How de Young is handling New Guinea art question
It's hard to resist a story about looted art, whether it involves Italian tomb robbers, Greek marbles in the British Museum or Nazis who love Leonardo. Former Getty Museum antiquities curator Marion True is on trial in Rome for allegedly conspiring to buy…
Jesse Hamlin

Two Hesse shows open in New York
In 2002 the Whitney Museum of American Art abruptly canceled its plan to give New York its much-anticipated view of the Eva Hesse retrospective that originated at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The show went to Wiesbaden, Germany, and London….
Kenneth Baker

Nichols' found objects and 'art-like' detritus attract attention to what is normally missed
Most of the art of Tucker Nichols delivers a faint first impression. But like Richard Tuttle's art, and some of Ed Ruscha's, Nichols' can lend new traction to everyday oddities over which our attention normally skates. On a shelf at Lincart, Nichols…
Kenneth Baker

255 chair arrangements, and none of them dull
Columbia College in Chicago offered New York conceptual artist Stephan Pascher a residency in 2002 that included a work space furnished with five bone-simple wooden side chairs, among other things. He decided to use the chairs as raw material for his work…
Kenneth Baker

The family that protests together…
Bryan Ferry and his son Otis are an unusual double act, but both are doing their bit to defend the countryside, they tell Cassandra Jardine.

The invisible generation deserves better
Justine Picardie on NHS waiting lists and the British tendency to suffer in silence

British actors save the day as critics pan Da Vinci Code
It has been left to the British to rescue Hollywood from disaster after critics crucified the long-awaited film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code as a jumbled melodrama.

Fantasy factory
With its mix of acrobatics, theatre, dance and audience participation, the Argentinian show Fuerzabruta has been hailed as'the future of performance art'. By Chris Moss. Photographs by Danielle Levitt.

Arts minister lauds SA winner of Student Oscar
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ART MARKET WATCH
Art Market Watch May 10, 2006 $143 MILLION AT CHRISTIE'S CONTEMPORARY Tulipmania! That one-word definition of irrational market exuberance came to mind during Christie's New York sale of post-war and contemporary art on the evening of May 9, 2006, as

Fans out in force for Da Vinci premiere
Amid an unprecedented amount of hype and hoopla for an opening movie at the Cannes film festival, it took the inimitable Ian McKellen to knock Dan Brown and his swollen bestseller down to size with a single word – 'codswallop'.Sir Ian, who plays the Earl

High Court to be approached for ban on `The Da Vinci Code'
Special Correspondent HYDERABAD: After the Government put on hold its decision on releasing controversial film 'The Da Vinci Code' by another day, Christian organisations in the city today resolved to approach the High Court for a ban on the movie.

'The Da Vinci Code' Just Keeps on Selling
Vinci Code' Just Keeps on Selling 'The Da Vinci Code' Just Keeps on Selling Staff and agencies16 May, 2006 23 minutes ago NEW YORK – If the pace of book sales predicts a movie's success, then "The Da Vinci Code" is a certain smash. In less than two

Stop AIDS Project art installation on display through May 30 in San Francisco
May 16, 2006 Stop AIDS Project art installation on display through May 30 in San Francisco Event date: May 17, 2006 – May 30, 2006 To mark the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the global AIDS pandemic, San Franciscos Stop AIDS Project is holding a

'Drowsy Chaperone' Leads With 13 Tony Nominations
In a year crowded with new musicals, 'The Drowsy Chaperone,' a postmodern paean to the tinny musicals of the 1920's, led the field yesterday with 13 Tony Award nominations, including best musical, best direction and best leading actor and actress.

'The Da Vinci Code' just keeps on selling
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How de Young is handling New Guinea art question
It's hard to resist a story about looted art, whether it involves Italian tomb robbers, Greek marbles in the British Museum or Nazis who love Leonardo. Former Getty Museum antiquities curator Marion True is on trial in Rome for allegedly conspiring to buy…
Jesse Hamlin

By a stroke of luck, Caitlin Mitchell-Dayton came to be the real artist behind the big screen's 'Art School Confidential'
HBO's lapsed series "Six Feet Under" did a job on art school in one of its most acerbic sub-plots. Director Terry Zwigoff positively finishes it off with his latest comic feature "Art School Confidential," loosely derived by screenwriter Daniel Clowes from…
Kenneth Baker

High above the city, contest gives local architects chance to spread their wings
If you recall the hype surrounding the proposals for a "new" World Trade Center in 2002, you know the cultural role that architectural competitions can play. Cutting-edge design became the center of a media circus as big-name architects spun visions of…
John King

SFMOMA picks firm to design roof garden
The new sculpture garden for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art — to be built atop the museum's parking garage — will be designed by an architecture firm that proposes boxing the space within 15-foot-high concrete walls embedded with lichen….
John King

Today's TV&radio choices
By Simon Horsford, Matt Ford, Matt Warman and Gillian Reynolds.

