museu mVIEWS A quarterly newsletter for small and mid-sized art museums Spring 2010 ?????????MYSTERY IN AR T A MAN AND A MYSTERY: the 14th century that culminated in the works of Michelangelo. The second edition (the one which GIORGIO VASARI has been most often translated) added biographies of contemporary living artists and his autobiography. The Man In this, his most famous work, Vasari wrote in a Architect, painter, and author of the most style that was anecdotal and engaging. Missing facts famous, and probably the most engaging collection were easily replaced through his flair for the “story.” of biographies of artists, Giorgio Vasari began life in And his bias toward Tuscan art is clearly evident 1511 in Arezzo, Italy. When he traveled to Florence when ultimate perfection in art, as expressed in the as a young man, he studied in the workshop of final pages of the first edition, is embodied in the Andrea del Sarto, with other pupils such as Rosso Tuscan Michelangelo (his is the only biography of a and Pontormo. And it was in Florence, where he living artist). was befriended by the Medici family, that he Vasari died in Florence in 1574, six years after became an enthusiast, in fact an idolater, of the publication of the second edition of Lives. Michelangelo, whose work he attempted to emulate. He soon was spending a busy and productive life The Mystery between Florence, Rome, and Arezzo painting unin - [As described by Konstantin Akinsha in spired frescoes and portraits in palaces and church - ArtNews magazine] es. (Frescoes by Vasari survive in the Sala Regia and the Cancelleria—the so-called 100 days fresco—of In October of 2009, the mayor of Arezzo was the Vatican, and in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. informed that the archives of native son Vasari were A portrait of Lorenzo Medici hangs in the Uffizi, being sold to a Russian company that offered to pay and other paintings remain in his house, a museum, some $225 million to the seller, a descendant of the in Arezzo,) He found his true métier in architecture: Spinelli family, once prominent in Florence. his most celebrated and most inspired work, begun According to law, the mayor had 90 days to block in 1560, was the magnificent Uffizi, designed by the sale by making a counteroffer. However, the him for use as offices ( uffizi ) by the Florentine state. offered price being five times the annual budget of It is surely one of Italy’s most beautiful Renaissance the city, a counteroffer was out of the question. structures. Other well known buildings showing the Appeals were made to the prime ministers of influence of Michelangelo in the Tuscan Mannerist Italy and Russia; to allow the archives to leave Italy style are the church, monastery, and palace created was an abomination, and especially when the town for the Cavalieri di San Stefano in Pisa. was preparing to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Above all these accomplishments, however, is his Vasari’s birth in Arezzo. chef d’oeuvre and the primary source of his fame, The press was rife with the scandal. Citizens his book Le Vite de’ piú eccellenti architetti, pittori, were outraged. Some claimed that the papers were et scultori italiani… (1550; 2nd ed., 1568; transla - worth far less than the figures mentioned and tion, Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, charged that the claim of purchase was a scam and Architects , 1850-54). Dedicated to Cosimo de’ aimed at persuading the state to buy the archive. Medici, the original edition is a compendium of The Vasari house and archives had been trans - prefaces that offer a critical history of Western art ferred to a charitable foundation in 1678 following and artist biographies from the three periods of artis - the death of his last descendant. A Spinelli, the tic development in Vasari’s lexicon: the perfection of executor of the estate, deposited the papers in his classical antiquity; the decline during the Dark palazzo in Florence where they remained for the next several centuries. In 1908, a Ages; and the renaissance of the arts in Tuscany in Continued on page 4 of attendance that were equal to or higher than higher than usual. Dia: Beacon (NY) recorded THE ATTENDANCE the years before the recession. A survey by The higher attendance as did the Massachusetts MYSTERY : Art Newspaper of 20 museums across the coun - Museum of Contemporary Art. try showed that two-thirds of those included In Chicago, Director Madeleine Grynsztejn’s Increases Despite Recession recorded increases in visitor numbers over the take on the attendance phenomenon includes the past three years. Surprisingly, there was no dif - usual factors as well as a few new ones: An Why has attendance risen at many muse - ference in numbers for institutions that charge increase in “staycations”; a heightened interest ums despite the tanking of the economy? admission fees and those that do not. In addi - in the city due to President Obama; the draw of Speculation gives rise to a multitude of theories. tion, institutions that show contemporary art the newly opened modern wing at the Art But no one really knows for sure. Is it because a indicated the most marked increases. Institute of Chicago. museum ticket is a relative bargain compared The Museum of Modern Art (NY), for exam - Some expansion projects boosted attendance. with other diversions? Is it because of the ever ple, with its high ($20) admission fee reported At other museums, which undertook expansions growing interest in and taste for contemporary 2008-09 to be its best year in its 80-year history, in the boom years, there was no gain in numbers art? Is it the result of inclement weather—rain, with an equivalent rise in membership. The of visitors. Some even had steep drop-offs. snow, wind? Is it because of particular block - Guggenheim Museum’s (NY) Frank Lloyd The blockbuster still proves to be a reliable buster shows; rotating exhibition schedules, or Wright retrospective helped to break previous booster of attendance: the High Museum (GA), perhaps loan exhibitions? attendance records. The Museum of for example, recorded its highest attendance to Whatever the root causes, a majority of art Contemporary Art Chicago’s Olafur Eliasson date with the inception of its three-year revolv - museums in the United States have shown levels retrospective also boosted attendance records ing loan agreement with the Continued on page 4 Susan Watkins, Margerite (detail), 1906. Oil on canvas. In “Women of the Chrysler,” Chrysler Museum of Art, VA A VOICE OF EXPERIENCE prompt, and financially stable enough to donate Although this too is useful, it is not engaging, an Training Volunteers: loads of time to the museum. But when important element of the outreach effort. Educational Outreach swamped by hundreds of festival-goers, there are on the Gulf Coast times when I would settle for a few warm bod - Educational advocacy by Howard McPhail ies; due to careful planning that situation hasn’t • Answering questions about the art arisen as yet. Although volunteers are invited to activity/activities. The Mobile Museum of Art (AL) take part in almost all outreach programs, there • Handing out informational resource sheets participates in a variety of outreach education is generally more of a need at outdoor events. In about the art activity to participants or their programs each year, some of which are weekly the past, the museum has had members of the parents. and monthly events in off-site locations. As out - Docent Council take part in outreach events. • Being familiar with any relationship between reach coordinator, I oversee, plan, and imple - Ideally, with their training and knowledge of the the activity and the museum’s exhibits or other ment each of these events. Attendance can range museum’s collections, docents are better utilized programs. anywhere from 15 participants in a seated group for in-house events. art activity, to over 1,500 visitors streaming in to But, who are the volunteers? Where do they General problem solvin g/ Logistics complete “make & take” projects in an all-day come from? Why are they here? What do they • Knowing what to do when a wall of people festival setting. do? Anyone who works with volunteers ulti - is waiting; knowing ways to maintain the flow The Mobile Museum of Art is fortunate to mately asks these questions in hopes that the of activity. have on staff a volunteer coordinator who is able answers can help them successfully recruit an • Knowing what to do when there are no to develop a body of volunteers for the muse - effective group of workers in the future. people waiting; knowing ways to invite um’s ongoing activities, including those initiated Consequently, our efforts this past year have participation. by the Outreach Education department. As out - been focused on developing a younger group of • Having flexibility in adapting physical reach coordinator working with the volunteer teen- and college-age volunteers who can specif - settings during the event: avoiding or limiting coordinator, my duties lie in the interaction with ically work the weekend outdoor events. “bottlenecks,” maintaining art materials, the volunteers after they are recruited—a com - Members of our staff have attended local volun - preparing for impending rain, etc. plex task. For example: outdoor events are teer and college festivals, career expos, and have met with high school service groups in an effort Developing volunteers’ recall of information …outdoors—the weather may be hot, cold, about the museum is an important skill to windy, or stagnant. Volunteers are sometimes to bolster our number of young volunteers. Understandably, this particular demographic, address in orientation training: reviewing infor - asked to stand for long periods of time. Often mation handouts is a quick and straightforward they are asked to assist participants who may especially those who have the desirable set of skills, the motivation, the maturity, and their own method of teaching. Included in the orientation range in age from 3 to 93 and who are invited to training is a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) unleash