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STOCKHAUSEN & THE WTC The journalist in Hamburg con~pletely opening at Tate Britain in London next According to the Gernlan news agency ripped my statcnlents out of a context, year to celebrate the artist"# 90' birthday, dpa, Karlheinz Stockhausen said in an which he had not recorded in its entirety, Freud is desperate to recover the stolen interview he gave on account of a concert to use it as avilc attack against my person portrait-so desperate, in fact, that he in Hamburg: and the Han~burgMusic Festival. This designed the poster hin~selE An "What happened there is - now you must whole situation is regrettable and I am anonymour donor is offering a $140,000 readjust your brain - the biggest artwork deeply sorry if my rcnlarks were rewards for its return. of all timel;. That spirits achieve in a misconstrued to offend the grieving single act what we in music cannot dream fanlilies of the brutal attacks on New Hollqwood is not all bad. A move-set of, that people rehearse ten years long like York City and Washington D.C. I will house used in "Life as a House" is going mad. totally fanatical for a concert and continue to keep the victims to be a dream library for Brcntwood's then die. This is the biggest arhvork that of this outrage in my praycrs.Karlhcinz Kenter Canyon School in the Lor Ageles esists at all in the whole universe ... I StockhausenSeptember 19,2001 Unified School District. A kind of Greene couldn't match it. Against that, we - as & Grcene-inspired Craftsman house is composers - are nothing." LOST 8 FOUND getting a second chance as a beautiful Asked by a journalist whether he A 35,000 Photo Archive, one of the school library, replacing a big concrete identified art and crime, Stockhausen largest collections of photographs of box. replied: "It's a crin~ebecause the people Broadway, Off and Off Off Broadway and were not consenting. They haven't conle to regional theater, was in the offices of Lost: Pool in the Harem (1876) by Jean- the 'concert'. This is evident. And nobody Broadway Digital Entertainment, a Lion Girome, stolen from the Hemlitage had announced them that they could die in con~pany that had been preserving in St. Petersburg, Russia. This is only the its process. What happened there videotapes of historic theatrical second time a painting had been stolen spiritually, this leap from security, from productions that appeared on TV, just a foml the Hernlitage in its 240-year what's ordinary, from life, that sometinlea block away from 7 World Trade Center. history. There is at least one museum a luyrpcnspoco apoco inart. Or ebeithnotlhg." 320 videotapes in various stages of month hit by thieves in Russia, which has The Financial Times Gemmy- quotes- preservation. were not in the office and about 1,500 museums. Stockhausen's colleague Gyorgy Ligeti escaped destruction. The collection had *Found: Two tonibs dating backmore than with the following reaction: "Stockhausen conle from the magazine Theater Week 2,500 years in a part of Cairo where the has taken the side of the terrorists. [...I If which ceased publication in 1997, and ancient city of Heliopolir once stood have he thinks this atrocious mass murder ig an then augmented by a successor magazine, becn found by archcologisls. One of the artwork, I an>sorry that I have to say that InTl~eater,which folded last year. linlestonc tombs contained a sarcophagus heshouldbtloc~upinapa~c1~~chot;pital". and 16 statuettes, and the other belonged * Vandals have ocratchcd a panel known as to a builder, whose name was engraved on the Blue Buffalo out of existence, the statuettes. Afler returning from Hamburg I find false, dcstroyingpricelcssrock art created about *Found: Problenls with Frank Lloyd defanlatory reports in the press. I an] as 200 years ago in Utah's southeart desert. Wright's organic deeign for Fallingwatcr. disnlayed as everyone else about the The decimated rock art featured a shield, Strew problcnls will be repaired attacks in America. several figures and a bison painted on a permanently, becaure it has becn At the press conference in Hamburg, I large sandstone panel tucked into a canyon diagnosed that Wright did not include was asked if Michael, Eve and Lucifer about 15 nliles northwest of Moab near enough stell in the reinforced concrete, were historical figures of the past and I Mill Canyon. It was a 16-foot-long panel particularly in the second-floor terrace. As answered that they exist now, for exanrple unusual because of the blue paint and the a result, the work, begun in late Lucifer inNew York. depiction of a bison in motion. There is a Noven~ber, gives visitors a one-in-a- In my work, I have defined Lucifer as the $500 reward for infornlation in vandalism lifetinie chcnace to see America's cosnlic spirit of rebellion, of anarchy. He cases, and $5,000 more is being offered "building of the 20' century" undergo uses his high degree