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-----Original Message----- From: H-Museum (Marra) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 3:36 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: ANTIGEN: NEWS: H-Museum News Digest (USA, UK) [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 <[log in to unmask]>.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- H-MUSEUM NEWS DIGEST (USA, UK) March 29 - April 4, 2004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- March 29 ++ American newspapers Russia's New Rich Amass Art Collections The startling acquisition of Malcolm Forbes's Fabergé collection for well over $90 million by the industrialist Viktor Vekselberg has thrust Russia's rich new class of art collectors into the spotlight. Not all of them are chasing imperial splendor (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/arts/design/29RUSS.html At the Whitney Biennial, the art is overthought and much of it is heavy with conceptual freight The dead hand of art school has touched too many things in the 2004 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/29 /DDG3U5S3FQ1.DTL Russia rules on 'looted' Rubens A bitter Russo-German dispute over the ownership of a looted Rubens masterpiece has escalated dramatically after the Russian authorities ruled it should not be returned to German http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3579703.stm Art on auction for warzone children Sale of work by 32 top British artists expected to raise tens of thousands for UN Children's Fund trauma counselling scheme http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1179964,00.html Performance art that's defiantly dated In London's Trafalgar Square, for one week from today, a man and a woman will sit side by side in a glass box reading to each other http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1180151,00.html Memory of twin towers wins new arts prize A handful of dust, gathered from the streets of New York in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, last night won the first £40,000 Artes Mundi prize for the Chinese artist Xu Bing. http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1179991,00.html -- March 30 ++ American newspapers Artist Who Worked With 9/11 Dust Wins the First Artes Mundi Prize Xu Bing, a Chinese-born New York artist whose works include one featuring dust he collected in Lower Manhattan after 9/11, has won the first Artes Mundi prize, a new $75,000 art award created here to stimulate interest in contemporary art in Wales (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/30/arts/design/30PRIZ.html ++ British newspapers Homage to Tintin dishes up a fresh Haddock An exhibition opening tomorrow at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich marks the 75th anniversary of Hergé's immortal boy reporter (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1180649,00.html Self-portrait is unsparing A self-portrait by Lucian Freud will be included in his exhibition of new works, opening tomorrow at the Wallace Collection museum in London (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1180654,00.html Art treasure confirmed as Vermeer A valuable painting once dismissed as a fake has been confirmed as the work of 17th Century Dutch master Vermeer (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3583889.stm -- March 31 ++ American newspapers Statue of Liberty to Reopen in August, at Least Partly Public access to the base of the Statue of Liberty, suspended since Sept. 11, 2001, is expected to resume by August, after safety and security improvements are completed, federal officials said yesterday (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/nyregion/31liberty.html Celebrating an Artist Who Wanted to 'Murder Painting' To most art lovers, a painting by Joan Miró is immediately recognizable as, well, a Miró. It probably shows cosmic, botanical, geometric or abstract lines or shapes floating against celestial blue, sandy yellow or earth brown backgrounds. It also probably exudes a mystical yet reassuring dreamy quality. The Surrealist André Breton described Miró's paintings as "childlike" and "innocent." (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/design/31MIRO.html ~ New York Times ART SPECIAL ~ His Job Is to Make Over the Modern Bells and whistles did not go off in the New York art world when Glenn D. Lowry arrived in 1995 as director of the Museum of Modern Art. A scholar of Islamic art, with only a few years of experience as a museum director, called on to run a great and complex institution? And what's more, to preside over its massive reconstruction? It did not feel like a perfect match (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/artsspecial/31XXGLUE.html Beyond the Gallery Walls, Collections of Hidden Gems Not all the treasures in museums hang on walls or sit in display cases. Beyond the galleries are vast resource libraries with hidden gems: rare books, manuscripts, photographs, sketchbooks and ephemera (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/artsspecial/31WILK.html Internet Art Survives, but the Boom Is Over Like most things in the online world, the state of Internet art is subject to no small amount of exaggeration. During boom times, as art made with ones and zeroes entered Chelsea galleries and blue-chip museums, the new form was seen as the wave of the future. But now, ask an artist or a gallery owner or a blogger about it and you are likely to get a groan (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/artsspecial/31SISA.html