their inner artistic creativity. All these transportation is in high demand with other non-profit groups as well as potential employers. sheet that discusses general issues and concerns responsibilities require skill sets that are typical - a volunteer may have during an event. ly not found in the average volunteer. Fortunately many schools have service require - ments for their students, and this is very helpful Addressing social skills is a little trickier. An Currently, the museum utilizes a few part-time opening introductory script has been developed art educators whose high level of skill, talent, in enticing them to participate in volunteer activities. to give volunteers a starting point in the process energy, and organization in the development and of introducing themselves and the activi - instruction of the art activities is essential to the ties/projects they may be working on with their success of each outreach program. There is no Requirements for volunteers participants. way that this small group, however willing, can Volunteers are required to attend at least one Similar in format to the FAQ sheet is the be available to lead and attend each event, nor orientation before attending an outreach event “What If” document, which is designed to guide would they be able to handle the large numbers and representing the museum. Certain skill group discussions on possible problems that a of participants over an extended period of time sets—disseminating information, social interac - volunteer may encounter during the course of an without significant support from the museum’s tion, educational advocacy, and general problem event. These discussions are wide ranging, from outreach volunteers. solving—have been identified as being more how to assist a participant in generating creative Our outreach programs are designed with spe - important and influential than others in getting ideas for starting an art activity to what steps to cific and unifying goals in mind—a Mobile volunteers to be genuine contributors to outreach follow when running late or when not able to Museum of Art “branded outreach experience” if goals. attend a scheduled event. you will. There are interactive goals: to get all Finally, volunteers are given an opportunity to participants involved, to encourage them to be General knowledge complete art activities for upcoming outreaches. creative and to complete one significant art activ - • Having basic museum information: the loca - Depending on the number of activities planned, ity/project. There are broad educational goals: tion of the museum, operating hours, general the amount of materials in stock, and time con - each outreach should deliver a creative and artis - admission prices. Volunteers should also be able straints for the training, they may be asked to tic challenge, have clear and sequential instruc - to guide participants toward museum resources, limit their choices or pair up into teams. This not tions, expectations, models/examples, guidance, and to offer in-depth information about museum only gives them first hand experience, but also etc., and be tailored to audiences' attention span exhibits, staff, upcoming programs, etc. affords the opportunity to (and sometimes challenge the audience's atten - • Encouraging participants to visit the muse - Continued on next page tion span when possible). There are just in case um’s website—know the web address. goals: outreaches should contain an extra and/or • Soliciting sign-ups for the monthly email museu mVIEWS an alternate art activity. And there are results update newsletter. goals: these programs should deliver measurable • Handing out promotional flyers for specific Editor: Lila Sherman skills or units of knowledge. In addition, they education programs and museum events. Publisher: Museum Views, Ltd. should attract new audiences and broaden the 2 Peter Cooper Road, New York, NY 10010 learning experience to cultivate potential spon - Social interaction Phone: 212-677-3415 Fax: 212-533-5227 sors, members, and patrons. • Inviting participation and providing feedback Email: [email protected]. None of the above is easily accomplished, by way of verbal encouragement during the museum VIEWS is supported by grants from the especially during the brief interaction between activity/program. Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation museum personnel and a participant on a warm • Standing. Sitting can be seen as passive and and Bloomberg. afternoon (remember, we’re in Alabama). It can communicate a lack of energy. Volunteers would be wonderful for each volunteer to have a are encouraged to stand unless they are actively museum VIEWS is published 4 times a year: formal education, be a practicing art historian involved in art-making with the participant while Winter (January 1), Spring ( April 1), Summer and an experienced artist in addition to being he/she is seated. Without interaction, a seated (July 1), and Fall (October 1), Deadlines for humorous, engaging, dependable, patient, volunteer is simply keeping the table neat. listings and art work are November 15, February 15, May 15, and August 15. 2 REVIEWS: Beauty Rears its Head—Twice

discuss the educational value of the activities in middle-school-age art club; they learn from each Professor, philosopher, and public commen - context. other. Confidence is gained from many sessions, tator Roger Scruton has produced a short treatise doing the work. The more you create with a on an elusive subject, Beauty (Oxford University Future volunteer training group, the easier it gets. Press, 2009). In it he discusses and analyzes our Volunteer orientations are offered the week perceptions of human, natural, everyday, and before the larger outreach festivals. However, Dauphin Island Sea Lab and the Estuarium— artistic beauty with the understanding that the volunteers are encouraged to attend as many Dauphin Island, Alabama phenomenon of beauty exists as an integral and orientations as they are able, and those who have Denise Keaton—Scheduling Coordinator life-sustaining force in the Platonic sense. attended as “alumni” are able to offer good …skill sets for volunteers in educational pro - “…the experience of beauty implies that it is advice and encouragement to “newbies.” We are grams? rationally founded [as through the measurements preparing a comparative video of “Effective vs. Environmental Education outreach. Other use of Vitruvian man]. It challenges us to find mean - Ineffective Interaction (Good vs. Bad)” volun - of volunteer skills: butterfly garden maintenance ing in its object, to make critical comparisons, teering using clips from past events and in some and upkeep, clerical office assistance. and to examine our own lives and emotions in cases staged encounters. Prospective volunteers the light of what we find. Art, nature, and the will be able to watch these short video clips …volunteer training prior to an event? human form all invite us to place this experience while completing a brief checklist followed by One full day of training is required. We do in the centre [sic] of our lives….” a group discussion. some on the job training but ask that volunteers And in a chapter on “The Flight from make a commitment to attend the annual training Beauty,” the comments are sharp: Art, he notes, Training Around the Gulf Coast session normally held in September. They are has taken a turn away from beauty. “…recent art The Gulf Coast is a culturally vibrant and issued a training manual and encouraged to par - cultivates a posture of transgression, matching diverse geographical area. For local museums, ticipate in our field activities (beach walk, marsh the ugliness of the things it portrays with an the need for volunteers to assist in implementing trip, boat trip, touch lab, plankton lab, oceanog - ugliness of its own. Beauty is downgraded as raphy, what's in the water activities). Many solu - educational programs is constant. Like the something too sweet, too escapist and too far tions on how to deal with difficult situations are Mobile Museum of Art, each of the following from realities….” organizations occupies a unique educational covered in our training manual. OJT volunteers are paired with an experienced docent for a mini - For those who long for the sustaining quality niche in the Lower Alabama (the East Coast of beauty in art, this book is a healing balm. “LA”) Gulf Coast community. There are many mum of three days or until the new docent is similarities around the region in the way that comfortable. Before an event, it is most impor - volunteers are prepared and utilized. There are tant for the teacher to share with each volunteer In his essay, “Beauty as Symmetry” also significant differences. The following are as much information as possible, and his/her (American Arts Quarterly , Winter 2010), profes - responses to a series of questions that were expertise on what to expect. I have worked to sor of Italian and author Robert E. Proctor posed to shed light on those similarities and improve on the information I am able to share by expounds on the classical views of beauty: “For differences. participating in the events myself to see what is Cicero, the affirmation that symmetry, propor - needed and to be on hand. tion and harmony—beauty, in short—exists in Eastern Shore Art Center (ESAC)—Fairhope, the cosmos establishes the hope that it can exist Alabama …plans for training educational volunteers also in human society….” Vitruvius, who meas - Nancy Raia –Community Outreach Coordinator in the future? ured the symmetry of the human form (the What are the skill sets for volunteers in your Monthly discussions on what’s new at the Vitruvian man)—“The unity of this man’s body educational programs? Dauphin Island Sea Lab. and its members is thus not an organic, but Valuable skill sets in volunteers we seek: prior Museum of Mobile—Mobile, Alabama rather a mathematical and geometrical one. As experience teaching, or with children, outgoing, Jennifer Fondren—Curator of Education such, it links the body to something outside of and art interested. Current members of ESAC itself: the cosmos….”