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LOST & FWND cut the Pelqhme lines so the pEce cauld YQBPDd 2W4 is being celebrated in .Police have m&ed 72 Gatdonia, *&the big reveladory exhibition Pound: Thee mall figurines wed of people for hhe vandalism. "Ddi: Mass Culture" at lhe CakForum ivory from mmm0i.h hsks have been found thorn& 23 May and &en to Madrid, 5%. apologized cave in southwm Saved: Mles van der Rohe'slegmdary Pesburg, Fk md Roteerh. Wershows providing stronger evidence that human Farnswo& House was saved in a Sotheby's include DaPas Dali and hca, Dali mcestors were already adeptat figurativeat anmdion by pesmatu'onjsls, paying $7.5 and Qiical IBiusions, adDdillimitathg a more than 30,000 years ago. One of the nnillion. The National Trust will operate the look at his influence on later artists. For pieces is the oldest know representation of house along with the Landmarks more oma at ion, go to www.dali20O4.org a bird, which resembles a comormt or a Preservation Council of I9linois. fie house duck. The others appearrio be the head of a was sold by lard Palumbo, a British a-b The! Metropolbtxlsn Mwem of A& is horse anmd a figure hakan, haK-&al. pawn and former ckrauYRan of the ex?.'andkg its gallery space to the tune of None is longer than an inch. Council ofGreat Britain. $180 million to display some ofits ancient Greek and Roman atworks and objeds, as E&med: Italian md American scientists Pomd: Two sketches by Michelangelo well as 12,050 objects oflslamic art haatkg will exilnunae the reanaim of 49 members of have been found by the &do art museum from the to the 19& centuries and the Medici clan, the powep-finlRenaissance languidkg in a storage room The and& spdgF/luslin cultures form Spain to merchmtfimily ~~m$edTuscmy,io&dy drawings ofa shoulder and a man's am we India. what they ate .led what illnesses they studiesforfie "Last Judgrmmt", pat ofa set suffered. ofeight drawings donateedto the museum in The GuggeanEHeim Mwem has given The two-yew project is unusual because it 1930. Purported to be by Michelangelo and Rich& Sma a $20 million cap-unission to concerns an elite group of people for whom his school, they had never been studied or produce and i&U a room-size ktaBIation there already is a vast amount of published until now. ofmonurnen~lsteel sculptures to be ready documentation. That i&oma$ion could be in June 2005 forthe Gugenheirn in Bilbao, compared with my new scientzc fmdiigs. BEST %HOWOF 2003 Spain. Lots has been done on qtsof monks, but The htehnational Association of ArS nobody has ever worked on a royaP. CriicsiCiSA ha ceremony on 12 January at The Measem of B'me Arb, Boston has gopuiation. The medical histy will $race the Japan Society presented thei- mual rented oii 21 Impressionist paintk~fiom the pas3 dwitic disease gout &at the awards, voted on by the newly 400 members its incomparable colBection of 36 by Claude Medicis suffer& a genetic prediposition dahe organization, recognizing exceptional Monet to PaperBall, proprietor of a store at but dso compounded by a meat-based diet. work by artists, curators, critics, scholaas, the upscale Bellagio hotel and casino in Las cultural institutions and others. The Vegas. PaperBaU is operated by Pace Stolen: Souv&-hunting~eveshvesPolen Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Wildenstein in New Vork The buzz is &at part d an andent ntesco from the IsmeIi Museum of Modern Apt and the the MFA will reap a $1 million corn this archeotogical site ofMasrP$a,removing a 6- Met-opolib Museum of Art received venture. inch-square section of the Gresco that awardsofexcellence for 1) MabehewBmey: *Museum restoration is now being decoratedtheancient Rommheadquagtersof The Crernaster Cycle (Gugenheb); 2) considered for fragile artifacts by using a Mas& located on a barn mountain hia(isse Picaso, a cotlabomtion between the cfigiht camera md the computer. overlooking the Dead Sea Museurn of Modem Art and museums in London andFrance as best thematic museum *The Tate has acquired the controversiaI Lost: An Hndian mob has destroyed 30,000 show organized in New Yo&, and 3) BaqJoule collection of material related to ancient manuscrip& andriotedin refia1iation ManeVVeiazquez: The French Taste for Francis Bacon. This comprises 1,205 itenas, for Oxford University Press publishing a Spanish Painting, organized by the includingphoto&raphsand documens, which book about a Hindu hg. Met-opoliw Museum as best historica1 were given to neighbor Joule a few days The incident was sparked by an allegedly show. "K* Malevich: Suprematism", before the artist's death. Initially the Bacon objectionable observation by author and organized by