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WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST
September 8 - September 13, 2003

-- September 8
++ American newspapers / magazines
Web Site Goes Online to Find Nazi-Looted Art
An organization for American museums is initiating a central registry of art
objects on Monday, created to help speed the return to their rightful owners
of paintings, drawings and sculpture seized during the Nazi era
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/08/arts/08PORT.html

Sept. 11 Exhibit at Police Museum Salutes Some of New York's Finest
While city officials, relatives of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
and others continue debating how best to honor the dead at ground zero, a
low-key museum on the other side of Lower Manhattan already has completed a
memorial to its family
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-na-nypd8sep08,2,5502956.s
tory?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers / magazines
Last orders for pub's museum piece menagerie
A last-ditch campaign has been launched to save the six-legged kitten and
the two-faced piglet, the bridesmaid cats and the layabout rats, not to
mention lion, polar bear and giraffe, all part of Mr Potter's Museum of
Curiosities
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1037455,00.htm

Site to find art stolen by Nazis
A website has been set up to help US museums check whether their collections
include art stolen by the Nazis
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3089384.stm


-- September 9
++ American newspapers / magazines
Planning a Museum to Tell Iraq's Story
Long before he returned here in April, Kanan Makiya dreamed of building a
museum that would catalog Saddam Hussein's atrocities for all Iraqis to see
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/09/international/middleeast/09MUSE.html

Director to Leave Art Institute of Chicago
When James N. Wood, director and president of the Art Institute here, bought
a sleek new kayak a few weeks ago, friends assumed he was simply indulging a
longtime passion and might spend a few more autumn weekends on Lake Michigan
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/09/arts/design/09CHIC.html

205-Year-Old Violin Is Missing From Museum
A 205-year-old violin is missing from Mission San Antonio de Padua's museum
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-me-sbriefs09.6sep09,2,214
5703.story?coll=cl-art

Web aids hunt for stolen art
A new Web site designed to help museums determine whether their collections
include art stolen by the Nazis went online Monday, with 66 institutions -
including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Chicago's Art
Institute - providing details of their collections to the central registry
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-quick9.3sep09,2,391054
7.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers / magazines
Hirst's bid for a £1.5m donation
Hoxton learned the price of Charity yesterday: its main square closed for
four days while the White Cube gallery installed Damien Hirst's giant
sculpture
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1038379,00.html


-- September 10
++ American newspapers / magazines
Tea and Amnesty Recover Thousands of Antiquities for Iraq
Through a far-reaching international investigation built on traditional
detective work, raw luck and the consumption by investigators of vast
amounts of tea, more than 3,400 items looted from the national antiquities
museum in Baghdad have been recovered, the head of the inquiry said today
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/10/international/middleeast/10CND-ART.html

Designing Dance as Art Installation
In her new work, "insideout," the choreographer Sasha Waltz forces viewers
to make choices, and in choosing, they must miss something. The audience
strolls through the dance as if through a museum, some chatting or drinking
water
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/10/arts/dance/10WALT.html

Architect's original model of WTC becomes museum exhibit
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/09/10/nati
onal1151EDT0609.DTL

Museum exhibit tells of Jewish children who hid from Nazis
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/09/10/nati
onal1614EDT0752.DTL

Museum on Saddam's atrocities to be built, but who will tell the story?
Long before he returned here in April, Kanan Makiya dreamed of building a
museum that would catalogue Saddam Hussein's atrocities for all Iraqis to
see
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=109427&owner=(NYT)&date=20030911120613

++ British newspapers / magazines
Writer suffers for art
Michael Frayn stood for his portrait, he explained yesterday, and found it
remarkably tiring
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1038822,00.html

Antiquities returned to Iraq museum
More than 3,000 artefacts from Iraq's national museum have been recovered
after being looted, a US team has said
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3098324.stm


-- September 11
++ American newspapers / magazines
Rethinking a Hartford Museum With a Grand Past
If the narrative of a city can be found in the life of its cultural
institutions, then Hartford's story is that of the Wadsworth Atheneum,
America's oldest public art museum
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/nyregion/11PROF.html

One Vision: A Hill of Green at Ground Zero
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/arts/design/11KELL.htm

An American Life in Mixed Media
Romare Bearden was born in segregated Charlotte, N.C., in 1911 and lived
through both the Harlem Renaissance and the modern civil rights movement,
creating collages of black life so stunning that he earned a reputation as a
major 20th-century American artist
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/arts/design/11BEAR.html

Ideas struggling to take shape
Despite its flaws, a MOCA show offers a taste of Frank Gehry's work beyond
Disney Hall
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-wk-ouroussoff11sep11,2,24
68936.htmlstory?coll=cl-art

An eyewitness to tragedy
Photographer Stan Honda's work illustrates the human impact of world events
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-wk-museums11sep11,2,69103
53.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers / magazines
Billionaire in court fight over 'fake' Pharaoh
An impulse buy has proved costly for the reputation of France's leading art
collector
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1039688,00.html