of intelligence to for infornlation about this particular corrections for $11-n~illion restoration. destroy creation. He does not know love. vandalism. Tours to see the restoration in progress After further questions about the events costs $50. Fallingwatcr is in Mill Run, in America, I said that such a plan *All around Berlin are 2,500 "Wanted" Pennsylvania. appeared to be Lucifer's greatest work of posters plastered on billboards md kiosks Found: The tidy black notebook in which art. Of course I used the designation "work with the image of the British artist Francis Trunlan Capote listed more than 500 of art" to mean the work of destruction Bacon as portrayed by another nlaster names, the definitive social index of its personified in Lucifer. In the context of British painter, Lucian Freud, in 1951, time (19CG) which becanle the guest list to n~yother comments this was unequivocal. when he was 42 and Bacon was 3 1. The the legendary Black and White Ball given I cannot find a fitting name for such a tiny image, oil on copper only 5 x 7 inches by Capote at the Plaza in that gear. "satanic con~position".In my case, it was and based on a photograph of Kafka, Rediscovered: A whole body of work, not and is not my intention to hurt anyone. depicted Bacon with brooding eyes and paintings fronr Fort Pierce, Florida, which Since the beginning of the attack onward tousled hair. It was stolen froni a sold from $10 to $3 5 a piece froni the late I have felt solidarity with all of the hunlan traveling exhibition when it was at the 1950s into the early 1980s, have now becn beings tl~ourningthis atrocity. Not for one Neue Nationalgalleric in Berlin in 19811 rediscovered and this revival of interest in nlomcnt have I thought or felt the way nly and was never recovered. Now, with a them by self-taughtor outsider artisls, now wordearcnowbcingintcrprctcd in the press. major retrorpectivc of Mr. Freud's work reap very high prices as collectibles (especially those of the 1950s). These Pfowever, one marc safe storage space has Girls, since both of then1 blanled women landscapes have become dreanlscapesby a bcen indicated by the custodian who saw for the current crisis. the utter destruction of the works cited group of black artists who left religious ARTIST'S PROJECT: Silence painting for these dreamy landscapes above. and Look it upon himself Lo save A set of conlpact discs featuring silence host dC1 Recovered: Bcnjaniin Johnson what he could His hope that one day in the gathered from BBC Radio 4 broadcasts took more from his summer job than n~ost near future, he will be able to see then1 will be released by a Canadian artist and exhibited in the Mucum of Kabul again. soldfor $430. Matt Rogalsky, 35, will edit college students, police say. The 2 l-year- out all the voices and music from a 24- old from Hamden, Conn., was in court in hour period ofRadio 4 output and crate 24 November on charges he stole $2 nlillion FOUND & DONATED: The second most sets of 24 CDs-one for each hour of the worth of rare books and historic expensive manuscript ever sold in Israel day. He thought up the project after documents from Yale'sBcinecke Rare has bcen donated to the Israel Museum in hearing that Aniericm radio stations are Jerusalem by a New York collector. editing out gaps in broadcasts to squeczc Book and Manuscript Library, where he in more advertising. What is left after held a summer job. Known as the-First Nuren~bergHaggadah, cutting out words and nlusic are "ambient Mer a tip from a suspicious autograph the rare illuminated parchn~entmittenmd sounds" that people usually do not focus dealer who said he bought a signature by illustrated by Joel ben Simeon around on. Rogalsky will crop the silences from George Washington fronr Johnson, police 1449 in Gcrnlany was given to the progranls that aired on 12 December 2000, the 100~anniversary of Marconi's first- in October arrested hinr inhis dorniitoryat museum in August by Erica Jesselson,who ever trans-Atlantic wireless broadcast. the University of Wisconsin, where he is a had purchased it in April at a Sotheby's The project is named Sbecaulre Marconi's sophomore. In hir desk, police say, they auction inTelAvivfor%1,01?.750. transmission consisted of that letter found a trove of valuable letters, maps, repeated three tinrcs at hourly intervals. signatures, and early classic American FOUND POWS MUSEUMS IN THE NEWS novels. Discarded Korans, worn and tattered, line " Museun~sin a Quandiiry: Where are the the rock-studded walls fronr floor to Ideals?" by Michael Kin~nlelmanin the LOST: Some of the world's sn~allest ceiling of a man-made tunnel in the NY Tinles of26 August 2001. pieces of art, which fit into the eye of a mountain called Jabbal-c-Noorul near netdle, have bcen stolen. Three pieces Quetta, Pakistan, across the border from *Onlyaftcr one year as director ofthe Tatc Modern, Nars Nittve, has anounced his created by the British sculptor Willard