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WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST
September 1 - September 7

-- September 1
++ American newspapers / magazines
A museum's artful update
Klaus Albrecht Schröder has led the restoration of the Albertina to its
former Hapsburg glory while equipping it with state-of-the-art conservation
and storage facilities
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-ybarra1sep01,2,2152621
.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers / magazines
Senua, Britain's unknown goddess unearthed
Clues to catastrophe after rare Roman temple treasure found
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1033318,00.html

'Ancient' stone is modern art
An "ancient" relic which had excited experts with its strange markings has
been revealed as a modern work of art
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/norfolk/3199721.stm


-- September 2
++ American newspapers / magazines
Art vs. Religion: Whose Rights Will Come First?
It was provocative, as modern art often is. But few of those involved could
have foreseen just how provocative it would become when the Sakharov Museum
here opened an exhibition of paintings and sculptures in January under the
title "Caution! Religion." Four days after the Jan. 14 opening, six men from
a Russian Orthodox church came to the museum's exhibition hall and sacked
it, defacing many of the 45 works with spray paint and destroying others.
"Sacrilege," one of them scrawled on the wall
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/02/international/europe/02RUSS.html

On a Swiss Lake, a Father-Daughter Art Dream Lives
In a sense it is a love story, the story of a Swiss art dealer and his
daughter who so loved paintings in their gallery that they decided to keep
them and hang them at home. "We don't have a collection," Angela Rosengart
remembers her father, Siegfried, saying. "We just have nice pictures." But
of course it became a collection, one that reflected a particular affection
for Picasso and Klee
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/02/arts/design/02ROSE.html

Obituary: Remembering John Coplans, a co-founder of Artforum magazine and a
critic who came into his own as a photographer
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/02
/DD151546.DTL

Obituary: John Shearman -- art historian and expert on Raphael
John Shearman, an art historian, teacher and scholar who was an adviser on
the renovation of the Sistine Chapel and a widely respected authority on
Raphael and other Italian Renaissance artists, has died. He was 72
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/02
/BA306190.DTL

++ British newspapers / magazines
Obituary: Artist Sir Terry Frost dies
Artist Sir Terry Frost, one of the most celebrated contemporary artists in
the UK, has died aged 87
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3201925.stm

Facts and figures
Dele Fatluna visits a new exhibition in London which hopes to change our
perceptions of obesity
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1034127,00.html

L 3.5m ransom for stolen sculpture
One of the world's most important works of art vanishes from Vienna's Art
History Museum; strange announcements appear in the columns of the
International Herald Tribune; a letter demanding ?5m is sent to an insurance
company. The story of the most spectacular art theft in Austria since the
second world war appears to be coming to an end.
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1033701,00.html


-- September 3
++ American newspapers / magazines
Obituary: Robert Koch, an Arts Expert Who Helped Popularize Tiffany, Dies at
85
In 1958 Mr. Koch, freshly awarded a doctorate in art history from Yale, was
curator for an exhibition of Louis Comfort Tiffany's work at the Museum of
Contemporary Crafts in New York. That show set in motion a revival of
interest in Tiffany's Art Nouveau glasswork designs, said Janet Zapata, an
art historian and fellow Tiffany expert
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/03/obituaries/03KOCH.html

Auschwitz museum criticizes plans by Israeli fighters to fly over former
death camp
The Auschwitz museum Wednesday criticized a planned flight this week by
Israeli F-15 fighter planes over the former concentration camp, saying the
event meant to pay tribute to victims is "inappropriate."
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/09/03/inte
rnational1436EDT0641.DTL

++ British newspapers / magazines
Reopening party for museum
A museum hit by an asbestos scare is planning a reopening celebration to
mark its 10th anniversary
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/cumbria/3077166.stm

10-year art restoration project ends
Conservation work on a set of four paintings lasting more than 10 years and
costing around £20,000 has finally finished
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/somerset/3079304.stm

Vintage flight restrictions at museum
Restrictions have been placed on flights by vintage aircraft at the Imperial
War Museum, Duxford, following a spate of crashes
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/cambridgeshire/3078130.stm


-- September 4
++ American newspapers / magazines
Auschwitz Museum Balks at Israeli Flyover
The museum at the former Auschwitz death camp today criticized a planned
flyover by Israeli F-15 fighter jets during this week's ceremony in
remembrance of victims
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/04/international/europe/04AUSC.html

