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H-MUSEUM NEWS DIGEST (USA, UK)
January 17 - January 23, 2005

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-- January 17
++ American newspapers
A Wag of the Tail to the Presidential Pets
Museum Showcases Woman's Collection
(Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12415-2005Jan15.html

++ British newspapers
Army base 'has damaged Babylon'
Coalition forces in Iraq have caused irreparable damage to the ancient city of Babylon, the British Museum says (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4177577.stm

-- January 18
++ American newspapers
Obituary: Alton Tobey, 90, Portrait Artist and Muralist, Dies Alton Tobey, a muralist, portraitist and illustrator whose renderings of famous events and faces hang in museums, libraries, public buildings, corporate offices and private collections, died on Jan. 4 at a nursing home in Mamaroneck, N.Y., his family said. He was 90 and formerly lived in Larchmont (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/18/arts/design/18TOBEY.html

Ruskin and the censorship myth
Did the prudish Victorian critic John Ruskin actually burn J.M.W. Turner's erotic drawings in a bonfire after Turner's death? (International Herald Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/17/features/ruskin2.html

-- January 19
++ American newspapers
Leonardo's hidden studio?
Researchers at a military geography institute in Florence say they have discovered what may have been a workshop for Leonardo da Vinci (International Herald Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/18/style/fresco.html

++ British newspapers
Telling a thousand-year story
With all eyes on Turkey's efforts to join the European Union, now would seem an ideal time for London's Royal Academy of Arts to stage what is probably the world's greatest ever exhibition of Turkish art and culture. The exhibition opens on Saturday 22 January (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4184715.stm

Dustmen sent to school after binning art
Three German refuse collectors are to be sent on an Art Appreciation Course after accidentally taking down and incinerating a sculpture in Frankfurt, believing it was rubbish (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4187537.stm

Lowry works on sale at arts fair
A collection of work by the artist L S Lowry will go on sale at an arts fair in Birmingham (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4187063.stm

-- January 20
++ American newspapers
A Personal Vision, With a Fortune to Match, Creates a New German Museum As if another attraction were needed in Baden-Baden, this storied German town where the wealthy, the famous and the talented - from Dostoyevsky to the kings of Saudi Arabia - have been coming for centuries. But now, in addition to its luxury hotels and spas, its racetrack, its opera house and its (supposedly) curative waters, Baden-Baden also has a new museum with one of this country's most extensive collections of modern and contemporary art, focusing particularly, though not entirely, on the works of the postwar German Expressionists (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/20/arts/design/20burd.html

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has lost its biggest benefactor. Citing "differences in direction," Peter B. Lewis, the Cleveland philanthropist who has been a trustee of the museum since 1993 and most recently its chairman, resigned yesterday. He has given the institution about $77 million, nearly four times as much as any other board member in its history (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/20/arts/design/20museum.html

Textile Museum: Change Looms
The Textile Museum has chosen Daniel Walker, head of the Islamic art department at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, to become its new director (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22548-2005Jan19.html

-- January 21
++ American newspapers
From Fashion to Folk Art
After a nine-month search, the American Folk Art Museum in New York announced this week that it has appointed Maria Ann Conelli to be its new director. Ms. Conelli, who has been the dean of the school of graduate studies and acting dean of the school of art and design at the Fashion Institute of Technology, is replacing Gerard C. Wertkin, who retired last month (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/arts/design/21voge.html

A Global Map of Influences and Ideas
Winter is upon us with a vengeance and so, more pleasantly, are the winter art fairs. This weekend brings no fewer than five opportunities for this particularly intense and random form of indoor art-viewing. And the most venerable and spectacular of them is named for the season itself: the Winter Antiques Show, now in its 51st year, ensconced through Jan. 30 in the Seventh Regiment Armory, 643 Park Avenue, at 67th Street (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/arts/design/21smit.html

Loyalty Prevails Over Money in Guggenheim Showdown
Usually the richest man wins. That's what makes the departure of Peter B. Lewis - chairman of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and its biggest donor - on Wednesday a bit surprising. Mr. Lewis has characterized the three-hour meeting at which he announced his decision as amicable. But no matter how decorous, the meeting ultimately amounted to a showdown between Mr. Lewis and the Guggenheim's director, Thomas Krens (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/arts/design/21gugg.html

Reminders of America's Many Pasts
Although it's a far piece from the rustic places where much of its contents comes from, the fourth annual American Antiques Show has made itself quite at home in the city-slicker surroundings of the new Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/arts/design/21glue.html

UCLA Hammer lures MoMA curator west
Citing L.A.'s rapidly rising influence on the contemporary art scene, Gary Garrels is leaving New York to sharpen his 'creative edge.' (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-hammer21jan21,2,1642158.story?coll=cl-art

Exhibit looks at history of Puerto Ricans in New York
Puerto Rican exiles living in New York created the design for the Puerto Rican flag in 1895, and throughout the years, expatriates continued to take an interest in their homeland (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/01/21/entertainment1712EST0622.DTL

People: Emir Kusturica, Stan Lee, Peter Lewis
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has lost its biggest benefactor, Carol Vogel of The New York Times reports. Citing "differences in direction," Peter Lewis, the Cleveland philanthropist who has been a trustee of the museum since 1993 and most recently its chairman, resigned Wednesday. Since becoming a trustee he has given the institution about $77 million, nearly four times as much as any other board member in its history. His decision came after a three-hour board meeting (International Herald Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/20/features/peepfri.html

++ British newspapers
£1m to find the real Bosworth battlefield
Lottery aids a quest for the site where Richard III lost his crown (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1395294,00.html

Guggenheim's $77m man quits as chairman
Billionaire benefactor resigns in dispute with director about museum's international expansion (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1395279,00.html

