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H-MUSEUM NEWS DIGEST (USA, UK)
January 6 - January 11, 2004

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-- January 6
++ American newspapers
A Gulf Coast O'Keeffe Gets a Wider Audience
The notion of the painter Walter Anderson as a "mad genius" has been
celebrated along Mississippi's Gulf Coast since his death from lung cancer
in 1965. In his hometown, Ocean Springs, he is treated almost as a deity.
But he eluded national attention
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/06/arts/design/06ANDE.html

Eyes on Mesopotamian Glory
Until last year, few Americans felt drawn to museum shows featuring
Mesopotamian antiquities. But the looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad in
April focused new attention on this ancient civilization, and its glories
are now the subject of two lavish shows
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/06/arts/design/06ORIE.html

Handling Artifacts Not Built to Last
Conservators at historical museums face a painful dilemma. They must try to
achieve a reasonable reality in the preservation of artifacts that were not
built to last. Too much, and there is fakery. Too little, and objects fall
apart
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/05/arts/design/05HOLO.html

++ British newspapers
Museum bones 'should have a Christian burial'
The Museum of London wants to rebury most of the 17,000 skeletons in its
collection. The move has stirred a furious debate among academics over the
morality of keeping human remains for research
(The Times)
http://search.thetimes.co.uk/cgi-bin/ezk2srch?-aSTART#

-- January 7
++ American newspapers
A Collector Following the Thread of the Chinese Imperial Court
Tucked away in her atelier along antique row on Wyndham Street here, Teresa
Coleman nurtures a collection of ornate imperial robes from the courts of
China that give new meaning to the term vintage clothing
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/07/arts/design/07ROBE.html

++ British newspapers
Tate considers selling its art for first time in 50 years
The Tate is considering selling off works of art for the first time in half
a century in an attempt to plug the gaping holes in its collections of
contemporary artists
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=478787

-- January 8
++ British newspapers
Too risque for Iran, Bacon's nudes could be shown in London
With its startling central nudes, a Francis Bacon triptych bought by the
last Shah of Iran and displayed in his wife's dazzling museum of modern art
was never going to amuse the country's hard-line ayatollahs
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=479059

Tate aims to borrow unseen Bacon
London's Tate Britain gallery is hoping to borrow a painting by Francis
Bacon from Tehran Museum, Iran, which has lain in storage for almost 25
years
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3379581.stm

-- January 9
++ American newspapers
Smithsonian Changes Senior Management
The Smithsonian Institution announced on Thursday that it had restructured
its senior management in an effort to deal with lagging attendance,
controversies over some exhibits and problems at its National Zoological
Park
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/national/09MUSE.html

A Loan From Tehran
For the first time since arriving in Iran 36 years ago, "Two Figures Lying
on a Bed With Attendants," a 1968 triptych by Francis Bacon, is to be
exhibited publicly. But not in Iran: it will be the centerpiece of a small
exhibition of Bacon's work at Tate Britain in London in April
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/arts/design/09INSI.html

Getting Caravaggio From Video, With Several Hearts of Darkness
The jury at the Whitney Museum of American Art knew what it was doing when
it gave the Israeli-born film-video artist Irit Batsry the $100,000
Bucksbaum Award for her work in the 2002 Whitney Biennial Exhibition. "Irit
Batsry: Set," a show that is the culmination of the award, introduces a
deserving winner and a profoundly imposing if initially unprepossessing work
of art
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/arts/design/09SMIT.html

Forbes' Fabergés to be auctioned
The family of the late publisher Malcolm Forbes said Thursday it would sell
the world's largest private collection of fabled Fabergé imperial Easter
eggs and other Fabergé creations for an estimated $90 million
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-quick9.1jan09,2,368294
2.story?coll=cl-art

Calder Museum opening still several years away
A museum devoted to famed mobile artist Alexander Calder -- announced with
considerable fanfare in 2001 -- won't open as planned this year
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/01/09/ente
rtainment1743EST0754.DTL

++ British newspapers
Russian museum chief faces jail after show angers church
A Russian museum director has fallen foul of both church and state by
organising a controversial exhibition that has been accused of offending
Orthodox beliefs
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=479401

-- January 10
++ American newspapers
Destroying the Museum to Save It
Does the Barnes Foundation, with its trove of Renoirs, Cézannes, Matisses
and other Impressionist and modern masterpieces, really need to leave the
small town for the big city in order to survive?
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/10/opinion/10ROSE.html

Lewis and Clark Exhibition to Open in Mo.
Seven years ago, the Missouri History Museum embarked on what would be the
largest, most ambitious project in its 137-year history. The challenge:
Assemble the largest collection of artifacts, documents and other materials
from the Lewis and Clark expedition for an exhibit commemorating the 2004
bicentennial of their journey West
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Art-Lewis-and-Clark-Exhibit.html

A Loyal Protector of Ancient Egyptians in the Afterlife
Nasry Iskander, after dedicating a lifetime to preserving the mummies in the
Egyptian Museum, boils his work down to one straightforward thought
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/10/international/middleeast/10FPRO.html

Obituary: Jess, 80, San Francisco Artist Known for Layered Imagery, Dies
Jess, an artist whose idiosyncratic paintings and collages made him a cult
figure in American art, died on Jan. 2 at his home in San Francisco, said
Odyssia Skouras, his dealer in New York. He was 80
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/10/arts/10COLL.html

++ British newspapers
Museum buys pottery collection
Museum bosses in Stoke are celebrating after securing an important
collection of post-war British pottery
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/3385777.stm

-- January 11
++ American newspapers
The Man With the List at Architecture's Party
Frank Gehry is at the University of Connecticut, where he has just presented
his design for a new arts center to an audience of faculty and students.
Reed Kroloff, who is moderating the program, asks the audience if there are
any questions
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/arts/design/11BERN.html

Obituary: Rainer Hildebrandt, 89, founded museum on Berlin Wall victims
Rainer Hildebrandt, who founded a Berlin Wall museum at the Checkpoint
Charlie crossing that attracts thousands of tourists each year, died Friday,
the museum said. He was 89
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=124476&owner=(NYT)&date=20040109174456

++ British newspapers
Saddam's secret hoard of Jewish manuscripts
Military personnel discovered the cache while searching for weapons of mass
destruction in the headquarters of Saddam's secret police force in Baghdad.
It has now been transferred for conservation to Washington, DC
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11494

A new UK law to fight the illicit trade
It is now an offence to handle an object if you know that it was illegally
removed from a site anywhere in the world after 2003
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11493

Dealing in Cultural Objects Offences Act: how the new UK law works
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11492

London and Paris markets flooded with looted Iranian antiquities
Thousands of objects have been plundered from a newly discovered site at
Jiroft
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11491

Rome Stories: The 'Uncle Sam' architect delivers a refined riposte
The first new building to rise in Rome's historical centre for 70 years is
going up on the east bank of the Tiber, despite the best efforts of a
fogeyish culture minister to stop it
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=480023

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