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H-MUSEUM NEWS DIGEST (USA, UK)
June 21 - June 27, 2004

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-- June 21
++ British newspapers
Obituary: Paul Neagu
Influential sculptor, painter and performance artist
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/index.jsp?page=2#
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=534858

-- June 22
++ American newspapers
Ohio Museum Attributes a Purchase to Praxiteles
The Cleveland Museum of Art has bought what it thinks is an ancient bronze
sculpture of Apollo the Lizard Slayer by the classical Greek sculptor
Praxiteles. If it is authentic, it will be one of the most important ancient
bronzes in an American museum
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/22/arts/design/22APOL.html

Danes rule at Museum of Modern Art
Works by 33 Danish designers will be used to furnish the lobby and the
cafeteria, with a retail value of several million dollars
(International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=525900&owner=(NYT)&date=20040623143833

-- June 23
++ American newspapers
Historical Society Shifts Focus With Its Shift in Leadership
The New-York Historical Society, with a newly hired president and a
conservative financier emerging as a board power, is shifting its focus from
the city to more national concerns, stirring the objections of some
historians and staff members
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/23/arts/design/23HIST.html

Mexico joins global club
The UCLA Hammer exhibition documents its full-scale entry into the
international fold of post-Conceptual ar
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-knight23jun23,2,584415
.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers
Boudin, Monet and the Sea Painters of Normandy
Monet may have been one of the first to paint the transient effects of
light, but he wasn't the first to set up his easel on a beach. Even geniuses
need mentors, and as Monet readily acknowledged: "If I became a painter it
was thanks to Boudin
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1245005,00.html

-- June 24
++ American newspapers
For African-Americans, a Chance to Draft History
In their light-filled office in Charleston, S.C., Ray Huff and Mario Gooden,
partners in a seven-year-old architecture firm, were discussing their
planned expansion of the California African American Museum in Los Angeles.
Until now the firm has designed mostly schools, civic buildings and churches
around Charleston, and this would be an important break. "It represents an
affirmation of our capabilities as architects," Mr. Huff said
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/garden/24BLAC.html

Art Dealer Pleads Guilty in Import Case
A leading antiquities dealer pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal charge
that he had falsified a customs document about the origins of an ancient
silver ceremonial drinking vessel that his gallery later sold for $950,000.
The dealer, Hicham Aboutaam, the co-owner of Phoenix Ancient Art,
acknowledged at a hearing in United States District Court in Manhattan that
in 2000 he had falsely claimed that the object, known as a rhyton, had come
from Syria when he believed that it was actually from Ira
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/arts/design/24RELI.html

A Hoard of Gold That Afghanistan Quietly Saved
Under the Russians it was barely glimpsed. The Afghan Communists allowed
only peeks. Through the years of civil war and Taliban rule, its existence
was kept secret by a handful of unassuming museum and bank workers, even as
other priceless pieces of Afghanistan's cultural history were destroyed
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/arts/design/24GOLD.html

$18-billion Holocaust art suit filed against Germany
An $18-billion lawsuit was filed against Germany on Wednesday, alleging the
country that perpetrated the Holocaust was now retaining stolen artworks
from its victims
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-wk-holocaust24jun24,2,400
7330.story?coll=cl-art

Ancient Indian settlement found in remote Utah
For more than 50 years, rancher Waldo Wilcox kept most outsiders off his
land and the secret under wraps: a string of ancient Indian settlements so
remarkably well-preserved that arrowheads and beads are still lying out in
the open. Archeologists are calling it one of the most spectacular finds in
the West
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/06/24/nati
onal1447EDT0638.DTL

First museum retrospective of Ed Ruscha's drawings reveals a photographer's
eye
The first retrospective of Ruscha's drawings focuses on the artist's use of
original mediums -- including blood, fruit and vegetable juices, grass
stains and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals -- applied with unique tools
like cotton balls and swabs.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/06/24/ente
rtainment1606EDT0683.DTL

Greece's main museum reopens after Olympic restoration
Athens' National Archaeological Museum, the world's most important showcase
of Greek antiquities, reopened most of its halls Thursday after undergoing
20 months of restorations for the Olympic Games this summer
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/06/24/spor
ts1806EDT0405.DTL

