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H-MUSEUM NEWS DIGEST (USA, UK)
June 27 - July 3. 2005

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-- June 27
++ American newspapers
Berlin Museum Fights to Keep Memorial
The museum at the former Allied Checkpoint Charlie, where Soviet and American tanks squared off in one of the most tense moments of the Cold War, will fight to stop demolition of a memorial to people killed trying to escape communist East Germany, the director said Monday (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/27/AR2005062700805.html

Met Exhibit Examines Matisse Influences
Clothes may not always make the man, but for Henri Matisse, material definitely helped make the Modernist. A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores the role that fabrics and textiles played in Matisse's work, helping to inspire and challenge him to move away from the traditional in painting toward modern art (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/27/AR2005062700764.htm

++ British newspapers
Obituary: Helen Denniston
In 1989 the arts consultant and administrator Helen Denniston, who has died of cancer, aged 53, played a key role in the Colour Of Europe festival at the South Bank Centre. That led to her co-directorship of Africa '95, the six-month season of African arts which took place across Britain. And that festival in turn inspired African Odyssey, at the John F Kennedy Centre in Washington DC, for which she was, from 1996 to 2000, a consultant (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/obituary/0,,1515432,00.html

-- June 28
++ American newspapers
Museum at Checkpoint Charlie Eyes Memorial
The museum at the former Allied Checkpoint Charlie, a front-line outpost of the Cold War, is stepping up its campaign to raise funds to save a memorial to people killed trying to escape communist East Germany, the director said Tuesday (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/28/AR2005062801818.html

The Abstract Reality of Ancient Yemen
The carved, cast and written remains of their culture are now on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in an exhibition called "Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade." (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/27/AR2005062701764.html

++ British newspapers
Pastoral partnership
Monet's painting and Monet painting it reunited after 100 years (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1515996,00.html

-- June 29
++ American newspapers
Museum and Publisher Are Partners in Science
Elementary school students who picked up Scholastic's classroom magazine SuperScience last month could read about the American Museum of Natural History's current dinosaur exhibition. The magazine also included an interview with the museum's chairman of paleontology. The special features were a result of a new partnership between the museum and Scholastic, the educational publishing company. Known as the Science Exploration Program, it is intended to promote science literacy among students in grades 3 to 10 while raising the museum's visibility in schools (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/nyregion/29museum.html

9/11 Families Seek to Squash Museum Plans
Sept. 11 family group urged the White House and Congress on Wednesday to squelch plans for a ground zero museum they say would inject political arguments into what should be a solemn memorial (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/29/AR2005062902307.html

New Museum Exhibit Showcases Ancient Yemen
"Caravan Kingdoms," on show at the Smithsonian Institution's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, explains the country's role as a rich trading center in the Middle East 3,000 years ago (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/29/AR2005062903043.html

Corcoran To Raise Admission, Cut Hours
Gallery Will Close On Mondays in Effort To Reduce Deficit (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/28/AR2005062801642.html

-- June 30
++ American newspapers
A Mexican Architect at Home in New York
Given the Guggenheim Museum's track record spinning off new branches, it is certainly possible that Enrique Norten's design for a new Guggenheim in Guadalajara, Mexico - selected this month - will never be built (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/arts/design/30nort.html

Obituary: Al Loving Dies at 69; Abstract Artist Created Vibrant Work Al Loving, a prominent abstract painter and collage artist whose work explored the ways color, space, line and form play out in vibrant counterpoint, died on June 21 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. He was 69 and lived in Kerhonkson, N.Y. (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/arts/design/30loving.html

Warsaw Jewish Museum Uses Finnish Design
An austere Nordic design in glass and limestone was chosen Thursday for Warsaw's new Jewish museum _ a rectangular building with a jagged passageway. The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, due to open in 2008, will depict Jewish life, which flourished for eight centuries in Poland before it was virtually wiped out under Nazi occupation (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/30/AR2005063001116.html?sub=AR

Shades of gratitude and history color
'Taking Place,' SFMOMA's big show of photos from Sack collection (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/30/DDGCJDGBKS1.DTL&hw=Museum&sn=039&sc=230

++ British newspapers
Heritage chief fears for historic buildings
The traditional buildings that give England its character, including redundant churches, town halls, schools, hospitals, farm houses and Victorian terraces, are at unprecedented risk, the chief executive of English Heritage warned yesterday (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1517579,00.html

Not just a place to do your hair
Stuart Jeffries celebrates the women who, from 17th-century France to 1940s Hollywood, hosted salons to nurture talent and inspire great works of art (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1517883,00.html

Dungeon masters
Liverpool's slavery exhibit has some appalling sights; Ghana's barracks for the human cargo are worse. But it's their differences that tell the true story (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/critic/feature/0,,1517882,00.html

-- July 1
++ American newspapers
How a Japanese Master Enlightened the West
Legend has it that mid-19th century French artists discovered the wonders of the Japanese woodcut when they examined papers used to wrap imported Japanese ceramics. Today, looking at the prints of Utagawa Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai, the greatest of Japanese woodcut printmakers, it is hard to fathom that their works could have been viewed as the equivalents of our funny pages (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/arts/design/01john.html

