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H-Museum News Digest, Feb 24 (USA, UK)

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Jack Robertson <[log in to unmask]>

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-----Original Message-----
From: H-Museum [Blank] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 9:55 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: NEWS: H-Museum News Digest (USA, UK)

[Editor's note: The following articles are published in American and British
newspapers and magazines. The WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST service is made
available by the editorial staff of H-Museum <[log in to unmask]>.]

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H-MUSEUM NEWS DIGEST (USA, UK)
February 24 - February 29, 2004

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-- February 24
++ British newspapers
Iran welcomes UK art exhibition
The first exhibition of British art to go on show in Iran since the Islamic
revolution in 1979 opens on Tuesday
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3516087.stm


-- February 25
++ American newspapers
Center to focus on Revolution
Organizers of an ambitious project to create the nation's leading
educational and cultural institution about the Revolutionary War unveiled
design plans Tuesday for the museum, set to open in 2006
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-quick25.1feb25,0,16650
54.story?coll=cl-art

NY Met's gallery space expanding
New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is dramatically expanding its
gallery space, spending almost $180 million to display some of the world's
finest classical artworks, which have been sitting in storage, the museum's
director announced Tuesday
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-quick25.4feb25,0,28447
05.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers
UK art on rare display in Tehran
One of the most ambitious exhibitions of Western art seen in Iran since the
Revolution has opened in Tehran
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3485698.stm

Big expansion plan for US museum
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is spending almost $180m (£96.2m) on
an expansion to display thousands of the world's finest classical artworks
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3485794.stm


-- February 26
++ American newspapers
From the Sphinx to King Tut, a Feast for Budding Egyptologists
Seven millenniums of Egyptian culture and history are now available in a
most modern way: through a new Web site called Eternal Egypt. A result of
three years of cooperation between I.B.M. and Egypt's government and major
museums, Eternal Egypt is intended to encourage preservation while providing
an immense amount of data that could formerly be absorbed only by visiting
Egypt
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/26/technology/circuits/26egyp.html

++ British newspapers
Home of photographer to open to the public
The National Trust prepares to open to the public the cluttered home and
studio of one Britain's greatest photographers, E. Chambré Hardman
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1156621,00.html

Lichtenstein returns to London gallery after 35 years
Roy Lichtenstein exhibition opens at the Hayward Gallery, covering almost 40
years until artist's death in 1997
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1156602,00.html

Uffizi to double in size as Italy tries to outdo Louvre
Italy is to try to turn the Uffizi gallery in Florence into Europe's premier
art museum, with an ambitious 56m euro (£38m) scheme to double its
exhibition space
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1156471,00.html


-- February 27
++ American newspapers
A $20 Million Bilbao Project for Serra
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has given the sculptor Richard Serra what
its officials describe as not only one of the grandest but also one of the
most expensive contemporary art commissions of any museum in the world
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/27/arts/design/27INSI.html

Intimate Sentiments That Traveled Directly From Heart to Hand
Most personal letters today are probably the province of e-mail, and for a
while before that they were apt to be pecked out on the typewriter. The
spectacle of people penning them by hand now comes across as almost quaint
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/27/arts/design/27GLUE.html

Lowe Wins Bid for Old Wax Museum Site
$133 Million Development to Mix Residential, Retail
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10914-2004Feb26.html

Heritage, Piece by Piece
Quilts can provide a warmth that lasts beyond the chill of a winter night.
It's the warmth of community, as the Corcoran Gallery of Art exhibit "The
Quilts of Gee's Bend" demonstrates
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8759-2004Feb26.html

Utah museum to return painting
An 18th century oil painting recently discovered to have been looted by the
Nazis during the occupation of France and later donated to the Utah Museum
of Fine Arts will be returned to its rightful owners
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-quick27.5feb27,0,44175
74.story?coll=cl-art

