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WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST
August 18 - August 24, 2003

-- August 18
++ British newspapers / magazines
Acropolis building site stirs up storm
If visitors to the Acropolis in central Athens were to cast their eyes
across the city to the south-east, they would soon spot a large gap in the
densely populated neighbourhood of Markryianni, just a stone's-throw away
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3160203.stm

-- August 19
++ American newspapers / magazines
Enola Gay, Waiting In the Wings No More
Restored A-Bomb Plane Unveiled at Dulles
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11646-2003Aug18.html

LACMA fights art-theft suit
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art says it can't be held accountable in
court for an art theft committed by Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1918
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-quick19.4aug19,2,14603
93.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers / magazines
Bacon mask is a concept too far for thief
If only an artist with a video camera had been labouring in Liverpool at the
time, the result could have turned up in Tate Modern as a conceptual work
about a conceptual work inspired by conceptual work
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1021446,00.html

-- August 20
++ American newspapers / magazines
Obituary: Dorothy Geraldine, Brock Gallery Director
Dorothy Geraldine Brock, 75, former president and executive director of
McLean Project for the Arts, died of cancer Aug. 12 at her home in McLean
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17683-2003Aug19.html

Space museum turns to tragedy
The Smithsonian center has been popular for its tales of triumph, but now it
is debating how to tell the story of the fatal shuttle accidents
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-trescott20aug20,2,4310
768.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers / magazines
Pickled animals prove museum's star attraction
The Natural History Museum in London, which displays in the newly opened
Darwin Centre some of its stock of 22 million animal specimens suspended in
alcohol, was named as the best large visitor attraction in the annual awards
for the capital's tourism trade
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=435400

Plan to protect region's history
The protection of the North West's history is the focus of a new strategy
from English Heritage
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/3165417.stm

-- August 21
++ American newspapers / magazines
Seeking "A Rougher, Commoner, More Vulgar Art"
An Exhibit of Max Beckmann at MOMA Queens
(Der Aufbau)
http://www.aufbauonline.com/2003/issue16/14.html

++ British newspapers / magazines
Obituary: Jannie Brandes-Brilleslijper
Concentration camp survivor who was one of the last to see Anne Frank alive
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=435655

Age puzzle over 'Roman' treasure
The origin of one of the British Museum's greatest Roman treasures has been
thrown into confusion after a scholar claimed it was actually made in the
16th Century
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3169929.stm

-- August 22
++ American newspapers / magazines
Obituary: John Coplans, 83, an Artist and a Founder of Artforum, Dies
John Coplans, a founder and former editor of Artforum magazine, whose career
also encompassed phases as a painter, critic, curator, museum director and
finally a photographer of discomfiting images of his own aging body, died
yesterday at a Manhattan hospital. He was 83 and lived in Manhattan
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/22/obituaries/22COPL.html

Washington's Museums Traverse Miles and Eras
Without exception every large American city offers insights, sometimes
painful, into the challenges of building, stocking and perpetuating art
museums. In Washington these lessons can sometimes seem unusually extreme,
especially where architecture is concerned
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/22/arts/design/22SMIT.html

Its Portrait Is Taken, Then the Subject Is Eaten
Edward Weston (1886-1958) may not have been the first photographer to
enshrine a vegetable, as in his still life "Pepper No. 31" (1930). But it's
safe to assume that no one before had seen the humble pod as a monument of
formidable presence, evoking a nude, an Arp sculpture or a desert rock
formation while projecting the very essence of its veggie self
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/22/arts/design/22GLUE.html

A museum where time stands still
In the countryside of southwestern England, the Watts Gallery is virtually
unchanged from the time of its founding a century ago
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-artner22aug22,2,586286
5.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers / magazines
Landmark designs win praise
Two Greater Manchester landmarks have been hailed as among the architectural
success stories of the past year
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/manchester/3175053.stm

Australia's ancient art as modern commodity
In upmarket Sydney galleries, art from the Australian Bush is beginning to
attract some serious interest
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3171145.stm


-- August 23
++ American newspapers / magazines
Museum Sues Over Looted Art It Returned
A local museum has filed a $3 million suit against a New York art gallery,
saying the gallery misled it about the ownership of an Italian Renaissance
painting that it later had to return to Italy
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-BRF-Art-Suit.html

Obituary: Kayla Grodsky -- S.F. art patron, community leader
Mrs. Grodsky was actively involved in the work of the Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco, and was an elected member of the Board of the Museum Society.
She had lectured frequently on the art of Claude Monet, the great French
Impressionist
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/08/23
/BA183612.DTL

Springfield, Mass., museum files $3 million suit over looted art it returned
A local museum has filed a $3 million suit against a New York art gallery,
saying the gallery misled it about the ownership of an Italian Renaissance
painting that it later had to return to Italy
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/08/23/nati
onal1539EDT0583.DTL

++ British newspapers / magazines
Obituary: John Coplans
Influential artist, curator and editor who found his greatest success as a
photographer, producing astonishing nude self-portraits
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=436319

Obituary: Professor John Shearman
Distinguished historian of Italian Renaissance art
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=435950

Museum action plan unveiled
Local museums have voiced disappointment at a Scottish Executive action plan
to help them improve their services
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3174823.stm

-- August 24
++ American newspapers / magazines
For $150,000, a Neo-Classical You
There was a time when Kip Forbes, vice chairman of the Forbes publishing
empire, asked himself what he really wanted in life, and one of the things
he came up with was this: a portrait of himself rendered in the lush manner
of François-Xavier Fabre's 1797 neo-classical portrait of Allen Smith nobly
contemplating the Arno River. Forbes, for his part, would be seated in front
of the family's Normandy chateau, wearing the family kilt and knickers,
noodling at a set of paints
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/24/arts/design/24LELA.html

Slave Museum's Future Lies in Acquiring the Past
Starting a museum involves a laundry list of inherent challenges: raising
money, securing a location, debating what the displays will include and
exclude. But what if the museum-to-be has no artifacts?
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37534-2003Aug23.html

Saint Joan of arts
The young heroine's image continues to resonate. A French exhibition, a bean
can label and a fall TV series are but a few of the places you'll find her
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-muchnic24aug24,2,60951
20.story?coll=cl-art

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