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WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST
July 28 - August 3, 2003
-- July 28
++ British newspapers / magazines
Pick up any painting from the National Gallery for as little as £10
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=428201
-- July 29
++ British newspapers / magazines
Return of Aboriginal remains
A museum yesterday said sorry and handed back four skulls collected from
Australia's Aborigine people by colonial explorers more than a century ago
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1008843,00.html
Museum returns Aboriginal skulls
A museum has returned four Aboriginal skulls, collected 100 years ago, to
tribal elders
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/manchester/3105217.stm
-- July 30
++ American newspapers / magazines
Museums Defend Fudge Factor
Ralph Colp Jr. has always loved the American Museum of Natural History. When
his daughter Judy was a girl, he frequently escorted her there. But instead
of learning to share her father's delight in scientific discovery, she
merely developed a profound dislike of museums
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/30/arts/design/30CHOC.html
++ British newspapers / magazines
Egypt wants antiquities loan
Egypt is mounting a campaign for the return of antiquities taken from the
country for an exhibition to mark Cairo's Egypt Museum's 100th birthday
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3109065.stm
-- July 31
++ American newspapers / magazines
Who Will Run Frick and the Whitney?
The leading candidate to run the Frick Collection is Anne L. Poulet, a
specialist in European decorative arts, according to those close to the
search
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/31/arts/design/31MUSE.html
Harvard to post Nuremberg trial documents to the Internet
Harvard Law School is planning to put more than a million documents from the
Nuremberg trials on the Internet, allowing ready access to records of
hearings into the war crimes of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/07/31/nati
onal0038EDT0402.DTL
++ British newspapers / magazines
Cambodia's forgotten temples fall prey to looters
Guards now patrol Angkor Wat but other cultural sites are being plundered
daily
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1009643,00.html
-- August 1
++ American newspapers / magazines
The Guggenheim Offers a Primer in the Development of Modernism
In the season when beginners by the thousand pour into our museums, a
selective anthology of perennial in-house favorites in a major museum has
much to be said for it. This year's summer anthology at the Guggenheim
Museum is "From Picasso to Pollock: Classics of Modern Art." The bait is
irresistible, the promised classics turn up here and there, and both the
young and the not-so-young have a fine time on the ramps
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/01/arts/design/01RUSS.html
From Lurid to Luminous: Pre-Nazi German Images
Looking at "From Expressionism to the Bauhaus," a choice selection of
early-20th-century German art and design at the Neue Galerie, it's hard not
to think about the background of creative ferment, social revolution and
terror that culminated in the rise of Nazism
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/01/arts/design/01JOHN.html
A Big Find for the Met
When one thinks of artists' responses to the horrors of war in the 20th
century, Picasso's "Guernica" generally comes to mind first, then the
allegories of Max Beckmann. After Labor Day, when the second floor of the
Metropolitan Museum's modern-art galleries reopen after a summer of repairs
and renovations, visitors can see another artist's response to the war of
his time
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/01/arts/design/01INSI.html
'Responsibility' Fails To Live Up to Title
The thematic focus of "Public Responsibility: Contemporary Photography of
the Americas," an exhibition at the often overlooked and generally
underrated Art Museum of the Americas, would seem to be the artist as social
witness. Several of the works on view address such issues as poverty,
racism, sexism, violence, disease and governmental corruption. For some in
the show, however, the ambitious title is more than a bit of a stretch
(Washington Post)
--August 2
++ American newspapers / magazines
Ancient Art at Met Raises Old Ethical Questions
Almost lost in the sumptuous display of Mesopotamian antiquities in the "Art
of the First Cities" exhibition now at the Metropolitan Museum is a small
limestone fragment, triangular in shape and delicately carved
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/02/international/02ANTI.html
++ British newspapers / magazines
The museum whose insect collection is being eaten ... by insects
To the human eye, the display cases of iridescent butterflies and delicate
blooms in the archives of the Natural History Museum are objects of interest
and beauty. To Anthrenus sarnicus, a tiny beetle just two millimetres in
length, they represent something else - dinner
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=429807
-- August 3
++ American newspapers / magazines
Preserving Yankee History With International Ingenuity
To Laura Heon, the curator at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
here and a transplanted Arkansan, the mythic New England Yankee has always
seemed just a "little weird." Intrigued by this archetype, and its
legendarily laconic, closed-ranked, resolute, romantically repressed and
parsimonious ways, she did what any curator would do to find out more: she
planned an exhibition about it
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/arts/design/03LLOY.html
The building of a reputation
Photographer Lucien Hervé found his subject in the buildings of Le
Corbusier. A new exhibit captures a poetic high point of the men's work
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-hart3aug03,0,1650089.s
tory?coll=cl-art
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