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H-MUSEUM NEWS DIGEST (USA, UK)
July 25 - July 31, 2005

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-- July 25
++ British newspapers
Photos to go online
Two of America's major photographic houses have launched a joint venture to provide one of the largest freely available archives of pictures on the internet. The collaboration between New York's International Centre of Photography and George Eastman House is expected to include at least 200,000 images by the time it is fully set up next year (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1535500,00.html


-- July 26
++ American newspapers
Critics Call for Boycott of Memorial Fund-Raising
In the ever fiercer fight over a year-old plan to build a home for the Drawing Center and the International Freedom Center alongside the World Trade Center memorial, some relatives of 9/11 victims called yesterday for a fund-raising boycott (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/nyregion/26rebuild.html

How Decorative Arts Evolved and Became a Social Movement
The Arts and Crafts movement, which began boiling up in the indefatigable William Morris in England in the 1860's, was one of those great switching stations of thought built during the Victorian Era and commensurate in its way with Darwinism, Marxism and photography (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/arts/design/26smit.html

Donated in the spirit of peace
After his son was killed, Chester Chang gave a rare Buddha to LACMA hoping it would foster cultural understanding (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-change26webonlyjul26,0,439617.story?coll=cl-art

New curator for UC's Matrix program
The UC Berkeley Art Museum has appointed Chris Gilbert to replace Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson as curator of its 27-year-old Matrix program of contemporary art exhibitions. Jacobson, Matrix curator since 1999, recently left to become director of the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/26/DDGNNDSJL21.DTL&hw=Museum&sn=006&sc=400

++ British magazines
Museum to get £12m refurbishment
The Ulster Museum is to get a multi-million pound refurbishment to attract more visitors (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4717799.stm


-- July 27
++ American newspapers
Ready to view at LACMA
A Lombardo bust and a Gandolfi painting bought with Ahmanson funds are put on display (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-lacma27jul27,0,6312408.story?coll=cl-art

Louvre gets gift for Islamic wing
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is donating about $20 million toward the building of an Islamic art wing at the Louvre, the largest-ever gift to the museum in what Alwaleed described as "an investment" to better explain the Islamic world to Europeans (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-quick27.5jul27,0,3888715.story?coll=cl-art

The easy way to get into Harvard
The famous university's art museums are open to all, house impressive works, and aim to offer a unique experience (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-museum27jul27,0,4218780.story?coll=cl-art

++ British magazines
New arts centre branded 'sickly'
A new £13m arts centre in Nottingham has been labelled as "inappropriate, sickly and disappointing" by the city's Civic Society (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/4720417.stm

World heritage hopes for aqueduct
One of the world's highest navigable aqueducts has taken another step towards being awarded 'world wonder' status. (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_east/4719125.stm


-- July 28
++ American newspapers
Louvre Gets $20 Million for New Islamic Wing
In the largest gift ever to the world's largest museum, a Saudi prince agreed on Tuesday to donate $20 million to the construction of a wing for the Louvre's vast collection of Islamic art (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/arts/design/28louv.html

Artwork ousted after protest
A photomontage by artist Sheila Pinkel has been removed from an art exhibition at the California Department of Corrections in Diamond Bar after parole agents objected to the work's content, exhibition curator Patrick Merrill said Wednesday (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-wk-quick28.2jul28,0,5915738.story?coll=cl-art

Look around and be enlightened
Curator Carl Schlosberg turns Malibu into a sculpture exhibition for the summer (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-wk-ungallery28jul28,0,5969944.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers
Museum peace after the Sharp shooting?
Dr Lindsay Sharp's detractors claim that he turned the Science Museum into Disney World. His supporters argue that he was a gifted innovator. A look at Dr Lindsay Sharp's turbulent reign and resignation (The Times) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/

The birth of British art
It took £1.7m to save the Macclesfield Psalter for the nation. It's worth every penny (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1537603,00.html


-- July 29
++ American newspapers
The Met Is to Auction Some of Its Photographs
Highlights from a photography sale at Sotheby's on Feb. 14 and 15 read like a Who's Who of the medium's earliest masters: Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Outerbridge and Edward Weston. Just as intriguing is the
provenance: the Metropolitan Museum of Art
(New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/arts/design/29voge.html

