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H-MUSEUM NEWS DIGEST (USA, UK)
March 15 - March 21, 2004

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-- March 15
++ American newspapers
Recasting Treasures as Trinkets
The Museum of Natural History lends its stable of scientists to New Yorkers
for a day
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-na-whatisit15mar15,2,2112
489.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers
Alan Moore: The reluctant hero
A museum in Belgium is hosting an exhibition of his work, but the graphic
novelist Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen, won't be going
(The Independent)
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/interviews/story.jsp?story=501405


-- March 16
++ American newspapers
In Suburbs, Reminder of Horror
On a busy street in suburban Detroit, with a Starbucks and an Arby's
restaurant as its neighbors, a new museum of the Holocaust has begun to
receive visitors. But even before the formal opening of privately financed
Holocaust Memorial Center of Michigan, tentatively set for April 5, its
architecture is telegraphing what lies inside. The $14 million center,
actually a group of three museums, has been designed to evoke a
concentration camp
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/16/arts/design/16HOLO.html

A Glimpse of War Surgery
A photo exhibit at the National Museum of Health and Medicine has all the
blood and gore you might expect from a show entitled "Battlefield Surgery
101: From Civil War to Vietnam." But most of the more than 100 photos
disguise the blood to some degree: Until the exhibit reaches the Korean War,
all the images are black and white
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61717-2004Mar15.html

Max Minmal
MOCA's historic survey of Minimalism invites the viewer to walk on. And it's
liberating
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-knight16mar16,2,589742
3.htmlstory?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers
Armless sculpture chosen for Trafalgar's plinth
A sculpture of a pregnant, armless woman will be the next work of art on the
empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, to be followed by a coloured
plastic hotel for its pigeons
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=501673

Obituary: Professor Maurice Larkin
Historian of France
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=501648

Museum reopens after £7.5m revamp
A museum housing the world's largest collection of British-made cars,
motorbikes and bicycles is to re-open after a £7.5m refurbishment
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/3522314.stm


-- March 17
++ American newspapers
Obituary: Building Museum Founding Director Bates Lowry Dies
Bates Lowry, 80, a leading art and architectural historian who was founding
director of the National Building Museum and oversaw its birth in the 1980s,
died March 12 at a hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., of complications from
pneumonia. Dr. Lowry, a longtime Boston resident, had moved to New York the
week before his death
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64904-2004Mar16.html

Paris museum for YSL designs opens
The clothes are pure Yves Saint Laurent, but they resonate with the
influences of Mondrian, Braque, Matisse, Andy Warhol and other Modern art
greats
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-e12filler17mar17,2,599
0534.story?coll=cl-art

Icons, ancient manuscripts highlight Met exhibit
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is mounting its third exhibition on Byzantium
in 27 years, presenting icons, manuscripts and other works from the final
three centuries of a religious empire whose art and culture influenced the
world for more than a millennium
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/03/17/ente
rtainment1417EST0699.DTL

++ British newspapers
Inquiry into conflict of interest
The heritage minister ordered an inquiry into alleged high-level conflicts
of interest within an agency whose brief is to act as "national champion for
architecture in England."
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1170902,00.html

East meets West
V&A tells story of cultural encounter
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1171008,00.html


-- March 18
++ American newspapers
Obituary: Bates Lowry, 80, Head of Building Museum, Dies
Bates Lowry, an art and architectural historian who was the founding
director of the National Building Museum in Washington and served for a
short time as director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, died on
Friday in Brooklyn. He was 80 and lived in Boston
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/18/arts/design/18LOWR.html

Illusion and Reality Cozy Up at Tate Modern
Donald Judd and Constantin Brancusi share splendid retrospectives at Tate
Modern here with Olafur Eliasson's big and stupendously popular installation
(to even his surprise) in the museum's Turbine Hall: a smoke and mirror
extravaganza of fog machines and a fake sun (yellow lights behind a
semicircular screen beneath a mirrored ceiling)
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/18/arts/design/18KIMM.html

Perception, deception: beyond model homes
ReModeling" examines how three-dimensional architectural models shape
perception
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-wk-museums18mar18,2,16928
33.story?coll=cl-art