Afghanistan. About 65,000 bags resngation as its first director. He has Wigan vanished, while being packed aftcr containing somewhere between 3 nlillion accepted a job as director of the Moderna an exhibition in Londonk Covent Garden. and 4 million books and countless loose Musect in Stockholm replaing David The three minute carvings, Snow White pagcsnrakc up this repository which began Elliott, who is to become the first director and the Seven Dwarfs, Tower Bridge and by chance in 1980 when Allah Noor of the Mori Art Museunl in Tokyo in Novcmber. Jesus, are togetherwor&&&100,000.They Daavi, a busincssnian, rode his bicycle *The Tate Modern has a new Tate Online are each less than a millinletre in size and through Quetta, noticing torn pieces of a with more than 800,000 hits a day, are mounted in the eye# of nccdlcs. Bath- Koran on the side of the road. He began to allowing viewers to take a virtual tour bared artist Mr Wigan is today devastated retrieve the discarded books and loose fro111 room to room with 360-degree a1 the loss of three of his prized pages. In the meantime, he discovered scanning. Damicn Hirrt has also devised a program on the net based around his possessions. "No human being can that people often left their old Korans in installation work, Pharnracj~. understand what I am feeling right now. graveyards, so he added cen~eteriesto his The Pnlitzer Fonndation for the Arts Each of these pieces represent months of itinerary. When the collection got too big in St. Louis is really an "un-nluseum", i.c. n1y life and are irreplaceable. "Snow for his small house, the men bought a plot there arc no labets on the art, the works White and the Seven Dwarfs", in of land adjoining Llre mountain and then are not arranged in any logical order, no postcards are for sale, no gift shop, no particular, is the finest piece I have ever hired workers to dig the maze of tunnels. restaurant, no vending machines, no audio done. I have put eight people into the eye There are lights strung along the ceiling guides for rent. No astrays on the balcony, of the needle. No-one else can do that.n and carpet was laid on the floors. But not an elevator csists only because disability- They were due to go on exhibition in only are the Korans stored, but many rights activities fought for it. could be restored, so two binders work Looking like an inpenetrable concrete Japan next year. The theft has been box, the look is intentional. Enrily Rauh reported to the police. there every day, repairing books that can Pulitzer's intention is to create a place for be salvaged. The repaired books are quiet contemplation, aplacewlrerevisitors LOST: 70,000 works of art from the donated to religious rchoolu for student could take their time eiploring art and Museum in Kabul syctematically who cannto afford new ones. An architecture, without distraction. The invitation for old Bibles and Torahs was galleries are open to the public only 11 destroyed by the Talbian Minister of hours a week, on Wednesdily and Sturday Culture with the help of a large group of made almost imn~ediately,but none havc afternoons with no adn~issionfee, but by Talbian goldiers, going from room to room arrived. reservation only. The place will be used and destroying all works of art that had rs a sort of cultural think tank during the the human form as its basis. The museum GUERRILLA GIRLS off-hours. is now a shell of itself, hit by axes and The Guerrilla Girls havc decided in the *The Henry Ford Mnseunl in Dearborn, wake ofSeptember 11 to launch their agit- Micbigan has paid $492,000 at an Internet hammers. In 1992, the Museum was in prop work by producing a poster of an auction for a bus whore owners say was the front line ofattacks. In 1995, "estrogen bomb." Dropped into the the one on which Rosa Parks refused to there was a salvage operation but 3000 middle of Afghanistan, it would induce give up her seat to a white man in 1955. works were stored at the Ministry of both sides to recognize the futility of *The Anrtricnn Center for Food, Wine & the Arts in Napa, California houses Culture, which in the past two years has violence. It was Jerry Falwell and the Taliban who decided it for the Guerrilla gornlet restaurants and exhibitions on destroyed all the works in their possession. shrvation. Pt eranrines the role of wine CAPlTALISM WPTH A VENGEANCE Ben Patterson, Takako Saito, BmVautier, and food in art and society. Artist David Greg Harth, New York- Charler Dreyfus and the others, let me -Corromw Ark Gallery in Washington, based, has been slannping tlnited Sbtes ehank hem dl fhr tBia in the nanl of4T Plums. DG. Has chosen Frank 0. Gehq as paper currcncywith one oftwo phrases, "I Great experience, trufy. And the artists architect for a metal-clad addition to the am not afraid" or "1 an1 not terrorized." seems to have enjoyed a lot too. gallery and its affiliate, The Corocroan 'khe bills are then put bck into circulation This