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WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST (USA, UK)
December 8 - December 14, 2003

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-- December 8
++ British newspapers / magazines
Oldham celebrates its artist son
More than a century after his death, Oldham has done William Stott proud
with an exhibition of 84 pictures from a career lasting barely 20 years
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1102175,00.html

Turner prize goes to Perry - and Claire
As predicted, it was sex and death which won the Turner prize last night.
But rather than the Chapman Brothers' rotting corpses, it was Grayson
Perry's troublingly beautiful pots
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1102082,00.html

A great potter? Indisputably not. Just an interesting character making minor
art
That Grayson Perry has won this year's Turner prize comes as something of a
surprise to me
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1102099,00.html

Whistler's Mother pulls in crowds
A visit from Whistler's Mother saw visitor numbers soar at a Scottish
museum, figures have shown
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3300755.stm


-- December 9
++ British newspapers / magazines
Obituary: Daphne Hardy Henrion
Sculptor of tender humanity and intimate of Arthur Koestler
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=471456


-- December 10
++ American newspapers / magazines
One Fish, New Fish
A Smithsonian Scientist Takes Us Beyond Shrimp and Salmon
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48805-2003Dec9.html

No Decision Is Made on New Museum Site
The City Council deferred on picking a preferred site for a complex to
replace the existing crammed municipal museum
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-me-iebriefs10.3dec10,2,49
07348.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers / magazines
Obituary: Jack Howe
Assistant to Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry who moved from architecture to
industrial design
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=471739

On the edge of reason: Enlightenment
The reserve collections have been ransacked for objects which arrived during
the 18th century and that present a picture of the world as seen through
Enlightenment eyes
(The Times)
http://search.thetimes.co.uk/

-- December 11
++ American newspapers / magazines
Smithsonian Dedicates Aviation Museum
New Air and Space Facility Touted as Largest in World
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56888-2003Dec11.html

Helping Göttingen Remember
A Holocaust Survivor Returns To His Hometown
(Aufbau)
http://www.aufbauonline.com/2003/issue24/13.html

Nearing the Mysteries
An Exhibit on Kabbalah at Temple Emanu-El
(Aufbau)
http://www.aufbauonline.com/2003/issue24/15.html

++ British newspapers / magazines
Visitor drought closes Welsh botanic gardens
Despite receiving £40m of public money and building the world's biggest
single-span greenhouse, the National Botanic Garden of Wales announced
yesterday that it will close on Sunday
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1104717,00.html

Hidden treasures shown in restored British Museum
Five thousand treasures long hidden in the vaults of the British Museum go
on display for the first time tomorrow in newly restored galleries that once
housed the library of King George III.
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=472158

Obituary: Keith Clements
Artist and biographer of Henry Lamb
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=472074

Cold War comes to Cosford
Plans for a £12m extension of the RAF Museum in Cosford to house an
exhibition on the Cold War have been unveiled
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/3309177.stm

-- December 12
++ American newspapers / magazines
The Frames, Too, Can Be Valuable
Until about 20 years ago, American picture frames made in the 18th and early
19th centuries were often criticized as crude in construction and derivative
in design
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/12/arts/design/12ANTI.html

Korean Art, Serenely Unconcerned, Finally Gets a Chance to Shine
Apart from jade-green celadons, which everyone adores, there was no such
thing as Korean art for most Americans before 1979. That was the year the
exhibition "5,000 Years of Korean Art, " organized by the Asian Art Museum
here, traveled the country and was a hit
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/12/arts/design/12COTT.html

Gagosian Adds to London Space
Construction crews are working feverishly to finish the Gagosian Gallery's
new 12,500-square-foot space on Britannia Street in London, between the
British Museum and King's Cross. The space, scheduled to open in April, is
Larry Gagosian's second in London
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/12/arts/design/12INSI.html

A Danish Eye Stops Time, Holding All in Balance
On a dark afternoon in Copenhagen a few winters ago, I visited the
Hirschsprung Collection, a beloved little museum begun in the early 1900's
by a local tobacco manufacturer who ardently acquired 19th-century Danish
art. Small rooms with high windows and clad in dark panels and white trim
were outfitted with furniture that belonged to the artists Hirschsprung
loved. A genial guard was at the front door, reading a book while idly
watching over a dozing baby in a stroller who was left by nervous parents
looking at art, strollers being amiably barred from the galleries
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/12/arts/design/12KIMM.html

When an Artist's Eye Guides a Museum Show
Museums should make a habit of inviting artists to sift through their
permanent collections and organize exhibitions. Such shows cast collections
in new and sometimes strange lights. They show artists thinking outside the
box of their own work; that is, being more overt and demonstrative. And they
usually provide valuable antidotes to the academic tendencies that too often
hobble exhibitions of contemporary art
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/12/arts/design/12SMIT.html