Lively show brings a lot to the table
The internal dynamics of "The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California
Painting and Sculpture" claims that still life is a living, evolving genre
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-wk-ollman18mar18,2,149732
0.story?coll=cl-art

For Neff, an era of glamour came first
He was the architect to the golden age stars, creating elaborate
European-styled homes such as Pickfair. His houses are still on the A-list,
sheltering Pitt, Aniston and Keaton
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-hm-earrefer18mar18,2,7762
367.story?coll=cl-art

America gets first view of ancient Buddhist sculptures found in China
America will get its first look Saturday at 1,500-year-old treasures of
Buddhist sculpture, dug up in northern China with much of the original
gilding and coloring intact
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/03/18/nati
onal1533EST0692.DTL

Awards Honor Custodians of German-Jewish History
(Aufbau - The Transatlantic Jewish Paper)
http://www.aufbauonline.com/2004/issue04/7.html

++ British newspapers
Artist's 19th century daguerreotypes to be auctioned
A series of dazzling daguerreotypes, by a French amateur recognised half a
century after his death as a master of the earliest days of photography,
will be auctioned in May
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1171696,00.html

-- March 19
++ American newspapers
Obituary: Milton Resnick, Abstract Expressionist Painter, Dies at 87
Milton Resnick, a New York painter known for dour, thickly impastoed
near-monochrome canvases, died on March 12 at his home on the Lower East
Side of Manhattan. He was 87 and also had a home in Cragsmoor, N.Y.
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/design/19RESN.html

The Emperor's, and Warriors', Ornate Clothes
In the fourth century, Khitan tribesman living in what is now Manchuria
thought the horse was their kingdom. Without horses, they had nothing. The
Khitan was a confederation of nomadic tribes living on the Mongolia steppe.
Khitan is also thought to be the origin of the word Cathay, which is what
Marco Polo called China in his journals after living there from 1275 to 1292
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/design/19ANTI.html

The Undying Smile of Enlightenment
At the very last minute, just as the young Indian monk was about to take the
spiritual step he had prepared for through countless lives, a voice blasted
through the little grove of trees where he sat deep in meditation. "Who can
prove that this man has earned a victory over me?"
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/design/19COTT.html

A Thousand-Year Treasury of Chinese Masterpieces
It's hard to believe that the almost mythical hunk of horseflesh known as
Night-Shining White really existed. But this powerful, sexy, all-white steed
with lustrous eyes and bristling mane was actually a favorite mount of the
eighth-century Chinese emperor Xuanzong. The portrait of Night-Shining
White, from the idealizing brush of Han Gan, a leading horse painter of the
Tang dynasty (active 742-756) - the George Stubbs of his day, so to speak -
is intended to evoke a dragon in disguise, a celestial being with
supernatural powers
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/design/19DILL.html

Islamic Collection to Visit the U.S.
The current spate of renovations in museums around the world has produced an
interesting cross-pollination of exhibitions. While the Museum of Modern
Art's home on West 53rd Street is closed for its expansion and renovation,
more than 200 works from the permanent collection are on view at the Neue
Nationalgalerie in Berlin
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/design/19INSI.html

Under Rauschenberg's Spell, Mundane Turns Uncanny
"Robert Rauschenberg: Current Scenarios," an exhibition at the Wadsworth
Atheneum Museum of Art here, touches on just three distinct moments in the
long career of one of the most influential artists of the last 50 years. It
includes a series of prints based on collages of newspaper clippings,
produced in 1969-70; a set of large sculptural assemblages made of junk
metal in 1986-87; and, from 2003, a series of expansive photomontages
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/design/19JOHN.html

Delirious Decay From a Prolific Jack-of-All-Arts
A word of caution before you wade into the dissonant, oceanic survey of the
work of Dieter Roth, the German-born, Swiss multimedia dynamo, at the Museum
of Modern Art in Long Island City, Queens. Expect to be bewildered and even
put off: Roth is as irksome as he is awesome, but ultimately awesome wins
out. This long overdue exhibition introduces Americans to an artist who not
only erased the line between art and life but also pulverized the two into a
single process
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/design/19SMIT.html

West to Meet East At Exhibition of Rare Islamic Art
Starting in July, the National Gallery of Art will display rare Islamic art
from the Victoria and Albert Museum, its first major display of art from the
Arab world in 17 years
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6625-2004Mar18.html