Space Is Tight at the U.N., but Art Gifts Keep Coming According to its charter, the United Nations was established to maintain international peace and security, not to act as a curator of art and antiquities. But since its headquarters was completed in 1953, the spartan corridors, glassy lobbies and cavernous assembly halls have been augmented by works of art, donated by member nations and inspired, at least in theory, by postwar visions of a halcyon world (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/artsspecial/31SCHN.html British Museum Takes an Enlightened Look Back Museums usually present art, artifacts and antiquities in ways intended to heighten the aesthetic pleasure of visitors. Even at the British Museum, which pioneered the idea of the universal museum, there is the temptation to look at the Elgin Marbles or the Rosetta Stone as isolated objects (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/artsspecial/31RIDI.html Heiress's Estate Becomes a Showcase for Fine Art The Russian icons that are the focus of this year's main show at the Hillwood Museum and Gardens have been part of its collection for years. But they will be moving from their usual spots on the opulently decorated walls of this mansion turned museum, and mounted individually in the spare, understated space typical of most exhibitions (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/artsspecial/31OLSO.html A Rescue Center Where the Rehabbing Is on View Its buildings are homely and its location remote, but the Marine Mammal Center has created a niche among the natural history museums and aquariums that draw huge numbers of tourists every year (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/artsspecial/31NOVA.html For Members, Art Is Only One Perk Brian Crowley sells memberships at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla., but he spent most of a recent Sunday away from the membership desk in the lobby. With 960 visitors to the museum that day - more than twice the usual number - Mr. Crowley seized the moment to work the crowds and hand out yellow coupons that read "Cash in Your Tickets!" in big bold letters. The "instant coupon" entitled visitors to apply the cost of their admission ticket toward a membership at the museum (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/artsspecial/31MORR.html One College's Long Shadow: Looking Back at the 'Williams Mafia' A bright chapter in the history of the Art Institute of Chicago will end when its director, James N. Wood, retires in September. Mr. Wood took over this renowned American museum in 1980, when it was widely perceived to be faltering, and by mounting imaginative shows, raising large amounts of money and hiring outstanding curators, he returned it to its status as a stable and powerful temple of culture (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/artsspecial/31KINZ.html Behind Every Acquisition Lies a Story, From 'Star Trek' to St. Francis Behind every museum acquisition is a human story. The object was created by one person and possessed over the years by others (who may, in turn, have been possessed by it). Before finding a home in a collection, the piece has been touched by many hands, and hearts (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/artsspecial/31IVRY.html Romancing the Collector: Will There Be a Storybook Ending? When Eli Broad strides into the boardroom of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art like he owns the place, he has reason to believe. Like a string of big museum donors before him, Mr. Broad is enjoying his moment. Last June, in celebration of his 70th birthday, he announced a gift of $50 million to the institution to pay for a new building with his name on it, along with $10 million for art acquisitions. It was the largest single monetary gift in the museum's 39-year history (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/artsspecial/31FREU.html Up Above the Galleries, Misfits Await Their Turn Elliot Bostwick Davis stepped off a cavernous freight elevator and into the Museum of Fine Art's high attic. Ms. Davis, the chairwoman of the museum's Art of the Americas department, is not sure why it is called the "high" attic (being unaware of a lower one), but it is definitely an attic, with metal rafters overhead, the dim lighting and a haphazardness not seen in the galleries below (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/artsspecial/31FLAH.html Once Looted and Forlorn, an Iraqi Symbol Revives For hours, Enrico Bertassole and Grazia de Cesare, two members of an Italian restoration team working in the Iraq Museum, rubbed and rubbed at pieces of the Warka Vase, a 5,000-year-old treasure that was stolen when the museum was ransacked in the chaos of Saddam Hussein's fall, and returned, shattered, over the summer (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/artsspecial/31BANE.html Curators Go to Battle vs. Beetles Nobody loves natural history museums more than pests. Bones, paper, fur, feathers - so many of insects' favorite foods (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/artsspecial/31AULT.html Reopening Monument To Freedom Lady Liberty to Get A Safety Upgrade (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37320-2004Mar30.html Bureaucratic bureau, unsittable chair in Smithsonian furniture show This furniture is more funky than functional. A show opening Friday at the Renwick Gallery, "Right at Home: American Studio Furniture," features 58 thought-provoking pieces, including a desk with little space to write, bottomless drawers and