—declared that “Nature’s who have some knowledge of previous shows are …skill sets for volunteers in educational truth is the beauty of symmetry,” a quantity that helpful, but not mandatory. Sometimes a new programs? can be measured mathematically. But, he trainee brings in great new eyes and voice. Outgoing personality, good communication believed, like Plato, that it is also a quality: the Having someone who is social and entertaining skills, good knowledge of museum programs and “graceful appearance and agreeable aspect in the holds the audience better than someone full of exhibits and the historical information that corre - composition of the members.” Plato had asked knowledge, but flat. If they personally enjoy the lates to each, attention to detail. if, in order to produce the illusion of beauty, exhibit themselves, they will seek out more …volunteer training prior to an event? “craftsmen say goodbye to truth and produce in information to make their presentation better. My We provide a training manual as well as the their images the proportions that seem to be current outstanding volunteers have a back - historical information that corresponds to our beautiful instead of the real ones.” Plato’s pupil ground in drama and/or theater or even story - exhibits. We provide a suggested Aristotle went further. telling. They absorb the information and then tour script for the regular guided According to him, we first find a way to spin it with their own unique tour experience. Behind the scenes know a thing through sense style/personality. volunteers receive individualized perception. Beauty, for hands-on training. Aristotle, is a form that can What is the outline of your volunteer training be perceived as a completed prior to an event? …plans for training educational Outreach training involves volunteers working volunteers in the future? and unified whole by the eye. a project through. They assist the lead teacher on We will use peer training oppor - “Platonic theory of a variety of field trips before they can "be on tunities to supplement what we are transcendental beauty,” says their own." When the art teacher has a chance to already doing—getting volunteers Proctor, “points to a funda - engage with a lesson that involves a volunteer’s to interact with each other and try mental truth about art: in own natural interests, it always flows better and out tour techniques by using their every experience of beauty, produces better results fellow volunteers as the people on whether in Nature or art, the tour. K there arises a haunting sense What ideas or plans do you have to enhance the of an even greater beauty training of your educational volunteers in the Howard McPhail somewhere else…. K future? is Curator of Education— Bringing in various volunteers from all age Outreach at Mobile Museum of Art. AL Man Ray, Simone Kahn (with Vanuatu groups, and immersing them in my many proj - male figure, Eastern Malekula , c. ects. Having senior citizens working alongside a 1927. In “Man Ray,” University of New Mexico Art Museum, NM 3 Rotterdam. They are both called St. Jerome are at least two versions of his major early Attendance Cont’d from Page 1 with an Angel ; they were both produced in works, makes it difficult to assign a work’s van Dyck’s Antwerp studio. They are almost complete authorship to the master. Louvre in Paris. Director Michael Shapiro identical. “‘If you buy an early van Dyck, you should explained about the Louvre collaboration: “We The Stockholm painting was purchased by be aware that there is likely to be a second or were able to raise over $16 million in sponsor - King Adolf Frederick in 1746-47. It has been on third version,’ says Lammertse, adding, ‘It’s ship for [the Louvre show], our membership view to the public since 1792. more about the quality of the piece rather than increased, our attendance increased, and our The Rotterdam painting, originally owned by simply a matter of which was first.’ ” visibility around the world was enhanced Rubens, who mentored van Dyke, remained in The two St. Jeromes were on view together at dramatically. That’s priceless.” private collections, out of sight of the public the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen early this At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, through the 19th and much of the 20th cen - year. They are now being shown in Stockholm at attendance rose steadily for the two years since turies. It reappeared in 1972, when the Willem the Nationalmuseum (through May 23). the opening of the Broad Contemporary Art van der Vorm Foundation loaned it to the Museum. Says a LACMA representative: Boijmans, immediately setting off a debate on WHY DID HE DO IT? “What we find from surveys we’ve done of our which was the original. audience is that dollar for dollar, people still Conservation work began on both paintings Van Gogh’s Mystery find museums a greatly affordable bang for during the first decade of this century. Brought their buck.” together in Stockholm in early February 2009, Why did Van Gogh mutilate his ear? Still Life: In fact, the phenomenon is not new. Looking conservators took paint samples from both, and Drawing Board with Onions , painted in 1889, back to pre-recession days, museums were examined them with x-radiography and infrared provides an answer, according to Martin Bailey doing just fine. A survey of some 138 nonprofit imaging. They concluded that the Rotterdam of The Art Newspaper . Among the various cultural institutions in New York City commis - painting was in better condition; the Stockholm objects on the board is an envelope addressed to sioned by the Alliance for the Arts found that in one was damaged as a result of restorations that Vincent from his brother Theo. Until now, the 2004, 25.6 million people attended nonprofit had worn away features of the face and the robe envelope has held no interest, nor has it been cultural institutions (museums, performances, of St. Jerome. considered as illustrating a specific letter. zoos, and botanical gardens)—more than the X-radiography revealed changes in the Mr. Bailey, however, opines that the letter in combined total attendance at Broadway theaters Rotterdam work not found in the other version: the painting probably arrived in Arles on and sporting events, the very attractions that The Saint’s cloak was originally floor length; December 23, 1888, the very day that Vincent make New York a destination city. only his feet were visible. Later, van Dyck cut his ear. “It almost certainly contained news painted the lower leg over the cloak. The angel that Theo had fallen in love with Johanna (Jo) was also changed significantly. Bonger,” says Bailey, “and Vincent was fearful The evidence, and the free brushstroke of the that he might lose his brother’s emotional and Rotterdam painting, led to the conclusion that financial support.” it, not the Stockholm version, is the original. Although the handwriting on the envelope is The Stockholm work appears to be a copy. But Theo’s, the postmarks are not so clear. Only one the pigments in both works were identical, lead - contains the number “67,” the number that was ing to another conclusion: that they both came used by the post office in Place des Abbesses, from the same studio. close to Theo’s Montmartre apartment. Another postmark reads “Jour de l’An,” New Year’s The Mystery Day, say specialists working on the new edition of Vincent’s letters. They reached the conclu - [As discussed by Emily Sharpe sion that the letter had been mailed during the in The Art Newspaper ] busy period around New Year and had arrived TWO PAINTINGS AND “What remains to be seen is how much of on December 23, the same date that Vincent had A MYSTERY : the Stockholm piece can be attributed to van received his stipend from Theo, sent by post Are They Both Van Dycks? Dyck versus how much was painted by his from Paris. studio using the Rotterdam work as a model. The new theory up-ends the established The Paintings According to Boijmans curator Friso assumption that Vincent was unaware of his Lammertse, more research and comparisons of brother’s engagement until after the mutilation. One is in the Nationalmuseum in van Dyck’s early work is needed before this Instead, it puts the letter in his hands on Stockholm; the other is on long-term loan to question can be answered. The fact that van December 23. Theo had written to his mother the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Dyck employed several assistants, and that there about the engagement on Continued on page 9 A MAN AND A MYSTERY: Continued from page 1 that the buyer was a Russian company—Ross Festari lawyers jumped into action, traveling to ?Engineering, a division of a construction con - Russia to try to negotiate what they called an researcher of the Spinelli archives came upon the glomerate called the Ross Group. The deal was irrevocable contract. In addition, Italian investiga - Vasari papers by chance, a happenstance that signed and guaranteed with the backing of one of tors found no recording of a fatal accident in all refueled interest in the artist’s legacy. In 1915, the Russia’s largest banks. But it remained in limbo of the Russian Federation on that day. Italian government bought Vasari’s house and for the 90 days grace while the town of Arezzo, Multiple questions arose: Why would a turned it into a museum. Ten years later, another in order to prevent the sale, looked for ways to wealthy Armenian “oligarch” want to own an Spinelli “permanently loaned” the young muse - come up with a counteroffer. archive that could not leave Italy? Did the “oli - um 29 volumes of Vasari documents, which A month later, two months before the 90-day garch” really exist? If so, why would he not included drawings, sonnets, letters written by grace period ended, the named seller, the Spinelli arrange such a major purchase through the major Michelangelo, and correspondence between grandson Giovanni Festari, died, leaving four representatives of sales and purchases such as Vasari and Cosimo de’ Medici, Amerigo sons. But the Italian government, by then, had Christie’s or Sotheby’s, rather than an obscure Vespucci, and Pietro Aretino, among others. And clarified the legal status of the archive—no mat - Russian firm? 60 years after that, in 1985, another Spinelli ter who the owner of the Vasari archive, it would More questions about the whereabouts of transferred his property to a grandson who did stay in Arezzo. selected papers from the archive have been raised not bear the family name. He in his turn, tried to Meanwhile the Festari sons found their sale to by the Festari clan. Some, they say, have made overturn the “permanent loan” status of the be in question: the Russian representative of Ross their way mysteriously to a distinguished archive, unsuccessfully. Engineering announced that his client was in American institution—the Beinecke library at News of a potential buyer of the archive came reality a friend, an “oligarch of Armenian descent Yale University. The plan, they say, is for yet to the mayor of Arezzo after several illegally living in Siberia.” But his friend had been killed another investigation, and a lawsuit. K framed documents were submitted to the in a traffic accident; therefore the purchase was Superintendent of Tuscan Archives. He affirmed null and void. 4 Sir Anthony van Dyck, St. Jerome with an Angel . The two versions. spring VIEWS