Obituary: Mark Fiennes
The photographer Mark Fiennes, who has died aged 71, covered a huge range of subjects - portraits, landscapes, still lives and gardens - but he is best known for his architectural studies. He illustrated numerous books and his work appeared in many journals and magazines, including Country Life, for which he worked for 12 years (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/obituary/0,,1395246,00.html

-- January 22
++ American newspapers
Plagiarism Charge Flies Over Discovery
A Peruvian archaeologist is hurling allegations of plagiarism and intellectual plunder at American colleagues over a barren desert landscape where a mysterious culture built pyramids nearly 5,000 years ago (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Peru-Archaeological-Brawl.html

Experts: Frescoes May Not Be by da Vinci
One of the world's leading specialists on Leonardo da Vinci cast doubt Saturday that fading frescoes in forgotten rooms of a Florentine convent might be the work of the Renaissance master or that of his pupils in the early 1500s (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Leonardo-da-Vinci.html

Picasso and Warhol... Neck and Neck
How should we rank artists? Forget about quality. Forget about sales. Let's pretend we're in junior high and rank artists by popularity. Let's see how much attention they're getting and whether it's coming from the cool kids. (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/22/arts/design/22rank.html

Preservationists Criticize Plans to Change Some of Lincoln Center's Open Spaces Preservationists and landscape architects have spoken out against important elements of Lincoln Center's redevelopment plan for its north campus, mainly on the grounds that the renovation would destroy the original design by Dan Kiley, one of the leading landscape architects of the last century (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/22/arts/design/22linc.html

The most sought-after bodies in Los Angeles
"Body Worlds," featuring preserved cadavers, has drawn record crowds, inspired donations - and spawned a sequel (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-body22jan22,2,3503561.story?coll=cl-art

Lantos to make painful Holocaust pilgrimage
Survivor to play key role at Auschwitz commemoration
Next week will be an emotional one for San Mateo Democratic Rep. Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/01/22/MNGN2AUP8I1.DTL

Expressionism's new home
A wealthy collector realizes his vision in Germany
As if another attraction were needed in Baden-Baden, this storied German town where the wealthy, the famous and the talented - from Dostoyevsky to the kings of Saudi Arabia - have been coming for centuries (International Herald Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/21/features/baden.html

++ British newspapers
Swiss curator tipped as new director of the ICA
Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Swiss power-curator who mounted a major show of Young British Artists two years before Sensation, is being lined up to take over from Philip Dodd as the director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1396230,00.html

-- January 23
++ American newspapers
The Safety of Iraqi Objects
Like actors pushing films and authors reading from their books, museum directors go on tours to promote their renovations. On Tuesday, for instance, Kimerly Rorschach of Duke University's Nasher Museum of Art will take over a room at Café Gray in Manhattan to show the architect Rafael Viñoly's designs for a $15 million upgrade. It wasn't that different a few weeks ago when Donny George, the director of the Iraq Museum, came to New York to show journalists photos of the museum's recent improvements (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/arts/design/23bern.html

60 Ways of Looking at a Black Woman
Ellen Gallagher dabbed a swirl of gray watercolor onto the delicate pencil drawing she had just sketched of a furry hamster. Late December sunlight radiated through the windows at Two Palms Press, the SoHo printmaking studio where she has spent the last 18 months preparing a work comprising 60 collage prints. Titled "DeLuxe," it is the subject of its own show at the Whitney Museum, opening this week (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/arts/design/23lewi.html?oref=login

If Lewis and Clark Could See It Now
After two years of bicentennial commemorations of Lewis and Clark's fabled transcontinental journey, and more to come, perhaps you're thinking, enough already. But that could change with a viewing of "Lewis & Clark Revisited: A Trail in Modern Day," a documentary project by the Berkeley, Calif., photographer Greg MacGregor on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/arts/design/23kino.html

A mart for new art
Contemporary pieces will be the stock in trade at artLA, a fair aimed at filling a longstanding void. (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-fair23jan23,2,2927509.story?coll=cl-art

Berkeley photographer shows Lewis and Clark in new light
After two years of bicentennial commemorations of Lewis and Clark's fabled transcontinental journey and with more to come, perhaps you're thinking, enough already. But that could change with a viewing of "Lewis & Clark
Revisited: A Trail in Modern Day," a documentary project by the Berkeley photographer Greg MacGregor on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/01/23/BAGGSATUAA1.DTL

Prince of Liechtenstein buys Badminton Cabinet for over £19 million The finest piece of 18th-century Florentine crftsmanship will go on public show in Vienna museum next year (The Art Newspaper) http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11679

Louvre goes global
The French museum is to open a branch at the High Museum in Atlanta by 2006 (The Art Newspaper) http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11673

An art gallery in Ceausescu's Palace in Bucharest
The Romanian National Museum of Contemporary Art has opened in a wing of the vast building (The Art Newspaper) http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11672

Elizabeth Taylor contests new suit to claim her Van Gogh
She says it was orchestrated around "an aggressive public-relations campaign" (The Art Newspaper) http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11671

Can art reduce your blood pressure?
London hospital defends spending £250,000 on art
(The Art Newspaper) http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11669

++ British newspapers
Is this the end of the Guggenheim dream?
The Bilbao Guggenheim changed the face of museums, but grand plans to create a brand as distinctive as Coca-Cola - to put a Guggenheim everywhere from Mexico to Taiwan - proved too ambitious. Here we investigate the background to a row that has rocked the art world and brought one of America's most prestigious institutions to its knees (The Observer) http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1396279,00.html

The lovely bones
It looks like a cross between a Damien Hirst installation and the set of the latest Hammer Horror movie. Ghostly, ghoulish and yet hauntingly beautiful, the newly restored Hunterian Museum is a unique history of 300 years of surgery (The Observer) http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,1394678,00.html

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