With Music for the Eye and Colors for the Ear
Visual Music" is a fine-tuned, highly diverting, deceptively radical exhibition about the relationship of music and modern art, lately arrived here at the Hirshhorn Museum. In its hippy-trippy way, it rewrites a crucial chapter of history. Its subtitle is "Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900." (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/arts/design/01kimm.html

A Curvy Klee Museum, Sprouting From the Swiss Hills
Strangely perhaps, in a land dominated by the Alps, the countryside around the Swiss capital is shaped by rolling hills that invite nothing more dramatic than unhurried contemplation. And it was this, both mood and look, that Renzo Piano sought to evoke when he added an $86 million museum, the Paul Klee Center, to the orderly Bern landscape (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/arts/design/01klee.html

A London Pavilion, Connecticut-Bound
There's a curious sight in the center of Hoxton Square in the East End, just north of the financial district here: a 25-foot-tall pavilion of corrugated steel. Erected this week by White Cube, the contemporary-art gallery just across the square, it is designed by the German artist Anselm Kiefer and houses 30 of his recent paintings (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/arts/design/01voge.html

Dutch to Exhibit Van Gogh Drawings
On Saturday, the Van Gogh Museum puts more than 100 of the artist's 1,200 surviving drawings on exhibition, showing the development of his craftsmanship from 1880 over 10 years of work. The exhibit stays in Amsterdam until Sept. 18, when it moves to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/01/AR2005070101328.html

Schindler Museum Slated to Open in Poland
The factory where Oskar Schindler shielded more than 1,000 Jews from the Holocaust is to be turned into a museum commemorating the German industrialist, whose life was made famous in Stephen Spielberg's film, officials said Friday (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/01/AR2005070101309.html?sub=new

Durand's 'Kindred Spirits' Debuts at National Gallery
One of New York's cultural treasures, a painting recently auctioned for $35 million after considerable teeth-gnashing by the city's cultural elite, goes on display today at the National Gallery of Art (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/30/AR2005063001800.html

Exhibit Brings Together 'Beautiful Losers'
"Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture," an exhibit that opened Friday at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, brings together work by artists who emerged from youth subcultures such as skateboarding and graffiti (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/01/AR2005070101349.html

MOCA gets added painting
When the Museum of Contemporary Art opens "The Blake Byrne Collection" this weekend, visitors will see highlights of a landmark donation of 123 works by 78 artists announced last December - and a surprise. "Woman of Algiers," a major painting by Marlene Dumas, has been added to the exhibition as a joint gift to MOCA and the Nasher Museum at Duke University in Durham, N.C. (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-mocagift1jul01,0,1291540.story?coll=cl-art

National Gallery showing Homer works
Celebrating the Fourth of July, the National Gallery of Art has mounted its first show in a decade on Winslow Homer, often called the greatest American artist of the 1800s (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-winslow1jul01,0,1251311.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers
Traces of hidden Leonardo sketch revealed
The National Gallery revealed yesterday that it owns a previously unknown work by Leonardo da Vinci but will never be able to exhibit it (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1518872,00.html

-- July 2
++ American newspapers
Battlefields and Bladders
Civil War Exhibit Opens at the Urology Museum
(Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/01/AR2005070102274.html

Schindler's factory to become a museum
The factory where Oskar Schindler shielded more than 1,000 Jews from the Holocaust is to be turned into a museum commemorating the German industrialist whose life was made famous in Steven Spielberg's film, officials said Friday. (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-schindler2jul02,0,779936.story?coll=cl-art

Nancy Riordan elected LACMA chairwoman
Nancy Daly Riordan - a philanthropist, children's rights advocate and wife of former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan - has been elected chairwoman of the board of trustees of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She will succeed retiring Chairman Wally Weisman, a 20-year trustee who has led the board since 1998 (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-riordan2jul02,0,5328312.story?coll=cl-art

-- July 3
The Artists in the Hazmat Suits
In a certain part of the art world, the story is recounted like a slowly unfolding nightmare: On the afternoon of May 11 last year, Steven Kurtz, a respected artist and professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, called 911 to report that his wife, Hope, 45, was not breathing. As artists, she and her husband had long worked openly with biological and chemical agents, which they used at exhibitions around the world, including a 2002 show involving genetically altered plants at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/arts/design/03kenn.html

Confederate Landmark's Future Status in Limbo
Executive Mansion Turned Museum May Move
(Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/01/AR2005070102380.html

A museum with a patented history
The National Portrait Gallery was born amid conflict over its 19th century design. Its 2006 reopening brings more of the same (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-portrait3jul03,0,4367157.story?coll=cl-art

Budapest Museum of Fine Arts: New director's grand plans to modernise László Baán, a former economist, announces renovations, expansions, travelling exhibitions and more (The Art Newspaper) http://www.theartnewspaper.com/museums/museums.asp

All change, says director general of the Berlin State Museums The Neue Nationalgalerie is to become an exhibition space, Old Masters to move to Museum Island to be replaced by works of Modern art (The Art Newspaper) http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11827

Are contemporary dealers too powerful?
Many galleries require buyers to sign highly restrictive contracts when buying art (The Art Newspaper) http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11828

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