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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. The the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum, designed by representation of the Crucifixion. In the collection will be part of the Fogg Art Frank Gehry, named for Biloxi native and repainting, Jesus' curly red hair was Museum's collections. art potter George E. Ohr and former Biloxi restyled as black and straight. Myor Jerry O'Keefe. It will be completed in two years. Deadline: Tokyo SHADOW ART The museum 's centerpiece will be four Vintage Disney animation, including Former graffiti artist Ellis G (to his podlike gallery pavilions, featuring the scenes from Walt Disney'sfirst color short, Mom, Gallegher) has left hls chalk mark work ofOhr (1 857-1918), who was known "Flowers and Trees," in 1932 has been on the sidewalks of Cobble Hill, as the Mad Potter of Biloxi. found at Chiba University, near Tokyo. Brooklyn with the outlines of shadows of The original sketches, celluloid and objects and the public loves them. He Deadline: New Orleans background pictures from such films as has traced objects and whole city blocks. New Orleans children who fled the city "Sleeping Beauty," "Bambi," "Fantasia" He also shows paintings on canvas in after Hurricane Katrina have expressed and "Cinderella'kere also part ofthe find group shows and solo exhibitions. It has themselves at Houston shelves through of about 250 items. After the collection added conversation and pleasure to those crayons and paper. Their artwork went on traveled to Japan in the early 1960s for who live and walk through Cobble Hill. display in December showing 30 often- exhibitions at department stores and disturbing scenes of experiences from the museums, it was donated to the National ART AND LIFE hurricane through children's eyes at the Museumof Modem Art in Tokyo, which The Munch Museum in Oslo, which lost Houston Public Library. If the funding can later gave it to an animation scholar at the world-famous "Scream" in a daring be found, the exhibit will go on a national Chiba University for use in education and robbery in 2004, is drawing criticism for tour this year to raise money for young research. The materials were rediscovered selling a new cops-and-robbers board hurricane survivors and promote art when the school decided to digitze them game, "The Mystery of 'The Scream"'. therapy. There are more than 600 pieces, and reached out to Disney for copyright Some peole think it's horrible to treat the from which the choice was difficult, along guidance. matter as a game, but the game is meant with a quilt made from 48 drawings that for players above the age of 6, and it is were transferred to fabric and trimmed Deadline: Genoa called "Leducational"by the publishing with cloth salvaged from the ruins homes A new museum of decorative arts has house, allowing its participants to play of New Orleans quilters. The website to opened in Genoa, thanks to the private either detectives or thieves. It has 36 contribute to pay the salary for an art collection of Mitchell Wolfson Jr., who cards featuring works of art known to the therapist is: w..katrinaskids~oriect.org acquired some 100,000 objects from the children. late 19"' century and first half of the 20" century. Divided between the Wolfsonian, the museum he founded in Miami (now a everyone fiom van Gogh toTony Soprano. Dada for Cooks department ofFlorida Atlantic University The culminate of the Wig Project ended up Just out is a pocket-sized paperback in Miami) and the Wolfsoniana, which at Bienvenu Gallery in Chelsea with 98 of edition of Allan Ben's "Art and cook: Love has been given the bulk of the pieces the faces. Now the wig resides in a drawer Food, Live Design and Dream Art" relating to Italy. in the artist's studio. (University, $23) which has on its cover, The Gallery of Modern Art in Genoa reminscent of Man Ray or Magritte, a already contains large collections of h DADA IN LAWRENCE, KANSAS surrealistic shot of an egg cracked open to Nouveau and Art Deco, donated by Mayor Book Highberger in Lawrence, reveal an eyeball, which stares, Cyclops- Wolfson, loated in a villa dating to the Kansas proclaimed International Dadaism like, at the viewer. early 17~c. The new collection will be Month in honor of the provocative, Inside are recipes in nine categories with housed in a former school building in the sometimes absurdist art movement that arresting or alarming visuaIs throughout. park, which has been remodeled and flowers in the 1920s. But in the spirit of All the illustrations, surreal and strange, refurbished. an art movement that declared that "art is make us think about food and its role in dead," the mayor has chosen not to specify our lives and culture. a month for the observance. International PARADISE IN BROOKLYN DadaismMonth is Feb. 4, March 28, April CENSORSHIP A colorful ancient synagogue floor 1, July 15, Aug. 2, 7, 16 and 26; Sept. 18 John Latharns' God is Great was to have depicting Paradise is on exhibit at the and 22, and Oct. 1,17 and 26. How did he gone on display as part of the redisplay at Brooklyn Museum to celebrate its reach that conclusion? HE rolled dice and the Tate Britain in September, but was