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WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST (USA, UK)
November 10 - November 16, 2003

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-- November 10
++ US-American newspapers
American Artists in Interwar Paris, Seeking Novelty

From the 1870's to World War I, American painters trekked to France to
study. And their belief that France was the world capital of art was
reinforced when American collectors began snapping up Impressionist and
post-Impressionist works. But after 1918 the relationship began to change.
While Paris was now the cradle of Modern art, resistance to copying Europe
was growing among American artists
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/10/arts/design/10GIVE.html

++ British newspapers / magazines
Fantasy queen mistaken for Prophet's wife
Tate apologises for gaffe which offended Muslims
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1081608,00.html


-- November 11
++ US-American newspapers
Where poetry and civic purpose meet
A veterans monument is more exposed and less dramatic than planned. But
there's an upside
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-knight11nov11,2,387807
.story?coll=cl-art

Several hundred looted relics handed over to the Iraqi Museum
Several hundred ancient artifacts stolen from the Iraqi Museum during the
wave of looting that hit Baghdad after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime
have been returned to the museum, officials said Tuesday
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/11/11/inte
rnational0717EST0488.DTL

A deepening view of Native American art
Perhaps the most powerful art shows are those in which a collector's
impulsive arbitrariness is allied with passion for a cause. "The Responsive
Eye, Ralph T. Coe and the Collecting of American Indian Art," on view at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art until Dec. 14, is the response of a man who
became drawn by the beauty of its works into a world barely known to
outsiders. Their subtlety led him to muse about their meaning and sources of
inspiration. These, alas, remain elusive in the main. Too many communities
were destroyed or broken up. Too little attempt at communication was made
when the collective memory of the survivors still retained its wealth of
information in unadulterated form
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=113231&owner=(IHT)&date=20031014125747

++ British newspapers / magazines
Artist's breakaway show
Sir Peter Blake looked guilty. He had just broken a work of art by a
sculptor friend who had been invited to contribute to his new exhibition,
writes Maev Kennedy . "Oh oh," he said, looking at the two halves of Banana,
(Medium: Banana. Fresh.) by Angus Fairhurst, which had parted when he peeled
the fruit. Should they glue it, or rename it?
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1082461,00.html

Tate chief attacks 'save for the nation' art policy
Sir Nicholas Serota, the most powerful man in the museum world, dramatically
broke ranks with his colleagues yesterday to challenge the idea that vast
sums of money should be spent to stop important works of art leaving Britain
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1083047,00.html

Tate boss questions 'saving' art
The director of London's Tate gallery has questioned whether millions should
be spent "saving" art for the nation
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3260879.stm


-- November 12
++ US-American newspapers
$62 Million in a 'Fast and Furious' Contemporary-Art Sal
The hungry horde of art dealers and collectors who overflowed Christie's
salesroom last night couldn't stop shopping. They fought and fought over
works from the 1940's right through to the 90's
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/12/arts/design/12AUCT.html

Embracing Southern Art: Old Times There Are Not Forgotten
The opening of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art here was much celebrated,
but when the speeches and Champagne toasts were over, the awkward question
remained: What exactly is Southern art?
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/12/arts/design/12SOUT.html

Treasures back on view in Iraq
A 4,300-year-old Mesopotamian statue rescued from a Baghdad cesspool took
center stage Tuesday when Iraq's National Museum put on display hundreds of
recovered treasures it had lost in a postwar looting spree
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-quick12.2nov12,2,60732
73.story?coll=cl-art

Lovely to look at, but little to be learned
Displayed works are indeed glorious, but context is missing from Autry
National Center's inaugural offering
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-pagel12nov12,2,4442950
.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers / magazines
Berlin 'Waschmaschine' wins architecture prize
German chancellor Gerhard Schröder's new office - which critics liken to a
giant washing machine - scooped Germany's most prestigious architectural
prize last night
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1082858,00.html

Museum shows off its Picasso women
The largest Picasso canvas in the world was rolled out on a floor yesterday,
by the museum which owns it but hasn't a wall large enough to display it
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1083085,00.html

