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H-MUSEUM NEWS DIGEST (USA, UK)
April 25 - May 1, 2005

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-- April 25
++ American newspapers
Obituary: John Hultberg, 83, Painter Prominent in the Avant-Garde, Dies ohn Hultberg, an American abstract painter and printmaker who came to the fore with the avant-garde after World War II, died on April 15 at Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan. He was 83 and lived on the Upper West Side (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/25/arts/design/25hultberg.html

++ British newspapers
Muslim patrons bring touch of the East to museums
Wealthy Middle Eastern philanthropists are bringing eastern treasures and fabrics to a wider audience in Britain by funding a wave of collections of Islamic art at nationally important galleries (The Independent) http://www.independent.co.uk/

Europe: Where are the best museums? And shops, and clubs, and cafés, and bars ... A city that's great for clubbers might not be a gourmand's choice. The shopper and the museum-lover might likewise go their separate ways. Our guide will help you decide where's right for you (The Independent) http://travel.independent.co.uk/themes/culture/story.jsp?story=632915

History lost in dust of war-torn Iraq
It is two years since looters ravaged one of the world's most important museums, in central Baghdad (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4461755.stm

Museum's revamp for culture city
A Liverpool museum has undergone a £35m facelift to help put the city on the map in time for its year as European Capital of Culture in 2008 (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/4482187.stm

Children enjoy art extravaganza
Commuters are being greeted by a blaze of colour at Westminster Tube station when a children's art exhibition opens (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4482949.stm

-- April 26
++ American newspapers
Morgan Library Plans a Makeover and an Image Upgrade
For those accustomed to the neo-Renaissance grandeur of the Pierpont Morgan Library, the crisp new steel-and-glass-paneled building taking shape on East 37th Street may be a bit startling. But a year from now, when the Morgan reopens after a $102 million expansion and renovation, it will not only have undergone a physical metamorphosis; it is hoping that its public persona will have changed, too (New York Times) http:/www.nytimes.com/2005/04/26/arts/design/26morg.html

An L.A. story spreads
Almost everyone likes a good sunset, but few take it quite as seriously as the Los Angeles art collectors Cliff and Mandy Einstein. (International Herald Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/25/news/lalook.php

Art: Vanishing Indians' documentarian
George Catlin (1796-1872) may not have been the most refined of painterly talents. But he had a mission. And that was to record American Indian life and culture before it was obliterated by America's territorial expansion (International Herald Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/25/features/exhib.php

++ British newspapers
Nelson's Room restored and open to public
In December 1805, when the body of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson arrived at the Royal Naval hospital in Greenwich on board the Admiralty yacht, Chatham, the authorities had a problem (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1470484,00.html

Museum opening delayed to summer
Delays in opening a £12.5m museum have been shrugged off by project leaders (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/4486941.stm

Hitchhiker's exhibition unveiled
Props and sets from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie are to go on display in a new exhibition about author Douglas Adams' sci-fi creation (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4485761.stm

Petal artwork wins Beck's award
A sculpture and video installation by artist Christina Mackie won the £26,666 Beck's Futures contemporary arts prize in London on Tuesday (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4485441.stm

-- April 27
++ American newspapers
New Canadian Museum Has a Battlefield Focus
This may seem an odd time for Canada to build a museum devoted to war. Its per capita military spending has dipped so low in recent years that to transport aid to the victims of the tsunami that swept over South Asia in December, its armed forces had to rent heavy-lift aircraft from Russia (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/27/arts/design/27muse.html

A Museum Visionary Envisions More
Sitting in his small SoHo office after returning from Russia recently, Thomas Krens, director of the Guggenheim Museum, was flashing images, graphs and numbers from a laptop onto a flat-screen television. He was consumed by what he had seen in Russia, where he met with officials from the Kremlin Museum, as well as the deputy minister of culture, to negotiate loans for "Russia!," a major exhibition that will fill the entire Fifth Avenue Guggenheim Museum when it opens in September (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/27/arts/design/27kren.html

