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-----Original Message----- From: H-Museum (Marra) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 3:22 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: NEWS: Weekly News Digest (USA, UK) [Editor's note: The following articles are published in American and British newspapers and magazines. The WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST service is made available by the editorial staff of H-Museum <[log in to unmask]>.] WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST August 18 - August 24, 2003 -- August 18 ++ British newspapers / magazines Acropolis building site stirs up storm If visitors to the Acropolis in central Athens were to cast their eyes across the city to the south-east, they would soon spot a large gap in the densely populated neighbourhood of Markryianni, just a stone's-throw away (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3160203.stm -- August 19 ++ American newspapers / magazines Enola Gay, Waiting In the Wings No More Restored A-Bomb Plane Unveiled at Dulles (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11646-2003Aug18.html LACMA fights art-theft suit The Los Angeles County Museum of Art says it can't be held accountable in court for an art theft committed by Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1918 (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-quick19.4aug19,2,14603 93.story?coll=cl-art ++ British newspapers / magazines Bacon mask is a concept too far for thief If only an artist with a video camera had been labouring in Liverpool at the time, the result could have turned up in Tate Modern as a conceptual work about a conceptual work inspired by conceptual work (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1021446,00.html -- August 20 ++ American newspapers / magazines Obituary: Dorothy Geraldine, Brock Gallery Director Dorothy Geraldine Brock, 75, former president and executive director of McLean Project for the Arts, died of cancer Aug. 12 at her home in McLean (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17683-2003Aug19.html Space museum turns to tragedy The Smithsonian center has been popular for its tales of triumph, but now it is debating how to tell the story of the fatal shuttle accidents (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-trescott20aug20,2,4310 768.story?coll=cl-art ++ British newspapers / magazines Pickled animals prove museum's star attraction The Natural History Museum in London, which displays in the newly opened Darwin Centre some of its stock of 22 million animal specimens suspended in alcohol, was named as the best large visitor attraction in the annual awards for the capital's tourism trade (The Independent) http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=435400 Plan to protect region's history The protection of the North West's history is the focus of a new strategy from English Heritage (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/3165417.stm -- August 21 ++ American newspapers / magazines Seeking "A Rougher, Commoner, More Vulgar Art" An Exhibit of Max Beckmann at MOMA Queens (Der Aufbau) http://www.aufbauonline.com/2003/issue16/14.html ++ British newspapers / magazines Obituary: Jannie Brandes-Brilleslijper Concentration camp survivor who was one of the last to see Anne Frank alive (The Independent) http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=435655 Age puzzle over 'Roman' treasure The origin of one of the British Museum's greatest Roman treasures has been thrown into confusion after a scholar claimed it was actually made in the 16th Century (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3169929.stm -- August 22 ++ American newspapers / magazines Obituary: John Coplans, 83, an Artist and a Founder of Artforum, Dies John Coplans, a founder and former editor of Artforum magazine, whose career also encompassed phases as a painter, critic, curator, museum director and finally a photographer of discomfiting images of his own aging body, died yesterday at a Manhattan hospital. He was 83 and lived in Manhattan (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/22/obituaries/22COPL.html Washington's Museums Traverse Miles and Eras Without exception every large American city offers insights, sometimes painful, into the challenges of building, stocking and perpetuating art museums. In Washington these lessons can sometimes seem unusually extreme, especially where architecture is concerned (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/22/arts/design/22SMIT.html Its Portrait Is Taken, Then the Subject Is Eaten Edward Weston (1886-1958) may not have been the first photographer to enshrine a vegetable, as in his still life "Pepper No. 31" (1930). But it's safe to assume that no one before had seen the humble pod as a monument of formidable presence, evoking a nude, an Arp sculpture or a desert rock formation while projecting the very essence of its veggie self (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/22/arts/design/22GLUE.html A museum where time stands still In the countryside of southwestern England, the Watts Gallery is virtually unchanged from the time of its founding a century ago (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-artner22aug22,2,586286 5.story?coll=cl-art ++ British newspapers / magazines Landmark designs win praise Two Greater Manchester landmarks have been hailed as among the architectural success stories of the past year (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/manchester/3175053.stm Australia's ancient art as modern commodity In upmarket Sydney galleries, art from the Australian Bush is beginning to attract some serious interest (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3171145.stm -- August 23 ++ American newspapers / magazines Museum Sues Over Looted Art It Returned A local museum has filed a $3 million suit against a New York art gallery, saying the gallery misled it about the ownership of an Italian Renaissance painting that it later had to return to Italy (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-BRF-Art-Suit.html Obituary: Kayla Grodsky -- S.F. art patron, community leader Mrs. Grodsky was actively involved in the work of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and was an elected member of the Board of the Museum Society. She had lectured frequently on the art of Claude Monet, the great French Impressionist (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/08/23 /BA183612.DTL Springfield, Mass., museum files $3 million suit over looted art it returned A local museum has filed a $3 million suit against a New York art gallery, saying the gallery misled it about the ownership of an Italian Renaissance painting that it later had to return to Italy (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/08/23/nati onal1539EDT0583.DTL ++ British newspapers / magazines Obituary: John Coplans Influential artist, curator and editor who found his greatest success as a photographer, producing astonishing nude self-portraits (The Independent) http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=436319 Obituary: Professor John Shearman Distinguished historian of Italian Renaissance art (The Independent) http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=435950 Museum action plan unveiled Local museums have voiced disappointment at a Scottish Executive action plan to help them improve their services (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3174823.stm -- August 24 ++ American newspapers / magazines For $150,000, a Neo-Classical You There was a time when Kip Forbes, vice chairman of the Forbes publishing empire, asked himself what he really wanted in life, and one of the things he came up with was this: a portrait of himself rendered in the lush manner of François-Xavier Fabre's 1797 neo-classical portrait of Allen Smith nobly contemplating the Arno River. Forbes, for his part, would be seated in front of the family's Normandy chateau, wearing the family kilt and knickers, noodling at a set of paints (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/24/arts/design/24LELA.html Slave Museum's Future Lies in Acquiring the Past Starting a museum involves a laundry list of inherent challenges: raising money, securing a location, debating what the displays will include and exclude. But what if the museum-to-be has no artifacts? (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37534-2003Aug23.html Saint Joan of arts The young heroine's image continues to resonate. A French exhibition, a bean can label and a fall TV series are but a few of the places you'll find her (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-muchnic24aug24,2,60951 20.story?coll=cl-art --- H-MUSEUM H-Net Network for Museums and Museum Studies E -Mail: [log in to unmask] WWW: http://www.h-museum.net __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org//membership.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]