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WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST (USA, UK)
December 1 - December 7, 2003

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-- December 1
++ American newspapers / magazines
Black Pioneer's NW Home Slated to Become Museum
Historic Site Bill Fulfills Dream for Run-Down Carter Woodson House
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23839-2003Nov30.html

A New Museum for Boston Harbor
Institute of Contemporary Art Plans a Cantilevered, Water-Oriented Home
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24008-2003Nov30.html

African diaspora museum set for Yerba Buena area
Scheduled to open in the summer of 2005, San Francisco's Museum of the
African Diaspora aims to explore and celebrate the history, culture and
contributions of African-descended people around the world
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/12/01
/DDG4H3CECS1.DTL

-- December 2
++ American newspapers / magazines
A Siena Hospital Becomes a Museum
When the huge Roman Catholic charity hospital here moved from its ancient
headquarters to a modern building in 1997, the city government gained
possession of a long-neglected trove of medieval and Renaissance art. The
walls in the vast decaying complex were dotted with the remnants of magical
frescoes, and storerooms held priceless archaeological pieces that had not
seen the light of day for centuries
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/02/arts/design/02SIEN.html

No Guillotine in Sight, but a Bit of a Revolution at the Louvre
The post of president-director of the Louvre is among the art world's most
prestigious, but prestige has not been commensurate with power. While the
president-director serves as the public face of the museum, crucial
decisions about the budget, acquisitions and staffing have long been made by
the Culture Ministry
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/02/arts/design/02LOUV.html


-- December 3
++ American newspapers / magazines
Global antiquities theft at issue in Rome court
Case has repercussions for top museums
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=119997

Spain unveils plan to expand Madrid museums
The Spanish Culture Ministry has unveiled plans for a new "Art Walk" to
unify three prestigious museums in Madrid as part of a $173 million
expansion plan to rival cultural hubs in Washington, London and Berlin. The
Prado Museum, the Reina Sofía Museum of 20th-century Spanish art and the
Thyssen-Bornemisza collection already draw an estimated three million
visitors a year and constitute one of the most impressive concentrations of
art in the world. The three museums are within walking distance of each
other in central Madrid
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=119944

++ British newspapers / magazines
New boss for Baltic centre
Stephen Snoddy, the director of the Milton Keynes Gallery, is to be the new
director of the £46m Baltic centre for contemporary art in Gateshead, it was
announced last night
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1098429,00.html

Tate announces new artist for Turbine Hall
The Tate Modern gallery has announced that Bruce Nauman will be the fifth
artist commissioned to create work for its Turbine Hall
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=469522

Best foot forward
A £41m scheme by the architect Terry Farrell will create a 'cultural
quarter' in Newcastle, bringing together the city's important collections of
art and antiquities for the first time
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=469641

Obituary: Annabel Ricketts
Architectural historian
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=469565

-- December 4
++ American newspapers / magazines
Negro League Hall of Fame Planned
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33254-2003Dec3.html

Groundbreaking held for national slavery museum in Virginia
Ground was broken Wednesday for the U.S. National Slavery Museum, with the
project's architect saying he hopes the museum can heal racial rifts left by
centuries of human bondage.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/12/04/nati
onal1139EST0556.DTL

Iraq museum is reopened
When U.S. troops strode into the Iraq Museum of Natural History in June,
they found a scene of destruction: wires and light fixtures torn out,
display cases crushed, stuffed wolves and jackals carted off by looters and
thieves
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-wk-quick4.1dec04,2,768062
4.story?coll=cl-art

Museums: Uncovering the magic within
When the huge Roman Catholic charity hospital here moved from its ancient
headquarters to a modern building in 1997, the city government gained
possession of a long-neglected trove of medieval and Renaissance art. The
walls in the vast decaying complex were dotted with the remnants of magical
frescoes, and storerooms held priceless archaeological pieces that had not
seen the light of day for centuries
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=120126