Design on a Diplomatic Tour
Some of the most important pieces in the State Department's fabulous cache
of American decorative arts are traveling around the country. Even if you
can't make it to the Fresno Metropolitan Museum, where the show will run
from Sept. 26 through Dec. 14, you can see the items in a new coffee table
book that catalogues the exhibit. Either way, expect a ton of eagles
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19017-2003Sep3.html

From the drawing board to Gehry's final designs
Frank O. GEHRY: Work in Progress," opening Sunday at the Museum of
Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles, highlights the architect's design
process through an examination of his firm's most current work. Focusing on
10 to 12 projects, the exhibition, composed of sketches, photographs, study
models and final design models, traces the evolution of Gehry Partners'
recent work from inception to final design
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-hm-datebook04sep04,2,3874
985.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers / magazines
Obituary: Patrick Procktor
Painter who personified the Sixties
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=439964

Harrods hosts L 25m art show
Luxury London store Harrods has become one of the biggest temporary
galleries with a display of £25m worth of art
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3080204.stm


-- September 5
++ American newspapers / magazines
New Curators at the Modern
Six months ago, when John Elderfield was named to what may be the most
significant curatorial post in modern art - chief curator of painting and
sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art - he was given the opportunity to
shape the way the institution defines modern art at a critical time in its
history. Its home on West 53rd Street, closed since May 2002 for an $858
million renovation and expansion, is to reopen in late 2004 with about 60
percent more space devoted to paintings and sculpture
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/05/arts/design/05INSI.html

Relics of Childhood From an Antique World
Childhood in ancient Greece was no idyll. What today would be called
pederasty or child molestation was condoned and even encouraged; so was
child slavery. Brutal punishment and exposure - the economically motivated
custom of casting out children (particularly girls) in a public place to
await their fate - were commonplace
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/05/arts/design/05GLUE.html

Treasuring Ancient Secrets of Patagonia
Collectors of art and artifacts are often an odd breed: secretive,
passionate, dedicated and, sometimes, unbelievably generous. That is why so
many museums have at their core collections assembled by individuals. Just
imagine the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of Impressionist
paintings without the H. O. Havemeyer bequest
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/05/arts/design/05ANTI.html

An Ambitious Architect of Visions and Dreams
Frederick Kiesler is invariably called a "visionary architect," meaning that
his most ambitious ideas were not practically buildable. Working with one
foot in Constructivism and the other in Surrealism, he imagined structures
that were as much for altering consciousness as they were for living or
working in
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/05/arts/design/05JOHN.html

The Sackler Goes in Two Different Directions
Whether Expressing religious devotion or aesthetic zeal, artists have
explored many routes to transcendence. For the Persian manuscript
illustrators of the 15th to 17th centuries, the path was lyrical poetry that
celebrated human as well as divine love. And for venerable avant-gardist
Yayoi Kusama, the road is constructed of polka dots
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25371-2003Sep4.html

Canvas shifts for Iraqi artists
Without Hussein as subject, they paint U.S. soldiers
The man in the painting looks like any Iraqi tribal elder, leaning on a
walking stick in a traditional market, in a robe and checkered headscarf.
But look closer: His wire-rimmed glasses are out of place in rural Iraq. The
man is a U.S. soldier
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/05
/MN146899.DTL

++ British newspapers / magazines
Tate neighbours' image of a toweringly grim future

The first image was released yesterday of a proposed 20-storey block of
flats sited on the doorstep of Tate Modern - a notion described by the Tate
director, Sir Nicholas Serota, as "the equivalent of building a tower block
in the forecourt of the British Museum".
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1035918,00.html

Harrods puts paintings on the shopping list
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1036084,00.html

Yoko to recreate naked art show
Yoko Ono is to re-stage her conceptual art project which saw her invite
people to cut off her clothes until she was left naked
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3084494.stm


-- September 6
++ American newspapers / magazines
Architects Sponsor 11 Days of Programs
Architecture Week 2003, 11 days of free local events sponsored by the
Washington chapter of the American Institute of Architects, begins today
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31389-2003Sep5.html

