-Bresson's Instinct for Decisive Moments
Henri Cartier-Bresson has always shunned the limelight, preferring his
remarkable photographic record of the mid-20th century to speak for him. He
has never liked giving interviews, agreeing at most to "a conversation." He
long resisted being photographed, believing it stripped him of the anonymity
essential to his work. In the mid-1970's he even abandoned photography as a
profession to devote himself to his first love, drawing
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/arts/design/27BRES.html

A New Museum Crowns a Career
Zandra Rhodes, the 62-year-old doyenne of British fashion, lumbered into the
back room of her new Fashion and Textile Museum looking as Zandraish as her
busy schedule allows these days
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/fashion/27DRES.html

Malevich's Shapes of Things to Come
In Moscow around the time of the Russian Revolution, Kazimir Malevich made
some of the most gorgeous and important paintings ever. He managed to pare
European art to the bare minimum of what it takes to make a picture: a black
square on a white ground, a red square on white, eventually even a white
cross on white. These abstract paintings, some of the first ones ever made,
are overwhelmingly potent studies in pure form. They achieve a radical,
electrifying balance among shape, color and composition that's rarely been
matched, and never surpassed
(Washington Post)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V2DB137C4

'Erase In' for Iraq rub-out
N.Y. museum show draws unique protest
Conflicting but apparently encouraging reports have surfaced lately amending
the initial estimate of losses to the Iraq National Museum from looting
after the fall of Baghdad
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2EB527C4

Cuneiform bits become history bytes
Looting in Iraq's national museum bolsters an initiative to digitally
archive tablets
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H40C217C4

++ British newspapers / magazines
Museums could help run state secondary schools
The government is urging England's top museums to build closer relationships
with schools and possibly even get involved with the running of state
secondary schools
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,963995,00.html

Home of Yeats's muse for sale
Pressure on Dublin to preserve house of 1916 heroine
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,964030,00.html

Best-selling living artists revealed
American artist Jasper Johns is the biggest-selling living artist, according
to a survey
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2940016.stm


-- May, 28
++ American newspapers / magazines
Picasso in Paris: A Suspect, Never a Citizen
After his death in 1973, France honored Pablo Picasso with the museum that
carries his name in Paris. Yet during his first four decades as a French
resident, the Spanish-born Picasso was viewed with suspicion by the French
police and intelligence services. When he sought French nationality in 1940,
he was turned down on the ground that he was an anarchist with Communist
tendencies
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/28/arts/design/28PICA.html

China Uncovers Looted Buddhas
Relics Sold by Christie's Unit In October Hong Kong Auction
(Washington Post)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y42C127C4

Merle Haggard gift displays a bit of future exhibit: `America on the Move'
A gift from country music singer Merle Haggard provided a first glimpse
Wednesday of what will be the largest-ever exhibit at the National Museum of
American History. The 26,000-square-foot "America on the Move" will document
American transportation from 1876 to 1999. It opens November 22
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K33C227C4

Researchers documenting remains of early Hispanic settlement
An archaeological team is documenting the remains of an early Hispanic
settlement before the site on the Arizona State University campus gives way
to offices
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z14C567C4

++ British newspapers / magazines
Loan Range
Our critic views private collections gone public
(The Times)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-47-694076,00.html

A snatched look at stolen beauty
The purity and power of Imogen Cunningham's 'stolen pictures' deserve more
than a fleeting glimpse
(The Times)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-47-693177,00.html

Obituary: Professor Peter Lasko
Energetic director of the Courtauld Institute
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=410205


-- May, 29
++ American newspapers / magazines
A Museum Garden Multitasks
The artist Robert Irwin bristles at the very idea that he designed any
gardens for the Dia Art Foundation's new museum, which opened here earlier
this month
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/garden/29NATU.html

Washington's Museums Are in Expansion Mode
Thanks to an infusion of federal and private money, some $2.4 billion in
spending is in the works for new and revamped museums, theaters and other
projects in and around the nation's capital
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/arts/design/29CAPI.html

Checking Out Your Neighborhood
The newly opened City Museum of Washington, D.C., reveals a lot about home
life in the city. A permanent exhibit, "Washington Perspectives," serves up
historical tidbits about congressional boardinghouses, alley dwellings and
early suburbs such as the Palisades
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48549-2003May28.html

Smithsonian readying new hall of mammals
The skylight glows high above the massive exhibition hall, returned finally
to the look its designer had in mind nearly a century ago. The Smithsonian
is preparing to welcome visitors to the mammal family reunion
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V36C227C4

++ British newspapers / magazines
Museum where Holst wrote the Planets in crisis
A museum devoted to a British composer who wrote one of the best-loved works
in the concert repertory is facing a cash crisis that could force it to
close
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,965858,00.html

French Concordes bow out gracefully
An aviation legend can look forward to a stately retirement, after an Air
France decision to donate four Concordes to museums around the world
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2947314.stm