Arts bulletin
Contemporary art for the sunny season

A room full of violence, and the silence of death
As Tate Modern unveils its new Rothko Room, Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville reveals the story behind the paintings it contains, and reflects on one of the most compelling experiences to be had in any gallery in the world.

Fresh chance to sing Sondheim's praises
The master of the musical is not as difficult as his reputation suggests, says Sarah Crompton.

Dorian Lynskey talks to rapper Matisyahu
Matisyahu is a Hasidic Jew – and America's biggest reggae star. He talks to Dorian Lynskey.

British Museum exhibition reveals saucy side of the ancient world
Just inside the towering front door of the British Museum, visitors paused yesterday to stare at a unique exhibit, unprecedented in the 253-year history of the museum.

Modernism 1914-39: Designing a New World, V&A, London
Can three rooms at the V&A even begin to do justice to Modernism? Adrian Searle isn't convinced.

Third Refco art sale raises $2.4 million (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)
NEW YORK, May 10 (Reuters) – Bankrupt broker Refco Inc. raised $2.4 million in the third and final auction of its collection of photography, bringing total proceeds from the company's art sales to $9.7 million.

Plasma Art DVD (Gizmodo)
Too cheap to spring for art, but found the money for a 42" Plasma? Get the Art Plasma Vol. 2 DVD and turn your giant entertainment screen into an electronic masterpiece. Impress both your fancy-pants…

Mega Bloks fires head of Rose Art Industries after lawsuit over takeover deal (Canadian Business)
MONTREAL (CP) – Mega Bloks Ltd. (TSX:MB), best known for making children's plastic building blocks, has fired the CEO of Rose Art Industries after he joined a lawsuit filed in the wake of last year's $355-million-US takeover deal.

Two artists provide personal and civic history
Renowned photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto came to town recently to scope out the Asian Art Museum. In February the Asian plans to host his remarkable exhibition "History of History," which has traveled internationally for the past three years. Sugimoto…
Kenneth Baker

Toy soldiers, plastic cowboys, Barbie dolls — what could be more simple and innocent? Well, they're not when photographer David Levinthal gets through with them.
In 1977 New York photographer David Levinthal collaborated with his pal and fellow Yale alumnus Garry Trudeau on a book titled "Hitler Moves East." Long out of print, now a collector's item worth more than 10 times its cover price, the book gave an account in…
Kenneth Baker

How de Young is handling New Guinea art question
It's hard to resist a story about looted art, whether it involves Italian tomb robbers, Greek marbles in the British Museum or Nazis who love Leonardo. Former Getty Museum antiquities curator Marion True is on trial in Rome for allegedly conspiring to buy…
Jesse Hamlin

Brazilian Makes Art from Trash in a Big Way
Brazilian-born Brooklyn artist Vik Muniz has delivered Rena Bransten another astonishing exhibition. Muniz makes big photographs, but their subjects challenge description. To make "Prometheus, After Titian" (2006), like all the other pictures on…
Kenneth Baker

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As museum prepares to open, Russians debate Stalin's legacy
VOLGOGRAD, Russia – May brings out some of Russia's best traditions – and one of its fiercest debates: the legacy of Josef Stalin. Finally, the weather is warm enough to turn fountains back on, and the month starts with two popular holidays, Labor

Automotive Hall of Fame Features Work by Watercolor Artist Richard Lewis
MON May 08 2006, 06:45 AM Automotive Hall of Fame Features Work by Watercolor Artist Richard Lewis DEARBORN, Mich., May 8 /PRNewswire/ — The distinctive work of automotive watercolor artist Richard Lewis is now on display at the Automotive Hall of Fame

Children adopt science for art
BANGALORE: If you thought art was miles away from science, think twice. The visual art workshop conducted by the Visual Art Trust at the city's Gokhale Institute of Public Affairs will encourage you for a second thought on that. Situated at Basavanagudi,