a rickety chair (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/03/31/nati onal0203EST0428.DTL ++ British newspapers National Woollen museum re-opens A flagship mid Wales museum has thrown open its doors after a two year closure which saw it undergo a multi-million pound makeover (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/3571241.stm -- April 1 ++ American newspapers Some Museums Own Fine Art, Others Use the Fine Art of Borrowing In eight years as director of the Contemporary Arts Center, in Cincinnati, Charles Desmarais never acquired a work of art for the museum (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/31BERN.html Obituarium: George Heard Hamilton, Museum Director and Author, Dies at 93 George Heard Hamilton, an authority on modern art who trained art historians and museum curators, died on Monday at a nursing home in Williamstown, Mass., his son, Richard, said. He was 93 (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/01/arts/design/01HAMI.html Asia Society Appoints Art Historian as President The Asia Society, founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller III to foster understanding of Asia, has a new president, Vishakha N. Desai, the first woman and the first Asian-American to head the organization (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/01/arts/design/01DESA.html Man on a Mission: The Early Lane Twitchell At G Fine Art, a Religious Background in the Foreground (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40804-2004Mar31.html Furniture That's Fine and Fun Fifty-seven pieces of one-of-a-kind furniture -- some functional, some sculptural, some just plain "wow!" -- go on display at the Renwick Gallery tomorrow through Jan. 17 (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38594-2004Mar31.html Obituary: Enrique Grau, acclaimed Colombian painter and sculptor, dies at 83 Enrique Grau, an acclaimed Colombian painter and sculptor known for his depictions of Indian and Afro-Colombian figures, died Thursday. He was 83 (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/04/01/obit uary2338EST0861.DTL New exhibit explores the material world of childhood The exhibit, titled "kid size: The Material World of Childhood," features 150 children's toys, items of furniture and artifacts that span three centuries and come from six continents. It opened at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art on Thursday and runs through Aug. 1. (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/04/01/ente rtainment1754EST0736.DTL Quilt museum celebrates fabric of Amish history A million-dollar collection of antique quilts that once graced the walls of a clothing company's corporate offices has returned to its native Lancaster County as the centerpiece of a new museum that showcases the fabric of Amish history. The Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum opened to the public Wednesday. It features a colorful selection of Amish quilts -- some more than 100 years old -- collected over the past 30 years by Doug Tompkins, who founded the Esprit casual clothing company in San Francisco in the 1970s (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/04/01/ente rtainment1404EST0608.DTL -- April 2 ++ American newspapers Through an Activist Lens Entangled in History It is probably not by chance that the International Center of Photography does not include the words art or museum in its name. I had never thought about this before, but the people who founded this institution undoubtedly did. The center has many of the earmarks of a museum - a large collection and an exhibition program focused on the photographic arts - but these things are only part of a broader missio (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/arts/design/02SMIT.html How Not Much Is a Whole World Minimal artists in the 1960's claimed to reject the past. Frank Stella, painting his black canvases with thin white stripes, said: "You can't go back. It's not a question of destroying anything. If something's used up, something's done, something's over with, what's the point of getting involved with it?" (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/arts/design/02KIMM.html Pictures of the Picturesque, Not Necessarily of the Truth Before television, Pop Art, Deconstructionist theory and the digital revolution, it was possible to believe unreservedly in photojournalism. It was back then, in 1947, that the renowned photojournalists' cooperative Magnum Photos was founded by the photographers Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/arts/design/02JOHN.html A Gentleman Lucky in War and Collecting Halsted Billings Vander Poel, a native of Manhattan who died last year at 92, was never a household name, but he sure was a lucky man. A "gentleman of the old school," he was rich, intellectual and a serious collector of English antiques. Most of those antiques are being auctioned at Christie's next week (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/arts/design/02ANTI.html Saving German Moderns From Their Tortured Past It is worth remembering that modern art was one of the forms of civilization that Hitler's Germany set out to destroy. In July 1937, Nazi officials, cracking down on what they viewed as a decadent misrepresentation of Nordic culture, seized 148 paintings, 27 sculptures and 319 drawings - declaring all of them degenerate - from the Kronprinzen Palace, the branch of Berlin's Nationalgalerie that was Germany's first museum of contemporary art (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/arts/design/02GLUE.html