The Ultimate Wingding
Smithsonian's New Aviation Museum At Dulles Gets Off to a Flying Start
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58020-2003Dec11.html

Master works of art get their space
The technique for showing the exhibition "El Greco to Picasso From the
Phillips Collection" is the equivalent of putting speed bumps in a parking
lot. And it works
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-weller12dec12,2,497989
7.story?coll=cl-art

Flight Museum Floors Its First Visitors
When you've circled the Earth and stood on the moon, it takes a lot to be
impressed. But John Glenn and Neil Armstrong gaped along with 2,000 others
Thursday at the dozens of aviation marvels in a new second home for the
National Air and Space Museum
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-na-airspace12dec12,2,2720
654.story?coll=cl-art

New wing for 'Nightwatch'
Rembrandt's 17th century masterpiece "The Nightwatch" moved from the heart
of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum for the first time since World War II Thursday to
make way for major renovations to the building
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-quick12.1dec12,2,40462
18.story?coll=cl-art

John Lowell Jones - former museum trustee
A memorial service will be held Saturday for John Lowell Jones of Stinson
Beach, a retired lumber company executive and former trustee of the Fine
Arts Museums of San Francisco, who died at Marin General Hospital on Sunday.
He was 89
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/12/12
/BAGTA3M02Q1.DTL

++ British newspapers / magazines
Rembrandt masterpiece mobilised
The Night Watch was thickly insulated and packed in an electronically
monitored bulletproof crate yesterday for a short move to new quarters while
the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum undergoes four years of renovation
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1105343,00.html

Cupid in the cupboard
Forgotten bronze relief dusted off and sold for £7m
A Renaissance treasure, bought on an 18th-century Grand Tour and left in an
understairs cupboard at an English mansion for the past 50 years, fetched
almost £7m at auction yesterday
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1105381,00.html

-- December 13
++ American newspapers / magazines
Landmark Mies House Goes to Preservationists
In just seven minutes of intense telephone bidding, preservationists won the
battle yesterday for Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's legendary Farnsworth House,
paying $7.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York. They competed
against only one other telephone bidder, who was not identified
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/13/arts/design/13FARN.html

Museum delays Van Gogh sale
The auction of a newly discovered Van Gogh painting thought to be worth a
small fortune has been postponed so experts from Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum
can check its authenticity
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-quick13.1dec13,2,46360
44.story?coll=cl-art

Basel comes to Miami
Miami Beach is the vampire city of American culture, perennially thirsting
for infusions of fresh sustenance. It is not that the town suffers for a
lack of cultural lifeblood so much as from a nagging local perception that
everything of vital importance has to be hauled in
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=121297&owner=(NYT)&date=20031215123741

++ British newspapers / magazines
Museums should encourage visitors to step up
Who are these sensitive flowers who find the stairs to the National Gallery
intimidating?
(The Independent)
http://www.independent.co.uk/search/search.jsp?minisearch=1&keywords=Museum#

-- December 14
++ American newspapers / magazines
Project Links Battlefield, Museum
Civil War-Era Effort Helped Map Future For Aviation Center
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62450-2003Dec13.html

Mix of Urgency, Ambition Propels Slavery Museum
Project Breaks Ground, But Opposition and Obstacles Lie Ahead
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62747-2003Dec13.html

New Museum Sparks Battle Over Location
Supporters want African American collection on the National Mall
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-na-museum14dec14,2,799456
4.story?coll=cl-art

A crumbling cultural history
Donny George, director of the Iraq Museum, is sitting on a bench under a
covered porch, talking about Baghdad's glorious past. It is midafternoon and
the sun is beating down on the museum's barren front lawn. Nearby, a group
of U.S. soldiers lingers around an armored assault vehicle, keeping a
watchful eye on the iron entry gate
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-architecture14dec14,2,
2289521.story?coll=cl-art

When Iraq looked West
Only a few decades ago, Baghdad's longing to modernize drew some of the
world's top architects, who began reshaping the historic city. The endeavor
ended too soon
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-ouroussoff14dec14,2,84
5409.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers / magazines
'Obscene' art offends orthodox Greek taste
For 45 days the phallus had gone unnoticed. But then Giorgos Karatzaferis
visited Outlook, Greece's biggest ever contemporary art exhibition
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1106689,00.html

A brief history of sex
From the world's oldest condom to the antics of the Victorians, a new
exhibition celebrates 100,000 years of the mating game
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=472715

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