art in the news

[Ryan Whyte]

on Netochka Nezvanova
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/03/01/netochka/index.htm

The Last Days of Bamian's Buddhas
("'We have killed your gods'")
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-000014271feb24.story

Libeskind ROM expansion funding problems
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C2B83248

still more on the 'Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Work' controversy
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0306/p01s02-ussc.html

Republican congressmen suggest successful artists should return grants
http://www.ctnow.com/entertainment/stage/sns-ap-arts-grants0306mar06.story?coll=hc%2Dheadlines%2Darts

Toronto arts scene to get $260M in federal cash
http://www.canada.com/search/site/story.asp?id=BAF11649-F9D8-4AB9-BA00-A60C0F7C5DC4

WTC sculptures/memorials
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/11/nyregion/11CND-RESC.html
http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Art-X!ArticleDetail-53190,00.html

entire Turner bequest online!
(30,000 images)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1846000/1846692.stm
http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/collection_search_simple.jsp?group=turner

Bosch Last Judgment, Savoldo in San Diego
http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Art-X!ArticleDetail-52991,00.html

Nancy Nisbet's New Body Art: Chip Implants
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50769,00.html

Artist adds DNA to paintings to beat forgers
http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_537984.html

Human corpse exhibition set to spark legal row
http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_541650.html

Norman Foster to build world's largest roof on Hong Kong waterfront
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/3/2/asia/longroof&sec=asia

Gormley's British Library stone circle to be realized, finally
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1860000/1860223.stm

Row over State control of French museums
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=9010

Arts Awaken After the Taliban
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/arts/10SOLO.html

Rembrandt's Minerva on the block for an estimated $40m
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1861000/1861537.stm

immense Wernher collection on show in London
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1866000/1866687.stm

Gina Pane at Arnolfini
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020309002072
http://www.arnolfini.demon.co.uk/visual_arts/gina_pane/

Philip Johnson's monumental cynicism
(read for Bin Laden quote)
http://timeoff.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT343A5XYXC&liv$

Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall rises in LA
http://timeoff.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3C8ID26YC&liv$

Environmental Stoicism and Place Machismo
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/publications/hdm/current_issue/16_bendikt.h$

Computer-aided architecture challenges builders
("About 1,000 construction workers have died on the job each year for the
past 16 years")
http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20020305lowry0305fnp5.asp

artists hesitate after 9/11
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0307/p17s01-alar.html

Renaissance Tapestries Aglow at the Met
(interesting description of hanging process)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/11/arts/design/11TAPE.html

Mies' Farnsworth House for sale
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020309002085

a visit to the Barnes Foundation
http://www.nypress.com/15/9/art/art.cfm

Whitney Biennial 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/08/arts/design/08COTT.html
http://www.whitney.org

rogue Whitney Biennial site
("It was like a message from them: 'Please bug us.'")
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/04/arts/design/04ARTS.html
http://www.WhitneyBiennial.com

books

_Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies_ by Reyner Banham
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/publications/hdm/current_issue/16books_fishman.html

_A Pattern Language_ by Christopher Alexander, et al
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/publications/hdm/current_issue/16books_saunders.html

_Madame Butterfly: Japonisme, Puccini And The Search For The Real
Cho-Cho-San_ by Jan van Rij
http://www.post-gazette.com/books/bookreview.asp?ID=948

[JB...@aol.com]

It's disappointing not to see a reference to remarks made by the National Endowment for the Humanities head, Bruce Cole, that scholars on the humanities should kiss the ass of America.  Consider the following:

"In the aftermath of the horrific events of September 11, the need to study the humanities is even more pressing. The terrorist attacks were an assault on our principles, our heritage of freedom, our history and culture. To defend our country, we must first understand it. A knowledgeable citizenry is essential to homeland defense. The Endowment is therefore launching a special initiative that will encourage new project proposals that advance our knowledge of the events, ideas, people, and principles that shaped and define the American nation. This new initiative, entitled We the People, will call on scholars, teachers, filmmakers, museums, libraries, and others engaged in the humanities to develop projects of excellence and significance on these themes. Applications responding to the We the People initiative will be welcomed in all of the agency's divisions and programs and will be evaluated through NEH's established merit review process."

As usual, no thought is given to the absence of the humanities in the formulation and execution (a well-chosen word) of American Foreign Policy, which has, for the last 500 years, caused death and destruction around the world, including the current orgy being perpetuated in the name of 'antiterrorism.'  It never occurs to Mr. Cole his bevy of stooges that the attack on America was a response from people who resent America's attack on their principles, their heritage of freedom, their history and culture.  No matter, scholars from across the land will oil up their tongues in the hope of reaching far enough up Mr. Cole's ass, which as I understand it, is painted in white and blue stripes, with a bright red target, ala Jasper Johns, smack dab in the middle of the pucker, to get whatever dribble they can in the saliva.

joe brennan

[Ian C. Dengler]

.1343500606 From: "Ronald Jump" <ron @ifss.org > The Institute of Formal
Social Sciences Systematic Philosophy Sent: Friday Subject: Re: general
entry to a taxonomy of all possible worldsFactors form product-systems. The
only way tokeep track of them is by formality.. . . . . . universe + factor.
. . . . . . . . . life + formality. . . . . . . . .mind + employment. . . .
. . . . . . art + law. . . . expression + records
.. .understanding + technic civilization, man as servant. . . . . . . .
.issue + applied science. . . .significance + scientific. . . . . condition
+ verification
. . . . . . . virtue + adequate. . . . . . . . .truth + appropriate. . . . .
. .validity + recommendation. consciousness + specification. demonstration +
revealed, disclosed. . . . conviction + definitive.. . . . . .process +
genuine. . .commitment + testing. . . . .technique + experiment. . . . .
creativity + research
. . . . . . . . talent + rational explanations and observations, reading.. .
. . . . . . code + systematize. . . . . . . saying + judgement. . . . . . .
.intent + guidance. . . . . .medium + definition. . . . .rendering +
familiar
PART 1 Academic Still Life (Cezanne) 1976-1977; Silent; Colour; 6 mins.

People who live in the mountains have their own viewpoint and those that sit
high upon their criticism are the same. This film is not about a Cezanne
painting, but attempts to apply certain concepts related to the relativity
of changing viewpoints in observation and recording. In much the same way as
a Cezanne painting records within its image the problem of stabilising a
perception and the way in which shifts in viewpoint modify the spatial
experience, the film uses time lapse and time exposure to seek a filmic
equivalent for this aesthetic.