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H-MUSEUM NEWS DIGEST (USA, UK)
March 7 - March 13, 2005

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-- March 7
++ American newspapers
At the Fair Despite Snow and Weak Dollar
Two years ago war broke out in Iraq; last year there was the bombing in
Madrid. Indeed, for nearly two decades now the annual European Fine Art
Fair here has survived everything from world events including 9/11 to
economic downturns and art-market scandals. Yet, throughout it all, the
fair manages to be a magnet for collectors (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/07/arts/design/07fair.html

++ British newspapers
Cunning creations between truth and fiction
Thomas Demand insists on being a straight photographer, albeit of sly
recreations (International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/06/features/demand.html


-- March 8
++ American newspapers
9 Arrests in New Theft of Works by Munch
In a police action that art lovers hoped would shed light on the theft
of Edvard Munch's existential masterpiece "The Scream" last summer, nine
people were arrested here tonight in the theft of three lesser works by
Munch (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/arts/design/08munc.html

LACMA has new post to fill
The museum launches a search for a deputy director to oversee an
expanded focus on contemporary art. (Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-lacma8mar08,2,4477
446.story?coll=cl-art

Cleveland Museum Closing for Construction
The Cleveland Museum of Art will close for the first six months of next
year as part of a six-year, $258 million expansion and renovation.
Permanent collection galleries will close by June and the entire museum
will shut down from January to June 2006. The trustees voted unanimously
Monday to proceed with the project (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/03/08/entertainment
/e095525S32.DTL

New de Young Museum to open its doors to New Guinea collection New York
collectors Marcia and John Friede have reaffirmed their promise, first
reported in 2002, to give the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco their
extensive, unparalleled collection of art from New Guinea (San Francisco
Chronicle)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/08/DDGN8BKQR71.D
TL

++ British newspapers
Dream weaver
An exhibition that shows Matisse's paintings alongside the fabrics that
inspired them? What a brilliant idea (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1432718,00.html


-- March 9
++ American newspapers
Invading Genres Breach the Art World's Porous Borders
There's not much doubt that the art world is a lot more porous than it
used to be, open to all kinds of visual and not-so-visual activity
previously considered beyond its borders. But you really feel the wind
blow through the cracks at "Stranger Town," a fiercely energetic
exhibition of drawings, paintings, video, books, CD's, T-shirts and
sculpture by eight artists at Dinter Fine Art, a new gallery in Chelsea
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/09/arts/design/09smit.html

Sheik, a Major Collector, Loses Art Post in Qatar
wealthy sheik from Qatar who has emerged over the past three years as
the world's single biggest buyer of art has been dismissed as his
country's art acquisitions chief after a disagreement with the emir of
Qatar over his spending habits, art world figures familiar with the case
said (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/09/arts/design/09shei.html

Bechtle's painting captures what the camera can't
Reproduction seldom does art any good, but it nearly destroys the work
of painter Robert Bechtle. Commentators have mischaracterized Bechtle's
work as "photo-realism" since it first got noticed in the 1960s.
Although Bechtle has long used photographs as source material, the term
"photo-realism" falsely implies that he takes photographic information
or the camera's way of seeing as his subject (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/09/DDGNKBLPV61.D
TL

++ British magazine
Belgians confront colonial past
An exhibition at the Royal Museum for Central Africa just outside
Brussels, entitled Memory of Congo: The Colonial Era, has been
attracting 2,000 visitors a day (BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4332605.stm


-- March 10
++ American newspapers
Obituary: Don Celender, Art Professor and Artist, Is Dead at 73 Mr.
Celender, who was born in Pittsburgh in 1931, earned a bachelor of fine
art degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1956 and a Ph.D. in art
history from the University of Pittsburgh in 1963. After working briefly
in the department of education at the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, he taught at Macalester College in St. Paul until he learned
of his illness in January (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/10/arts/design/10celender.html


-- March 11
++ American newspapers
Obituary: James Biddle, 75, a Leader in Preserving America's Past, Dies
James Biddle, a leader in preserving America's homes and landscapes of
historic value, including Andalusia, his family's 19th-century estate
near Philadelphia, died at home there yesterday. He was 75 (New York
Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/national/11biddle.html

Feminism and risk as her media
At Pomona College Museum of Art, Barbara T. Smith retrospective points
out the strengths and limitations of performance art documentation (Los
Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-smith11mar11142420
,2,6904341.story?coll=cl-art

