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WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST (USA, UK)
December 29, 2003 - January 4, 2004

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-- December 29, 2003
++ British newspapers
Conservationists in £25m project to save crumbling Wollaton Hall, a rare
jewel of the Elizabethan age
For more than 400 years, Wollaton Hall has been a beautiful example of
Elizabethan heritage, an imposing stone building rising from more than 500
acres of the Nottinghamshire landscape
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=476694

Charles Stucke: Great art is global property
Second Luce Annual Lecture by the Professor at the Art Institute of Chicago
(The Independent)
http://argument.independent.co.uk/podium/story.jsp?story=476626

Obituary: Marjorie Reeves
Historian and educationist at St Anne's College, Oxford
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=476640

-- December 30, 2003
++ American newspapers
Art Exhibits Help Make Time Fly Between Flights
Too busy with business meetings to visit the local art museums while on the
road? Not to worry. There is an ever-increasing likelihood you can make up
for your cultural negligence at the airport
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/30/business/30art.html

Obituary: Ralph Du Casse - celebrated artist, teacher
Ralph S. Du Casse, a celebrated Bay Area teacher and abstract artist, has
died of the infirmities of old age. He was 87. He was on the fine arts
faculty for many years at the San Francisco Art Institute, the California
College of Arts and Crafts, UC Berkeley and Mills College, where he served
for a time as chairman of the arts department. Mr. Du Casse was a noted
abstract artist as well, and his work is in the collections of the
Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in Brazil, the Museum of Modern
Art in San Francisco and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art. His work is also
in the private collections of Vincent Price, Phyllis Wattis and in the Haas
family collection in San Francisco
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/12/30
/BAG3H409N21.DTL

-- December 31, 2003
++ American newspapers
A team spirit at Museum of Modern Art
Joachim Pissarro's response to the prospect of becoming a top curator at the
Museum of Modern Art? "I asked for a double whiskey," he said. Pissarro's
need for reinforcement is understandable
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=123253&owner=(NYT)&date=20040102141543

-- January 1, 2004
++ American newspapers
10 Years Later, Italy Assesses Change in How Its Museums Are Run
Ten years ago, getting into a government-run museum after 1 p.m. to see a
Raphael in Milan, a Titian in Venice, a Michelangelo in Florence or a
Caravaggio in Rome was tantamount to finding a post office open at that
hour. Close to impossible
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/01/arts/design/01MILA.html

LeWitt the Collector, Filling Up a Warehouse
Sol LeWitt's artworks are minimal and precise, but his art collection is
vast and unruly. He says he does not even know how many works he has, or
what they are worth
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/01/arts/design/01LEWI.html

Bringing the Historical Confucius to Life
Confucius' teachings remain enormously influential in China and beyond, yet
little is known in the West about the man himself beyond his famous sayings,
or analects. Now the Musée Guimet in Paris, renowned for its fine collection
of Asian
art, has set out to bridge this gap between East and West by devoting an
exhibition to this central pillar of Asian thought
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/01/arts/design/01CONF.html

Historic House Needs Repairs -- and Money
Mansion Was Home to Lee's Family
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44873-2003Dec31.html

Obituary: Joanne Sonnichsen -- bookbinder
Joanne Sonnichsen of Menlo Park, a noted bookbinder whose work has been
displayed worldwide, died of congestive heart failure at her home on
Christmas Day after a nine-year battle with cancer. She was 70. Her bindings
have been displayed in museums, universities and private collections in
numerous countries, including France, Australia and England
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/01
/BAGAQ41VI41.DTL

-- January 2, 2004
++ American newspapers
Before Film, a Family Record on Canvas
American folk art portraits can be primitive or accomplished, but style
mattered little to the 18th- and 19th-century families who inherited these
prized possessions
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/02/arts/design/02ANTI.html

When Steuben Glass Went Clear, Clean and Modern
Steuben Glass, now celebrating its 100th year in business, was a token of
high-end New York modernity from about 1930 to 1960. Its elegantly
contemporary and flawlessly executed products - cocktail shakers, drinking
glasses, bowls, cigarette urns, olive dishes and the like - made the perfect
gift for the upscale bride and groom. And the company, an offshoot of
Corning Glass Works in Corning, N.Y., promoted its wares, even during the
Depression, to an unabashed luxury market
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/02/arts/design/02GLUE.html