the Menil Coliiecdon of Estate questioned its authenticity aod even teacher Jmes hine in a book on the Noustin and the Guggenheim Foundation in its ownership. Valued at around £20 parentage of Maratha warrior king SMvaji. New Yo& was the best monographic million, it is probably the Tate Archive's LI the process, he paints a new and more museum show organized nationally, and most important acquisition. complex picture ofHindu-Muslim relations "Dia: Beacon", organized by the Dia Center .from the seventeenth century to the present for the Arts in Beacon, NV was the best RUSCHA IW MUSEUMS The controversy had seemed to have been thematic museum show organized Three months aAer MOCA in Los Angeles resolved when Mr Earine apologized last nationally. acquired Ed Ruscha's "Chocolate Room" a month for his statements on Shivaji. The conceptual dilation that covers walls of book's publisher, Oxford University Press, MUSEUMS an entire room with shingle-like sheets of withdrew the book &om the market. Museo Reresso has opened in Malaga, a chocolate -coated paper, Ruscha has given But soon after, thousands ofrape Sanksldt melange of buildings that comVins new 455 photographs and prints to New York's manusrripts, ancient books and palm leaf structures with a carefblly restored 16% Whitney Museum of American making inscriptionswere de.stroyed in halfan hour as century Andalusian palace, the Palacio de the Whitney the principal repository of 250 protesters ransacked the Bhmdarkar uenavista 204 works spanning Picasso's Ruscha's photographic works. The @ Ckiental Research Institute. long career in the permanent coPlection, includes 343 vintagephotogaphs-rnostshot One of the worst losses includes a clay cmoning &om two of Picasso's heirs: on a 1961 tour d Europe-original prints tablet dating backtothe AssyPiancivilkation Christke Ruiz-Picasso and herson, Bemard. from the artist's books and a few of 600BC. The proksters, members of a w.nnlnseopicassornala~:aorg uqubl~hedphobgaphs.An exhibitionwill group called Sambhaji Brigade, pelted open at the museum on 24 June, along with stones and broke glass ad the institute. Some an exhibition of Ruscha's drawings. BARCBDEAU CEHSOF&HIP robts. Then he eko uses filing cabinets, an Barcodes are everywhere, coming 50 The faculty art show at St. Louis wmun3y huge of oiifice banality, and also of symbolize co-nsumer culture itself gldiiege's Mermec campus was under Somation storage, which is hpoatant in have been using bar codes in their work wmps black plastic shrouds covering his view of the world. The fiIing cabinet since their advent in the late '60s, and a $heir WJOPPE. The National Education becomes a !dnd of morns&= in Ms robot gowingnuntberofsi*~play ~6%cement Associaxion's attorney sent a 19th to the hSta8lations. on and even gmerate them. At college caIliPlg its wder &at & *dm .kww.bmcodead.com, Scott Blake, an :move black pllstic s+sou&&om their wo&. DAELIWE: kkyo hahaartist, creates cquterkedpo&aits "discrimination md cmohship that is meAshiya Ci5 Museurn ofM ard History of celebrities in which each pixel is paxt of a comiktionally irnpdssib4e." The NEA in Tokyo is keatmed with ~Eosureor being bag code. The result is a so& of digital will sue the college, askgfor a krn-wfary sold. Fanaed for ids collection of works Pi-om pointiiiism His aim is to show celebrities r~~~gorder allowing the covers to go the avant-garde Gut& group, which was bavecommodfied&enaseives. For &lance, back OD for Me show's 1st few days. In formed in Oaka bn 1954, hedfor *heir his portrayal of hadoma uses bar codes rctsporie, the college backed down, atad for concepkxa1m.d perSomace a &e Ayisha f?om her bSDs and books. He atso hvh the last few diays of the show, visitors were Museum is being chmpioned by Japanese visitors to bar-code themselves by entering invited 60 lift the covers lo see the work 5hdiwector, Kamki Ohozd, best howin pensol;al data like age and weight. underneath. Seem tPle teachers were Japan for his Godzilla films. Pn spite of its protesting the college's new fornulate for dramatic mouncment, the council has yet MUMU calculating aat fwulty wosEoa&, requiring to set out a concrete plan for the museum's More than 400 murals faa Chicago public them to put iP1 more houis to emthe same colledion and archives &er 2006. nere is schools have been restored, iargely *3usou& salaries. also an odie petition to save tbe museum Ehe campaign to save +&s Work by &awing support from artists, collectors, Heather Beckerr, chief executive of Me CMFF1TB curza%om. The Wure of the museum now Chicago Cometvation Center. Tours me 5~gsosoEqin Sardinia, has an economy stands in the bala~ce.Eyou are interested