Turner nomination for NI artist
Irish video artist and photographer Willie Doherty has been listed among the
nominees for this year's prestigious Turner Prize
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/2947824.stm

Controversial duo on Turner list
Brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman, two of the UK's most controversial modern
artists, are among the nominees for this year's Turner Prize
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2946040.stm


-- May, 30
++ American newspapers / magazines
Modernist in the Making
His reputation today may be that of a card-carrying modernist, but Isamu
Noguchi (1904-1988) started out as a sculptor of the classical school. The
figure was the first discipline to be mastered by this extraordinarily
versatile Japanese-American artist, whose early training was traditionally
academic. He became skilled in conjuring the human face and body, and they
remained central to his work, although it evolved from literalism to
metaphor as he went on to figure-based abstraction
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/arts/design/30NOGU.html

Clichés Aside, Indians Were Cowpokes, Too
This fact is made abundantly clear in "Legends of Our Times: Native Ranching
and Rodeo Life on the Plains and the Plateau," at the National Museum of the
American Indian, a show that depicts native peoples not as objects of
exploitation but as ranchers, cowboys, entertainers and rodeo performers in
their own right
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/arts/design/30GLUE.html

In Uptown Galleries and Museums, Heat and Light Aplenty
Just before and after World War II, 57th Street in Manhattan was the Gold
Coast of modern art. Bright lights, big pictures, names like Pollock, de
Kooning and Kline, not to mention indoor smoking
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/30/arts/design/30COTT.html

Isamu Noguchi, From the Ground Up
The focus of "Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics," a smart and
handsome little show at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, is threefold
(Washington Post)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W57C247C4

Built on philanthropy, Montana museum's future now in jeopardy
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J68C127C4

Obituary: J. Ron Longstaffe, Vancouver art philanthropist, dead at 69
Ron Longstaffe, a forest industry executive who donated 800 art works valued
at more than $3.6 million to the Vancouver Art Gallery in the past two
decades, is dead at 69
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G59C227C4

Putin celebrates St. Petersburg's 300th birthday
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B2AC137C4

If someone had made it, he wanted to take it home
An early 20th century collector's Pennsylvania "castle" is a treasury of
material culture
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D6CC257C4

The art of the museum
Breaking the "temples of culture" tradition, Cincinnati's enticing new
center calls with a siren's song
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q23D157C4

Back to another age of celebrity
The Regency exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery details a
period of paradoxes
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z54D137C4

++ British newspapers / magazines
Usual suspects on Turner shortlist
Shock value at the Tate could be hard to find as art world stalwarts are in
line for lucrative award in its 20th year
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,966861,00.html

Obituary: Arthur Brown
Foremost authority on the working-class history of Essex
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=410683

Rodin sculpture stolen
A small sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin - best known for his work
The Kiss - has been stolen from an Argentine museum
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2949436.stm

Statue stolen in night-time raid
A valuable bronze statue which was the pride and joy of a north Wales art
gallery has been stolen in a night-time raid
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/wales/north_west/2950064.stm

Complex world of Chapman brothers
BBC News Online meets artist Jake Chapman, one of the notorious Chapman
brothers, as the pair find themselves shortlisted for the Turner Prize
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2947900.stm


-- May, 31
++ American newspapers / magazines
Obituary: Peter Lasko, Ex-Director of the Courtauld Art Institute, Dies at
79
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/31/obituaries/31LASK.html

Obituary: Peter Lasko, who headed prominent British art school, dies at 79
Peter Lasko, who fled Nazi Germany as a child and grew up to head one of
Britain's most prominent art institutions, has died. He was 79
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T45D527C4

Tearful Bush and wife pay solemn visit to Nazi death camps: 'So sad'
President Bush passed under Auschwitz gate's chillingly misleading
proclamation that "work makes you free" to pay tearful tribute Saturday to
the victims of Nazi death camps. "Never forget," he exhorted. Bush and his
wife, Laura, spent nearly two hours touring the Auschwitz and Birkenau
extermination camps, the president calling them "a monument to the darkest
impulses of man."
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J46D237C4

Some unfinished business
Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House was never trouble-free. Much-needed
restoration has even run into problems
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y67D327C4

Behind the picture
Collecting art may seem genteel, but recent financial scandals show it can
be as seamy as Wall Street
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R28D517C4

++ British newspapers / magazines
JFK remembered
THE 40th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner"
speech next month will be celebrated in a new £40 million extension to the
German Historical Museum in Berlin, which opened last Sunday
(The Times)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-4364-696494,00.html

Victorian masterpiece turns up in Rocky Mountain log cabin
A voluptuous Victorian masterpiece by John William Waterhouse, which had
disappeared for more than a hundred years, has turned up in a log cabin in
the Rocky Mountains in Colorado
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,967563,00.html

Arsonists wreck listed building
Police believe a fire which destroyed a Grade II listed building at one of
Wales' most popular tourist attractions was started deliberately
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/wales/south_east/2952154.stm

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