centenary of acquiring them. The mosaic picked numbers from a hat "I just htink it withdrawn because "to exhibit the work in was excavated in what is now Tunisia. is good to acknowledgethatthere is aplace London in the current sensitive climate, The mosaics are very well preserved, and for chance and nonsense in every healthy post 7 July, would not be appropriate". It are displayed with contemporameous lifestyle," said Mayor Highberger. Not all features copies of the Bible, Koran and textiles, statues and jewelry from the members of the electorate agreed. "It Talmud, cut in half and affixed to a large museum's collection in "Tree of Paradise: sounds like a waste of time to me, " said sheet of glass. However, it is illustrated in Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire" Joe Hutchens, a construction worker. "It the catalog, but of course is not shown. through 4 June. seems like the City Commission would The artist, irate, asked the museum to have something better to do than that." explain why the work is not on exhibit, so Dateline: New York City the notice says: "Having sought wide- The Drawing Center, which was PERFORMANCE ranging advice, Tate felt that to exhibit the supposed to have been in the new trade More than 600 years after Chaucer's work in the current climate would be center redevelopment sharing a space pilgrims rode together through Kent, a inappropriate. The artist regrets the with the International Freedom Center, performance artist has set off on the same decision." There was a debate on 8 but when the Drawing Center was route. But Mark McGowan is more November at Tate Britain, sparked off by accused of showing anti-American interested in highlighting the plight of the the Latham affair., about the exhibition artwork, it was decided that it would be lonely at Christmas than reaching the Sacred, sacrosanct orjust art. inappropriate for the Center to be located shrine of Thomas Becket. on the side of a 9/11 memorial. Instead of a clutch of companionable FLUXUS Aided by the Lower Manhattan tales, he is taking on the 88-kilometre At Pavel Zoubok Gallery, Geoffrey Development Corporation, they finally journey 18 boxes of chocolates with which Hendricks is showing Continuing Sky found a site at the South Street Seaport, to woo passing maidens. He has also done Dialogues and Berty Skuber is showing where it will construct a building without a horse: with a sign on his back Labels through 4 February 2006 at 533 W. immediately north of Pier 17 on the site reading "Could you love me?", he is 23d St. In Chelsea, New York City. of a large shed that was used until making his way on his hands and knees. recently by the Fulton Fish Market. It McGowan, 37, has rolled amonkey nut 11 JEAN TOCHE IN ITALY will be double the size of the site it now kilometers with his nose fiom Goldsmiths Over fifty photographic works will be occupies at 35 Wooster St. College in south London to 10 Downing exhibited in the first Italian show dedicated Street in protest against student-loan debt; to Jean Toche at ArtandgalIery. Dateline: Paris towed a London bus for 30 meters using On Tuesday 17 January, Artandgallery "Melancholy: Genius and Madness in the only his big toe; and walked backward for opens the year 2006 with an exhibition West," an art exhibition at the Grand 18 kilometers with a turkey on his head dedicated to Jean Toche, entitled 3Burn, Palais through 16 January with 250 while shouting at fat people through a baby, bum2 and organized by Manuela works by artists from Lucas Cranach the bullhorn. Gandini. This Belgian artist, a naturalized Elder to Ron Mueck and Anselm Kiefer. American, founded - the Guerilla Action Dateline: Denver Art Group - in the Seventies with Jon The Wig Project The City of Denver and the Clyfford Still Hendricks and Poppy Johnson . These Ken Solomon, a painter who lives in Museum have acquiredthe artist's archives days, like a monk in his hermitage on Brooklyn, bought the black wig for $20 and approximately 400 works of art from Staten Island, he produces adaily output of as part of a Halloween costume in 1998, the estate of his widow Patricia Still, who postcards commentingon the international setting it atop the head of just about died in August. Included are sketchbooks, political scene created by the actions of the anyone he could find, standing them correspondence,diaries, manuscripts ofthe Bush administration. In this way Toche against a white backsound and shooting artist's writings, photo albums, articles and transmits a sort of interference or counter- with a 35-millimeter camera. He reviews, and his personal library. information - somewhere between politics recruiters most of his subjects by putting and poetry - aimed at artists, journalists up fliers with the wig superimposed on and critics living in various parts of the world. Every morning 'Toche sends spent on lavish dinners ended in a violent bills are quite durable, and that although he around fifty identical postcards, ssauk by the police, followed by Toche was conscious of the ink, te socked the denouncing the violent distortion of being arrested and banned for life from used $1 bills in mtiseptic before getting power by describing the relevaat events. entering .American museums. under way. Tne stated facts, taken from articles by The right lo diaiogue and protest would Instead of launching a book, he has political commentators and enriched with never end for Toche who, along with advised his young writer friends to have a his own observations, are always Hendricks, has written letters fiiied wid1 "book's over" party where you gather your accompariied by a photo of the author, bewilderment and truth to Nixon, General. friends together at your hous and yo11 have captured using the self-timer, inspired by Franco and all iilstitutions involved ill the a good dinner, accompanied by good wine, the latest declarations of Bush or arbitrary exercise of power using secret or and then you bum a copy of the book. Condole~za Rice, the latest western public violence, botli within their own hos~ges,t5e most recent bombings or borders and beyond. DATELINE: Tokyo burning suburbs. Toche, -who is under "Various kinds of fetters have travelled Live painting it taking Japan by storm, special observation by the American the world during the century just ended - unitingthevisual artist withnew audiences government, has become a constant and writes Predrag Matvejevic, in UnJEuropu in clubs, breaking dowil the arrier subtly pevasive presence for the mahdetta CJA Cursed EuropeZ ), Baldini separating arfists from club patrons. Most recipients of the ~ostcards2:the dirty Castoldi Dalai - letters that we sent ages ofthe performances are done to jazz, blues. conscience of puritan herica. His ago and don't how whether they ever or other kinds of music. This draws young observarions are caustic and attentive, to reached their destination, letters lost people to these pe&omrances, allowing the extent that even some of the brew forever, letters adrift at sea in a bottlc that artists to end up with works they never Jbrk ~~~esjoumalistjon his mailing list somebody will find so:ileday Their story intended to create, largely due to the take their cue from his assertions, a few will certainly be written and wiI6 help to reaction of the audience. days after receiving his creations. write the history of our century." The relationship between the recluse For Toche today, it is no longer Xeroxed Jean Toche and the world is explained flyers but rather these beautiful color through his public words and his private postcards made with Photoshop that orbit image, through the creation of a the globe like little pearls of wisdom from minuscule nehvork of information which an outposx where all the surrounding rejects ofiicialdom. The face of the artist homes display an obtuse comic-book JeanToche,thanks to graphic reworkings patriotism. Staten Island as Disneyland. or unusual settings, takes on the look of The show cioses on I5 February. the events under discussion. And over the 365 days of the year, a mini-diary is dean Toche Postcard Sets from created, a public and privare biography 2004i2005 are now ava~lable,in an edition that travels the world. of 300 copies, from hrminHundertmark, In the exhibition 3Burn, baby, burn2, Plaza Ing Nmuei Becena 1; 12A, B- the postcards have become posters 35008 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. (50x70). They look like the expression of The price is 15 Euros. A Deluxue set is amovement and they speak the language available with an origrnal photo of Jean of the 2lst century. Toche, price 80 Euros. As a GMG militant, Jean Toche was arrested by theF.B.1. in March 1974 3for DATELINE: Vancouver allegedly having sent sixty fiyers to Vancouver artist and author, Doug various galleries, newspapers and Coupland, was the rage of last summer individuals, strongly criticising the having cl~ewcdup his books, a Bible and policing of American galleries and U.S. dollar hills to produce his exhibition. specifically the hlOhlAZ. Over three He created a gorup of kuus hornet's nests hundred anists from various paris of the fashioned from the pulped remainsof world signed a petition for his release, books-the artist's own, as well as a Gideoti including the secretary of Amnesty Bible-plus one made from a was of International, Martin Ennals and the masticated U.S.$1 bills, called Roj~olties, executive secretary of the PEN Amcrican by the way. Each nest is poised on a Center, Ms. Kristen Mlchalski. branch and sheltered in a wooden vitrinem Toche was obliged to undergo a preserved like a natural-history display. psychiatric examination in an attempt to Here, though, the natural proceess under diagnose him insane, but Doctor Telch scndiny is that of human creativity. acknowledged th~the was of perfectly This shows his passion for the print sound mind. The reason behind the medium. He has read many of th books in attempt to label him n~entallyill was that his home library repeatedly. His one evening, with a protesting group, relationships to books as physical objects Toche appeared at the Metropolitan has made him a connoisseur of paper Museum and during a banquet for the stocks and binding techniques. He affluent members of the museum, cheweed his pages after soaking them in a released some cockroaches onto the table. Tuppenvate container and watched TV This protest at how public funds were while doing it. He confirms that the doliar