Does anyone care to see these anymore?
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H-MUSEUM NEWS DIGEST (USA, UK)
July 3 - July 9, 2006
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-- July 3
++ British newspapers
New Liverpool museum expected to open two years after European celebrations A second application for lottery money will be submitted this month (The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=329
Lord Rothschild named trustee in Qatar
Lord Rothschild has become a trustee of the Qatar Museums Authority, which is responsible for the Museum of Islamic Art in the capital, Doha. The authority is also in charge of a new photography museum, designed by Santiago Calatrava, and a National Library.
(The Art Newspaper)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=334
China's ancient terracotta army set to march on British Museum The biggest exhibition of the terracotta army of Xian seen outside China is being planned by the British Museum (The Independent) http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1155176.ece
-- July 5
++ British newspapers
Entr'acte: Dreyfus Affair - Over, or under a new name?
One hundred years ago this month, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French-Jewish army officer who had spent five years on Devil's Island for high treason and an additional seven years trying to clear his name, was absolved by France's Supreme Court. A few days later, he was reinstated into the army, promoted to lieutenant colonel and given the Légion d'Honneur. The Dreyfus Affair, which deeply divided France and sparked a vicious wave of anti-Semitism, was finally over. Or was it?
(International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/05/news/entracte.php
Balenciaga: The past is the future
One mannequin has android eyes sparking from techno tubing and galactic patterns projected on the floor. The other is headless - just the tip of a tailor's dummy rising above a cocoon coat that the American Doris Duke first wore in 1950. Both are labeled "Balenciaga" and are in an ambitious show at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs that melds the past and the present to project the modernist spirit of Cristóbal Balenciaga into the future (International Herald Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/05/reports/rbal.php
-- July 6
++ American newspapers
Dada's Women, Ahead of Their Time
The Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven made an indelible first impression. "She shaved her head. Next she lacquered it a high vermilion.
Then she stole the crepe from the door of a house of mourning and made a dress of it." This is the editor Margaret Anderson, founder of the avant-garde journal known as The Little Review, describing a visit in 1921 (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/arts/design/06dada.html
-- July 7
++ American newspapers
How Young Europeans View America's 'Uncertain' State According to the press materials, "Uncertain States of America" at the Center for Curatorial Studies Gallery at Bard College is a rollicking selection of contemporary artworks promising a frank assessment of the current state of American art, culture and society. But the bulk of these works are oblique and often annoyingly perverse, having less to say about life in the United States than they do about the confused state of the contemporary art world. That said, there is some fine work here (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/09wearts.html
Modern Artist With Roots in African Tradition Museum exhibitions of modern African artists are rare. American museums tend to focus more on traditional tribal art or on contemporary artists whose assemblages, videos and installations conform nicely to curatorial theses.
But there was a whole generation of talented mid-20th-century African artists and writers who brought modernism to Africa. This modest show tells the story of one of them (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/09njarts.html
When Venice Shook the World
"Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting" at the National Gallery of Art is basically a show about light, which means it is about time and change, clarity and obscurity. And it is very beautiful.
(New York Times)
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/arts/design/07vene.html
At P.S. 1, an Exhibition Focusing on the Shock of the Body in All Its Messy Corporality These thoughts are brought to mind by a big, ambitious exhibition about the body at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center. Organized by the museum's chief curator, Klaus Biesenbach, "Into Me/Out of Me" is by turns fascinating, comical, repulsive and annoying in its relentlessly literal insistence on the most grossly physical and often humiliating aspects of human experience (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/arts/design/07inou.html
'Best in Show': The Artist's Best Friend Conceived by the Bruce and organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the show was inspired by the book "The Dog in Art From Rococo to Post-Modernism" (1988), written by the art historian Robert Rosenblum, a dog fancier who contributes a fond but cleareyed essay to the catalog (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/arts/design/07dogs.html
Exhibit links Van Gogh, Japan
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam opens an exhibition this week showing the influence of Japanese art on the 19th century Dutch painter (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-quick7.3jul07,0,1227047.story?coll=cl-art
-- July 8
++ American newspapers
Pessimism Is Growing on Rebuilding of 9/11 Site Lower Manhattan residents are almost evenly divided on whether the state should move ahead with its redevelopment plans for the World Trade Center site or give the next governor a chance to amend them, according to a new Pace University (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/08/nyregion/08survey.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Luxembourg Opens Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art The dispute was never over I.M. Pei's elegant geometric design for Luxembourg's new Museum of Modern Art. Rather, it was that for the best part of the last 17 years, this tiny, conservative Grand Duchy simply found it hard to accept the need for such a museum (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/08/arts/design/08pei.html
Authenticity of a Duccio Masterpiece at the Met Is Challenged A Columbia University professor known for challenging the art historical establishment asserts that a painting purchased in 2004 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art for an estimated $45 million is not the work of the early-Renaissance master Duccio di Buoninsegna, to whom it has long been attributed (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/08/arts/design/08ducc.html
-- July 9
++ American newspapers
Call the tech squad
Video and new-media art requires careful conservation. Two California organizations are stepping forward to meet the challenge (Los Angeles Times) http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca-videoart9jul09,0,4441884.story?coll=cl-art
++ British newspapers
Glasgow gem unveils its £28m facelift
Glasgow's Kelingrove Art Gallery and Museum will reopen on Tuesday after a three-year, £28m refurbishment, when it welcomes an expected 10,000 visitors (The Guardian) http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1816345,00.html
Modigliani's women
His women might all look alike, but lean a little closer and his passion shines out (The Times) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2101-2256967.html
Kelvingrove reopens in a whole new light It has taken three years and cost £28m, but the refurbishment of the Glasgow treasure house has not only revamped the interior but reawoken its ambition to inspire everyone who enters (The Times) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-2260108.html
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