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NEWS AND NOTES MUSEUMS mor than $1650,000. HE is accused os Wrecked: an artists' village in a rundown Zentrum Paul Klee, a new museum for stealing small porcelain, glass and metal section of norrheast Beijing was being the works of the painter, opened in June items while working with at the Danish wrecked by the powers that be. Known as I Bem, Switzerland, with a collection of Museum of Art & Design fiom 1999 to the Beijing International Art Camp, the some 4,000 of his works. The museum 2002. 100-or so loft spaces were attacked with has a permanent exhibition of Klee's Found: Mona Lisa's smile is 83 percent the wrecking ball, many of which were work, with paintings as well as hand happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent updated and invested in by the artists who puppets he made for his son, Felix, from fearful and 2 percent angry, according to a wanted to stay for the long run. Painters 1916 to 1925. It also has a music hall computer at the University of Amsterdam. and sculptors have been dislodged by the with 300 seats, a children's museum and bulldozers. room for workshops, and will be home to Stolen: An oil painting by Jackson Pollock a summer academy for young artists. and a silkscreen by Andy Warhol were PHOTOGRAPHY stolen fiom the Everhart Msueum in Ansel Adams' "Autumn Moon," shot at Disney will give its Afirican art Scranton, PA by thieves who shattered a 7:03 p.m. on 15 September 1948 was collection, hailed by experts as one of the glass door in the back of the building. replicated on 15 September 2005 whre the most important collections in private alignment of the moon, the sun and the hands in the US., to the Smithsonian Found: Archaeologists announced the Clark Range was photographed by a large Institution. 525 objects, spanning five discovery of a masterpiece of Maya art group of photographs gathered at Glacier centuries and valued at $20 million to showing a surprisingIy early flowering of Point in Yosemite National Park. $45 million, the collection will become the civilization, well before the classical part of the Smithsonian's National period that began afer A.D. 250. -The recluse Angeio Rizzuto stalked Museum of Mican Art, with a debut A 30 x 3-foot mural in vivid colors Manhattan with a camera from May 1952 exhibition in 2007. depicting the ancient culture's mythology to June 1966, finding solitary beings of creation and kingship, were first isolated amid the architectural grandeur, Artists' SOAPBOX DERBY discovered and exposed in Guatemala four cold streets prowled by disillusioned From Yellow Submarines to fur-covered years ago. The painting after new women, exhausted men and vulnerable cars, this race now has a youth division radiocarbon tests is 200 years older than children, yet ending every roll with a and also one for mayors, attracting originally estimated, dating to 100 B.C. portrait of himself, alone ina spare room, thousands of people in Kingston,NY. For sullenly staring or bizarrely grimacing into instance, Robert Johnson, the director of Found: Three paintings stolen from a the camera. When he died in1967, he graphic design at SUNY Ulster, entered a German museum near the end of World asked that the 60,000 photographs be sent take on "False Mirror", Magritte's close- War I1 have been recovered. Among a to the Library of Congress, along with up of an eye with clouds for an iris, by group of four dozen paintings stolen on $50,000 from his estate to finance a book using an old satellite dish hitched to the March 22, 1945, as Allied forces swept of his work. It took L.C. 40 years after gutted lawn tractor as a tribute to through Germany, they eventually were publishing a flimsy booklet to get that Magritte. The event was inspired by Yorij brought to the U.S. and were acquired by a book done and it is now Michael Lesy's Donskoj, a local gallery owner who New Jersey resident about 20 years after "Angel's World, published by Norton. generated the idea in the early 1990s. the war. They were found when the current owner put them up for auction a Another find by Lillian Bassman were LOST AND FOUND few months ago. her experimental fashion photographs done "Young Parisian" by Renoir, stolen from for Harper's Bazaar in the 1940s and the National Museum in Stockholm five Found: 9,000 antiquities plundered from 1950s, nearly all destroyed inthe780s, and years ago, has been recovered in the archaeological sites in Italy. The police now finding a new audience in the 90s. United States. It has been returned to raided the home of an unidentified man Sweden. The Rembrandt self-portrait who was apprehended while delivering Still another photographer who was a stolen along with the Renoir was wares to clients in a flea market in Rome. traveling salesman of lace and embroidery recovered in a sting operation in There was a sophisticated