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F R O N T P a G E FRONT PAGE ber of expansions and renovations Over the years, heirs of the collec- Met Director that over the years have doubled the tors have attempted to lay claim to museum’s size. works, usually while on view in other to Retire Under de Montebello’s leadership, countries. Shchukin’s and Morosov’s the Met’s endowment rose from holdings were nationalized by Lenin t’s the end of an era for the Metro- $1.36 million to $2.9 billion. Though in 1918, after the 1917 Bolshevik Ipolitan Museum of Art. On Jan. 8, the museum has various business Revolution. longtime director Philippe de Monte- ventures, including online and retail In response to Russia’s concern, bello announced his intention to retire stores and a thriving art-book pub- British officials rushed through leg- by Dec. 31, after more than 30 years lishing department, it has not jumped islation safeguarding the artworks as the head of one of the world’s most on the globalization bandwagon by against possible claims. The law was prominent art museums. The eighth opening an international branch, a to have taken effect in February, after and longest-serving director in the trend that de Montebello has spoken the show’s opening, but was instead Met’s 138-year history, he oversaw against. Among the notable acquisi- pushed up to Dec. 31. The move the physical and programmatic trans- tions made during his tenure are appeased Russian officials, and on formation of the institution. The recent Duccio’s tempera-and-gold-on-wood Jan. 9 the Russian government gave reopenings of the Greek and Roman Madonna and Child, van Gogh’s its consent for the works to travel to Galleries, in a new 57,000-square- Wheat Field with Cypresses, Bal- Philippe de Montebello. England. The show opened as sched- foot space, and of the expanded and thus’s The Mountain and Jasper uled on Jan. 26 and will remain on revamped 25,000-square-foot Uris Johns’s White Flag. In addition, he Klee and Clyfford Still, as well as view through Apr. 18. Center for Education cap off a num- secured collections of work by Paul the Annenberg Collection of Impres- “From Russia” explores the rela- sionist and Post-Impressionist paint- tionship between French and Russian ings and the Gelman Collection of art between 1870 and 1925 through Classical Antiquities Coming and Going modern paintings. Early this year, 120 works by such artists as Matisse, de Montebello also worked Gauguin, van Gogh, Renoir, Kandin- n an agreement with the Italian government, the.Metro- out a resolution with Italy in sky, Malevich and Goncharova. One Ipolitan Museum of Art in mid-January returned to Italy 21 the widespread antiquities section is devoted to 13 works collect- antiquities whose provenance has been questioned in recent scandals also involving the ed by Morosov and 23 by Shchukin, years. Most prominent among the works is the famous Euph- Getty Museum, the Boston including Matisse’s The Dance, once ronios krater (ca. 515 B.C.), a large red-figure vessel that was MFA and others. As part of owned by Shchukin. The works are allegedly unearthed by tomb robbers in 1971. It was sold to the deal, the Met returned 21 gathered from the collections of four the Met in 1972 for $1 million by the American dealer Robert disputed antiquities to Italy, museums: the Pushkin Museum and Hecht, who is on trial in Rome for trafficking in stolen antiqui- including, in January, the the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and ties. The Euphronios krater is currently on view at Rome’s prized Euphronios krater in the Hermitage and State Russian Quirinale Palace [through Mar. 2], along with a number of exchange for the long-term Gallery in St. Petersburg. other recently repatriated antiquities from the Getty, the loan of four works [see box]. Not to be deterred, before the Princeton University Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, De Montebello joined the show even opened to the public, Boston, and other institutions from around the globe. Charinos, Head museum staff as a curato- André-Marc Delocque-Fourcaud, To acknowledge the Met’s cooperation, the Italian govern- Vase, Attic, rial assistant in 1963. From 1969 to grandson of Shchukin, and Pierre 500-490 B.C. ment has loaned the museum four antiquities for a four-year 1974, he served as director of the Konowaloff, great-grandson of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Morosov, who are both French citi- period. Included is a vase in the shape of a woman’s head only part of his professional life spent zens, issued a joint statement calling (500-490 B.C.) by the potter Charinos, believed to be a member of Euphronios’s outside the Met. Three years after his attention to “the extremely violent workshop. Also part of the loan is a kylix (drinking cup), 515-510 B.C., signed