Not fitting the mold
The Museum of Latin American Art takes a look at four female sculptors with
widely diverging styles in "A Woman's Touch."
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-pagel27feb27,0,5657029
.story?coll=cl-art-util

++ British newspapers
Royal Academy puts Georgian giants on display for the first time
Self portraits of Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough are among the
treasures of a collection to go on public display for the first time in the
restored Fine Rooms at Burlington House
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1157490,00.html

Camels provide clue to 18th-century masterpiece
It took a while to spot that Camels in a Wood was a lost masterpiece by an
artist described as "the most unjustly neglected British painter of the 18th
century"
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1157228,00.html


-- February 28
++ American newspapers
Obituary: Stanislaw Ryniak, Auschwitz Inmate, Dies at 88
Stanislaw Ryniak, the first person imprisoned at Auschwitz, the World War II


Nazi concentration camp, has died. He was 88
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/28/international/europe/28RYNI.html

From Museum to Housewares: Marketing Gee's Bend Quilts
At every stop on its exhibition tour, "The Quilts of Gee's Bend" has
captured hearts and minds. The struggle for Gee's Bend's soul is just
beginning
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13948-2004Feb27.html

Affordable Housing That's So Nice to Come Home To
Several powerful statements make quiet appearances at the beginning of a new
exhibition at the National Building Museum
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13890-2004Feb27.html

Picasso, Pollock and the quirky curator
At the OCMA, an intimate selection of paintings and sculptures sketches
Modern art's streamlined sweep from Expressionism through Abstraction.
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-pagel28feb28,0,6115783
.story?coll=cl-art-util

Subjecting history to question at a crucible of the U.S. Revolution
Robert Stern's new design for the National Center for the American
Revolution at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, is a lovely surprise. Imagine
Frank Lloyd Wright crossed with Peter Eisenman, and you've clearly got
something more than the usual roadside attraction. Critics sometimes
belittle Stern as a theme park designer, and the mind reels trying to figure
out what he intends this building's theme to be. Jacques Derrida over
Fallingwater, perhaps. Radical forms to commemorate a revolutionary past
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=131723&owner=(NYT)&date=20040301023841

William Pfaff: 'Europe' has historical limits
The Baltics vs. the Caucasus
Distinctions are invidious but necessary in dealing with Russia's "near
abroad," at a time when President Vladimir Putin intends his country to
become a political and strategic force again
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=131701&owner=(IHT)&date=20040301141458

++ British newspapers
Unknown 'Cézanne' stolen in outback
Police and art experts in Australia are baffled by the alleged theft of an
unknown Cézanne painting, supposedly valued at £22m, from a bush studio 450
miles north of Sydney
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1158252,00.html

'National treasure' archive up for sale
Battle to keep outstanding 19th-century archive in UK
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1158377,00.html


-- February 29
++ American newspapers
A Tiny Museum Achieves Its Towering Ambition
For most people skyscrapers are just part of the visual furniture that makes
New York New York. For Carol Willis, they are infinitely more
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/arts/design/29IOVI.html

Obituary: Daniel Boorstin Dies at 89
Historian Led Museum and Library of Congress
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15429-2004Feb28.html

A Bronze Star Is Reborn
With 'David,' Verrocchio Carved A New Niche for Sculpture. Now Restorers
Have Filled It Nicely
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12594-2004Feb27.html

Hot Arctic-tecture
For the first Snow Show, in an area near the top of the world, artists and
architects have teamed to build shimmering -- and temporary -- fantasies in
ice, snow and even fire
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-webb29feb29,0,3341377.
story?coll=cl-art

An Encyclopedic Salute to a Lost Musical World
"Vienna: Jews and the City of Music, 1870-1938" at the Yeshiva University
Museum
(Aufbau)
http://www.aufbauonline.com/2004/issue02/15.html

Florida's First Jewish History Month
(Aufbau)
http://www.aufbauonline.com/2004/issue02/19_2.html

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