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NEW 8P NOTES NEW 8p NOTES 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.
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