Museum director will leave to head school
Dennis Power, the longtime director of the Oakland Museum of California
and head of Cultural Arts for the city of Oakland, announced his
resignation on Thursday. Power is leaving to accept the position of
president of the Laguna College of Art and Design in Laguna Beach
(Orange County). He will leave at some point during the summer to help
ensure a smooth transition (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/11/BAEBDIGEST3.D
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Holocaust Center to open in new space
Extensive collection to be unveiled
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/11/WBGECBKTFD1.D
TL

++ British magazine
Light fantastic at Bronte museum
The Parsonage Museum in Haworth is the focal point of events
commemorating the 150th anniversary of Charlotte Bronte's death with a
spectacular visual show (BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/4338311.stm


-- March 12
++ American newspapers
Brooklyn Museum Celebrates Basquiat
At 6 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat already had a museum membership. By
his early 20s, he was an internationally renowned artist, counting Andy
Warhol among his friends and collaborators. At 27, he was dead of a
heroin overdose (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Basquiat-Exhibit.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/arts/design/11smit.html

Precautions for a Photo Show
Over the last several years, as the International Center of Photography
in Midtown has moved away from the photojournalism roots of its founder,
Cornell Capa, and more eagerly explored art photography and questions
about the medium itself, it has staged several exhibitions that it
considered challenging (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/12/arts/design/12icp.html

When Nature Becomes a Looking Glass: A Tour Through the Exotic Elsewhere
Sometimes it takes a temple, a big awe-inspiring chunk of architecture
to give art a proper aura. Sometimes such a setting makes matters worse.
A case in point is "Ashes and Snow," Gregory Colbert's spectacularly
vacuous exhibition of 200 large photographs and a slow-moving film in
the vaulting Nomadic Museum, a temporary structure made of shipping
containers that covers most of Pier 54 on the Hudson River at 13th
Street (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/12/arts/design/12ashe.html

Beneath its beautiful dome, a beloved synagogue finds it houses rare
artistic treasures For nearly 100 years, the mystery was hidden in plain
sight. Then, Congregation Sherith Israel made a startling discovery. The
historic synagogue's jewel-toned walls and ceilings are a treasure
trove, containing the rare surviving work of three significant San
Francisco artists (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/12/DDGLSBNEB71.D
TL

++ British newspapers
Panoramic painting from Buckingham Palace on display
A view of Buckingham Palace previously enjoyed only by pigeons and
Fathers4Justice campaigners was unveiled yesterday by the Museum of
London (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,,1435968,00.html

The Complete Guide To: Arts & crafts Japan
The work of William Morris and John Ruskin inspired a legion of artists
in the Land of the Rising Sun. Aoife O'Riordain goes exploring (The
Independent)
http://travel.independent.co.uk/mideastandasia/japan/story.jsp?story=619
059

Collector of masterpieces vanishes from art world
For years, the world's art market has been at his disposal as, armed
with a seemingly bottomless purse, he spent millions of oil dollars on
some of the most dazzling treasures ever to go on open sale. The only
items he was interested in, he said, were masterpieces. But now the
slender and bespectacled figure of Sheikh Saud bin Mohammed al-Thani has
suddenly disappeared from the frontline of the globe's art market and
things may never be quite the same again (The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=619209

At last, a tribute that does justice to the scale of the Holocaust Next
week, dignitaries from around the world will gather to attend the
opening of the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem. It promises to be a
powerfully evocative experience (The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=619203


-- March 13
++ American newspapers
Israel's New Holocaust Museum Keeps Memories Alive
Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial opens a new museum Tuesday to
teach about the Nazi genocide of the Jews in an era when there will be
no survivors left to bear witness (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-israel-holoca
ust.html

Thousand Words? How About $450,000?
Is the price of a photograph the measure of its value? Hold that thought
while you consider these record-setting figures: last April, a signed
Diane Arbus print of "Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey," sold at
auction at Sotheby's for $478,400. During the fall auctions at
Christie's, "Memphis, c. 1970," by William Eggleston, sold for $253,900,
and "Calla Lily, 1986," by Robert Mapplethorpe, for $242,700. For "brand
name" photographers of later-20th century vintage, six-figure prices
have ceased to be exceptional (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/arts/design/13geft.html

++ British newspapers
Is It Mission Impossible?
Can anyone save the ICA? Ekow Eshun, who has taken on one of the most
demanding jobs in British cultural life, thinks he can. But he hasn't
started yet ... (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1436349,00.html

Rome, Paris, now London for the Renaissance boy
Napolean Bonaparte liked him so much he stole him away and paraded him
through the streets of Paris (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,,1436530,00.html

Obituary: Humphrey Spender
Photojournalist, painter and textile designer
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=619622


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