return, he became director. In 1998 way in which these extraordinary col- by Euxitheos as potter and Oltos as painter, bearing an elaborate scene of the he also became CEO, reflecting the lections, gathered over many years gods on Mount Olympus, as well as a kylix with images of a man, a sea creature large role he played in the museum’s by our forefathers, were taken.” and snakes, attributed to the Typhon Painter (560-500 B.C.), plus a krater by an business affairs. De Montebello plans Instead of restitution, they are seeking anonymous hand, depicting Oedipus (4th century B.C.). to work on international museum “an agreement [with Russia] . that The works are now on view in the Met’s recently refurbished Greek and projects after leaving the Met. reasonably compensates and pays a Roman Galleries. The renovation was funded to a significant degree by phi- percentage of the material benefits lanthropists and museum trustees Shelby White and her late husband Leon that accrue from exploitation of the Levy. White's important private collection of Classical antiquities has also been Brits Scramble works.” According to Bloomberg. the focus of investigations by Italian authorities over the past 18 months. She com, the pair has tried, unsuccess- has not been accused of any wrongdoing, but the provenances of some works for Russian Show fully, on the occasion of exhibitions in her possession have been called into question. In an unprecedented transac- in Paris, Rome and Los Angeles, to tion between the Italian government and a private collector, White, on Jan. 16, elations between Russia and Brit- win a percentage of the proceeds handed over to the Italian consulate on Park Avenue nine pieces from her col- Rain have been looking very Cold garnered by the exhibitions. lection. Among them are War these days, from a standoff relat- —Stephanie Cash a red-figure vase signed by ed to the murder in London of former Euphronios, another signed K.G.B. officer Alexander Litvinenko by Eucharides (both ca. by another Russian agent to the near The Price of 500 B.C.), and a Roman cancellation of an exhibition of Rus- fresco fragment (50-30 B.C.) sian art at London’s Royal Academy Free Admission of Arts. Late last year, Moscow had showing a detail of what threatened to pull the plug on “From appears to be an elaborate re the French becoming less .cul- Russia: French and Russian Master tured than their yogurt? Quelle architectural folly. A tenth A Paintings 1870-1925” unless guar- horreur! In an attempt to bring in object, a 5th-century B.C. anteed that the works would be pro- more visitors, France is currently vase, will be returned to tected from seizure and lawsuits by experimenting with free admission ▲ Euxitheos/Oltos, Kylix (drinking cup), Attic, Italy in 2010. 515-510 B.C. descendants of czarist-era collectors to the permanent collections of 18 —David Ebony Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morosov. national museums. It’s an idea that Photos: de Montebello: © Bill Melton, Will Bill Studios; antiquities: Direzione Generale per i Beni Archaeologici, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali. Art in America 31 F RONT PAGE ▲ conservative President Nicolas paired artists and architects to cre- East River Waterfalls Sarkozy campaigned for as a way ate collaborative projects in Finnish to democratize culture and invigo- Lapland (2004) and at the 2006 t is surprisingly easy for rate interest in the arts, particularly Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, the I New Yorkers to forget in the younger generation. Through Santa Fe exhibition will be a team that they live on the coast, June 30, instead of the usual $9-12, effort. Rather than selecting the and never more than a few most visitors won’t have to pay any- artists directly, he asked numerous miles from a body of water. thing to get into such museums as the nonprofit, international contempo- Danish artist Olafur Elias- Guimet, which focuses on Asian art, rary art institutions to suggest one son intends to change that, the Cluny, a medieval collection, and or two artists to be included in the at least for four months the science museum Arts et Métiers. show. From these candidates he this summer and fall, by Other venues are offering free access chose 27 artists nominated by 18 drawing attention to the only to visitors age 18 to 25 on certain institutions; these institutions will East River. Commissioned evenings. In Paris those include the act as co-curatorial partners in the by the Public Art Fund, his Centre Pompidou (Wednesdays), the endeavor. Among those on board new $10-15-million project, Musée d’Orsay (Thursdays) and are Hiroshi Fuji, selected by Japan’s The New York City Water- Rendering of Olafur Eliasson’s project at the the Quai Branly (Saturdays).
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