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K Tent Dress” (May 2) Interactive (June 5) Landscapes of the “Food for Thought: Sculpture installation linked to social and region before its growth and by Luis Montoya and Leslie cultural themes. development following WWII. Ortiz” (May 16) Large-scale sculptures of tomatoes, citrus, Wichita Art Museum “Docent San Jose Museum of Quilts watermelons, leeks, and Selections” (May 2) Works from & Textiles K “Navajo asparagus cast in bronze and the collection. K “American Weaving in the Present Tense: patinated in realistic color. K Chronicles: The Art of Norman The Art of Lucy and Ellen “A Secret Language: Rockwell” (May 30) Original art - Begay” (May 2) Contemporary Sculpture by John Bisbee” works and Saturday Evening Post textile art by mother-and- (June 27) K “Watercolors covers. daughter team. 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University of Illinois, Urbana- Louisiana Cantor Arts Center , Stanford Champaign K “Intersections: Art Newcomb Art Gallery , New University, Stanford K “The Eye Connecticut in Postwar New York (May 2) Orleans K “Joan Mitchell: Works of the Beholder: Honoring Ruth Yale Center for British Art , New Works by European artists who on Paper” (June 27) and Robert Halperin” (May 30) A Haven K “Compass & Rule: sought refuge in the U.S. on the Comprehensive survey exploring woven baby-carrier from Architecture as Mathematical eve of WWII and by those who the artist’s evolution as an abstract Cameroon and a Japanese wood - Practice in England, 1500-1750” were drawn to New York’s bur - expressionist. block print are among the works (May 30) Drawings, paintings, rare geoning art scene in the postwar on display. K “Tracing the Past, books and manuscripts, prints, period, 1945-51. K Through May Maine maps, models, and scientific 23: “William Kentridge: Ambi- Portland Museum of Art K instruments that explore the valent Affinities” Six animated “Objects of Wonder: Four role of mathematics in trans - films on political and social Centuries of Still Life from the forming architectural design. themes; “Baggage Allowance” Norton Museum of Art” (June 6) Multi-layered installation that Paintings, sculptures, and photo - Griswold Museum , Old examines connections between Lyme K “Tula Telfair: people and their worldly posses - Landscapes in Counterpoint” sions; “Tracing Proust” Original (June 27). Large-scale land - manuscripts, correspondence, scapes shown alongside 19th- and prints. and early 20th-century paint - ings by Cole, Church, and Indiana others. Indiana University Art Museum , Bloomington K “Kandinsky: The Father of Ben Shahn, Unemployed , 1938. Tempera on Florida paper mounted on honeycomb board. In Boca Raton Museum of Art K Abstract Art” (through May) “Concerning the 1930s in Art,” Westmoreland Seminal abstract prints from his Museum of American Art, PA “African, Oceanic and Meso- American Treasures from the Bauhaus period of the early 1920s. K Drawing the Future: Master Ink Permanent Collection” (June 13) “Youth, Dancing, and Joy: Painters in 20th-Century China” Sculptural figures, masks, ritual Photographs by Malick Sidibé” artifacts, architectural elements, (May 17) B&W images by Malian (July 4) Portraits, bird-and-flower K paintings, and landscapes. K adornments, and performance photographer. “Thomas “Longing for Sea-Change” (June items. K “Late Twentieth-Century Chambers (1808-1869): American 26) Video installations by contem - Abstraction: Works from the Marine and Landscape Painter” porary artists living and working in Permanent Collection” (May 2) (May 30) An untrained artist Africa and its diaspora. K Through Motherwell, Johns, and others. whose folk aesthetic pioneered the May 1: “Contemporary Multiples” way for landscape and maritime Unconventional ways in which Museum of Arts and Sciences , painting. K Karla-Lonavla, Ravi Varma Press, Sri Shanmukaha artists like Oldenburg and Daytona Beach “Reflections: Subramania Swami , c. 1900-1920. Lithograph. In “Painted Songs and Stories,” Davis Museum, MA 5 spring VIEWS continued graphs from the 17th through the Panel Painting in Early Renaissance 2) Contemporary drawings, 20th centuries: Hartley, Matisse, Italy” (May 30) The museum’s col - paintings, sculpture, and pho - Mapplethorpe, Picasso, Chagall, lection of early Renaissance paint - tographs drawn from the and others. K “Modernism and ings and medieval sculpture com - Vogels’ recent gift of 50 Masquerade: Max Beckmann prise this focus exhibition around works, part of their Fifty (1884-1950)” (May 23) German Middlebury College Museum of Works for Fifty States initia - print master. K “Division and Art’s newly acquired altarpiece by tive. K “Art, Anti-Art, Non- Discovery: Recent Work by Lippo d’Andrea. Art: Experiments in the Public Frederick Lynch” (July 11) Abstract Sphere in Postwar Japan, paintings by Maine artist. Davis Museum , Wellesley College 1950-1970” (June 6) The K Through June 6: “Painted Songs avant-garde art produced by Maryland & Stories: Contemporary Pardhan innovative groups that pro - Mitchell Gallery , St. John’s Gond Art from India” Bardic priests duced objects and ephemera College, Annapolis K “St. John’s from a tribal clan of central India combining traditional and College Community Art Exhibition transform ritual performing arts into new media. 2010” (May 2 –16) Ceramics, paint - something new: figurative and nar - ings, drawings, prints, sculpture, rative visual art that depicts the nat - Jacob Gallery , Wayne State textiles, and photographs. ural and mythological worlds; University, Detroit K “Seeing God in Prints: Indian “William Gropper & New Walters Art Museum , Baltimore Lithographs from the Collection of Social Commentary Art” K “Japanese Cloisonné Enamels Mark Baron and Elise Boisanté” (June 25) Social realism of from the Stephen W, Fisher Late 19th- and early 20th-century the 1930s. Collection” (June 13) Intricately color prints of Hindu gods and god - adorned vases, boxes, and trays desses; “Stephen Vitiello” Sound Minnesota worked in gold, silver, and colored and light installation; “Recon- Tweed Museum of Art , Sam Hernandez, I’m Listening , 2009. Mixed woods, enamels. K “Expanding Horizons: naissance; Three Wall Drawings; University of Minnesota, Duluth chair. In “The 185th Annual,” National Academy Recent Additions to the Drawings “Ritual Series: Retelling” K “Is He Dead?—Mark Twain Museum, NY Collection: (July 3) Delacroix, and Jean-François Millet at the artist graduated from high school. Meissonier, Doré, Gérôme, and oth - Kniznick Gallery , Brandeis Tweed Museum of Art” (May 2) ers K “Poetry and Prayer: Islamic University, Waltham K One in an ongoing series of New Hampshire Manuscripts at the Walters Art “Tear/Repair (Kriah/Ichool)” (Apr. Collection Features, which explore Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery , Museum ” (June 13) Religious and 26) Mixed-media tribute to Jewish selected works from the collection Keene State College K “Passionate non-religious works spanning the women by Israeli artist Andi in detail, often placing them in the Pursuits: Keene State College 9th to 19th centuries.. Arnovitz: painting, sewing, and context of other events, like the Alumni, Faculty, Staff, and Our assemblage. concurrently running play Is He Community Partner, the Friends of Washington County Museum of Dead? the Thorne, Share Their Creations Fine Arts , Hagerstown K “Valley Clark Art Institute , Williamstown and Collectibles” (June 4-July 25) Art Association Exhibition” (May K “Giovanni Boldini in College of Design , University of Non-juried exhibit of work that 9) Works of art ranging from water - Impressionist Paris” (Apr. 25) Minnesota, St. Paul K “Native people create and collect, or a visu - color and oil paintings to sculptures Impressionist paintings made after Viewpoints: Paintings and al expression of what they are pas - created by members in Maryland, his move from Italy to Paris in 1871 Drawings by John Koepke” (May sionate about. Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West and before he became a much 14) K “How Secretaries Changed Virginia. sought after painter of stylish por - the 20th-Century Office: Design, New Jersey traits. K “Constable and After: Sir Image and Culture” (May 23) Zimmerli Art Museum , New Massachusetts Edwin Manton and the British Office equipment, furniture, fash - Brunswick K “Seva’s Blue McMullen Museum of Art , Landscape.” (June 23) Constable ions, magazines, and more. Horizon: The Poet Seva Nekrasov Boston College K “Asian Journeys: and Constable look-alikes. and Artists of Unofficial Moscow” Collecting Art in Post-war Mississippi (May 30) Poetry and art in com - America” (June 6) Sculpture and Rose Art Museum , Brandeis Rogers Museum of Art , Laurel K memoration of a generation of ceramic works spanning Asian cul - University, Waltham K “The Rose “NASA Art: 50 Years of Soviet underground culture. tures from the late 6th to early 19th at Brandeis: Works from the Exploration” (June 27) Drawings, centuries, all from the Rockefeller Collection” (May 23) Modern and photographs, sculptures, and mixed New Mexico Collection at the Asia Society contemporary works including media that track the space effort: University of New Mexico Art Museum in New York. everyone—used as a teaching Leibovitz, Paik, Rockwell, Warhol, Museum , Albuquerque K “Man resource and and others. Ray: African Art and the Modernist Cape Cod available for Lens” (May 30) Images by Ray and Museum of Art , scholarly use Montana his contemporaries (Beaton, Evans, Dennis K “On by appointment, Missoula Art Museum K Stieglitz) appear side-by-side with Common Ground: but also free and “Variations in Portraiture” (May 26) African objects that appear in them; Still Life from the open to the Three contemporary artists’ takes an exploration of African art in the Collection” (Apr. public. on portrait painting. K “Griff context of American modernism 25) Paintings; vis - Williams: It is Not Down in Any and the Harlem Renaissance, surre - itors are invited to Michigan Map; True Places Never Are” alism, and the worlds of high fash - create a still life University of (Apr. 28) Enamel and resin paint - ion and popular culture. of their own by Michigan ings inspired by Montana’s land - arranging objects Museum of Art , scape. K “Tom Foolery: The New York set out for them. Ann Arbor K Vendorama Series” (May 9) Hofstra University Museum , “An Economy of Miniatures of streetscapes in Hempstead K “Settling into Nature: Mount Holyoke Means: The small Western towns. K “Marilyn La Bassée, a Contemporary College Art Dorothy and Lysohir: Good Girls 1968” (May Landscape in France, Photographs K Museum , “The Jean-François Millet, Le Depart Pour le Herbert Vogel 30) Over 160 ceramic portraits of by Makael Levin” (July 30) Photos Art of Devotion: Travail (Going to Work), 1863. Etching on Collection ” (May young women with whom the of rural France are accompanied by paper. In “Is He Dead?” Tweed Museum 6 of Art, MN texts that suggest broader readings film, and performance art by two who offer each other analysis and Taft Museum of Art , Cincinnati K of the images. Brazilians. feedback; “Double Dutch” “Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Contemporary installations by Holland, 1880-1914” (May 2) Katonah Museum of Art K “The Metropolitan Museum of Art , artists either born or trained in Paintings and works on paper by Art of Contemporary Puppet New York City (May 9) “Playing Holland to mark the quadricenten - American artists who reacted to Theater” (June 13) A fusion of with Pictures: The Art of Victorian nial of the Dutch discovery and set - growing urbanization at home by visual and performing frequenting or settling in arts. small, pre-industrial communities in Holland: Americas Society , New Henri, Chase, York City K “Marta Twachtman, Sargent, Minujin: Minucodes” and many others. (Apr. 30) Film footage and documents review a Oklahoma 1968 “happening” in Price Tower Arts which the artist explored Center , Bartlesville social codes in New York “Lights! Camera! through a series of cock - Fashion!: The Film tail parties/happenings. Costumes of Edith Head” (May 16) Derfner Judaica Paramount and Universal Museum , New York City Pictures designer among K “Rachel Leibman— Jamie Wyeth, Anger , Lust , Pride , 2005-2008. Combined mediums on hand-woven, toned paper mounted on archival board. In whose wardrobe credits Illuminations” (Apr. 25) “Jamie Wyeth: Seven Deadly Sins,” Salt Lake Art Center, UT. are All About Eve , Collage. Notorious , and Photocollage” (May 9) Creations by tlement of the Hudson River and its Roman Holiday . Drawing Center , New York City K aristocratic Victorian ladies using environs. “Dorothea Tanning: Early Designs photographs and watercolors. K Oregon for the Stage” (July 23) Hand- “Lamentation for a Prince: Loeb Art Center , Vassar College, Schnitzer Museum of Art , Eugene drawn ballet costume designs creat - Masterpieces of Medieval Tomb Poughkeepsie K “Harry Roseman: K “Media Alchemy of Nam June ed in collaboration with the chore - Sculpture from the Court of Hole in the Wall” (May 18) Site- Paik” (June 27) Discarded televi - ographer George Balanchine. Burgundy” (May 23) 15th-century specific wall painting in the atrium sions, radios, and a sundry of elec - alabaster mourner figures loaned by gallery by Vassar art professor. tronic gadgetry fashioned into bodi - Godwin-Ternbach Museum , the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon ly forms. K “Amazonia” (May 2) Queens College , New York City K during renovations there. George Eastman House , Rochester The flora and fauna of the headwa - “Dali Today: Dance and Beyond” K “Roger Ballen: Photographs, ters of the Amazon River in Peru (June 13) Photographs, films, National Academy Museum , New 1982-2009” (June 6) B&W images. captured by National Geographic recordings, and documents tracing York City K “The 185th Annual: photographer Sam Abell and Dali’s collaboration with ballet An Invitational Exhibition of Nassau County Museum of Art , Danish wildlife photographer luminaries Balanchine, Massine, Contemporary American Art” (June Roslyn Harbor K Through May 24: Torben Ulrik Nissen. and Béjart. 8) Painting, sculpture, mixed media, “Metamorphosis: Rona Pondick” and installation art in juried show. Sculpture; “Fernando Botero” Museum of Contemporary Craft , Grey Art Gallery , New York Paintings, sculpture, and drawings. Portland K “Gestures of University, New York City K “Lil Museum at FIT , Fashion Institute K “Miró/Dubuffet/Basquiat” (May Resistance” (June 26) Picard and Counterculture New of Technology, New York City K 24) An exhibition of the raw, bold Individual craftsmanship presented York” (July 10) Paintings, collages, “Night & Day” (May 11) Evolving qualities shared by artists separated as contrast to consumer culture. and assemblages by German-born concepts of appropriate dress. by generations and cultures. artist who immigrated to New York Pennsylvania City in 1937. K “John Storrs: Museum of Modern Art , New Staten Island Museum K Lehigh University Art Galleries , Machine-Age Modernist” (July 9) York City K “Ernesto Neto: “Growing a Collection: Recent Art Bethlehem K Through June 19: Abstract sculptures of New York Navedenga” (Apr. 26) Brazilian Acquisitions” (June 4) Paintings, “Outsider Art”; “Photography” City skyscrapers. sculptor’s room-size installation sculpture, drawings, prints, fine art Margaret Bourke-White: insect constructed of Lycra fabric, photography, and decorative arts. studies; Lewis Baltz: San Quentin Guggenheim Museum , New York Styrofoam, and sand, and embed - Point portfolio. City K “Paris and the Avant-Garde: ded with aromatic cloves. K North Carolina Modern Masters from the “Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Nasher Museum of Art , Duke Michener Art Museum , Guggenheim” (May 12) Braque, Present” (May 31) Video works, University, Durham K “Lines of Doylestown K “Contemporary Chagall, Gris, Léger, Miró, Picasso, installations, photographs, solo per - Attack: Conflicts in Caricature” Folklore” (June 13) Four regional Brancusi, Calder, and more. K formances, and collaborative per - (May 16) Political cartoonists from artists tap into personal histories as “Contemplating the Void: Inter- formances. K “Henri Cartier- Daumier during the reign of ventions in the Guggenheim Bresson: A Retrospective” (June Louis-Philippe (1830 –1848) Museum Rotunda” (May 16) 21) Photojournalism and portraits K to Trudeau (“Doonesbury”) Artists’, architects’, and designers’ “William Kentridge: Five Themes” and others during the admin - two-dimensional renderings of how (May 17) Films based on charcoal istrations of Bill Clinton and they would fill the central void of drawings, prints, books, collage, George W. Bush. the museum’s spiraling rotunda. sculpture, and stage design. Ohio Leubsdorf Art Gallery , Hunter Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Arts Center , College, New York City K “Beyond Contemporary Art , Peekskill K Cincinnati K “Shilpa Gupta: Participation: Hélio Oiticica and Through July 26: “in.flec.tion” A Bit Closer” (May 2) Neville D’Almeida in New York” Works by a salon of emerging Photography, video, and William Wegman, Chip and Batty Explore Space (May 1) Photography, installation, painters, sculptors, and video artists sound installation. (Detail). 2001. Triptych. In “NASA Art,” Rogers Museum of Art, MS 7 spring VIEWS continued

well as mythology, religion, and the and the Art of Satire” (May 16) Facebook on the traditional art of Fossils from the Collection” decorative arts to create ceramic Socially biting prints by British portraiture. Prehistoric environments explored and papier-mâché tableaux. artist (1756-1815). K “Italian Old though fossil plants and animals. Master Prints: Selections from the Salt Lake Art Center K “Jamie Westmoreland Museum of Permanent Collection” (May 23) Wyeth: Seven Deadly Sins” (May Washington American Art , Greensburg K Etchings and engravings from the 22) Jamie’s take on a topic long Henry Art Gallery , University of Through May 16: “Concerning the 16th to 18th centuries. associated with the history of Washington, Seattle K “Isabelle 1930s in Art: Paintings from the Christian art. Pauwels: Incredibly, Schoen Collection” Post-stock mar - Tennessee Unbelievably/The Complete ket crash, Great Depression, Dust Knoxville Museum of Art K Utah Museum of Fine Arts , Salt Ordered Field” (May 5) Video Bowl, and war in Europe: “Wind/Rewind/Weave”(Apr. 25) Lake City K “The Continuing installations and photographs. Burchfield, Shahn, and Lee, among An installation of others; “Paul Binai: Pulp Nation” glass bobbins evokes Jundt Art Museum , Paintings that reflect the emotional the craft of textile Gonzaga University, tone and the harsh aspects of con - production. Spokane K “Timothy C. temporary life. K “Andy Warhol: Ely: Secret Order” (July Pop and Polaroid” (May 16) Iconic Frist Center for 31) Single-copy hand - photographs. the Visual Arts , made books which