in scheduled in Chicago to see these rnurab based on sheep and cheese, yet the town has signing the petition, see done duhg the WPA Period in the 1930s becomethe capita! oPmum1es" or~~tied h~p:ll~~.petiLiononlhe.codashiya/petiti through 1943. walls includiig religious imagery, local on.hlanl disputes, hyper-realism, hpressiolaisnm, ANOTHER BlG BOOK political rallykg cries and a fondness for MOST ENDANGERED ARCHBTECTUML GOAT: A Tribufe to Mohampnad Ah Picasso in kis GuenGca perdod.Nuh cover SEE (Taschm Books) is a 75-poound, 792-page, the lea& of a back street. The gr&~li The Wodd Monuments Fund has mw fisted 20-by-20-inch book packed with 650,000 artists ask before they paint and assent is the Great Wall In Ckina rss the world's most words and 3,000 images. It is covered in rarely withheld. In fact, gd5Bi was a way endangered architectural site. silk and Louis Vuitton l&er md is being of lobbying againsl the govenunmt and comptim. Sincethe artists usewater-based bound at the rate of a few hundred copies a Daktine: LOWDON paints, which crack and fade, the artists paint week. GOAT, by the way, stands fbr Emma Kay's persona! evocation ofthe story overtbe top, Ba%ter-day exponents ofthe twin (Orealest of M1 Tie),in a limited edition of of as8 ira a 10-houranimation is being seen at Italian traditions of fresco painting and I0,000, with nine thousand at $3,000 and the Tate Modern until May. She works at a political protest. 1,000 with a sculpture by the artist JefF silver laptop in a spare mdio. She has spent Koon, to be sold for $7,500. The plastic six months writing a defmitive account ofall Dawtlrse?: UNADA scuipture, which requires assembly, is a she hows about art. Every artist, every porpoise leaping over the book and an Ishran Kantor (or Monty Kantor as soma of in work and every movement she can innatable tire that are resting on a wooden us bow h),well hown Canada skce remember has been included, and the fiat stool. Whether it is a rnegabook, a piece of the 1970s, who makes videos md text is am impressive 130,000 words. It has art or an object of deske, the goal is to sell it, pdomance and sound and automated materrialized into a 10-hour ashimated text according to Mr. Taschen. mackepy, has recently bem awarded the that becomes kcreask~gly detailed and art, Governor-General's Award for visual scrolls faster and faster as it approaches the Arts Online: Aids Archive Pr(Bjec1 but he has been attacked in the media by 21* century, coverirag a wall in the "History thiplk an The Estate Project for Mists with AIDS has those who he is a charlatan and Memory Society" suite of Tate Modem's announced the online publicAion of its outrage and a waste of taxpayer's money. permanent cocolPeclion, surrounded by work resources on composers and musicians with They cite only one item, the time in the early by Rodin and Warhol. The inspiration was 1990s when he used his own blood in the disease Ernst Gombricb's original The Story ofilrt, various performances. They cite his published in 1950, but Kay's work is not "intervention" in the grand ENDAFBGEREQ LIST OF WORLD like Gombrich. In fact, it is not coherent nor DacBaistiSituatimisttradition,htheNationa1 IVIONUNLEn GROWS FASTER balanced. They cannot keep up with with the list Gallery in Ottawa adagab at MOMA in New Ydthat involved throwing his own compiled every two years fom sites Bmce Nauman will be the nex"l~d last blood at the walls. For this he was expelled nominated by individuals, preservation arlist commissioned by the Tate Modem and fiom the gdiiery and banned for life. groups and government agencies. Anmica sponsor Udever to fill the vast space in the This particular act was not typical of has avoeared for the first time on the 2004 gallery's turbine hall. Nauman, who once Kantor's aggressive anti-authori~an list, ;bell as P-36, the only intact @lag descn'bedthe eflect ofhis work on viewers as stance, and his work which &stills rage and in Russia. Included are the GhauJ minarets "like getting hit in the back ofthe neck" now noise into terrifying and exciting in Afghanistan as well as the Ennis Brown bas the chance to inflict damage on an performances, usually concentrating on a House in Los Angeles, one of Frank Lloyd enomous scale. This is probably the largest body struggling to be human in a world of Wright'slandmarktextile-blockhousesfinn palette Naurnan has ever had to provoke techological repression. Me founded the the 1920s. controversy. As Naum has said, he is Machine Sex Action &oup which appears motivated by humanity's innate cruelty and naked, and then gets strapped up with wires lack of understanding. and protheses so that they look like fleshy