Holbein, penetrating eye of the Renaissance
At rare intervals, a major exhibition reveals an unsuspected side to a
master who has been famous for centuries. Who would have thought of Hans
Holbein the Younger as a cynic with an unforgiving satirical strain jotting
down every frightful nuance in the features of cynics worse than himself?
And then suavely polishing up his images in painted portraits for
consumption at the court of Henry VIII?
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/articles/109005.html

Recasting porcelain in a glaze of glory
Medieval Christendom may have been in a more or less permanent state of
conflict with Islam, but this did not prevent Islamic knowledge from flowing
into the West. The conduit for much of this traffic was Moorish Spain. And
it was indubitably through the Iberian peninsula and islands that the
Islamic technique of tin-glazing ceramics, perfected in Baghdad in the ninth
century as an alternative means of achieving the luminous effects of Chinese
porcelain, arrived in Italy - as witnessed by the term "maiolica," which
most likely derived from the name of the Balearic island of Majorca
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/articles/108988.html

Indonesian saris wrap Hindu heritage in art
The exhibition is called "Sari to Sarong," and the stunning gold-leaf cloths
and vermilion wraps on display at the national gallery here give
considerable perspective on Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim
nation
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/articles/109011.html

Family collection testifies to artistic ties that bind
In a sense it is a love story, the story of a Swiss art dealer and his
daughter who so loved paintings in their gallery that they decided to keep
them and hang them at home. "We don't have a collection," Angela Rosengart
remembers her father, Siegfried, saying. "We just have nice pictures."
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/articles/108983.html

++ British newspapers / magazines
England's Leonardo revealed
When historian turns detective: finding the face of Newton's rival
(The Times)
http://search.thetimes.co.uk/cgi-bin/ezk2srch?-aSTART#

Tourists' brush with art thieves
A couple have told how they came face to face with thieves carrying out one
of world's biggest art robberies
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3086576.stm


-- September 7
++ American newspapers / magazines
Joan Jonas: All Over the Map
A new crop of collaboration-minded 20-somethings now make headlines mixing
media. Who knows how many of them have heard of Joan Jonas, today in her
mid-60's. The Queens Museum opens a survey of Ms. Jonas's work on Dec. 14,
and it is high time. Like various other experimental Americans of her
generation, she is better known in Europe than here, where she has not
gotten her due until now. A pioneering video artist and installationist, she
was mining East Asian, South American, Hopi, Mexican, Japanese and Icelandic
cultures for narratives and source material before people had ever heard the
word globalism
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/arts/artsspecial/07KIMM.html

Judy Garland, Reincarnated and Clad in Steel
The season's most highly anticipated architectural event in New York will
arrive on Nov. 11, with the unveiling of Kazuyo Sejima's design for the new
New Museum of Contemporary Art
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/arts/artsspecial/07MUSC.html

A Naked (and Nude) Narcissist
Lucas Samaras may be the hardest-working, most modest narcissist in art
showbiz. For more than 40 years, his obsessive, psychedelic, craft-crazed
art has formed an alternate universe revolving around himself. That universe
will be in full cry in "Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas
Samaras," opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art on Nov. 13, and it
couldn't be more relevant
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/arts/design/07SMIT.html

Treasures in the Attic
It is the end of summer, and New Jersey's museums are gearing up for their
big fall shows. There is much to look forward to, but also evidence of the
challenges facing museums, with a weak economy, state budget cuts to the
arts, and a decline in private contributions
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/nyregion/07NJ.html

At Museums, a Quiet Power
Blockbuster Shows Are Absent This Year. That's Something to Shout About.
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31349-2003Sep5.html

You don't have to be Jewish .
Judaism is the launching pad for the increasingly multicultural, eclectic
entity that is the Skirball Cultural Center - and a major expansion is
underway
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-muchnic7sep07,2,461311
9.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers / magazines
World auction market shrinks
Statistics show that volume and values are down, as are the number of L1
million artworks
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11297

US Congress moves to ban import of Iraqi antiquities
Two bills are under review, one in the Senate supported by dealers and
museums, the other in the House of Representatives, supported by
archaeologists
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11294

Stedelijk Museum is slammed
An official report has concluded that the institution has been severely
mismanaged for two decades and that E83 million is needed to get it back on
the right track
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11291

Stolen art database could cost L12 million
Police and art trade both want it, but disagree on what form it should take
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11290

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