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WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST (USA, UK)
October 27 - November 2, 2003
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-- October 27
++ US-American newspapers
Egypt Welcomes Mummy's Return From U.S.
children's choir and a military band greeted the return on Sunday of what
scholars believe is a royal mummy - possibly Ramses I - that was looted from
a tomb and smuggled out of Egypt by a Canadian doctor nearly 150 years ago
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/27/international/middleeast/27EGYP.html
More Eyes on the Mix for Whitney Biennial
A fter 10 months of visiting hundreds of artists' studios from Long Island
to Los Angeles, the three curators organizing the 2004 Whitney Biennial say
they now have a clear direction for this mammoth survey of contemporary
American art. And they say the works of the 108 artists and collaborative
groups they will display represent the best record of what is currently
happening in contemporary art across the country
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/27/arts/design/27BIEN.html
Obituary: Herbert Beckhard, 77, Architect Who Worked With Bauhaus Master,
Dies
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/27/arts/design/26BECK.html
Charges of theft of Tibetan art
Tibetan rights group declares that the Bowers Museum is displaying stolen
objects in its new exhibition
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-muchnic27oct27,2,70242
11.story?coll=cl-art
++ British newspapers / magazines
Berlin's Jewish memorial halted after firm linked with supply of Nazi gas
A Holocaust memorial in Berlin to Europe's 6 million murdered Jews was at
the centre of huge embarrassment last night after it emerged that one of its
German construction firms had supplied Zyklon B used in Nazi gas chambers
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1071822,00.html
Obituary: Katherine Shonfield
Writer and teacher in the history and theory of architecture who combined
passionate beliefs with a sense of the ridiculous
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=457587
Picasso's Malaga museum realised
Celebrated artist Pablo Picasso's dream of opening a gallery in his home
city of Malaga has been realised with the inauguration of a dedicated museum
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3217713.stm
-- October 28
++ British newspapers / magazines
Experts discuss decaying art
Inherent Vice could be the title of an exhibition by the Chapman Brothers or
Damien Hirst - and one day such a title could be all that remains of their
art
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1072306,00.html
Master's dream realised in birthplace
More than 100 years after he left and 30 years after he died, Pablo Picasso
has finally achieved his dream of having a museum dedicated to his work in
his home city of Malaga, southern Spain
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1072427,00.html
'Shocking' Turner art on show
An exhibition of art by this year's Turner Prize nominees has opened amid
controversy over its shock value
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3217213.stm
-- October 29
++ US-American newspapers
Holocaust Survivors to Reunite in D.C.
In 1943 the Gestapo began to round up all the Jews who were still in Berlin.
They collected Jews who were married to non-Jews, and herded them and their
children into a community center. Fritz Gluckstein was inside
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31622-2003Oct28.html
Mori Art Museum in Tokyo opens to high praise, but could cityscape views
outshine the art?
A new star has appeared in the international constellation of major
contemporary art venues: the Mori Art Museum
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/29
/DD308953.DTL
++ British newspapers / magazines
Science comes to the aid of art
The painting, one of the wonders of the early Renaissance, has been
invisible for more than 600 years. After it was finished, the startling
Dream of the Virgin, by the 14th-century Bolognese painter Simone dei
Crocefissi, was covered with gold paint and turned into a more conventional
crucifixion study
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1073107,00.html
Return of the living dead
The British Museum shows us what it means to be alive and well, with a
permanent display, Living and Dying, which opens next week
(The Times)
http://search.thetimes.co.uk/cgi-bin/ezk2srch?-aSTART#
The art of saying nothing
The 2003 Turner prize exhibition opens at Tate Britain today. As usual, it's
been billed as sensational, disturbing and highly controversial. So why did
Tom Lubbock find himself oddly unmoved by the works of the shortlisted
artists?
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=458237
Saatchi drops down art power list
Art collector Charles Saatchi has dropped down a list of art's 100 most
powerful figures after topping it in 2002
(BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3223479.stm
-- October 30
++ US-American newspapers
Ancient Maya Altar Retaken From Looters in Guatemala
The latest story coming out of the jungle of Guatemala, of plunder and
violence in the illicit traffic of Maya antiquities, has an all too familiar
plot line, except for the ending
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/30/science/30MAYA.html
Fall Art Auctions Offer a Wealth of Big Names
For the first time in about four years, "well timed" deaths, in auction
world parlance, have brought sought-after works to the fall market. These
estate sales have in turn encouraged other sellers to ride what they
perceive will be a tailwind of excitement. The result is two weeks of
back-to-back auctions, starting Tuesday, featuring prime examples of works
by masters like van Gogh, Léger, Klimt and Jasper Johns
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/30/arts/design/30AUCT.html
Smithsonian Accelerates Arts & Industries Closing
Smithsonian Secretary Lawrence M. Small announced yesterday that the
Smithsonian will begin closing the Arts and Industries Building in January,
20 months ahead of schedule
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38305-2003Oct29.html
Museum Reopening To Take 2-3 Years
The Piney Point lighthouse museum, flooded during Hurricane Isabel, will not
reopen -- at least in its former home. Instead, a nearby two-story building
that St. Mary's County acquired from Steuart Petroleum Co. eventually will
house the museum and gift shop, but not for two or three years
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32673-2003Oct28.html
On The Fine Art of Becoming a Victim
Nobody can doubt the horrific crimes perpetrated by National Socialism and
during World War Two. There were perpetrators and victims, invaded and
invaders, murderers and murdered. Only very few Germans have ever really
tried to find out whether their grandpa was or wasn't a Nazi. For the
longest time, a simple tally of the dead on both sides was not up for
discussion among those who dominated public opinion, even if in private many
Germans thought and spoke about it differently, usually with the added
caveat that one really shouldn't say such a thing in Germany, because one
would immediately be branded a Nazi or an anti-Semite
(Aufbau - The Jewish Transatlantic Paper)
http://www.aufbauonline.com/2003/issue21/2_1.html
Two Weeks Of "Yiddish Land"
Berlin Festival Celebrates Yiddish Language and Culture
(Aufbau - The Jewish Transatlantic Paper)
http://www.aufbauonline.com/2003/issue21/15_1.html
++ British newspapers / magazines
Exhibition of ancient Hungarian treasures unveiled
A golden stag that decorated a prince's shield more than 2,500 years ago is
among the Hungarian state treasures which have left the country for the
first time to appear in an exhibition opening next week in London
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1073686,00.html
146 years late, Manchester gets the picture as Turner comes to town
A Turner masterpiece sent to Manchester in 1857 has arrived 146 years late.
