Plessi, Piero Dorazio, Angelo Savelli, Luigi Moore, art historian on Fluxus and pro- NEWS i% NOTES Mainolfi. Other artists are Renato Curcio, prietor of Bound & Unbound, the exhibit Agostino Ferrari and Gianni Ruggero. The will include many scarce Fluxus and on- MUSEUM NEWS hotelier himself is working with a poet, a Flwus works. There will be a celebratory re- The Jewish Museum in New York City journalist and artist, to crate a room in mem- ception at Ubu on 4 May from 1- 5 p.m. has an exhibition called Too Javish which ory of the film director, Pier Paolo Pasolini, dfds with self-parody and self-loathing. murdered twenty years ago in a gay Dick Higgins' exhibition, The Buster Kea- Most of the art has a sense of humor and encounter. ton Show is at 479 Gallery in New York most of the art is not victim art as expected City, 594 Broadway, 3 - 25 May, opening from most race-based, gender-based and The Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, with a shadow puppet performance of Dick ethnic-based material seen in the last decade. VT, one of the most esteemed art collections Higgins' Buster Keaton Enters into Paradise The show will move to San Francisco and in the US., has decided to sell $25 million by Malgosia Askanas at 8:00 p.m. 4 May. Los Angeles, including 45 works by 23 art- worth of art at Sotheby's this autumn, in an ists, including paintings, sculptures, draw- effort to dig its way out of a financial mess. LOST AND FOUND ings, videos and installations, including Lost: The Center for Safety in the Arts Jean-Paul Gaultier's "Hasidic" collection! FLUXUS has closed its doors in New York City be- Mark Chagail 1907-17, a survey of Queensland Art Gallery m South Bris- cause of funding cutbacks. The newsletter, the artist's formative years, opened at the bane, Australia announces that it has recently Web site, and distribution of publications Jewish Museum as well, when Chagall received a major donation of works from one will be handled by the New ~ork~oundation moved from Vitebsk, his birthplace, to St. Pe- of the world's leading publishers of experi- for the Arts. The information center, how- tersburg, Paris and back to Vitebsk. Included mental, avant-garde art editions and multi- ever, which answered individual questions are 100 paintings, gouaches and drawings, as ples, Francesco Conz of Verona, Italy. he has about art hazards, has bitten the dust. Go well as portraits of Chagdl's family and self- donated 102 works by 39 artists, mostly in- make art at your own risk! portraits. The show runs through 4 August. volved with the Fluxus movement, who were The International Museum of active from 1960s up to the present, as well Lost: The remains of Ilaria del Carretto in Carfoan Art, with collections that span as supporting documentary photographs The the Cathedral of San Martino in Lucca, Italy. more than 200 years of cartooning and in- Conz Donation is the largest single gift to the The famous funereal monument by Jacopo cluding more than 150,000 original works, Gallery from an international source. Artists della Quercia was moved this winter and dur- opened in March in Boca Raton, Florida. The represented are Nam June Paik, Charlotte ing the move, the workmen opened the sar- collection includes more than 160,000 pieces Moorman, Henri Chopin, Robert Watts, cophagus and found it empty except for two of cartoon art by more than 1,000 artists from George Brecht, Philip Comer, Alison bricks engraved with the names of the three 50 countries. Knowles, Dick Higgins and Viennese per- men who carried the statue into the transept The Museum of Modern Art in New formance artists Hermann Nitsch and Otto more than 100 years ago. York City has purchased the 19-story Doset Muhl. A comprehensive exhibition and pub- Hotel and two adjacent brownstones on West lication on the Donation is planned for 1997. Found: Workers renovating a government 53rd & West 54th Streets for approximately building in Madrid have stumbled upon a $50 million. This move will give it the capac- Allan Kapmw: Inventiins/Reinven- previously unknown painting by Francisco de ity to add an additional 250,000 sq. A. of tions including Goune/Re-Course: Goya. The Prado Museum confirmed that the space--almost doubling its size. Now it must lowa City, 1969-1996 with photo-texts, canvas, which shows redeemed souls being develop a plan for the new buildings and start recipes and documents took place at Univer- swept upward from purgatory to heaven, was to raise several hundred million dollars. sity of lowa, Iowa City Museum of Art 9 found recently propped against a wall in an The Museum has also received a collec- March - 28 April. attic storeroom and was indeed a Goya. The tion valued