Getty Museum features photographers whose work shaped art form
The J. Paul Getty Museum, drawing from one of the largest photo collections
in the country, has opened a new exhibit featuring photographers who helped
shape the art form
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/03/19/ente
rtainment1441EST0665.DTL


-- March 20
++ American newspapers
Where how is preferred over what
"Traces of India" at UCLA's Fowler Museum invites us to observe the ways
others observed the country
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-pagel20mar20,2,7331114
.story?coll=cl-art

Would the real Warhol please rise?
If Andy Warhol is arguably the best-known artist of the last century, the
familiarity is based on an improbably small body of work. Furthermore, most
of those icons - the "Soup Cans," "Marilyns," "Flowers" and "Electric
Chairs" - date from the early 1960s, when the artist first polarized the art
establishment. His later works, thematically rich and formally diversified,
have received comparatively little exposure, despite the ambitious
retrospectives held on both sides of the Atlantic since his death in 1987
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=511126&owner=(International%20Herald%20T
ribune)&date=20040319180757

To Russia with love: the Forbes Fabergé collection
Where will the eggs be displayed? Two museums are in the running
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11605

Boston Museum of Fine Arts sends its Monets to Las Vegas
The institution is renting 21 paintings by the French artist to a gallery
run by PaceWildenstein
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11603

Malevich heirs claim paintings-again
A claim has been filed in US federal court in Washington, DC against the
City of Amsterdam by the heirs of the 20th-century Russian artist Kazimir
Malevich for 14 of the artist's works. The heirs say these works are "in the
wrongful possession" of the City at the Stedelijk Museum
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11602

One of London's greatest Palladian interiors opens to the public
The Royal Academy (RA) is to open its Fine Rooms from 13 March, allowing
regular public access to one of London's finest Palladian interiors. Long
hidden behind closed doors, visitors will now be able to see the suite of
six rooms which face the courtyard of Burlington House. These are now hung
with around 50 pictures from the RA's permanent collection
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11601

Chicago's future icon -- a new marvel by Anish Kapoor
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11604

++ British newspapers
The traveller's guide to England's world heritage sites
The historical and cultural diversity of the 15 protected sites across the
country makes for many fascinationg days out
(The Independent)
http://travel.independent.co.uk/uk/story.jsp?story=502990

Play and display
England boasts an unusual array of fine museums, featuring monsters, mines,
milliners and much more
(The Independent)
http://travel.independent.co.uk/uk/story.jsp?story=502993


-- March 21
++ American newspapers
Dresden's Tenacious Treasures
Because Dresden's portable museum treasures were hidden in caves, they
survived the 1945 firebombing of the city. They were taken to Russia after
the war and returned to Dresden in 1958. In August 2002 frantic efforts
saved them from the worst flooding of the Elbe River since 1845. Some 400 of
these treasures are now on loan from the fabulous Green Vault in the State
Art Collections in Dresden to "The Glory of Baroque Dresden"
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/arts/design/21WEID.html

The Sun Sets at the Tate Modern
The Tate Modern in London recently suggested extending the wildly successful
six-month run of Olafur Eliasson's installation in the museum's vast Turbine
Hall. An instant cult site of mood-altering atmospherics, both gloomy and
eye-popping, "The Weather Project" consists of a fake sun (yellow lights
behind a huge semicircular screen, below a mirrored ceiling) and pumped-in
mist
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/arts/design/21KIMM.html

An Uptown Museum Wonders if Downtown Is the Answer
The Hispanic Society of America, the museum and library in Washington
Heights that gets few visitors but is known for its prized works by Goya and
Velázquez, among others, is considering options to heighten its profile,
including a move to Lower Manhattan
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/nyregion/21goya.html

Woman Wins Pritzker Architecture Prize
Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi-born architect who struggled for years to get her
audacious and unconventional designs built, won the prestigious 2004
Pritzker Architecture Prize on Sunday, the first woman to receive the
profession's highest honor
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Pritzker-Prize.html

Mixing art and commerce
Traditionalists scoff at Paris' new private museum, which is charging a
hefty fee to view works from the collection of Picasso's widow
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-hohenadel21mar21,2,732
5448.story?coll=cl-art

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