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FW: NEWS: H-Museum News Digest (USA, UK)

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-- jack

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Jack Robertson  ||  Foundation Librarian
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Subject: NEWS: H-Museum News Digest (USA, UK)

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Subject: News Digest (US, UK)
Date:  Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:12:10 +0200
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Editor's note: The following articles are published in American and British newspapers and magazines. The H-MUSEUM NEWS DIGEST service is made available by the editorial staff of H-Museum.
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H-MUSEUM NEWS DIGEST (USA, UK)
August 14- August 20, 2006

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-- August 14
++ American newspapers
Part of the package
Scott Lyall and Rachel Harrison remain true to themselves - but also accessorize each other - in their first collaboration, at LACE. An elaborate project on view at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions has the feel of a one-man band's traveling case, with an arsenal of objects and visual experiences spilling out of a single crate. It's a far grander display than one might expect from the package, which itself is part of the show (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-lace14aug14,0,5630550.story?coll=cl-art

++ British newspapers
Battle over a suitcase from Auschwitz
An old brown suitcase made of cardboard is at the centre of an unprecedented legal battle between the son of its former owner and the museum commemorating him and fellow inmates at Auschwitz. Most people who found a faded suitcase in the attic would probably consider it worthless, but for Michel Levi-Leleu, the Frenchman claiming the relic, it is beyond price. His family never knew the suitcase had been recovered, or that it had turned up as an exhibit at the Auschwitz Holocaust museum in southern Poland.
(The Times)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2310677.html

English museums land major grants
The British Museum and Oxford's Ashmolean Museum are among 43 English museums and galleries to benefit from grants totalling £4m (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4795747.stm

-- August 15
++ American newspapers
Obituary: Julio Galán, 46, Mexican Painter of a Personal, Dreamlike World, Dies Julio Galán, a provocative Neo-Expressionist Mexican painter, died on Aug. 4 en route back to his home in Monterrey, Mexico. He was 46 (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/arts/15galan.html

++ British newspapers
German art lovers angered by painting's 'surrender'
Art lovers are fighting to keep in Germany an evocative 1913 painting of a prostitute that was recently given back to its Jewish former owners. The row over the painting - Berlin Street Scene by the expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - could lead to a fundamental overhaul of the way the Government deals with art confiscated by the Nazis. The painting was returned to the heirs of the German Jewish shoe factory owner Alfred Hess in July after almost two years of secret negotiation with the regional government of Berlin (The Times) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2314461.html

-- August 16
++ American newspapers
Finally getting to cut loose at the Getty Staff and volunteers of the embattled institution show off their creative sides. On Mondays, the Getty Center closes to the public, its assembled masterpieces get a little privacy, and the staff putters in peace. It's all very calm. So why, two days ago, were hundreds of merry browsers crowded into an underground hallway with nearly 200 freshly hung artworks?
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-getty16aug16,0,4135946.story?coll=cl-art

Getty board turns to Bryson as its leader The board members of the J. Paul Getty Trust, moving to quickly fill the gap left by the resignation of their beleaguered leader, John Biggs, have named vice chairwoman Louise Bryson to take over his role (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-chair16aug16,0,4542927.story?coll=cl-art

Museum workers decry 'witch hunt'
A national association of Russian museum workers bristled at criticism that followed the thefts of $5 million worth of artworks from the famed Hermitage, accusing critics of trying to put state museums in private hands (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-russia16aug16,0,7303550.story?coll=cl-art

-- August 17
++ British newspapers
For some, a museum hits close to the heart When Patricia Mavoungou, a municipal employee from the Paris suburbs, brought her son to France's new museum of non-Western art, the first thing they did was search for artifacts from the Congo Republic, where she was born. And they found them: two Punu masks on dramatic display. For Mavoungou and others like her - immigrants, working-class families, young people - Paris's Musée du Quai Branly, which opened in June, has arrived like a small revolution. Even as debate continues over its architecture and the conceptualization of its displays, word is getting out in immigrant communities throughout France that the new museum celebrates the patrimony of their cultures as art. And so far, people who typically would not set foot in a museum are coming in strength, says Stéphane Martin, Quai Branly's president (International Herald Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/17/opinion/branly.php
http://www.iht.com/slideshows/2006/08/17/arts/web.0817branly.php