The Rush-Hour Revelations of an Underground Museum
New York Citie's great subway system has many benefits. While getting
millions of people where they need to go each day with a minimum of
logistical fuss and environmental muss, it also serves as a great
humanizing, socializing force. After all, spending time in the company of
strangers is one of the earth's oldest, most direct and stimulating forms of
education. Travel is broadening, as they say, and New Yorkers can learn a
good bit about the world simply by exercising their right to a $2 ride. The
experience, formative to natives, transformative to later arrivals,
encourages tolerance, curiosity and creativity, basic ingredients of
cosmopolitanism
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/02/arts/design/02XSMIT.html

Obituary: Ibram Lassaw, 90, a Sculptor Devoted to Abstract Forms, Dies
Ibram Lassaw, an artist known mainly for his colorful, open-form metal
sculptures and one of the last links to the original generation of the New
York School artists, died on Tuesday at his home in the Springs section of
East Hampton, N.Y, his family said. He was 90.
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/02/arts/design/02LASS.html

Society is on a mission to balance scales on justice
The new owner of the Taney House hopes to reinterpret the museum dedicated
to the former Supreme Court chief
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-dishneau2jan02,0,12259
95.story?coll=cl-art

Reality and irony collide
UnNaturally" begins with the idea that it's getting harder to tell what's
real and what's artificial. The 15-artist exhibition at USC's Fisher Gallery
reopens Tuesday
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-pagel2jan02,2,6050302.
story?coll=cl-art

WWII Veterans Lend Their Images to Posterity
An exhibit at a Brentwood campus features recent clay sculptures and vintage
photos of 100 men and women who took part
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-me-vets2jan02,2,902843.st
ory?coll=cl-art

Italy lets cafes and shops into museums
Ten years ago, getting into a government-run museum after 1 p.m. to see a
Raphael in Milan, a Titian in Venice, a Michelangelo in Florence or a
Caravaggio in Rome was tantamount to finding a post office open at that
hour. Close to impossible
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/02
/DDGO54224F1.DTL

Museum looks at Confucius
Musee Guimet hires calligrapher to interpret life of ancient teacher
Confucius' teachings remain enormously influential in China and beyond, yet
little is known in the West about the man himself beyond his famous sayings,
or analects
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/02
/DDGO5422FC1.DTL

++ British newspapers
Obituary: Betty Haines
Expert in the chemistry and conservation of leather
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=477400

World-class art on display
From next month, art-lovers in Wales will be able to see the work of the ten
artists shortlisted for one of the world's largest prizes of its kind
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3361507.stm

-- January 3, 2004
++ American newspapers
Smithsonian Collects Industrial Drawings
Doodles and drawings done by engineers to guide the manufacture of everyday
things sometime qualify as art, the Smithsonian Institution thinks. As
evidence, it has framed 74 of them to send around the country for display in
museums
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Engineering-Art.html

Obituary: Vincent Smith, Painter Who Portrayed Black Life, Dies at 74
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/03/arts/design/03SMIT.html

-- January 4, 2004
++ American newspapers
Eli Wilner's Job: Putting the Frame in the Picture
You know that dour Victorian portrait your Aunt Tillie left you? Get it down
from the attic. Even if the painting's not worth anything, the frame might
fetch up to $200,000. And if it does, Eli Wilner will be the man to thank.
In 1982, when he was 26 and working as a painting restorer and framer, he
began collecting antique frames that art dealers put out on the street as
trash. It was cheaper for them to buy reproductions than to restore the old
ones. Very old frames were valued, but those from the 19th and early 20th
centuries, he recalls, "were considered junk
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/arts/design/04STRA.html

Masks in Place, but Headed for the Mainstream
Striding through Chelsea on a chilly day in early December, two members of
the Guerrilla Girls - fierce, furry masks topping off de rigueur black -
drew admiring whistles from construction workers. "Hey, beautiful, I know
somebody in Jersey related to you - my wife!" (Proof, perhaps, of the
continuing need for feminist masked avengers.) And were greeted with
solidarity by assorted gallerygoers, if not by all gallerists
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/arts/design/04HOBA.html

Edifice complex
Historian Robert Winter's "Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles," first
co-written in 1965 with David Gebhard, has just been released in a fifth,
updated edition
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-tm-crwinter01jan04,2,3020
796.story?coll=cl-art

A life gone South Seas
A blockbuster exhibition focusing on Gauguin's turbulent - and productive -
final years digs at the sources of his inspiration
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-hohenadel4jan04,2,4682
185.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers
In search of... Picasso in Malaga
This city is back on the map, thanks to a new museum dedicated to its most
famous son. So what's it like inside?
(The Independent)
http://travel.independent.co.uk/europe/mediterranean/story.jsp?story=478241

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