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[Editor's note: The following articles are published in American and British
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WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST
June 16 - June 22, 2003

-- June 16
++ American newspapers / magazines
Heat Upstages Art at the Venice Biennale
They hang from the windows of opulent palaces along the Grand Canal and from
clotheslines on tiny side streets here, and they are plastered in restaurant
windows and for sale in the kiosks that dot St. Mark's Square:
rainbow-striped banners with "pace," or peace, in capital letters
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/16/arts/design/16VENI.html

Diarist's unfinished story
Anne Frank left a treasure trove of essays and fairy tales. Her work is the
focus of an exhibit in Washington
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N1A112505

++ British newspapers / magazines
Tolstoy to watch over visit by Putin
Author joins kings and tsar in show from Russian archive
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,978343,00.html

Suitcases bursting with history
A unique museum evoking the UK's rich history of immigration is facing a
struggle for survival. BBC Arts Correspondent Lawrence Pollard reports from
Spitalfields in London's east end
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2990378.stm

Britain's 'earliest' prehistoric cave art
Archaeologists have discovered the earliest known example of prehistoric
cave art in Britain
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2994130.stm

-- June 17
++ American newspapers / magazines
J.M.W. Turner, online at Tate
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M4B114505

Is it truth in advertising?
Works in public areas at the Hammer Museum seem to call out enticingly, but
on closer inspection they leave something wanting. They're free, at a price
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D2C112505

++ British newspapers / magazines
Staff revolt at Baghdad museum
Iraq's national museum, home to many priceless artefacts which were thought
to have been looted after the fall of Baghdad, has been plunged into a new
crisis because of a revolt by staff
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,979182,00.html

Armani retrospective kicks off Royal Academy's new space
The Museum of Mankind used to house much of the British Museum's textile
collection. It is fitting that its new owner, the Royal Academy, has
announced today that the building's inaugural exhibition is to be a textile
show
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,979389,00.html

-- June 18
++ American newspapers / magazines
Visions along the canals
While including many mediocre works, the 50th Venice Biennale contains gems
worth crossing the ocean to see
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B2D123505

Suit over Picasso may leave L.A.
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A1F132505

Functional dysfunction
The disquieting themes of decay and abandonment are at home in the photo
collages of Masumi Hayashi
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B30211505


-- June 19
++ American newspapers / magazines
Security Chief Held in Theft Of Antiquities
The security chief at eight Buddhist temples north of Beijing has been
arrested for his involvement in China's biggest case of trafficking in
cultural relics, state-run media reported today
(Washington Post)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D51211505

Budget shortfall closes museum
Massive state funding cutbacks and low revenues will force the California
Center for the Arts, Escondido to temporarily close its museum on July 20,
center arts representatives and city officials have announced. No re-opening
date has been set
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B12225505

Security official arrested in China's biggest reported antiquities theft of
communist era
A security official has been arrested for allegedly stealing more than 150
cultural relics, including some considered national treasures, in China's
biggest antiquities theft since the start of communist rule in 1949, Xinhua
News Agency reported Thursday
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T53212505

++ British newspapers / magazines
Battle to save Afghanistan's shattered heritage
The international community's indifference is hampering efforts to undo the
vandalism of the Taliban regime
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,980373,00.html

Hayward exhibition to feature Art Fund treasures
The five-tonne bulk of Rodin's sculpture The Burghers of Calais is to be
hoisted by crane out of its home in the riverside public gardens beside the
Palace of Westminster, and taken across the Thames to join a spectacular
exhibition celebrating the centenary of the Art Fund charity
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,980216,00.html

Awards recognise museum
The National Maritime Museum in Falmouth has won an award for its
architecture
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/cornwall/3002236.stm


-- June 20
++ American newspapers / magazines
Friend of the Czar, Aide of the Czarina
"It took three years of frustration to find him," said Wolfram Koeppe, the
associate curator of European sculpture and decorative arts at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was recalling his efforts to identify the
subject of an impressive life-size wooden bust the Met acquired in 1996.
Over the years, he compared the bust to faces on cameos, etchings, drawings,
oil paintings and bronze busts. He read period descriptions of the
physiognomies of princes. He studied the iconography of the decorations
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/20/arts/design/20ANTI.html

A Landscapist Who Made Impressionism American
No one considers the landscape painter Willard Metcalf (1858-1925) a
breakthrough artist. Yet as one of the first Americans to pick up on French
Impressionism, he became a significant and highly successful translator of
it to the American scene
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/20/arts/design/20GLUE.html

Museum cuts 7% of staff
Faced with a budget deficit, the natural history institution abruptly lays
off 23 full- and part-time workers
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F34225505

U.S. acquires $10-million map
The Library of Congress has purchased the Waldseemuller world map of 1507,
the first known document to call a land mass "America." The chart is also
the first to depict two oceans instead of one
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R56212505

++ British newspapers / magazines
Village draws lines at solstice party crowd
The tiny Wiltshire village of Avebury, the only one in the country built
within a prehistoric stone circle, has drawn the line on summer solstice
revellers
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,981304,00.html

-- June 21
++ American newspapers / magazines
Nefertiti's Bust Gets a Body, Offending Egyptians
To its creators, "The Body of Nefertiti" is simply an attempt to pay homage
to a famous Pharaonic bust at the Egyptian Museum here. But to Egyptian
cultural officials, the artwork debases one of the great symbols of their
country's history
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/21/arts/design/21BUST.html

Obituary: Doug Michels, Radical Artist and Architect, Dies at 59
Doug Michels, an architect and artist and a founding member of Ant Farm, a
radical art and design collective of the late 1960's and 70's, died on June
12 at Eden Bay near Sydney, Australia. He was 59 and lived in Houston
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/21/obituaries/21MICH.html

Obituary: Israeli Artist Moshe Kupferman Dies at 77
Moshe Kupferman, a leading Israeli abstract artist who was the only member
of his family to survive the Holocaust, has died. He was 77
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Obit-Kupferman.html

Looters Stole 6,000 Artifacts
Number Expected to Rise as Officials Take Inventory in Iraq
(Washington Post)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z27213505

-- June 22
++ American newspapers / magazines
Advertisements for the Vatican, Art Included
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/arts/design/22GOLD.html

Venus on Red Satin: Salvador Dalí's House in Queens
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/arts/design/22KINO.html

Eminent but Broke: Max Beckmann's New York Years
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/arts/design/22LOOS.html

Board Decides to Close American Art Museum
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I29212505

Museum insurance rates jump 37%
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K1A252505

Look him in the face
Amedeo Modigliani is known for his stylized portraits and for his bohemian
life. But new exhibitions, including one visiting L.A., dig deeper
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R2C213505

Oasis of inspiration for Georgia O'Keefe's desert abode opens door to her
world
(San Francisco Chroncile)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z5D224505

Dutch government yields Nazi-looted art
Works in a secret art collection are gradually being restituted
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11175

Warka Vase returned to Baghdad museum - while Nimrud gold is unpacked in
bank vault
The greatest loss from the National Museum in Baghdad, has been recovered
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11155

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