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Jack Robertson. Foundation Librarian. Jefferson Library
Thomas Jefferson Foundation
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Subject: NEWS: Weekly News Digest (USA; UK)
[Editor's note: The following articles are published in American and British
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WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST
August 25 - August 31, 2003
August 25
++ American newspapers / magazines
For 25 years, the Fraenkel Gallery has focused its lens on photography's
emergence as an art form. A celebration is developing
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/08/25
/DD174708.DTL
A jewel box of Southern art
New Orleans' Ogden Museum shines light on the diverse genre
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-oconnor25aug25,2,33851
85.story?coll=cl-art
-- August 26
++ American newspapers / magazines
Obituary: Robert Jackson, Trompe l'Oeil Artist, Dies at 72
Mr. Jackson's work appears in the American Wing period rooms of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he created some of the ornament in the
Gothic Revival Library and in the Renaissance Revival Parlor, where he
painted the ceiling
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/26/obituaries/26JACK.html
++ British newspapers / magazines
Museum adopts concept of the mall
It has been described as a microcosm of the British Museum and South
Kensington museums, and its new extension compared to the Louvre in Paris
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1029409,00.html
-- August 27
++ British newspapers / magazines
Obituary: Bhupen Khakhar
Artist celebrated for his startling, visionary images of homosexual love
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=437507
-- August 28
++ American newspapers / magazines
Obituary: Smithsonian's Mendel Peterson Dies
Mendel L. Peterson, 85, a retired Smithsonian Institution curator whose
specialties included underwater exploration and diving in the Caribbean to
examine shipwrecks, died July 30 at his home in McLean
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56698-2003Aug27.html
Zuni, Arizona utility negotiate remains' return
Cardboard boxes containing the remains of seven ancestors of today's Zuni
Indians are locked away in a storage room at the Arizona State Museum
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/08/28/stat
e1635EDT7165.DTL
Museum Gives Back Some Land
Centennial Heritage, which has leased the 13-acre farm parcel from Santa Ana
Unified, agrees to provide part of it for a high school campus
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-me-centennial28aug28,2,33
01309.story?coll=cl-art
++ British newspapers / magazines
Obituary: John Huntley
Film historian and lecturer on the art of cinema
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=437764
Greatest heists in art history
A £30m Leonardo da Vinci painting has been stolen from a Scottish castle
after two men joined a public tour and overpowered a guide
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3188431.stm
Gallery closing for £12m revamp
One of Bristol's main arts centres is to close for 18 months while it is
being expanded and refurbished
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/bristol/3187471.stm
-- August 29
++ American newspapers / magazines
S.F. museums' collection beefed up by bequest
Multimillion-dollar gift of 5 prominent paintings from Morris estate
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/08/29
/DD280770.DTL
Reward offered for painting
Insurers on Thursday offered a six-figure reward for the recovery of a
painting credited to Leonardo da Vinci that was stolen from a Scottish
castle by thieves posing as tourists
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-quick29.4aug29,2,23123
63.story?coll=cl-art
++ British newspapers / magazines
What happens to stolen art?
A group of thieves is sitting on a £30m Leonardo da Vinci painting after
snatching it from a Scottish castle on Wednesday.But what can they do with
it - and would anyone buy it?
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3190601.stm
-- August 30
++ British newspapers / magazines
Making art from the detritus of war
The victory arches taken to Baghdad in sections by road, is the world's
largest piece of "trench art", the subject of a summer exhibition at
Freemasons' Hall
(The Times)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
-- August 31
++ American newspapers / magazines
Finding Comfort in the Safety of Names
The New Ground Zero
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/31/arts/design/31KIMM.html
A Dubious Idea of 'Freedom'
Voids are made for shape-shifting: images of transformation sparked by hope
for the future and fear of the unknown. For almost two years, many images
have taken the form of possible "cultural uses" for ground zero. An opera
house by Sir Norman Foster? An art museum by Frank Gehry?
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/31/arts/design/31MUSC.html
The Downtown Culture Derby Begins
In two years of roiling debates over the redevelopment of the World Trade
Center site, one of the most durable assumptions has been that space should
be set aside for those varied pursuits collectively known as "culture." We
are still far from knowing which museums or symphonies or purveyors of
public art will find a home there, but early indications suggest that the
670,000 square feet allotted for the arts may be a new front in the battle
over ground zero's future
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/31/arts/design/31NOBE.html
There's Nothing So Closed as an Open Competition
Ever since the effort to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial made a star of
a 21-year-old architecture student named Maya Lin, the open competition -
one that invites all comers to submit proposals - has been the gold standard
in selecting a design for a public memorial. So when officials overseeing
the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan began to consider how to erect a homage to
the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, there was little question how
they would structure the contest
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/31/arts/design/31WYAT.html
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