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[Editor's note: The following articles are published in American and English newspapers and magazines. This is a service only by the editorial staff of Museum Professionals <marra@museumslist.net>] WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST April, 8 - April, 14 -- APRIL, 8 Memory Persists in a Dalí Pavilion Revisited Languorous mermaids, grotesquely beautiful wild animals and a melting clock were all part of a Surrealist pavilion designed by Salvador Dalí for the 1939 World's Fair in New York. Now an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art here suggests that this all-but-forgotten showcase was the first example of installation art in the United States (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/08/arts/design/08DALI.html Obituary: Raven Chanticleer, Artist and Self-Made Man of Wax, Dies at 72 Raven Chanticleer, a fashion designer, dancer, sculptor, storyteller, bon vivant, and the founder, craftsman and proprietor of the Harlem African-American Wax and History Museum, died March 31 (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/08/obituaries/08CHAN.html North Hollywood's Own Stonehenge: A Pile of Used Sofas To protest people dumping furniture on the streets, a local artist creates 'Sofa Henge' (Los Angeles Times) http://makeashorterlink.com/?G1AB63EA -- APRIL, 9 Down From the Flagpole, Up in the Museum Gallery Twenty years ago Thomas S. Connelly's wife, Daniele, wanted a 14th-century French tapestry to hang in their new vacation home in Colorado. He bought her an American flag instead (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/09/arts/design/09ARTS.html New Museum Will Celebrate California Art The Pasadena site, dedicated to displaying works from 1850 to today, will open June 1 (Los Angeles Times) http://makeashorterlink.com/?K1BB23EA A Curious Monkey's Climb to Success An exhibition of artwork honors George's creators and the playful simian's six decades in print (Los Angeles Times) http://makeashorterlink.com/?T2CB42EA Everyone's a critic The Turner prize: a plaything of the chattering elite or the event that gave British art to the masses? Jonathan Jones reports, and readers get the chance to nominate an artist for the first time (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/story/0,3604,681113,00.html Art sale has eye for the future Art lovers looking for an insight into collectible artists of the future should this week make their way to the City of London School, where the Contemporary Art Society is holding its annual selling exhibition of artists to watch (The Times) http://www.thetimes.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-261278,00.html -- APRIL, 10 L.A. Sculptor Liz Larner Wins $25,000 Art Award For the second year in a row, a Southern California sculptor has won the Lucelia Artist Award, a $25,000 prize presented annually to "an American artist under the age of 50" through the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Digital: The Artwork Formerly Known as Prints For more than a decade, photography has been haunted by the specter of digital image-making. New technologies have been promising to replace trustworthy film-to-print pictures with digital images, which can be altered easily and invisibly (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Obituary: Christa Gaehde, Expert in Conservation of Art Works, 79, Dies Christa M. Gaehde, a pioneer in the United States of effective techniques for conserving prints and drawings, died on April 3 in Arlington, Mass. She was 79 and lived in Arlington (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/10/obituaries/10GAEH.html Where the End of the Meal Is the Beginning At first glance, the lines outside the Neue Galerie might suggest enthusiasm for the art of Oskar Kokoschka. His Expressionist portraits are on display at the museum, the city's newest, and critics have been enthusiastic. But the visitors clogging the lobby have something other than Viennese modernism on their minds (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/10/dining/10REST.html -- APRIL, 11 An Artist's Pursuit Quickly Takes Shape Nakazato Finishes 750 Works in 16 Months (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Portrait of Propaganda Arthur Szyk Painted With a Broad Brush That Points Up the Dangers of Nationalism. The Polish-born Jewish illustrator Arthur Szyk once said the origin of all art is propaganda, and he lived in a century when propaganda was a matter of life and death. Szyk (1894-1951), whose life's work is the subject of a fascinating and disturbing exhibition at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, was a brilliant draftsman who threw himself passionately into Jewish and Zionist causes (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Fossil Fueled Peter Kranz Is Hot on the Cold Trail of a Dinosaur (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ The Modern Gets a Trove From Corporate Collection UBS PaineWebber has promised the Museum of Modern Art 37 works from its vast collection of postwar art that includes seminal paintings, drawings and sculpture by masters like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Lucian