Art That Puts You in the Picture, Like It or Not
Interactive art is irritating. Let's count the ways at the 2005 Boston Cyberarts Festival, which opened over the weekend at the Art Interactive gallery, the Stata Center (the new Frank Gehry-designed building on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus), the Genzyme building and other places in and around Boston and Cambridge (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/27/arts/design/27cybe.html

++ British newspapers
This prize can only be a satire on the idiocy of art
Beck's Futures, I have come to realise, is a satire on the emptiness of prizes and the idiocy of art (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1471224,00.html

Jawbone hints at earliest Britons
A piece of jawbone that has lain in Torquay Museum, Devon, for nearly 80 years could be the oldest example of a modern human yet found in Europe. (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4482679.stm


-- April 28
++ American newspapers
British Arts: Rich in Funds, but Still a Poor Cousin
Much of the country's cultural infrastructure has been renovated; museums are crowded; contemporary art has never been more popular; opera and theater are flourishing; and performers and artists from around the world can be seen here. Without resorting to campaign hyperbole, it could be argued that Britain's arts scene is healthier today than at any time since the 1960's (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/28/arts/design/28essa.html

At the Auction Houses, Snapshots of a Market
Collectors poring over this spring's auction catalogs will readily spot the signs of today's tastes and fashions. There are instantly recognizable images, like one of Warhol's paintings of Elizabeth Taylor, one of Rothko's moody abstract canvases and a recently discovered Brancusi sculpture from the artist's "Bird in Space" series. Many hot current art stars are represented too, with works by Marlene Dumas, Maurizio Cattelan, Elizabeth Peyton, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/28/arts/design/28auct.html

++ British newspapers
New Canada museum marks war's horrors, not glory
(International Herald Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/27/news/canada.php

Old master lost for 300 years on show
As the National Gallery's Caravaggio exhibition entered its last weeks, curators were hanging a small painting - lost for more than 300 years - of the holy family by Annibale Carracci (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1471812,00.html

RA shelves Shiele
The Royal Academy has been forced to cancel a major exhibition of work by the Viennese expressionist painter Egon Schiele because Austrian authorities have decreed that they are too delicate to stay on display (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1472005,00.html

-- April 29
++ American newspapers
Obituary: Evelyn Annenberg Hall, 93, Arts Patron, Dies
Evelyn Annenberg Jaffe Hall, a New York arts patron for 50 years and a supporter of medical institutions, died last Friday at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She was 93 and also had homes in Palm Beach, Fla., and Newport, R.I. Mrs. Hall, a sister of the late publisher Walter H. Annenberg, shared her fortune with many beneficiaries. Among her favorites were the Museum of Modern Art and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/obituaries/29hall.html

A Silent Auction for Library's Art
Sotheby's is planning a silent auction with sealed bids for one of the most famous images in American art: Asher B. Durand's "Kindred Spirits." (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/arts/design/29voge.html

On a Treasure Hunt for Art Stashed Among the Books
Could you borrow a painting or sculpture from your local library? It's not very likely. Libraries are, as conventional wisdom suggests, about books rather than art objects. Nevertheless, significant works of art have found their way into many libraries, some acquired by purchase but most by donation (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/arts/design/29glue.html

Altered Views in the House of Modernism
Modernism's house has many rooms, with more being added all the time. Some are new additions, others are forgotten chambers reopened after being inexplicably nailed shut for years. Either way, the structure has become complex almost beyond comprehension, and "Bill Traylor, William Edmondson and the Modernist Impulse" at the Studio Museum in Harlem only increases its marvelous sprawl (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/arts/design/29smit.html

Eager Globe-Trotters Shrink the Art World
If Voltaire were still around to tell the story of globalization, two of his principal character types would be the enlightened, transnational citizen of the world and his imbecilic twin, the tourist. The second of these, a figure much reviled by globally minded sophisticates these days, is nominally the subject of a big, ambitious exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art here, called "Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye." (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/arts/design/29john.html

African Creativity, More About the Momentary Than the Monumental "Resonance From the Past" at the Museum for African Art is what is known as a collection show, meaning in this case roughly 90 sculptures, along with a few bead and fabric pieces, from the African holdings of the New Orleans Museum of Art. They make a savory anthology, with plenty of textbook staples and some surprises tucked in (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/arts/design/29cott.html