restoration until he was 50, a Lomanesque figure with Copenhagen a week before the Renoir laboratory, metal detectors and other a sample case, a mortgage and a family to was found. archaeological tools, but also thousands of support, Samuel H. Gotfscho shot pictures Etruscan and Roman terra-cotta vases, of New York City architecture and Found: The special glow of paintings by polychrome mosaic tiles, pieces of interiors from the late 1920s and early Tintoretto and other Veneian Renaissance travertine and multi-colored marble that 1930s. Now, Ihe Museum of the City of artists comes from tiny bits of glass the once adorned Roman villas. Included were New York is showing 150 from one of the artists mixed wth their pigments. This is ancient copper and bronze objects, largest archives of Gottscho's work in "The a discovery by a senior conservation amphorae, goblets, masks, brooches, Mythic City: Photographs ofNew York by scientist at the National Gallery of Art in votary statuettes and oil lamps. SHG, 1925-1940." Washington, DC, Barbara Berrie. Stolen: A4,000 pound bronze sculpture by Luke Swank was lost to the world of The curator of a Copenhagen art Henry Moore from the grounds of the photography for decades, but his elegant museum has been charged with stealing Henry Moore Foundation, called black-and-white images of workers, circus 100 exhibits form the museum, worth "Reclining Figure" in December. performers and steel mills have finally come out in a new book and museum Dateline: Vienna New Orleans is full of art created by retrospective. "Luke Swank: Modernist Peter Noever, the head of Vienna's MAK detritis from Hunican Katrina, including Photography" is now at Pittsburgh' Center of applied and contemporary arts, is barbecue grill parts, a microwave oven, Carnegie Museum of Art through 5 turning an anti-aircraft tower into a Vienna adding machine keyboards to make February. art space. From a bunker, the "trashbot" a kind of robotic art. There is Arenmbergpark Flak Tower will become a now art on canvas, T-shirts, refrigerators or LIBRARIES beacon for the future: The Contemporary tattooed arms and legs. As one of the The New Museum of Contemporary Art Art Tower will serve as as the basis for artists has said, "We have to come back in Manhattan has transferred its Pibrary to something unprecedented. It will contain and make art. If you don't have culture, the the New York University Libraries, a collection of the 21" century, a slow city will become Disneyland for condo crating a partnership between the two process over 15 - 20 years. He will invite people." downtown institutions. Consisting of one artist, and then see what he has done, In addition, an exhibit called "The ties more than 30,000 volumes, including and then see what the next artist can do. that Bind: Making Family New Orleans artist monographs, exhibition catalogs, The tower has raw industrial space, ready Style" will travel to displaced residence in periodicals and artist archives dating to be reshaped by the sensibility of living Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Houston and from postwar to the present, the library artists. Jackson, Miss. Those who attend will be will not be far more available to The first artists will be James Turrell and asked to write stories of memory and hope historians, scholars, curators and Jenny Holzer, who will project light on the on cloth that will be transformed into students. outside of the tower, beginning in late another traveling exhibit. 2006. Deadline: Florence FLUXUS Dateline: Illinois The Rabula Gospels, the first dated Harvard has acquired 121 works, part Go to eniovillinois.com to see an amazing Christian manuscript, was shown at an gift, part purchase, of Fluxus artists, poster campaign to generate tourism in that academic conference in Florence, Italy to writers and musicians including Christo, state. The imagery is dynamic, exciting, have been repainted. Pigment tests and Oldenburg, oko Ono and George Brecht, and colorful. Produced by an ad agency in scientific analyses of the illustrated collected by Peter and Barbara Moore. Chicago, the posters are not for sale, manuscript have revealed that the Peter, a photographer who died in 1993 although there have been many calls for illustrations of 586 A.D. were repainted was known for recording Fluxus activities them by the public. after it entered the Medicis' Laurentian and Barbara, an art historian writer and Library in the 16" century, where it former rare-book dealer. There are also Dateline: Biloxi remains today. The oversized book, 20 works by George Maciunas, who gave A memorial fund honoring curator and art originally produced ina Syrian monastery, the movement its name and organized collector David Whitey will help rebuild includes the first dated ictorial and promoted many of its efforts.

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