Freud and Jasper Johns. The gift will be the subject of an exhibition in 2005, when the Modern's building on 53rd Street in Manhattan reopens after a major expansion (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/arts/design/11GIFT.html 100 Years After His Birth, New Life for Jean Prouvé (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/garden/11PROU.html Film Series Shows Faces of Two Wars The film series Commitment: The Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowships at 15, which starts today at the Roy and Niuta Titus Theater of the Museum of Modern Art, commemorates the 15th anniversary of these fellowships with 15 programs of works by filmmakers who won them (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/movies/11MOMA.html In the Gloaming or a Glare, the True Colors of an Artist (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/technology/circuits/11NEXT.html Ambiguity's Art Major MOCA show celebrates the power and precision of Willem de Kooning. (Los Angeles Times) http://makeashorterlink.com/?G4DB21EA Auction of Edwardian illustrated letters (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,682093,00.html Returned Van Gogh for sale in Cologne (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,682724,00.html 'It's only my seedy mind' Why would acclaimed war artist Peter Howson decide to paint Madonna - as a nude and without her permission? (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/story/0,3604,682241,00.html All human life is fear The loan to the National Gallery of a portentous painting by Salvator Rosa gives a major work a wider audience (The Times) http://www.thetimes.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-47-263060,00.html -- APRIL, 12 Near Dulles, More Air and Space Huge New Smithsonian Museum Is on Schedule for Opening Next Year (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Museum's Place at Navy Yard In Question Security concerns may force the Navy Museum to move from the grounds of the Washington Navy Yard, a military facility in Southeast Washington that also has served as home for a naval museum, in one form or another, for nearly 150 years (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ More Air And Space, Just South Of Dulles Huge New Museum Rises on Schedule (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ He Was Inside, Outside, but Everywhere Intense The American sculptor H. C. Westermann (1922-1981) is a hard nut to crack. Just when you think you've sorted out your feelings about his work, he does something disconcertingly sexist, corny or obvious. Walking through his large retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum here is a little like being in a cartoon, with Bugs Bunny or Woody Woodpecker popping his head out of one gopher hole, then another and another, taunting his way across a big, flat field (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/12/arts/design/12SMIT.html Epiphany in a Vibrant Universe Depicting Nothing but Itself The Barnett Newman retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art makes such an eloquent argument for Newman's radical and almost ludicrously ambitious achievement that it should help to dispel any knee-jerk impulse you have to reject it or him (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/12/arts/design/12KIMM.html Phillips Cancels New York Sale Forget the advertisements for Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg's Impressionist and Modern Art sale in New York on May 6. The struggling auction house has canceled it. Instead, Phillips will have the auction in London on June 24 at Claridge's (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/12/arts/design/12INSI.html Suspended Between Modernism and an Armenian Past Arshile Gorky: Portraits" at Gagosian Gallery is the first show ever devoted to the artist's portraiture, which seems surprising. One of Gorky's most familiar and defining paintings is an image of himself at 8 standing beside his mother. It's based on a 1912 photograph taken in Armenia, where he was born, a few years before his mother died, under terrible circumstances (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/12/arts/design/12COTT.html Rapturous Light and Color Fill Atmospheric Images (Los Angeles Times) http://makeashorterlink.com/?T2EB21EA A plinth among men The politics of remembrance: Royalists claim that the monarchy is synonymous with Britain's history. But there is an alternative (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,683003,00.html Break-up of BT collection raises fears for historic phone equipment (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,682881,00.html Obituary: Henry Swain The architect Henry Swain, one of the leading figures in postwar building reconstruction, has died aged 77 (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,682872,00.html A £30m museum fit for the future A £30 MILLION museum aimed at the "text message generation" opened its doors yesterday to provide a foretaste of exhibits intended to revolutionise museum visiting (The Times) http://www.thetimes.