Antiquities Gallery Will Return Two Limestone Monuments to Egypt One of the world's leading antiquities galleries has agreed to return two limestone monuments smuggled out of Egypt in the mid-1990's (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/02/arts/design/02MONU.html Buddhas From China's Big Dig The 12thcentury workers who buried the Buddhist sculptures on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery surely didn't think they were constructing a time capsule. Yet "Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries" is not merely a show of beautiful objects, it's also a snapshot of rapid changes in sixth-century China. In a 50-year period, the accepted way of depicting the Buddha and associated figures changed significantly (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41990-2004Apr1.html Utah museum returns painting looted by Nazis to heirs More than a half century after a Paris art gallery was looted by Nazis, one of the paintings that was taken has been returned to the owner's daughter (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/04/02/nati onal0648EST0473.DTL ++ American newspapers BBC's memorial to foreign correspondents A spire of light reaching about 900 metres (3,000ft) into the London night sky is to be the BBC's memorial to those journalists who died covering conflicts (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1184102,00.html Museum saved from closure A north Wales museum threatened with closure has been saved after what curators call a difficult year (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/3590871.stm Florence Uffizi plans expansion The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, home to many of the world's greatest Renaissance paintings, plans to double its size in three years (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3592607.stm -- April 3 ++ American newspapers National Gallery Shows Ancient Mayan Work A queen pulls a thorn-studded rope through her tongue. A king who ruled more than 60 years appears in a handsome bust. Ball players wear heavy padding for protection from an eight-pound solid rubber ball -- a loss can bring death (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Maya-Art.html Beholding Byzantium The galleries of a major exhibition like "Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, are nearly always filled with formulaic poses. One viewer clasps his hands behind his back, which allows him to lean in closer to the objects without alarming the guards (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/03/opinion/03SAT3.html Treasured Churches in a Cycle of Revenge "Kishe kaput; very good," said the smiling boy, using an incongruous mix of Albanian, German and English to describe the remains of St. Nicholas, Pristina's only working Serbian Orthodox church. Next to him the four walls of the church were smoldering (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/03/arts/03CHUR.html Newton to be buried in Berlin Acclaimed photographer Helmut Newton, who died earlier this year in a Los Angeles car crash, will be buried in the same cemetery as Marlene Dietrich in his native Berlin, his widow said Friday (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-quick3.4apr03,2,309311 9.story?coll=cl-art Whether painting, dance or film, art can release us from the prison of time (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/04/03 /DDG7S5UV511.DTL ++ British newspapers Academy to unveil unseen art treasures A treasure-house of masterpieces of world art will go on show in London at the Royal Academy this autumn in an event expected to rival the same gallery's Monet and Aztec exhibitions in popularity (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1184792,00.html Rolf Harris art among raid haul Dozens of painting prints - half of which were by Australian artist Rolf Harris - have been stolen from an Oxfordshire gallery (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/3596489.stm -- April 4 ++ American newspapers Rubens Revisited: Ah, the Spectacle! Painter's Status Reaffirmed With A Flourish by Lille Exhibition (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45373-2004Apr2.html Mayan-Made Wonders Their Civilization Teemed With Life -- And Brutality. Guess What's in Their Art? (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45371-2004Apr2.html Painted into a corner? A curated exhibition asks whether Thomas Kinkade, the people's artist, can find respect in today's art world (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-hunter4apr04,2,4756885 .story?coll=cl-art Museum Brings N.Y. Skyscrapers Back to Eye Level Exhibits reveal there is even more to the Big Apple's skyline than there might seem (Los Angeles Times http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-na-skyscraper4apr04,2,308 0660.story?coll=cl-art Getty Trust and World Monuments Fund team up for Iraq conservation The organisations will survey the condition of the country's historic sites and then raise money for their restoration (The Art Newspaper) http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11620 Renzo Piano: the world's leading builder of museums Why museums need a balance of the sacred and the profane (The Art Newspaper) http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11618 Ecuadorean ambassador pulls art from Paris salerooms Pieces were seized from three salerooms; a lawsuit is pending (The Art Newspaper) http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11617 --- 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]