Nurturing Modernism With Spades, Water and Black Flowers Postmodernist pests have invaded the formal garden! Or so an alarmist might react to "Down the Garden Path: The Artist's Garden After Modernism." This big, messy, uneven, but - for patient and interested viewers - intellectually stimulating show at the Queens Museum of Art is about how contemporary artists have cultivated gardens in fantasy and reality (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/arts/design/29john.html

Desperately Painting the Plague
Pandemics of one kind or another have always terrorized human history. And where science has been helpless and politics mute, religion and art have responded. That response is the subject of "Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800," at the Worcester Art Museum, a small, penumbral, single-minded exhibition that does at least one thing museum shows almost never do (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/arts/design/29cott.html

Obituary: Al Held, Painter of Geometric Complexities, Dies at 76 Al Held, an American painter widely recognized for his often immense geometric abstractions, died on Tuesday at his home in Todi, Italy (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/arts/design/29held.html

King Tut Exhibit Draws Raves, Complaints
Six weeks after opening, the highly touted King Tut comeback exhibit has drawn massive crowds and more than a few complaints. At least 200,000 visitors have viewed the ancient Egyptian treasures displayed in "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" since it opened June 16 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/29/AR2005072901517.html

Black History Museum To Have a Story for All
A central principle of the future National Museum of African American History and Culture will be that the varied stories of African Americans have broad meaning to all people (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/28/AR2005072801755.html

Austria Museum Lets Naked People in Free
Vienna's prestigious Leopold Museum is usually a pretty buttoned-down place, but on Friday, some of the nudes in its marble galleries were for real (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/29/AR2005072900556.html

Ikat Fabrics Highlighted at D.C. Museums
A complex art form called ikat is weaving a spell on Washington museum curators and New York fashion designers. Ikat is a style of weaving that has been performed worldwide, from Japan and India to Mexico and Argentina. Before weaving, the threads are tied into bundles, dyed and untied. ("Ikat" is a Malay word meaning "tied" or "bound.") The dyed threads are then woven into intricate patterns (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/07/29/entertainment/e113625D49.DTL&hw=Museum&sn=012&sc=310

LA's King Tut exhibit draws huge crowds, raves, complaints
Six weeks after opening, the highly touted King Tut comeback exhibit has drawn massive crowds and more than a few complaints. At least 200,000 visitors have viewed the ancient Egyptian treasures displayed in "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" since it opened June 16 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles Times) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/07/29/state/n140123D06.DTL&hw=Museum&sn=015&sc=282

++ British magazines
New look at Nazi looted art law
Four Old Master drawings looted by the Nazis could be returned to their original owner by the British Museum under proposed changes to legislation (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4727447.stm

-- July 30
++ American newspapers
A Briton's Vision Takes Hold in the Heartland
The Figge Art Museum, which is to open Aug. 6, is the first major new building in the United States by the London-based architect David Chipperfield. (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/30/arts/design/30muse.html

++ British newspapers
Chinese art prices surge as spending power increases
A Beijing auction house sold a landscape by Chang Ta-chien for more than £5m yesterday, the latest sign that China's supercharged economy is inflating worldwide prices for the country's art (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1539324,00.html


-- July 31
Museum Shows Children the Faith of Their Neighbors
The Red Robins and the Bluebirds took a trip the other day. They took the subway to the new Jewish Children's Museum in Brooklyn (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/nyregion/31museum.html?

Making a Less Fusty Frick (and Hoping Nobody Notices)
With its selection of revered old master paintings and imposing Gilded Age décor, the Frick Collection is set in its ways (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/arts/design/31eaki.html

Say it again, Omar
Gone is the rent-a-drone audio tour. Glitzed-up guides bring artist and celebrity voices, music, interviews, even other images into the picture (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-audioguide31jul31,0,374057.story

Hiroshima at peace
Sixty years later, it's a city of serene parks dedicated to remembrance and disarmament (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/31/TRGUVDUK6E1.DTL&hw=Museum&sn=014&sc=297

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