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[Editor's note: The following articles are published in American and British
newspapers and magazines. The WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST service is made
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WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST
October 13 - October 19, 2003

-- October 13
++ American newspapers / magazines
Obituary: John Noble -- curator of dolls at N.Y. museum
(San Francisco Chronlie)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/13
/BA283479.DTL

Museum's surprise package of moviedom's treasures
They call it the Hollywood History Museum, but the Art Deco building
sandwiched between a faux-'50s diner and Ripley's Believe It or Not museum
might more accurately be called Hollywood's House of Divas
(San Francisco Chronlie)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/12
/MO247276.DTL


-- October 14
++ American newspapers / magazines
The Colors of Paradise as Imagined by Gauguin
When Paul Gauguin sailed from Marseille for Tahiti on April 1, 1891, he was
confident of finding a terrestrial paradise with natives living in sensual
harmony with nature and ancient deities. That image had been reinforced by
early travelers and by a book published to coincide with the 1889 Colonial
Exhibition in Paris
(Washington Post)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/14/arts/design/14GAUG.html

A step toward a larger goal
The Korean American Museum moves closer to permanence as it opens a new
space with "Dreams & Reality."
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-muchnic14oct14,2,79163
53.story?coll=cl-art

Reagan Library to Roll Out Renovated Galleries, Exhibits
Curators at the center near Simi Valley celebrate the facility's 12th
anniversary by unveiling a personalized view of the 40th president's life
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-me-reagan14oct14,2,607325
0.story?coll=cl-art

Asian Art walks fine line with Korean exhibitions
We already know how well the new Asian Art Museum of San Francisco works as
a showcase for its own collections
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/14
/DD113926.DTL

-- October 15
++ American newspapers / magazines
Where the Big Attraction Is a Big-House Museum
Museum directors are supposed to be experts in their fields, but few can
claim as ideal a background as Jim Willett, the silver-haired director of
the Texas Prison Museum here
(Washington Post)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/15/arts/design/15PRIS.html

++ British newspapers / magazines
Rossetti's women gather for exhibition
It is more than 30 years since so many of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's dreamy,
luscious-lipped women have been in one place. One has flown in specially
from a gallery in the Caribbean
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1063195,00.html

First exhibition of servants' portraits
Below Stairs, the first exhibition devoted to portraits of servants, opens
at London's National Portrait Gallery today
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1063930,00.html

-- October 16
++ American newspapers / magazines
For the Children
A Memorial to the Kindertransport in London
(Aufbau - The Transatlantic Jewish Paper)
http://www.aufbauonline.com/2003/issue20/12.html

Not Forgotten
An Exhibit on the Jews of Greece at the Center for Jewish History
(Aufbau - The Transatlantic Jewish Paper)
http://www.aufbauonline.com/2003/issue20/14_1.html

Fighting a Common Memory
Russian Post Modernism at the Yeshiva University Museum
(Aufbau - The Transatlantic Jewish Paper)
http://www.aufbauonline.com/2003/issue20/14_2.html

++ British newspapers / magazines
Tate Modern awakes to Dane's rising sun
If you want to feel a little of the wonder that medieval peasants must have
felt when they walked into Chartres or Salisbury cathedrals for the first
time, get yourself down to Tate Modern
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1063863,00.html

-- October 17
++ American newspapers / magazines
Rose-Red City Carved From the Rock
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/17/arts/design/17GLUE.html

In 16th-Century Iran, a Dynasty Hunts a Signature Style
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/17/arts/design/17COTT.html

Seeking Out Jewish Faces Wherever They Might Be
"Jews are like everyone else, only more so," Mark Twain or somebody
supposedly said. Whoever did, the remark is confirmed by the thousands of
photographs of Jews all over the world taken by the French photographer
Frédéric Brenner
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/17/arts/design/17BREN.html

Bill Takes First Steps Toward Latino Museum
Supporters of a National Museum of the American Latino have begun the
legislative process to establish such a facility on the Mall
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38814-2003Oct16.html

Forming peace, grace
The new Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas is devoted exclusively to Modern
and contemporary art in three dimensions
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-knight17oct17,2,632162
7.story?coll=cl-art

Elegant tranquility
Renzo Piano's design for Dallas' Nasher draws viewers from an urban world
into a more private place
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-ouroussoff17oct17,2,78
52091.story?coll=cl-art

Chicago's Field Museum returns 160 remains to Indian tribe; tribe still
seeks return of artifacts
After spending decades in storage drawers at Chicago's Field Museum, the
remains of 160 members of the Haida Indian tribe will return to Canada under
an agreement the tribe and museum officials signed Friday
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/10/17/nati
onal1839EDT0733.DTL

Field Museum returns remains to British Columbia's Haida tribe
A century ago, anthropologists with Chicago's Field Museum traveled to
islands off the coast of British Columbia to dig up the remains of an Indian
culture they thought was on the brink of extinction
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/10/17/stat
e1722EDT7107.DTL


-- October 18
++ American newspapers / magazines
New Wagner exhibit in Germany renews debate over composer's legacy
A new German exhibit on Adolf Hitler's favorite composer, which opened
Friday, highlights the contradictions between Wagner the musical genius and
the Wagner who saw himself as the savior of German culture against Jewish
influence
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/10/18/inte
rnational0330EDT0445.DTL

++ British newspapers / magazines
Dash off to see the old masters
Art lovers should hurry to Amsterdam, because the Museum Quarter is about to
take a big hit: the Rijksmuseum and Stedelijk's modern art collection are
closing on December 31 for five years of restoration
(The Times)
http://search.thetimes.co.uk/cgi-bin/ezk2srch?-aSTART#

-- October 19
++ American newspapers / magazines
Redefining Art? They Managed.
The Mind -- Not the Hand -- of the Artist Is What Shapes 'Work Ethic'
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42064-2003Oct17.html

++ British newspapers / magazines
Afghans uncover lost treasure
It lay hidden for 2,000 years in Afghanistan. Now the Bactrian hoard, one of
the world's greatest archaeological collections, has been found
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1066363,00.html

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