constituted the opening evening of College ofArt dYt Design. in the time-honored way with the goal of the 40 years of Plums in Nov. 2002 we *TheWnlteas ArbMmseam has opened its providing eablin~inalconanfort to skittinh arc preparing in Prance. We arc still newly ren~odeled galleries afier three conmn~ers.He is putting hie mouth wherc negociatiamg the location where the events years, and plan@to open a Center for Art B his money is by naying "I will create art, will take place in Paris, but this concert, Technological Studies in a new building. go out for dinner, yo to a concert. The and its success (nnorc than 500 peoples, for eT4ne snaail Currier Gallery off Art in temorirts want to kill us by deestroying a concert which was aln~ost not Manchester, NH is now the recipient of a our economy and productive spirit. It's advertised), surelywill help ourwork. We $43 n~illioncash bequest and 40 19* not going to happen..." If you would like witl soon release other images of the century paintings, all given by Neq to join Mr. Harth's siamp act, you can concert on the web (those are from Charles Melville Fuller, a former Currier trustee. visit ~.davvidgregharth.~on1/do16ars. Dreyfus, and the gite is the one of Richard * The widow of Peter Ludwig has offered He will send a stamp (free, but it must be Piegza1.M-e hn~Berkanrliand 4T Rums. to donate the world's iargest private returned) or cuchange a check or money Silver, an exhibition ofCtsar, JeffKoons, collection ofwork by Picasso to the city of order for marked bills. Yayoi Kusama, Jackson :Pollock, Andy Cologne, Germany. 774 works of art witl Warhol and Fluxus artist, Robert Watts,is be donated to Cologne nlurcum that bears INTERNET ARCHIVE at the Leo Gastelli gallery through 2 her late husband's name. The Ludwig An internet archive contaiaaing more February 2002 on 59 E. 79" St., NYC. Maselnet already is lnome to a large test than any library in history has opened coillection fo Picasso works. There will be its digital doors, giving researchers and OIBTSlDER ART 49 unique works, 29 ceramics, 37 works the public access to just about everything on paper, 15 relief plates and 681 graphic posted on the World Wide Web over the Cleveland Turner's in Houston ia a menagerie of junk that Turner has prints. last five years. The free archive, created salvaged from garbage cans. From by San Francisco computer enkeprenear Christnnae lights and owan~entrto stuffed IS IT ART3 named Brewster Kahle, allows academics to conduct the electronic equivalent of aninaals, broken toys, fishing poles, An installation that Danlien Hirst, the lipstick, Banabisandnaked dolls and much British artist, assembled in tlic window of archeological digs, rooting through reams more. Thousands come from around the a Mayfair(London) gallery, was of naaterial illustrated the cvolution of the Weband its role in American society. See world to gaze at this fine enanlple of"yard disn~antledand discarded the sanle night s%low", a forna of folk art found in some by a cleaning nlan who sais he thought it http:~'lwrb.archivr.org Soutlaern con~nnunibies. The house is was garbage. A heap of cigarette butts, painted red, white and blue with splashef empty beer bottles, a paint-smeared FUN 1M THE BUFF of green and yellow is known as the palette, an easel, a ladder, paintbrushes, Thousands of Australians stripped naked an Flower Man's House because Turner has candy wrappers and newspaper pages in a chilly drizzle for the latest in planted hundreds of flowers in th nooks strewn about the floor-all of this wan the Anaerican photographer's "Nude Adriflt"' and crannies of his evolving masterpiece. centerpiece ofan exhibition. The cleaning series. About 4,000 people gathered at the nian put it all in plastic bags and dunrped Yama River's Princes Bridge and A certain Van Freeman decorated his it. However, he didn't really throw it adjoining Alexandra Gardens in rented hoplac with croases and biblical away, but set it aside-and Hirst Melbourne. mosaics in Los AngePes, and then resurrected the work as identical to the Since 1992, Spencer Tunick ofNew vanished. Because of Failed rent original as possible, with one exception. York has been photographing hundreds of payments, hewas evicted and disappeared. A sign nearby said "Keep Off." naked people against urban backdrops The neighbors saws what Re had left and from London to Jerusalem. The project wanted to preserve the household, full of ART CRIME IN THE CITY has gotten him arrested seven times in the so manyworks ofarb coiilbining thenature Los Angcles has the only full-fledged U.S. of art and law and 6-d. Mosaics of glass, investigative unit assigned to track down tile, stones and nails cover doors, window art thieves. LAPD Dee. Don Nrycq-k is the DATELINE: Los Angeler panes, walls, and floors. And then, this investigator for the Art Theft Detail and The Watts Towers, danlaged in the 1994 renter of a one-bedroom bungalow, with