-- December 5
++ American newspapers / magazines
Celebrating the Flesh: Its Fullness, Its Frailties, Its Forbidden Secrets
Whatever else can be said about "Corporal Identity - Body Language" at the
Museum of Arts and Design, it can't be viewed as scanting its subject. Skin,
hair, orifices, veins, organs, face, feet, sex, birth, disease, plastic
surgery, mind-body connections, human cloning and so on come under the
relentless scrutiny of the 200-odd participating artists in this
no-holds-barred anthology of attitudes toward the body and its relationship
with the self
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/05/arts/design/05BODY.html

The Body in All Its Mortal Urgency
Summers in high school and into college, I worked as an orderly in a small
urban hospital where my father was a doctor, often in the emergency room,
often all night. For a bookish, daydreamy kid, into Emily Dickinson and
Italian opera, it was an experience. Fairly quickly, I think, it started to
loosen up my view of the world, adding something large, and also something
concrete and acute, a sense of life as a we're-all-in-it-together sharing,
but also as solitary and unromantically finite
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/05/arts/design/05COTT.html

A Brooklyn Home for Feminist Art
Like all museums, the Brooklyn Museum of Art is grappling with budget cuts.
(It closed for two weeks in August, and each staff member was on furlough
for at least a week.) But that hasn't stopped the museum from forging ahead
with a $63 million capital project that includes a new front entrance and
plaza scheduled to open on April 17. Or its latest endeavor, the
establishment of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/05/arts/design/05INSI.html

Whatever He Felt for Women, Sargent Loved to Paint Them
Was John Singer Sargent a feminist? You could get that impression from
"Sargent's Women," an exhibition of paintings at Adelson Galleries.
Including more than 50 paintings, watercolors and drawings in varying
degrees of quality and finish, the show shifts attention away from the
professional work that made Sargent one of the most successful high-society
portrait painters of his day
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/05/arts/design/05JOHN.html

No Hands on the Museum's Wheel
Regarding the Nov. 22 Style article "The Wheel Thing": General Motors Corp.
helped make it possible for the National Museum of American History to open
the "America on the Move" exhibition. But throughout the research, design
and fabrication of the exhibition, General Motors supported the independence
and integrity of the curators. It also respected the Smithsonian policy that
only museum staff members select objects, write label text and produce media
and interactive programs
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37186-2003Dec4.html

++ British newspapers / magazines
Gallery project gets £4.6m boost
How the new gallery in Middlesbrough will look
Plans for a new art gallery on Teesside have received a multi-million pound
boost
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/3293451.stm

New chair for Arts Council
Art historian Sir Christopher Frayling is to take over from Gerry Robinson
as the new chair of Arts Council England
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3295505.stm

-- December 6
++ American newspapers / magazines
Like that gallery exhibit? Go ahead, take it home
Museums are using online technology to let patrons browse their holdings and
download images and more
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-ray6dec06,2,679748.sto
ry?coll=cl-art

A Louvre revolution
The post of president-director of the Louvre is among the art world's most
prestigious, but prestige has not been commensurate with power. While the
president-director serves as the museum's public face, crucial decisions
about the budget, acquisitions and staffing have long been made by the
Culture Ministry
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=120437

++ British newspapers / magazines
Museum grants tied to rise in ethnic minority visitors
Britain's most famous museums and art galleries have been told by the
Government that they must attract more visitors from ethnic minorities and
low-income families or face losing their public grants
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=470612


-- December 7
++ American newspapers / magazines
Keeping It Together by Living in Public
"Sophie Calle: Did You See Me?" - a retrospective at the Georges Pompidou
Center here through March 15 - offers yet another take on her work: here,
because of the abundance of text accompanying photographs, it resembles a
series of illustrated narrative poems
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/arts/design/07RIDI.html

African (re)genesis in San Francisco
New art museum pursues funding, enrolls members
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/12/07
/LVG5N3F9O31.DTL

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