It is part of an exhibition of Turner's late seascapes which opens at
Manchester Art Gallery tomorrow
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1073649,00.html
Obituary: Nicholas Hammer
Witness to the barbarity of the Nazi concentration camps
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=458567
-- October 31
++ US-American newspapers
Making Serious Fashion From Visual Jokes, and Doing It Like an Artist
When it comes to the mythic Elsa Schiaparelli, don't think just pink.
There's much more to the Italian-born couturičre than the vibrant shade of
light magenta that she christened shocking pink. More than Surrealism and
the white silk organza dinner dress with its big red lobster, courtesy of
Salvador Dalí, worn by the Duchess of Windsor in an attempt to soften her
throne-wrecker image. And more than the long-standing rivalry with Coco
Chanel, who you could say played an austere, right-angled Mondrian to
Schiaparelli's less predictable Picasso-like persona
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/31/arts/design/31SMIT.html
Privacy Was His Obsession, Beauty His Fount of Energy
To be a major collector of both paintings and drawings is almost to have a
double identity. A collector who always hurried back was Grenville L.
Winthrop (1864-1943), who bequeathed to Harvard his collection of around
4,000 19th-century paintings, drawings and sculptures by American, French,
British and German artists. An exhibition of more than 200 works from the
bequest is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/31/arts/design/31RUSS.html
Selling Off Yesterday's Art to Make Way for Tomorrow's
In a cavernous building in Binghamton, N.Y., that once housed a giant
supermarket, the walls are lined with works that run the gamut of
20th-century art. By Sunday, when the entire collection arrives, there will
be hand-colored etchings by Salvador Dalí, a 1908 sketch by Fernand Léger, a
1967 print by Roy Lichtenstein and a working 1985 Chrysler LeBaron that was
called "Endless Summer" eight years ago when Joel Otterson turned it into
art
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/31/arts/design/31MUSE.html
Nazi-Linked Firm Barred From Role in Memorial
German chemical company infamous for its role in the Holocaust but now
lauded for its corporate repentance has been barred from taking part in
construction of a memorial to Europe's murdered Jews, plunging Germany into
another agonizing debate over the hold of history through the generations
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44079-2003Oct30.html
Tibet's treasures seen on a human scale
An exhibit of jewelry, sculptures and everyday artifacts in Santa Ana is
unpretentious yet impressive
(Los Angeles Times)
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-pagel31oct31,2,1952571
.story?coll=cl-art
++ British newspapers
Hermitage shares its treasures with Dutch enterprise
The Hermitage Museum of St Petersburg has more than three million treasures,
illustrating the breadth and depth of world culture. And now some of the
highlights from its collection are to be seen in Amsterdam
(The Independent)
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=458957
Concorde to be a museum piece
Concorde, the aircraft that until seven days ago flew faster than a rifle
bullet, was yesterday consigned to the status of a museum piece after
British Airways announced that it was too expensive to keep one of the
supersonic jets airworthy
(The Independent)
http://travel.independent.co.uk/news_and_advice/story.jsp?story=459008
-- November 1
++ US-American newspapers
Obituary: William Draper, Painter Who Portrayed Presidents, Dies at 90
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/01/arts/design/01DRAP.html
++ British newspapers
How the tourist trail is paved with gold
The Science Musuem is becoming more commercial but many of Britain's other
best-known museums and galleries have been so for years
(The Times)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-5-876009,00.html
The Science Museum develops a business brain
On display at the Science Museum this weekend: Stephenson's Rocket, Crick
and Watson's original DNA model and a Cave Troll
(The Times)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-5-876004,00.html
-- November 2
++ US-American newspapers
How to Make a Building Fly
We could have built four or five floors on the vacant parking lot," the
English architect Will Alsop says of the $30 million building he designed
for the Ontario College of Art and Design. "But there's no magic in that,
there's nothing to raise the spirit." So he raised the building nine stories
on multicolored stilts
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/arts/design/02BLUM.html
Please Touch the Art
Wouldn't it be nice if you could reach your hand into a museum display case,
pluck out the rare book or manuscript inside, hold it and turn the pages?
Recently, some museums have developed devices that allow you to do just
that - virtually
(New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/arts/design/02KINO.html
Keeping the Memory Alive
Holocaust Survivors' Obligation Passes to New Generations
(Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51013-2003Nov1.html
++ British newspapers / magazines
Shock art turns on the Tate
"I'd rather go to Alton Towers than Tate Modern," says rebel artist Chapman
(The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1075963,00.html
Dutch help Bedouins guard the Sumerian site of Uruk
The Americans did not list protection of the site as necessary when they
handed over administration of the southern Iraqi province of al-Muthanna to
the Netherlands
(The Arts Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11390
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