at more than $5 million from untitled work is to be put on display in May, Elaine Dannheisser--tough art from the 80s Yoko Ono not only has an exhibition of after it is restored at the museum and 90s, including Serra, Nauman, Gober, new drawings and quotations from "Grape- Beuys, Sigmar Polke, Marden and Cindy fruit" and Blue Room at her gallery in Santa Lost?: A Renoir painting, The Bathers, was Sheman, including paintings, sculpture, Monica, but she also has statements from her stolen from Belgrade's National Museum in drawings, prints, installations and video art. Fluxus pieces from 1960s, Instruction April by cutting it from its frame during a gallery security lapse. A different "Bathers" Dateline: Berlin Paintings, in the windows of some of the most exclusive boutiques and shops on Ro- painting by Renoir hang~ngthe Philadelphia Beate Uhse began selling sex manuals from deo Drive in Beverly Hills. Sometimes they Museum of Art. the back of her bicycle 50 years ago. Now she really work, and sometimes they seem out of is the curator of one of the largest museums place. But it was a stellar crowd that came Lost: $1 million collection of paintings and of erotica in the world, right in the heart of out to see and drink at Giorgio's on Rodeo calligraphy were stolen from a famous tea Berlin, in a building with 3 floors and more Drive to launch the exhibit. If you don't no- house in Hong Kong, destined for sale over- than 3,000 items. One of the most interesting tice, you probably won't see the yellow state- seas, since only the most valuable paintings displays is devoted to Magnus Hirschfeld, a ments on the glass shopwindows, but if you were stolen. Berliner who was one of the worlds first seri- do notice, you follow the progression and ous sex researchers. "get the idea" if you know that Y.O. means Lost? The famed Round Reading Room of the star herself. the British Library may soon be vandalized, Dateline: Sicily while the British Museum prepares to sacri- An enlightened business man, Antonio Presti, fice its commitment to keeping the Round ubu Gallery at 16 E. 78th St., New York has employed artists to design the rooms in City will devote the first exhibition to the Reading Room as a library and work place the Castel di Tusa, near Messina, which he is full range of work created by Fluxus foun- for scholars. Instead, the BM has redefined tuming into an hotel called L'Atelier sul this great space as circulation space, with in- mare Artlsts include ldetoshi Nagasawa, der George Maciunas on 4 May - 22 June. Organized in collaboration with Barbara formation terminals, and as one BM spokes- Maurizio Mochetti, Paolo Icaro, Fabrizio man memorably reported, "a place for schoolchildren to eat their sandwiches." The around 5 themes: writing materials in antiq- famous "Iron Stacks" are to be removed. The Dateline: Norway uity; the Middle Ages; the Printing Press; the desks: integral to the original design, will Electra '96 - Project for Electronic Media modem epoch and the twentieth century. The have to be largely removed. Many details covers electronic art, architecture and design, twentieth-century room, designed by Jost will be altered, despite Grade One statue for with participants kom all over the world at Antonio Milltin, is conceived as a puzzle in- the entire building (And 250 jobs are lost, ac- the Henie Onstad Art Centre in Oslo, Norway spired by Borges's Aleph of which the Library quisitions and conservation budgets have 2 March - 14 April. This is the first exhibi- preserves the original manuscript. been slashed for the moved to St. Pancras). tion of its kind in Norway. Found: Amazing paintings devoted to life in Dateline: Monaco CURRENCY NEWS Stalinist labor camps in Siberia, where the A competition to design the new bank notes artist Nikolai Getman, was sent in 1948 and Cybertenitories by Fred Forvtst was for the Euro, the proposed European single spent eight years. Oddly enough, in 1993 he presented from 2 February - 8 March at the currency, was launched recently by the Euro- showed these paintings under his own aus- Pierre Nouvion Art Gallery in Monaco, in pean Monetary Institute. The designs must be pices. Now people and compatriots are try- which he created the digital universal foot. based on one of two themes: either a "tradi- ing their best to forget their shameful past. People see the outline of their right foot on a tional" approach based on the theme "Ages sheet of paper with name, nationality, date and styles of Europe" reflecting Europe's cul- Lost? French art historian, Jacques Franck, and sent the sheet by email or by fax to the tural heritage, or an abstract or contemporary who recently forced Paris' Louvre museum to gallery.