Scottish museum will return Maori heads to New Zealand
Three 19th-century Maori heads that were hidden away in a Glasgow museum for
more than 50 years will be returned to their native New Zealand, the Glasgow
city council decided Thursday
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/06/24/inte
rnational1505EDT0652.DTL

++ British newspapers
Maoris win return of preserved heads hidden away in museum
The preserved tattooed heads of three New Zealand warriors which have been
hidden away in a Glasgow museum for decades are to be returned to their
homeland
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=534614

Hermitage curator claims McCartney concert may have damaged paintings
The protectors of Russia's greatest cultural treasure - the State Hermitage
Museum in St Petersburg - have claimed that the concert by Sir Paul
McCartney may have seriously damaged the building and its paintings
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=534592

Obituary: Gérard de Sède
Gerard de Sede was responsible for introducing the world to the mystery of
Rennes-le-Château, a real-life historical detective story set in the
Languedoc in south-west France
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=534557

Mammoth catalogue will record hidden treasures of public art
They are calling it a "Pevsner of Paintings" - an ambitious attempt to
record details, county by county, of every picture in public ownership, as
was done for the buildings of the British Isles by Sir Nicholas Pevsner
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1245977,00.html

-- June 25
++ American newspapers
Hands Up, Down, In, Over, Shaken, Clasped, Held . . .
How many photographs of the human hand can you look at in one go? The 173
images in "Speaking With Hands: Photographs From the Buhl Collection" at the
Guggenheim Museum offer a chance to find out
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/arts/design/25SMIT.html

Signs of Heat Beneath California Cool
Ed Ruscha's reputation as a cool dude precedes him, as it always has. How
could it not? He emerged as a prominent Los Angeles artist at a time when
being one conjured up photogenic good looks, perpetual tans and impeccable
cars. That would be the 1960's, of course, and while these attributes may
have been more mythic than actual, Mr. Ruscha typified them to perfection
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/arts/design/25RUSC.html

Handpicked by the Agnellis
There are celebrity auctions of property from the likes of Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis, Elton John and most recently Katharine Hepburn, and then
there are sales of art and objects with celebrity value that comes from
another kind of pedigree. This week Sotheby's announced an Oct. 23 auction
of about 100 pieces of furniture and decorative arts from the collection of
Marella Agnelli, the widow of Giovanni Agnelli, the Fiat chairman, who died
last year. The 100 objects being sold are from the couple's Park Avenue
apartment, which Mrs. Agnelli sold this year. Sotheby's expects the sale to
bring $7 million to $11 million
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/arts/design/25INSI.html

Clothes That Wowed Them Come Down From the Screen
Which is why "Cut! Costumes for the Silver Screen," a display at the AXA
Gallery in Midtown, is such an engaging show. There are 30 outfits from
films from 1912 to 1992, accompanied by clips of the actors in action. You
don't have to be a fashion maven to savor the art and artifice of these
creations, worn by Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor and
Jeanne Moreau, among others
(New York Times)
http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/arts/design/25GLUE.html

Vibrant Birds of America, via Germany
Audubon fanatics (and that is their word) have been rushing to New York to
see the preview of Christie's sale of the Saxe-Meiningen family's set of
John James Audubon's "Birds of America." Nineteen members of that German
family, ranging in age from 18 to 79, have put 424 hand-colored Audubon
engravings of birds up for sale. Because this pristine set was never bound
and is incomplete - 11 prints are missing - the sheets will be auctioned
individually today. The low estimates range from $2,000 to $150,000 apiece
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/arts/design/25ANTI.html

Antiques dealer gets eight-year sentence for art fraud scheme
An antiques dealer who admitted he tricked several people into investing in
a bogus Vincent Van Gogh painting was sentenced Friday to eight years in
federal prison
Barry Keith Holbert, 42, also was ordered to pay $2.2 million in restitution
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/06/25/nati
onal2202EDT0775.DTL

Display doesn't demystify geisha
"Geisha: Beyond the Painted Smile," opening today at the Asian Art Museum of
San Francisco, fails to take us beyond the myth and disguise cloaking a
cultural icon of Japan
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/25
/DDGO77B3JC1.DTL