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-264587,00.html -- APRIL, 13 Proper Mix Of Mortar Is Critical Mismatch During Rehab Can Ruin Old Buildings (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Oneida Indians Give $10 Million to Museum The Oneida Indian Nation, a small New York tribe that operates a casino, a newspaper and a textile factory, yesterday gave $10 million to the National Museum of the American Indian (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Women Spies vs. Popular Myths With the sole exception of your paper, press coverage of the National Women's History Museum's exhibition "Clandestine Women: Untold Stories of Women in Espionage" has been enthusiastic and is generating considerable public interest nationwide and abroad (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Demetrion to Head Menil James T. Demetrion, who retired in October after 17 years as director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, has taken a new job -- succeeding, at least for a while, the man who succeeded him. On May 1, Demetrion, 71, will become interim director of the Menil Collection in Houston (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Obituary: Burton Tremaine, 79, Philanthropist in Arts, Dies His father and stepmother, Burton G. Tremaine Sr. and Emily Hall Tremaine, amassed a major collection of 20th-century art, including works by Jasper Johns, Piet Mondrian, Picasso, Braque and many American artists. Mr. Tremaine's mother died in 1987, and his father four years later; their collection was sold at auctions in 1988 and 1991 (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/13/obituaries/13TREM.html Obituary: Bill Harmsen, Started Jolly Rancher Candy, Dies at 89 The Harmsens also bought thousands of pieces of Western art over four decades and donated the collection to the Denver Art Museum in May. The museum did not disclose the value of the collection, but it included work by Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, George Catlin, N. C. Wyeth and Robert Henri (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/13/business/13HARM.html Concern From the Ground Up Guidelines for developing the trade center site play it safe. What's needed? A desire to break rules. (Los Angeles Times) http://makeashorterlink.com/?M2FB31EA Run down the pole, run up in the gallery (International Herald Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/54562.html Architecture by the book Show illuminates Vignola's rules of the classical orders (International Herald Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/54566.html Whispers of a lost culture: Easter Island (International Herald Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/54567.html Dream again of Dali's pavilion (International Herald Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/54550.html 'Star Wars,' headaches and an artless fiasco (International Herald Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/54568.html Belatedly, American-born sculptor is honored at home (International Herald Tribune) http://www.iht.com/articles/54563.html Comic strips and cubism As the blockbuster Matisse Picasso exhibition nears, Jonathan Jones reveals how Gertrude Stein and a newspaper cartoon called the Katzenjammer Kids pushed Pablo Picasso towards the most revolutionary artistic discovery since the Renaissance (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,683317,00.html Desert songs The Coptic monasteries of Egypt were plundered by the Victorians for their priceless early manuscripts. Now the texts are being restored and reunited - as a virtual collection. Stuart Jeffries is entranced by their timeless beauty (The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,683309,00.html Obituary: Robert Goodden, designer and architect (The Independent) http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=284410 Obituary: Christer Strömholm, photographer (The Independent) http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=284409 Pay and display Exhibition shops are about taking a bit of the museum home with you (The Times) http://www.thetimes.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-1207-264312,00.html -- APRIL, 14 Showing the Flag of Culture (or Not) Austria, with its new Cultural Forum on East 52nd Street in New York, is using culture as a diplomatic tool, as most major nations do. But there's one exception: the United States (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/arts/14WISE.html Obituary: Harvey Quaytman, 64, Artist Honored for Modernist Works Harvey Quaytman, an abstract painter, died on Monday at New York University Hospital (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/obituaries/14QUAY.html When Art Puts Down a Bet in a House of Games (New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/arts/design/14MUSC.html On a Journey Begun Again Many Times Louise Fishman's work has long mirrored her evolving political and spiritual outlook (Los Angeles Times) http://makeashorterlink.com/?S10C42EA Museums: A nation of hoarders They are full to bursting, yet still collecting madly. Have our museums lost their way, asks Bryan Appleyard (The Times) http://search.thetimes.co.uk/cgi-bin/ezk2srch?-aSTART
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