draw Nashville K Through on Western and Eastern Philadelphia Art Alliance K May 16: religious traditions, Through May 3: “Convergence: “Masterpieces of astronomy, particle Pottery from Studio and Factory” European Painting physics, and cartography. Ceramics as both functional and from Museo de Arte creative; “Darla Jackson” and de Ponce” Works Wisconsin “Brooke Hine” Two solo exhibi - span 14th through Charles Allis Art tions that explore the use of ceram - early 20th centuries: Museum , Milwaukee K ics as a sculptural medium. from the collection “Forward: A Survey of of the Puerto Rican Wisconsin Art Now” Print Center , Philadelphia K museum; “U-Ram William Bradford, The Kennebec River, Waiting for Wind and Tide , c. 1860. Oil on (May 19) Juried “84th Annual International Choe: New Urban canvas. In “Shipe and Shorelines,” Vero Beach Museum of Art, FL exhibition. Competition: Photography” Species” Korean (July 24) artist’s kinetic sculptures: movable Allure: Painters of Utah’s Red Woodson Art Museum , Wausau K parts driven by motors suggest Rock” (June 27) Iconic Utah land - Through June 20: “William Steig: Everhart Museum , Scranton K breathing or swimming by primi - scapes from Zion National, The Man Who Never Grew Up” “The Art of the Brick ®: Sculptures tive life forms. Monument Valley, and Bryce Watercolors from the cartoonist’s by Nathan Sawaya (May 2) National Parks. books for children; “Elliott Erwitt: LEGO ® building blocks as an Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Dog Dogs” Photographs explore art medium. Gallery , Nashville K “Eye & Virginia quirky relationships between dogs Mind: A Legacy of Art Collecting Chrysler Museum of Art , Norfolk and people. K Palmer Museum of Art , at Vanderbilt University"(May 13) K “Women of the Chrysler: A 400- Pennsylvania State University , From Baroque sculpture to Pop Art. Year Celebration of the Arts” (July University Park K “I Heard a 18) Works by women painters, Voice: The Art of Lesley Dill” Texas sculptors, photographers, silver - (Apr. 25) Sculptural installations Brownsville Museum of Fine Art smiths, glass artists, and printmak - incorporating bronze, photography, K “39th International Art Show” ers: Cassatt, Kollwitz, Lange, text, thread, wire, and paper. K (May 1) Arbus, Nevelson, Quick-to-See “‘Licenc’d to Bark’: James Gillray Smith, and many more, all from the McNay Art Museum , San museum’s collection. K “Cameo Antonio K “TruthBeauty: Performances: Masterpieces of Pictorialism and the Cameo Glass from the Chrysler’s Photograph as Art, 1845- Collection” (July 1) Objects from 1945” (May 9) Steichen, ancient Rome shown together with Stieglitz, and Adams, examples from the 19th-century among others. K resurgence of the technique in “Impressionist Graphics at England. the McNay” (May 16) Cassatt, Hassam, University of Richmond Prendergast, Sargent, Museums K At the Harnett Degas, Manet, and more K Museum of Art : “Surface Tension: “Jasper Johns at the Pattern, Texture, and Rhythm in Art McNay” (June 13) Prints. from the Collection” (May 14) Paintings, drawings, prints, photo - Utah graphs, and textiles that focus on Brigham Young these three elements, generating University Museum of energy and visual movement as Art , Provo K “Mirror well as emotional and aesthetic Mirror: Contemporary content. K At the Robins Gallery : Portraits and the Fugitive Through June 20: “Transfor- Self” (May 8) A look at mations: Inuit Sculptures from the

Lil Picard, Lady Woolworth , 1963. Assemblage on cardboard. the impact of social net - Collection”; “Traces of Time: In “Lil Picard and Counterculture New York,” working websites such as Magdalene Anyango N. Odundo, Grey Art Gallery, NY Vessel Series III , no. 2, 2005-2006. Carbonized and multi-fired red clay. In “The Eye of the Beholder,” Cantor Arts Center, CA 8 provided by claimants with research in is perpetrated either by, or on behalf of, interna - VAN GOGH Continued from page 4 archives, in libraries, and in other resources. tional organized crime syndicates. They either The documentation that use stolen art for resale, or to barter on a closed December 21; his brother emerges as a result substantiates black market for an equivalent value of goods was logically the next to the claimant’s information and or services. Individually instigated art crimes are receive word. is instrumental in bringing rare, and art crimes perpetrated for private col - Theo rushed to his about a final resolution. lectors are rarest of all.” brother’s side at the hos - The HCPO has helped to pital on Christmas day restore their rightful property after the incident and THE MYSTERY OF to thousands of Holocaust vic - THE PLASTER CASTS wrote to Jo about the hos - tims and their heirs. The only pital visit: “When I men - office of its kind in the United tioned you to him he evi - Last year, a cache of plaster casts of all of States, in 2009 alone, it helped Degas’ known sculptures was unveiled in dently knew who and Vincent Van Gogh Still Life: Drawing Board with to restore more than $16 million what I meant and when I Onions, 1889. Oil on canvas. Athens by dealer and sculpture specialist in bank, insurance, and other asset Walter Maibaum of the New York-based asked whether he approved of our plans, he claims, bringing the total of claimant successes to said yes, but that marriage ought not to be Modernism Fine Arts. Until now, the discovery more than $153 million. This figure translates to has been largely in limbo; experts are divided: regarded as the main object in life.” a total of 1,725 individual cases successfully So, says Bailey, Vincent, having found out some believe they are previously unknown life - closed since the program’s inception in 1997; time casts, other say they were made recently. about the impending marriage from Theo’s let - more that 13,000 inquiries and 4,809 claims have ter of the 23rd, feared the loss of his brother’s A mystery compounded by experts. been received from individuals from 45 states, Yet, when a new set of bronzes, cast from support, both emotional and financial, and as a the District of Columbia, and 38 countries. result lapsed into a state of madness severe these newly discovered lifetime plasters that enough to maim himself. were made from the original waxes sculpted by Only days after returning home from the WHERE? WHEN? WHO? Degas (before they were modified and hospital, he painted the still life, thus indicating Theft Mysteries repaired), is shown at the Tel Aviv Museum of that after the first frenzy of fright, he had Art (through June 26) the debate will burst forth in full force. Mordechai Omer, curator of become reconciled to the new couple. The very Degas is a favorite. Twenty years ago, five image of the letter among the other items on the exhibition and director of the Tel Aviv sketches by Edgar Degas were stolen from the Museum, after careful study of the plasters, the board suggests hope and reconciliation. In Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (MA). In addition, Bailey suggests that the enlarged says he is “firmly convinced that they and the 2008, four 19th-century artworks, including a resulting bronzes are authentic.” “Jour de l’An” postmark (it was usually very Degas, were stolen from the Emil Georg small and Van Gogh’s was quite the opposite) Another set of bronzes will tour North Buehrle Museum in Zurich; two have been American museums, starting in November “may have been Vincent’s way of stressing to recovered; the Degas is still missing. In early Theo that the letter depicted was a very particu - 2011 at the New Orleans Museum of Art January 2010, a small work by Degas was (Degas visited there in 1872-73). John Bullard, lar one—and that he wished his brother well stolen from a museum in Marseille. Today for the new year.” director of the museum and curator of the some 15 works by Degas, including two exhibition is, like Omer, convinced of the bronze horses, are listed on Interpol’s Stolen plasters’ authenticity. THE MYSTERY Art Database. Degas scholars, however, remain silent— OF LOST PAINTINGS : A good year for art thievery was 2009: early either prohibited from comment by the rules in the year, a Picasso, a Matisse, and a Braque Solved in NYS Office of their institutions, concerned over possible were lifted from a Berlin art gallery. A Degas, legal action, or simply reluctant to enter dis - unceremoniously removed from the Cantini agreement with colleagues. One specialist is The Holocaust Claims Processing Office Museum in Marseille, was on loan from Paris’s convinced that the plasters are modern, made (HCPO), a division of the New York State Musée d’Orsay. Its whereabouts remains a recently by reassembling moulds from the Banking Department, has been recently instru - mystery: Artinfo (a Web art journal) reports that Hèbrard castings. mental in the return by the Upper Austrian the public prosecutor suspects a museum staff Authentification is still up in the air. Provincial Museum of a painting that was lost member or visitor of inside chicanery. Maibaum found them, he states, in a storeroom during the throes of Nazi persecution of the Investigations have shut down the museum. at the Valsuani Foundry in Chevreuse on the Jews, to a descendant of its original owner. Says the prosecutor: “If it was an inside job, southwestern outskirts of Paris. He bought The mystery of its provenance was probed then the museum’s security team should reex - them and had them shipped back to New York and prodded until the artwork could be amine its procedures and guidelines for staff in 2007. Twenty-two remain in his possession; successfully restored. access and admittance. The implementation and forty-nine were sold to another owner, three to Ignatz Pick was an avid art collector, a suc - enforcement of museum security’s best prac - yet another. Up until Maibaum made his find, cessful antiquarian, and a gallery owner in tices can help deter insider Degas’ sculptures survived in Vienna before World War II. After the art theft.” three forms according to Marin Anschluss, Pick’s antique business was The implications for loaning Bailey in The Art Newspaper : Aryanized, and control