Museum displays three textile machines imagined by Leonardo
A museum devoted to Leonardo da Vinci is adding a display of three machines
designed by the Renaissance genius to advance the textile industry but too
far ahead of their time to function
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/06/25/inte
rnational2138EDT0767.DTL

For U.S. blacks, a chance to draft history
A new wave of heritage buildings celebrating black history is creating
opportunities - and disappointments - for black architects
http://www.iht.com/search/ihtsearch.php?id=526395&owner=(NYT)&date=200406271
32237

++ British newspapers
Museum to return Maori remains
Three tattooed Maori warrior heads that have been hidden away in a Glasgow
museum vault for up to a century are to be returned to their native New
Zealand
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1246966,00.html

Renaissance fresco uncovered in Valencia
Pigeons fluttering through a hole in the ceiling of a Spanish cathedral led
art restorers to an exquisite Renaissance fresco of winged angels that had
been covered up for more than three centuries
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1246863,00.html

-- June 26
++ American newspapers
Exhibition on the Human Body Gets Under People's Skin
A graphic display of specimens arrives in L.A. Is it educational or just
eerie?
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-museum26jun26,2,306561
0.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers
Changing climate in the saleroom
After nearly a century of mixed scorn and excitement, the modernist movement
in painting and sculpture is beginning to achieve a prime status in the
priorities of art collectors - if not yet of the general public
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1247749,00.html

Obituary: Nigel Seeley
Forensic scientist and Head of Conservation at the National Trust
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=535291

-- June 27
++ American newspapers
Museum in a Vienna Palace, Fitted Out by a Prince
The mid-20th century was not kind to the Liechtensteins. Long a pillar of
the Austro-Hungarian empire, owner of some 30 castles and palaces across
Europe, the family was forced by World War II and the Soviet era to retreat
to the tiny principality tucked between Austria and Switzerland that carries
its name. In the 1950's and 60's, it was even obliged to sell off part of
its vast art collection to make ends meet
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/28/arts/design/28VIEN.html

Peru Photo Exhibit Captures Pathos of 20 Years of War
At the Riva Aguero house, a rambling, 27-room mansion overlooking the
Pacific Ocean, the plaster is peeling, the floors are made of cement and the
walls rot. But Peru's past is alive here in riveting, raw photographs
intended to recall the horrors of a 20-year terror war
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/international/americas/27peru.html

The Carpet That Ate Grand Central
Titled "Plan B" and installed for the month of July within the soaring
Beaux-Arts marble climes of Vanderbilt Hall, the work consists of a
27,000-square-foot stretch of carpet covering the entire floor of the hall
and woven with a pattern of bright blue roses on an even brighter pink
ground. You could call it the carpet that ate Manhattan without exaggerating
much
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/arts/design/27YABL.html

Fading colors of paradise
Amid a ubiquitous art community, Bali's first private museum and the
treasures within are endangered by the island's elements
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-ybarra27jun27,2,551340
1.story?coll=cl-art

In L.A., an inside glimpse of the human body
German scientist's 'plastinated' specimens display anatomy in controversial
detail
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/27
/MNGOK7CU2R1.DTL

A history of Russian shows in the UK
A show of Russian landscapes attracted 140,000 visitors at the Groninger
Museum in The Netherlands
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11704

Art Basel: the younger the better
The cult of the new is stronger than ever at the Swiss fair
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11703

Versailles: feud jeopardises interior restoration but gardens are completed
Private sponsor accused of hiring incompetent restorers
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11702

Worth the wait: The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris has finally re-opened
Largely due to the energy and connections of its President, Hélène
David-Weill
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11701

Art, life and autobiography: Tracey Emin speaks to The Art Newspaper
Tracey Emin's new exhibition concentrates on her work as a filmmaker in
which she usually takes the starring role
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11700

++ British newspapers
Mummy's mystery unravels in 3D
British Museum uses computer animation to probe 2,800-year-old body
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1248425,00.html

Enduring value from the velvet underground
Collecting: Andy Warhol's art isn't a 15-minute wonder
(The Independent)
http://money.independent.co.uk/personal_finance/invest_save/story.jsp?story=
535495

Art critics rave over 'Berlin's Anne Frank'
A Berlin-born Jewish artist and diarist who died in Auschwitz in 1943 is
being hailed as Germany's own Anne Frank
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=535563

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