Obituary: Annely Juda
The indomitable doyenne of British art dealers, she inspired fear and devotion in equal measure. Annely Juda, who has died aged 91, was the doyenne of British art dealers. Tiny but formidable, she could strike terror into the heart of an errant artist. She said what she thought, whether it was asked for or not, and over 40 years built up a reputation as one of the most discerning of contemporary dealers, with a stable of artists loyal to her personally, as well as to her gallery (The Guardian) http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,,1851903,00.html

2,500-year-old figures may be terracotta army models Archaeologists have unearthed two 2,500-year-old terracotta figurines that are possible predecessors to the statues buried with China's first emperor (The Guardian) http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1851726,00.html

-- August 18
++ American newspapers
On Sontag: Essayist as Metaphor and Muse How to honor the memory of a multifarious figure like Susan Sontag? The Metropolitan Museum's solution - a small, grave, beautiful photography show - is an apt one, though some people will grumble that Sontag had tributes enough in her time, and doesn't need, or deserve, any more (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/arts/design/18sont.html

At the Morgan, Examining Subjectivity, With Rembrandt as Your Guide You could say that the Morgan Library and Museum is in a "because we can"
mode. It has been celebrating Renzo Piano's brilliant expansion and reunification of its three-building home with exhibitions that few other institutions could muster. The latest, "Celebrating Rembrandt: Etchings From the Morgan," presents 50 of this master's greatest etchings, culled from the library's extensive holdings of them, the largest and finest in North America (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/arts/design/18remb.html

Beautiful People Caught in Passivity by Peyton and Warhol Elizabeth Peyton became one of the most talked about artists of the 1990's for her small, painted portraits of pop stars like Kurt Cobain and Leonardo DiCaprio. Often mentioned in the same sentence with the painters Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin, Ms. Peyton was admired for making traditional figurative painting hip. She also helped advance a movement that has had legions of young women making art that resembles the creative efforts of dreamy teenage girls (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/arts/design/18peyt.html

++ British newspapers
Kandinsky's daring artistry, nursed by a gathering rage Cultural historians will long debate the motivations that led Western artists to move away from figural reality toward what is conventionally described as abstraction. The Kandinsky show, which goes on at the Tate Modern until Oct. 1 and is subtitled "The Path to Abstraction: 1908-1922"
dwells on the fascinating case
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/18/opinion/melik19.php

Obituary: Ian Walters
Sculptor and socialist whose work included statues of Mandela and Harold Wilson (The Guardian) http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,,1852678,00.html

Peruvian headdress recovered
A priceless ancient Peruvian headdress, looted nearly 20 years ago, has been recovered by detectives from the Metropolitan police's art and antiques squad (The Guardian) http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1852702,00.html


-- August 19
++ American newspapers
Stories of New Americans, Told in Their Own Way Next door to a hair-braiding salon, and a couple of doors down from the Hasidic kosher market, is a beat-up storefront and metal grill topped with a plastic sign that reads "Light of God Ministries." Inside is a Nigerian Pentecostal Church run by Remi Ortiz, a kind-eyed woman dressed in brightly patterned cloth and tribal headwear. She is a Nigerian prophetess, and this is her house of prayer in Far Rockaway, Queens (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/19/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/20ctarts.html

Obituary: Diane Shamash, 51, Founder of Nonprofit Art Organization, Dies Diane Shamash, the founder and executive director of Minetta Brook, a nonprofit art organization that helped bring the artist Robert Smithson's quixotic "Floating Island" project to life last year and sent it circumnavigating Manhattan for nine days, died on Sunday at her home in Brooklyn Heights (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/19/obituaries/19shamash.html

Ex-Getty Chairman Returns Nearly $100K
The former board chairman of the J. Paul Getty Trust has returned nearly $100,000 of the book deal he received to write about the history of the famed arts institution, the trust said (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/08/19/entertainment/e183241D16.DTL&hw=Museum&sn=018&sc=274

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