License to gain more funding for arts
Legislators are looking to vanity plates as a means to raise grant money decimated by state budget cuts (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-artsplates29apr29,2,513160.story?coll=cl-art

Digging history at Campbell museum day camp
The Campbell Historical Museum & Ainsley House has a summer history day camp for children ages 7 to 10 called Digging Up the Past. Campers will participate in natural history activities, arts and crafts, outdoor hikes and explorations, as well as field trips to local sites and other local museums (San Francisco Chronicle) http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/29/PNG9PCFI831.DTL

Dinosaur Exhibit Goes High-Tech
New technologies from animatronics to computer modeling are being used at the American Museum of Natural History to explore one of the world's oldest of subjects - the dinosaurs (San Francisco Chronicle) http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/04/29/entertainment/e085934D38.DTL

++ British newspapers
Guggenheim chief retains global vision
(International Herald Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/28/features/krens.php

Museum men face asbestos charges
Four men have appeared in court to face more than 40 charges after asbestos was discovered at one of Cumbria's most popular tourist attractions (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/4493695.stm

-- April 30
++ British newspapers
Sculpture highlights electrical waste concerns
Three tonnes of junk in human shape were unveiled yesterday to show how much electronic waste the average person throws away in a lifetime (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1473649,00.html

A den of antiquity
Thessaloniki's ancient roots sprouted a modern capital of culture (The Independent) http://travel.independent.co.uk/europe/western/story.jsp?story=634109

History in your hand
The glove-shaped Peloponnese is home to thousands of years of civilisation (The Independent) http://travel.independent.co.uk/europe/western/story.jsp?story=634122

Obituary: Professor Douglas Johnson
Historian of France who became an ambassador for the Entente Cordiale (The Independent) http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=634350

-- May 1
++ American newspapers
The X Factor: Is the Art Market Rational or Biased?
In the early 1950's Lee Krasner, not yet famous but already a promising Abstract Expressionist painter, asked Hans Hofmann, her former teacher, to help her land a gallery show. He offered her the biggest compliment he
could: "This is so good," he said of her work, "you would not believe it was done by a woman." Nonetheless, he declined. Female artists were a relative rarity at the top galleries, and the most famous painters of the day were all men (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/arts/design/01allen.html

The Art of Body Language
The body as a message board is not so particular to our moment as we'd like to believe, especially when it comes to the tattoo. A rose, an Iron Cross, Mom - that's one thing; all-over tattooing is another. Consider the illustrated men of the Marquesas, a Polynesian island chain in the South Pacific where the word tattoo (tatau) originated (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/arts/design/01gran.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1115038812-5x4V3Mh4/RHZx264v+4TIQ

Exhibiting the right stuff
Presenting 'Collapse?' was a curating challenge. It's not easy to make environmental crises fun for the whole family. (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-collapse1may01,2,4730475.story?coll=cl-art

Obituary: Sir Eduardo Paolozzi -- key contributor to British Pop Art Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, a sculptor and printmaker who helped found the British Pop Art movement of the 1950s, has died. He was 81 (San Francisco Chronicle) http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/01/BAG32CIB9R1.DTL

The return of the king: Tut's treasures come to L.A.
The boy king is making a return visit to California. This time, he's bunking at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" opens June 16, the first stop on a four-city, 27-month American tour (San Francisco Chronicle) http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/01/TRG7CCGG261.DTL

++ British newspapers
Da Vinci 'paralysis left Mona Lisa unfinished'
An Italian academic claims to have new evidence about why Leonardo da Vinci did not complete the Mona Lisa. Alessandro Vezzosi claims the artist was suffering from paralysis (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1474280,00.html

The great smash and grab
Italy is a treasure trove of buried antiquities. But now they are being systematically plundered by illegal tomb-raiders, who operate with virtual impunity. Rose George follows the loot from the hills of Lazio to London's thriving black market (The Independent) http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=633861

Museum plan for press hits delay
There are fears over the future of one of Wales' most historic Welsh-language printing presses (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/4503415.stm

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