Picasso highlights theatre museum's big plans
A giant stage curtain designed and signed by Picasso for the Ballet Russes
was displayed for the first time in 20 years yesterday to highlight the
treasures the Theatre Museum in London hopes to display if a £12m
redevelopment goes ahead
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=462885


-- November 13
++ US-American newspapers
Obituary: Mario Merz, 78, an Italian Installation Artist, Dies
Mario Merz, an Italian artist whose installations exemplified the Arte
Povera movement and its use of humble, often organic materials, died on
Sunday at his home in Milan. He was 78.
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/13/arts/design/13MERZ.html

Fluxus, Exploring the Art of the Idea
You study the 1960s-era art movement Fluxus as you would a lost people such
as the Incas: through artifacts. In terms of traditional,
museum-vitrine-ready artwork, the group left little behind. Intentionally
ephemeral, their works included performances and happenings that were
impossible to replicate -- though many were documented in letters and on
video and audiotape. A visit to a Fluxus archive is likely the closest
you'll get to understanding them
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34401-2003Nov12.html

A present-day link to Mesopotamia
At the Oriental Institute, 1,400 objects from what is now Iraq are back on
view
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-wk-e9filler13nov13,2,4695
952.story?coll=cl-art

Rothko leads Christie's pace
Christie's New York auction house kicked off a week of post-war and
contemporary art sales Tuesday night with a $62-million auction that set
records for 11 artists. An untitled 1963 painting by Mark Rothko commanded
the top price of $7.1 million. Next came a 1968 sculpture by Alexander
Calder, at a record $5.8 million
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-wk-quick13.4nov13,2,20663
88.story?coll=cl-art

Exhibit examines issues around the body
An exhibit that explores issues relating to the body and identity through
the use of the craft and decorative arts is a mix of the old and the new --
a tapestry containing an image of a naked woman, with phallic symbols in the
border; stained glass windows where the central figures are not saints, but
women undergoing cosmetic surgery. "Corporal Identity-Body Language" opens
Friday at the Museum of Arts and Design, formerly the American Craft Museum.
It runs through June 4
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/11/13/ente
rtainment1438EST0664.DTL

Auctions: Big art, monumental prices
The art market is on a high, and at Christie's this week, it was the turn of
the works created after World War II to go through the roof
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=117428&owner=(International%20Herald%20T
ribune)&date=20031114173345

++ British newspapers / magazines
Contemporary art shows strength
The contemporary art market proved its strength as a New York auction raised
more than $74.5m (£44.3m)
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3266475.stm


-- November 14
++ US-American newspapers
Lunchbox for Art: A New Museum
The New Museum of Contemporary Art wants to build a seven-story bento box
for art on the Bowery. Plans and models for this deftly composed lunch break
of a building are now on view in the museum's mezzanine gallery, at 583
Broadway, between Houston and Prince Streets in SoHo. Produced by Sanaa, a
Tokyo firm, the design should please those who believe that art museums
should be neutral containers. If executed with proper attention to detail,
the building will also delight the Victorians among us who incline toward
tender passion
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/14/arts/design/14MUSC.html

Raising Lichtenstein in Manhattan
This weekend a team of five riggers will begin assembling a 50-foot-tall
fiberglass sculpture of four colorful brushstrokes in the octagonal rotunda
of the former Tweed Courthouse, renamed City Hall Academy as the New York
City Education Department's new headquarters
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/14/arts/design/14INSI.html

Youth Reigns in $11.4 Million Contemporary-Art Sale
Sotheby's and Christie's concentrated on older, more expensive paintings,
drawings and sculptures in their evening sales this week, relegating
lower-priced objects by many of the same artists whose work Phillips was
selling last night to their day sales. Phillips put together an evening of
works primarily from the 1980's and 90's
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/14/arts/design/14AUCT.html