a during tlar past 8 years he has had seven Nortl~ridgequake, hag been re-dedicated, wall tiled with pennies and ceilings partners, who no sooner had settled into retrofitted and restored thanks lo a FEMA ncrawled with Bible quotations, was the job than they naoved to other details. grant and seven years of repairs. The discovered in his parents' honle in Yet the Art Detail has recovered more than towers are now anchored better, using 16- Baltimore $46 nlillion in stolen art. foot steel beanrs. This work of a self- taught artist, Sinlon Rodia, has bccn LOOTED ART NEW NAME FOR ART SCHOOL intemationallyrecognizedandimages ofit El kissitzky's son, Jen, filed a complaint Instead of Maryland Institute, College of have been included in important on 13 July against the Beyelcr Foundation Art, the comma has been dropped and it is exhibitions worldwide. in Basel, seeking to recover Kandinsky's now the Maryland Institute College of "Improvisation No. I" that was looted by Art-no conmnla, no pause, no division. FLUXUS the Nazis in 1937.The Kandinskywasone Ay-0: Rnlwbow Matwdla8a was seen at of 13 works that nlade up Sophie-Kupperr- MANHOLE COVERS IN CHICAGO Enlily Harvey Gallery in New York City Lissitzky collection; two other paintings Young artists fron~the Gallery 37 city art from 4 October - 3 Novenlber 200 1. Here from the collection havc already bccn program have painted sunflowers and iran URLwl~ereyoucan find some images return to Jen Lissitzky. -'starry nights" by Van Gogh and of the Flusuc Concert of hnecy Gauguin's landscapes and self-portraits * Gunter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning are among the fanlous works decorating http://perfomers.free.frJflu~uslannccy.ht novelist, has proposed that a joint the city's sidewalks to celebrate the Van n1 li German-Polish nluseum for looted art be Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio fo the The concertwas really beautiful, ended in set up. Its building would over-arch the South exhibition at the Art Institute a happy nlcss with the paper pieces of river Oder (the traditional boundary through 13 January. Takako Saito andBenPatterson. Wespent between the Teutonic and the Slavic two nrarvellous days with Eric hdersen, world). WTC AFTERWTH New York City's 2,000 ark institutions KINKADE'S VIRTUAL FANTASY are facing the gravest econonlic period since the fiscal crisis of the 1970s. due to California painter Thomas Kinkade has the plunge in tourism, a decline in licensed his name and artistic inspiration charitable contributions and anticipated in Taylor Woodrow Homes, a London- cuts in the city's culturaI budget. From the based developer building a gated Guggenheim Museum to the American comnlunity in Vallejo, California. The Museum of the Moving Image, layoffs are 10 1-house project, known as the Village, abundant. will try to re-create the artist's fantasy of family life. The names of the nlodef homes arc nanred for Kinkade's daughter6.A satire on thewhole thing can be read in the *Fritz Koenig's "The Sphere" (1969) Lor Angeles Times, 3 December 2001 ! which was a focal point of the large plaza in the middle of tile World Trade Center, part of the rubble of the World Trade Center, necessitated a farewell visit to Koenig's "biggest child" after the 11 September tragedy. Umbrella Museum *The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced in November that it was establishing a $50 million fund for museums, theaters, dance con~panicsand other New York cultural institutions affected by repercussions fronl the 11 Septenlber terrorist attacks, ar well as for public parkg where people congregated after the disaster.

ARCHIVES The Shsi's files (those arc the East Gern~an Secret Police) are being painstakingly piecedtoge&erfrom shreds, shad of paper, some handwritten, some typed, some partly restored. In a sn~all office near Nureniberg, the four million files on citizens of the former GDR, the n~illionfileson West Gem~ansandperhaps 200,00 on foreigners, indicate that the Stasi were spying on everyone else. This does not include the 17,000 sacks of shredded and ripped paper, photos and negatives thatwere hurriedly destroyed by the Stasi as they heard the Berlin Wall fall.

*Russiawill shortly puhiish a flirt of all art works that ended up in its nluseun~sand archives as a result of World War 11. About 1,000,000 books, paintings, coins, church windows and other German cultural objects have gathered dust in Russia for decades.

-Williams College in Massachusetts now is the repository of an archive of 700 hours of videotape and 12,000 photographs taken by Afghans to docun~entthewarhetween the n~ujahedeen and the Soviet Union in Afghanistan from 1987 to 1995. Luckill-, last sunmer it was camed from thc Afghan Media Resource Center in Peshawar, Pakistan by a professor and his friend, a Voice of America journalist, alongwith 3 Afghans: a video canicranlan, a photographer and a con~puterspecialist.