over his personal art museums are serious: Will other “wax originals, which he proba - collection was turned over to a Nazi-approved museums that have loaned work for bly later reworked, and which administrator. The administrator sold art from specific exhibitions ask for their were repaired shortly after his the collection to raise funds necessary to pay return? Will museums be hesitant death in 1917 (now mostly in the the punitive taxes imposed by the Nazi regime to loan works of art unless the risks National Gallery of Art, DC); a as well as to pay the immigration taxes for at the receiving museum have been master ( modèle ) set of bronzes Pick’s wife and daughters who had fled to New carefully assessed? made in 1919 from the modified York. Pick, unable to join his family in the The Association for Research waxes by the Hèbrard foundry United States, died alone in Vienna in 1941. into Crimes against Art (ARCA) (now in the Norton Simon His sole surviving heir and granddaughter, reports that “Art crime represents Museum, CA); and a series of Monique Goss, due to the efforts of the HCPO, the third highest grossing criminal Hèbrard bronze casts made from now is in possession of her ancestor’s prize enterprise worldwide, behind only the master bronzes in 1919-36 painting by Johann Baptist Reiler. drugs and arms trafficking. It and again in 1955-64 (dispersed Members of the HCPO work with claimants brings in $2-6 billion per year, among museums and to collect detailed and accurate information most of which goes to fund private collections). K using a combination of investigative skills, international organized crime research expertise, and a command of foreign syndicates. Edgar Degas, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen , languages. They thus corroborate information “Most art crime since the 1960s model 1879-1881, cast c. 1922 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC . 9 newsBRIEFS Dia Returns by Dürer, Fra Bartolommeo, van Dyck, Boucher, I could have cut my rates, but instead I decided to and Ingres. Regular special exhibitions and pro - hit the mute button and give something back to The Dia Art Foundation (NY), five years grams focusing on works on paper will follow. the city.” after leaving New York and three years after dis - And he did. carding plans to build a museum on the High Line on Manhattan’s west side, has announced its Spring in St. Petersburg return to its old location on West 22nd Street. A One of the area’s most popular traditions and Museum to Attract new building is planned on the same site to exhibitions—the Museum of Fine Arts ’ (FL) Wii Generation replace the present one, which is presently occu - “Art in Bloom”—springs up every year since it In a bid to make history more vivid, alluring, pied by the Pace Wildenstein gallery. began in 1997. The 2010 version (March 13-17) and accessible for the Wii generation, an interac - featured 50 floral designs created in response to tive “museum within a museum,” focusing on the The Deitch Phenomenon works in the collection as well as to the building lives of young New Yorkers, will open in itself. Many of the designers were affiliated with November 2011 on the lower level of the New- The clatter over the move made by Jeffrey the local Ikebana York Historical Deitch from the commercial sector of the art chapter and garden Society . The scene to the non-profit Museum of clubs. During the DiMenna Contemporary Art , Los Angeles, has pretty customary Children’s History much subsided. Frenzied speculation led to inter - “Conversation with Museum is part of views, articles, blogs, and more. For example: the Designers,” the the $60 million “…scolds will imagine immoral scenarios of a designers were renovation of the wolf in the fold and tut-tut over the possibility of available to discuss society building on an uncouth, craven commercial dealer trading their creations. Central Park West. museum treasures for market share, making back It will focus on room deals and violating ethics…” –Jerry Saltz in stories of children New York Magazine Expansion in history who “”…virtually every planning move its new direc - in Santa Fe became famous tor makes will raise questions about its relation - The Institute of and those who did ship to Deitch’s veiled commercial entangle - American Indian not. On, for exam - ments, which are long-standing and international Arts (NM) opened ple, Alexander Los in scope…” –Christopher Knight in the two new buildings Hamilton, who Angeles Times on its college grounds: came to New York as a And in answer to questions put by arts journal - one dedicated to science and technology, the teenage orphan to attend college, as well as boys ist Tyler Green, Deitch set his own agenda: other to sculpture and foundry works. The new and girls who hawked newspapers on city streets Will you close your gallery? Yes, on June 1. buildings, both Silver LEED certified, represent a century ago. “If we want history to become Will you ever return to dealing? No. $8.65 million in construction, with $7.65 alive for children, what better way to teach them What will happen to your existing program and acquired through grants from the Department of than showing them children from other periods? artists? I’m still working that out. Education’s Title III programs and about $1 mil - Aimed at roughly a fourth-grade level, the infor - What becomes of your private collection that you lion in state funding. mation in the exhibits [all drawn from the soci - have built over the years? Ah, that is a murky The sculpture and foundry building enables ety’s collections] will nevertheless be intended to one and seems to be more ethically difficult than students to study woodworking, welding, forging, appeal to all ages,” says Louise Mirrer, president anyone involved in the appointment seemed to casting, ceramics, and large scale metal, stone , and chief executive officer of the museum. “We have understood. Stay tuned. and glass sculpture. The science technology facil - want to be on the permanent agenda of children ity houses a multi-media digital dome, a museum and families in New York.” Green Initiative on Cape collections center for the National Collection of Having taken its first baby steps toward going Contemporary Native American art, a conserva - Tarble AC Wins green in 2004 by replacing incandescent with tion teaching lab, and a science lab. In addition, a energy efficient compact fluorescent bulbs, the gallery/viewing room allows visitors to see the Design Awards Cape Cod Museum of Art (MA) has made larg - collection that is in storage as well as exhibits The Tarble Arts Center (IL) publication, er strides toward its objective. In 2009, the muse - taken from the collection. created to document an exhibition of the work of um’s redesigned education catalogue and its tri- Ruth Duckworth, received two national awards annual newsletter were both published using 100 from the University and College Designers NY Taxis Display Art Association—the Judges’ Choice award and the percent recycled paper. In addition, recycled For the entire month of January, in a project paper towels and bathroom tissue became Award of Excellence. Entries were judged for called “Art Adds,” small works of art replaced the excellence in concept, design, illustration, typog - mandatory. advertisements atop New York City taxis. Show The newest green initiative is a change in trash raphy, printing, effectiveness, quality, and creativ - Media, a Las Vegas company that owns about ity. The judges of this 29th annual competition, disposal. The new system provides a Zero-sort half the cones that top New York’s cabs, decided service—museum personnel need only separate having evaluated some 1,300 print, green and to give commerce a rest. Instead, some 500 cabs electronic media entries announced 291 awards: non-recyclable trash from recyclable; the removal rolled out displaying small artworks by three company does the rest. 16 Gold, 17 Silver, and 258 Awards of artists who agreed to participate, Shirin Neshat, Excellence. Alex Katz, and Yoko Ono. Crocker to Open New Facility Show Media owner John Amato asked the Art As part of its expansion project, which will be Production Fund, a nonprofit New York organiza - Museum Reopens completed in October, the Crocker Art Museum tion that presents art around the city, to choose with New Agenda (CA) will open a new Ann and Malcolm the artists. All had to be able to do work for a The Oakland Museum of California reopens McHenry Works on Paper Study Center and confined space (the ad space measures14 by 48 in May with a different presentation of its collec - exhibition space. The center was planned to inches); each artists’ work appeared on some 160 tion. Renovated and expanded, the museum increase public access to the museum’s consider - cabs; each responded in his/her own unique style. invites visitors to discover the many stories of able collection of master drawings. The inaugural John Amato, a Show Media owner and a fan California and to explore their own contributions exhibition, “A Pioneering Collection; Master of contemporary art reflected: “I thought it was to the state’s social, artistic, and environmental Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum” (Oct. time to take a step back. January’s a slow month. heritage. “We are moving toward a more partici - 10-Feb. 6, 2011) will include rarely seen works

