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[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
July 14 - July 20, 2003

-- July 14
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-- July 15
++ American newspapers / magazines
For London, a Summer of Photographic Memory
This city is immersed in photography exhibitions, a coincidence of
scheduling, perhaps, that the museums here decided made a catchy marketing
scheme. Posters and flyers advertise the "Summer of Photography."
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/15/arts/design/15LOND.html

Eisenhower views of turbulent '60s
At the Getty Center, "Strange Days: Photographs From the Sixties by
Winogrand, Eggleston, and Arbus" looks at the '60's but feels like the '50's
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U58521755

A hard debate on gentle clean for 'David'
Five centuries after Michelangelo's "David" was unveiled in Florence's
Piazza della Signoria, there is another contretemps about how to save this
icon of youthful beauty from the ravages of time. Should the marble colossus
be restored to its original perfection or simply cleaned of grime? Or should
it learn to live with the inevitable streaks and blotches of venerable old
age?
(International Herald Tribune)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H29515755

++ British newspapers / magazines
Looted art commission starts work
A new German commission began work yesterday to help find "fair and just
solutions" in ongoing disputes over the rightful ownership of art seized by
Nazis, mostly from Jewish victims
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,998453,00.html

Asbestos scare at museum
People who have recently visited the Haig Colliery Mining Museum in
Whitehaven have been told they could have been in contact with asbestos
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/cumbria/3068941.stm

-- July 16
++ American newspapers / magazines
Lawsuit seeks to block LACMA's Pushkin show
The grandson of a Russian aristocrat contends that the exhibition includes
25 works that the Bolsheviks took from his family
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O6A532755

Artifacts from Jordan arrive for exhibition
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y2B512755

Heir of Russian art patron sues LA museum to stop exhibit
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z5C532755

++ British newspapers / magazines
Why Dirty David needs a wash - or at least a dry clean
Michelangelo's masterpiece David is causing a dispute in the international
art world as experts bicker over how the statue should be cleaned ahead of
its 500th birthday next year
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,998967,00.html

Cancer alert at asbestos museum
Volunteer workers at a Cumbria museum have been told they may develop lung
cancer after asbestos was found during a renovation
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/cumbria/3071183.stm


-- July 17
++ American newspapers / magazines
A Prado Show Honors Civil War Rescue Effort
They bricked up fountains and sandbagged statues, fortified museums and
trucked some of the world's greatest paintings through a war zone. They
saved works by Goya, Velazquez, El Greco, Titian, Dürer and Bosch from the
ravages of war, yet were officially ignored for 67 years
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/17/arts/design/17PRAD.html

Macworld Celebrates Electronic Artistry
Show Replaces Canvas With Computer
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2571-2003Jul16.html

Jefferson will head museum
Charmaine Jefferson as been named executive director of the California
African American Museum. She began her career as a dancer and held positions
with New York City's Department of Cultural Affairs, Dance Theatre of Harlem
and the National Endowment for the Arts
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E1D552755

A mind for universal forms
A well-chosen exhibition memorializes sculptor Chen Zhen
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P2F565755

Ex-D.A. Makes Case for $5-Million Donor
Michael Bradbury searches for a benefactor for a science museum in Thousand
Oaks
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q60622755

++ British newspapers / magazines
More funds for struggling museum
Visitor attraction Urbis is set to receive an additional £500,000 of
Manchester council taxpayers' money each year, the BBC has learned
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/manchester/3072909.stm


-- July 18
++ American newspapers / magazines
Tiny Treasures Leave Big Void in Looted Iraq
while there is still confusion about just how many objects were stolen from
the Iraq Museum in Baghdad during the recent war, there is no doubt that one
of its major collections is gone. In London last week, at an annual meeting
of experts in archaeology, history and ancient languages of Mesopotamia, the
museum's director, Dr. Nawala al-Mutawalli, said that 4,795 cylinder seals
were missing. Col. Matthew Bogdanos of the Marines, leader of the American
team investigating losses of antiquities in Iraq, confirmed the theft
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/18/arts/design/18ANTI.html

Another Trip for David
The High Museum of Art in Atlanta will not be the only place to see
Verrocchio's bronze sculpture "David," one of the greatest masterpieces of
Renaissance art, when it comes to the United States in November. The
National Gallery of Art in Washington will exhibit it, too
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/18/arts/design/18INSI.html

Along With Damage, Museum Suffers Loss of History in Fire
A historic house that predates the Revolutionary War and now houses the
municipal museum here was heavily damaged by fire on Thursday night, and a
collection of documents rich in local history apparently was destroyed,
officials said
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/19/nyregion/19FIRE.html

Hints of a dark time in timeless aesthetics
Leni Riefenstahl remains one of the most genuinely controversial artists of
the 20th century - as undeniably significant as her morals are questionable
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D21612755

Washington museum's exhibit shows that Americans were Impressionists, too
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P12625755

++ British newspapers / magazines
Listings system to change
The government is proposing to tear up the complicated listings system which
has protected the most important buildings, landscapes and archaeological
monuments for most of the last century
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1000414,00.html

London's heritage buildings at risk
Nearly 800 historic buildings in London are at risk from decay and neglect,
according to English Heritage
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/london/3076133.stm

-- July 19
++ American newspapers / magazines
Prado celebrates art's war heroes
They bricked up fountains and sandbagged statues, fortified museums and
trucked some of the world's greatest paintings through a war zone. They
saved works by Goya, Velázquez, El Greco, Titian, Dürer and Bosch from the
ravages of war, yet were officially ignored for 67 years
(International Herald Tribune)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G33664755

-- July 20
++ American newspapers / magazines
Obituary: John F. Eisenberg, 68, Leading Expert on Mammals, Dies
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/20/obituaries/20EISE.html

A Rise in See Level
With 'Gyroscope,' Hirshhorn Puts Reverse Spin On the Art World's Blockbuster
Mania
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3510-2003Jul16.html

Monet caught in U.S.-France tussle
The latest casualty of Franco-American tension is an exhibition of paintings
by French Impressionist Claude Monet
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T17625755

Venice history by way of Africa
The European center's historic diversity ensnares artist Fred Wilson,
especially the role played by blacks
(Los Angeles Times)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P59621755

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