-- September 12
++ American newspapers / magazines
A Passion for Blue and White
America's love affair with Chinese blue-and-white porcelain has always been
passionate, but there have been few serious collectors in recent years. One
great exception is F. Gordon Morrill, a Cleveland-born, Harvard-trained
architect who spent most of his life in Florence, Italy, with Elizabeth
Hunter Morrill, his Radcliffe sweetheart. A Georgia belle, Mrs. Morrill was
also an accomplished musician
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/12/arts/design/12ANTI.html

Monument to Survival Casts Its Resolve in Sto
With one curving, granite-clad stroke, the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A
Living Memorial to the Holocaust has enlarged by almost fourfold its home on
the Hudson River waterfront at Battery Park City. The museum's Robert M.
Morgenthau Wing, which will open next week, is the first significant
physical expression of the cultural rebirth of Lower Manhattan since the
attack on New York. And it may change the character of the institution
itself by integrating it more into the downtown community
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/12/arts/design/12DUNL.html

A New Friend for Mr. Pointy
When François Pinault attended the Venice Biennale in June, he made a rather
large purchase. Mr. Pinault, the luxury goods magnate who is a passionate
collector of contemporary art (as well as the owner of Christie's), bought
the heart of Takashi Murakami's whimsical installation, which went up with
great fanfare this week at Rockefeller Center
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/12/arts/design/12INSI.html

Wry Faith That's a Bit Slapstick
You ought to see the Paul Kos show," friends kept telling me when I was
passing through San Francisco a few months ago. I didn't have time, I
pleaded. They gave me that look, which implied, "Typical New Yorker." Mr.
Kos, whose name will ring too few bells here, is a local hero out there,
where he has taught a couple of generations of diverse artists and helped
germinate the Bay Area Conceptual movement that pioneered video, performance
and installation art in the late 1960's and early 70's
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/12/arts/design/12KIMM.html

A Collector's-Eye Look at North American Indian Art
Maybe the best compliment one can give an art exhibition, especially one
devoted to historical material, is that it makes you want to look long and
close at everything on view and that the installation enhances this process.
"The Responsive Eye: Ralph T. Coe and the Collecting of American Indian Art"
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art handily meets those goals. It puts on view
a glorious promised gift from the collector Ralph T. Coe: more than 200
works, many hovering near masterpiece level, some dating from prehistoric
times
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/12/arts/design/12SMIT.html

Controversial Photos Go to San Francisco
Museum-goers in San Francisco will get an uncensored look at Alaska
wilderness photos that ignited a minor uproar in the nation's capital this
spring
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Alaska-Photos.html

A New Dimension Is Added to Fine Art
Artist J. Seward Johnson's sculptures are coming to Washington, but that's
nothing new. His life-size cast bronze figures of ordinary people doing
everyday things have been around for years, from the boy eating a sandwich
on the lower level of the Shops at Georgetown Park to the officer standing
guard in Friendship Heights. Best known among Johnson's outdoor works is
"The Awakening," the aluminum giant at Hains Point that is a popular
climbing spot for both locals and tourists
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60187-2003Sep11.html

Global Art Market Faces Price Crunch
The global art market faces a price crunch in the next quarter after
liquidity hit a 20-year low, with weakness spreading from the United States
to hitherto resilient Europe, the head of a leading art data firm said
Thursday
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-fi-art12sep12,2,3297659.s
tory?coll=cl-art

Century-old tunnel found in S.F. at site of future Jewish Museum
Experts to sift through city archives in effort to figure origin of
15-foot-diameter hole
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/12
/BA261177.DTL

++ British newspapers / magazines
Archaeological oversight puts renovation at risk
For one of France's best-known artistic treasures, nothing could be too
good: state-of-the-art air conditioning, improved natural lighting, easier
access and - best of all - a whole new underground floor complete with
exhibition space, shops, study facilities and toilets
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1040323,00.html

Magazine sorry for Emin allegation
One of the summer's more bizarre art world feuds appeared to be approaching
an end after this week's edition of the Spectator conceded Tracey Emin had
not been sending china Peter Rabbit figurines to one of its writers
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1040510,00.html

Laban could dance off with prize
The shimmering facade of the Laban dance centre, designed by Herzog and de
Meuron, the Swiss architects of Tate Modern, was tipped yesterday to win
British architecture's most prestigious award, the RIBA Stirling prize
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1040348,00.html


-- September 13
++ American newspapers / magazines
'Mexico' exhibit's bomb idea protested
The whole idea of "Mexico Illuminated" was to bring together artists of
Mexican descent to tout the Latino heritage of Reading, Pa., and show how
the United States is perceived by its neighbor to the south
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-10filler13sep13,2,4721
128.story?coll=cl-art

Newsom's office of 'resources'
Mayoral candidate says S.F. losing out on millions
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/13
/BA158382.DTL


-- September 14
++ American newspapers / magazines
Finding patterns in the past
Our critic highlights the must-see shows for fall 2003
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-criticart14sep14,2,257
6942.story?coll=cl-art

Grandson of Russian Revolution victim attempts to sue LACMA
A French plaintiff says he deserves a percentage of exhibition ticket sales
at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art because the works on display were
taken from his grandfather after the Russian Revolution
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11317

The Rosetta Stone will stay in London, say trustees
While the director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities says, "The
artefacts stolen from Egypt must come back"
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11313


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