The Collectibles Many Grew Up With in an Age of Optimism
So to visit "Modernism: A Century of Style & Design," a convention of
high-end dealers in 20th-century collectibles at the Seventh Regiment Armory
this weekend, is to take a warm bath in nostalgia
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/14/arts/design/14JOHN.html

Webs Connecting the Power Brokers, the Money and the World
Mark Lombardi was onto something before he committed suicide in 2000. His
drawings - you could call them maps or charts, and they also have some
connection with 19th-century panoramas - track global financial fiascos and
related political shenanigans, mostly of the 1980's and 90's. Some drawings
are as much as 10 feet wide, rather lightly marked in pencil with arrows and
names: delicate spider webs of scandal
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/14/arts/design/14KIMM.html

Shocking! Offensive! But Being Pleasant Is Beside the Point
Although the phrase "shock and awe" has become as clichéd as the
suffix -gate, it has dutifully been evoked in the British press to describe
this year's Turner Prize entries. Actually, it is really only the entry by
the brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman - some think it's the favorite - that
has evoked, or provoked, that phrase. And awe has a lot less to do with it
than shock
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/14/arts/design/14REVE.html

A Playful Narcissist's Song of Himself
Are you ready for Lucas Samaras's close-up? He is, as always, so brace
yourself when the elevator doors open onto the fourth floor of the Whitney
Museum of American Art. Front and center is a towering image of Mr.
Samaras's impish 67-year-old face, a black-and-white photograph silhouetted
on a black wall. With its taut skin, terse smile, soft beard and imperious
gaze, it is part Pan, part Merlin, part Rasputin
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/14/arts/design/14SMIT.html

Jury Wants All 5,201 Plans for 9/11 Memorial on Display
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/14/nyregion/14REBU.html

++ British newspapers / magazines
Saatchi Gallery joins the art world's elite - for the most expensive
entrance fees
As the man who paid £150,000 for an unmade bed and £1m for a 20ft anatomical
model, Charles Saatchi has long known that cutting edge art is an expensive
business. Now, so do visitors to his showpiece exhibition space
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=463523

Obituary: Nigel Temple
Artist, collector and writer
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=463484

US galleries lead 'costly' list
Five of the 10 costliest art galleries in the world are in the US, according
to a new survey
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3271133.stm


-- November 15
++ US-American newspapers
Obituary: Irving Richards, Distributor of Modern Design, Dies at 96
Irving Richards, an entrepreneur who helped take modern design to the dinner
table, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 96
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/15/arts/design/15RICH.html

His Legacy Is a Work of Art
The Ogden Museum is a testament to its namesake, a gay man who has become a
pillar of New Orleans society just by being himself
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-ogden15nov15,2,5041965
.story?coll=cl-art

New York museum design packs arty, minimalist wallop
The New Museum of Contemporary Art wants to build a seven-story bento box
for art. Plans and models for this deftly composed lunch break of a building
are now on view in the museum's mezzanine gallery, at 583 Broadway, between
Houston and Prince streets in SoHo
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/11/15
/DD831TN61.DTL

Good vibrations: the sounds of abstraction
A new exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay offers a rather unexpected approach to
the genesis of abstraction in art. "At the Origins of Abstraction" opens
with several spectacular works by Turner, Monet, Caspar David Friedrich and
Odilon Redon, among others, and argues that abstraction in art was born out
of the realization that both color and sound are produced by vibrations of
varying wavelengths and that all art forms may be seen as essentially one
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=117739&owner=(IHT)&date=20031114173345

Into the future, when contemporary is past
Will future historians of Western culture dealing with today's Contemporary
Art come to ask themselves one day what caused our perception to stop
functioning and our minds to be numbed into inertia?
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=117743&owner=(IHT)&date=20031114175307

++ British newspapers / magazines
Obituary: Francis Simpson
Suffolk's Gilbert White
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=463864


-- November 16
++ US-American newspapers
American expansion
The Huntington underscores its interest in U.S. artists with a roomy edifice
meant to mesh with the campus' largely Neoclassic style
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-muchnic16nov16,2,30357
05.story?coll=cl-art

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