10 William Kentridge. Drawing for the film Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old [Soho and Mrs. Eckstein in Pool] . 1991. Charcoal and pastel on paper. In “William Kentridge: Five Themes,” Museum of Modern Art, NY patory museum experience that encourages visi - curators are experimenting with how the new tor contributions and feedback,” says Executive MAM will display its permanent collection. Director Lori Fogarty. In preparation for the move, the museum is The new Gallery of California Art showcases presenting its first, long-term installation of works from the world’s largest collection of the ever growing collection: “Between Here California art, installed with the overarching and There: Modern and Contemporary Art theme, “Coming to California,” with three sub - from the Permanent Collection.” Curators sidiary themes: “Land (Exploring California),” are using the opportunity to test how “People (Defining Identity),” and “Ideas different works interact, changing the display (Creative California).” Other new galleries to from time to time. Under these conditions, open later will explore the state’s ecosystems visitors are literally watching a permanent and habitats, biological and geological features, exhibition evolve. and more. During its inaugural year several exhibitions George Hitchcock, Early Spring in Holland , c. 1887–1905, oil pay tribute to the many facets of California G. Washington Auctioned on canvas. In “Dutch Utopia,” Taft Museum of Art, OH culture and creativity: “Pixar: 15 Years of One of Gilbert Stuart’s 100 portraits of Animation” (July 3-Jan. 9, 2011); “The George Washington, which hung untouched and Marvelous Museum: A Project by Mark Dion” unseen by the public for generations in Artists among (Sept. 11-March 6, 2011); “Days of the Dead” a private home in upstate New York, went Museum Guards (Oct. 5-Dec. 5); “The Arts of the Missions of up for sale at the end of March this year. Among the (almost invisible) guards at the Northern New Spain: 1600-1821” (Feb. 12-May Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY) are artists 15, 2011); “Michael McMillen: A Retrospective Arts / Writers / manqué, artists who have to work to support Survey” (Spring 2011). themselves, artists who wait for recognition, Environments artists who only want to absorb the skill and tal - In furthering its mission to be a global leader ent displayed on the surrounding walls. This University Initiative in supporting the practice, study, and awareness group of artists, all MMoA guards, have provid - Attracts “Masses” of creative interactions between people and their ed their own spotlight with a new art journal Finding that few students were attending arts environments, the Center for Art + Environment called Sw!pe Magazine: Guards’ Matter , a refer - programs, and convinced that exposure to the at the Nevada Museum of Art instituted a grant ence to clocking in and out for work, and an arts is important to the college experience, offi - program it calls Artists / Writers / Environments accompanying art exhibit, which took place at a cials at Ohio University (A / W / E Grant). Grant gallery on the west side of Manhattan. instituted the Arts for OHIO recipients who wrote The drawings, paintings, comics, prints, poet - Initiative, with goals that letters of interest ry, and photography shown in the exhibit and include accessibility, (by April 16), or with reproduced in Sw!pe were all created by 35 increasing the number of invited applications guards, many of whom have undergraduate or arts experiences, and raising (due June 22), will be graduate degrees in fine arts. Some had no for - the arts programming pro - announced on or mal training, but were inspired the art surround - file. Students play a major before July 6. ing them. Many describe an intimate bond with role in the Initiative: pro - The program, in its specific works; some work in sketchbooks dur - gramming is determined by pilot first year, is specif - ing their breaks. Some will become successes. a student-led advisory board ically for visual artists Artists Jackson Pollock, Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, that decides what should be and writers working and Brice Marden all spent part of their early funded through the together in the field. years as guards. Initiative. The intent is for the For a start, all art events writer(s) to document, High Partners with NGS were declared free to all stu - report upon, and/or ana - The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) dents. Attendance at pro - lyze the work of the and the High Museum of Art (GA) have grams and galleries doubled artist(s) and its environ - entered into a four-year partnership during in the first year. In addition, mental context, not to provide creative which paintings from Scotland will tour in the Initiative became the America. The first exhibition, to open at the vehicle for integrating class - responses. The aim is to encourage the creation High in October, “Venetian Masterpieces from room and artistic activities. Lippo d’Andrea, Virgin and Child Enthroned with the National Galleries of Scotland,” will include Faculty and program direc - Saints John the Baptist and Nicholas of Bari of new art + environment proj - (detail), c. 1410. In “The Art of Devotion,” Mount Titian’s Deana and Actaeon and Diana and tors from all branches of the Holyoke College Art Museum, MA ects that seek to address envi - ronmental challenges rather Callisto . After its Atlanta run, the show will university began to use arts travel to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and programming for educational study, to facilitate than simply comment on them, to foster deeper and more immediate public awareness of art the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston in 2011. discussion, and to promote social and interactive Other exhibitions are planned for 2012, 13, activities. + environment projects, and to encourage unique field reports of lasting value to and 14. The purpose, for the Scottish museum, is to scholars and other artists. Miami Museum raise money in America for the purchase of the Prepares for Move [For more information go to Art + Environment two Titians and renovation of the Scottish at the Nevada Museum of Art website, National Portrait Gallery. K The Miami Art Museum ’s (FL) history has www.NevadaArt.org. ] been one of a small institution housed in a space designed as an exhibition hall. It became a col - lecting institution in 1996. The rapid growth of a permanent collection has dictated big changes. In about three years the museum will move to a new location and an enlarged facility. Already

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GRAFFITI: From Outlaw to Mainstream CHILDREN’S HOUR

The graffiti writers that covered the outside taken up the challenge of documenting this The Freeport Art Museum (IL) held the of subway cars in Manhattan are gone; the evanescent artwork with his camera. He and “Aspiring Artists Student Exhibition: Earth teenagers who slipped through fences, jumped his brother Luke, also a graffiti writer, have 3000” at the beginning of 2010. The theme over rails, climbed walls, stole through dark amassed a photographic archive of New York prompted students to visually explain their streets looking for bare walls to express them - City graffiti equal to none, much of which interpretation of how the earth might be differ - selves in spray paint are no more. Where are appears in Graffiti New York , a glossy new ent in the year 3000. Teachers were permitted they? Where did they go? Many, now middle- volume that surveys the movement from to submit up to 40 pieces; their choices came aged, middle Americans, have mainstream “outlaw origins to mainstream respectability,” from children of all ages ranging from kinder - jobs, mostly in the arts. Some still write graffiti according to David Gonzalez who reported on garten to 12th grade. Hundreds of works by as part time, unhindered by legal restraints, unin - the book for the The New York Times . many students from some ten schools in the terrupted by stealthy over-the-shoulder looks Says Gonzalez: “What started in the 70s as five-county area of Freeport were finally and fear of discovery. It’s legal now. Landlords a visual assault on commuters has attained a included in the exhibition. certain acceptability, if not cachet, thanks in From three age groups (K-4, 5-8, and 9-12), ask for their work. Corporations hire them. part to the city’s crackdown on subway graffiti Gone but not forgotten is one of graffiti’s first, second and third prizes were awarded. in the late 80s. Today, ambitious aerosol can - First place winners in each group received a most famous spots, the “writers’ bench” at the vases hang in galleries, while corporations like 149th Street and Grand Concourse stop on the cash prize (sponsored by a local company): Nike, Coca-Cola, and Sony hire graffiti mural - $10 for the youngest, $15 for the middle No. 2 line. This was where the fraternity of ists to paint storefront advertisements. writers gathered to talk and to watch their group, and $20 for the oldest. Vintage photographs plucked from archives At Isaiah’s Corner In the Everhart work rolling by, a moveable feast in the 1970s. have inspired a small industry of coffee table Then, photographs were the only evidence Museum of Natural History, Science & Art books. (PA), children can experience an interactive that a work really existed. Today, still, only “Old-school graffiti—with intricate tangles of photographs perpetuate the works, but the pho - exhibit space designed especially for them. kinetic letters and cartoonish characters—is just The themes of the gallery change with and tos appear on the Internet, in magazines, in about everywhere except the place that was once newspapers, all through the media, reaching complement the museum’s temporary exhibits its sole domain: the metal skins of subway cars. throughout the year. audiences undreamed of in the days of the “While the city seems far removed from the “writers’ bench.” During the current exhibits, “The Art of days of entire trains slathered in spray paint, Brick” and “Brick Creations: Student Art at the Henry Chalfant, photographer and filmmak - Mr. Felisbret believes there is probably just as er, was among the first to document the golden Everhart” (May 2), Isaiah’s Corner provides a much illicit graffiti in town, only more scat - place where children can create their own years of graffiti in New York. Now, Eric tered—on trucks, rooftops, or the upper floors Felisbret, a one-time graffiti writer who called buildings with box materials, LEGOs, and of buildings. His book shows examples of all magnetic bricks, after which they can pore himself DEAL and became a member of the sorts.” K Crazy Inside Artists of Brooklyn (NY), has over the books in the book nook. K