THE JOURNAL
The ArtWatch UK Journal
Editor Michael Daley: artwatch.uk@gmail.com
Books Editor Kasia Pisarek: kasia@talk-art.eu
Picture Analyst Gareth Hawker: gareth@garethhawker.com
Membership and Events Secretary Helen Hulson: hahulson@onetel.com
The Journal (formerly the ArtWatch UK Newsletter) is distributed free to all members of ArtWatch UK. Complimentary copies are sent to key politicians, arts administrators and opinion formers. For membership application details, see membership
Journal articles published since spring 2000 include:
“Can trustees be trusted? ” – (Dr) Selby Whittingham, Secretary-General, Donor Watch
“Imperfect analysis deceives” – (the late) Anatoly Alyoshin, Professor of Restoration at the Russian Academy of Arts, St Petersburg
“Changing Rooms” – Colin Wheeler, cartoonist and painter
“Letter from Vermont” – (the late) Frank Mason, painter and a founder member of the International Art Preservation Society
“ArtWatch UK Meeting” – (the late) Dachine Rainer, writer and poet
“Marks must be read” – Sargy Mann, painter
“Saving Concepts or Materials? ” – Bryony Bery, sculpture conservator
“The ‘Have You Seen It?’ Myth” – (the late) James Beck, Professor of Art History, Columbia University
“The Fates of the Jesse Window” – Selby Whittingham
“Asset Rippers” – Colin Wheeler
“Louvre’s Veronese ‘spoilt by cleaning’” – Dalya Alberge, arts correspondent
“False gods go unpunished” and “Why create a Bill of Rights for works of art?”
–(Dr) Arcadi Nebolsine, cultural historian
“Letter from Paros” – (Dr) James Russell
Issue No 11 (Rubens Special Issue No 1)
“Rubens Reduced” – Michael Daley
“Truth or Consequences” – James Beck
“It ain’t Baroque” – Mark Taylor, design and production consultant
“Clamps off” – Mira Bar-Hillel, planning correspondent, the Evening Standard
“Art’s ethical problems” – Anatoly Alyoshin
“Divine theatres honour skies” – Arcadi Nebolsine
“The Other Sculpture” – David Lee, editor, The Jackdaw
“Against all odds” – Jessica Douglas-Home, author, painter
“The Magic Stains” – (Dr) Anton Glikin, classical architect
“Leonardo Petition” – an open letter to the Superintendent of Art in Florence, from James Beck and forty other professors.
“Leonardo’s Last Supper – Lost not Found” – Michael Daley
“The Foundling Hospital and its Museum” – Selby Whittingham
“Black is a colour – as is Grey” – Iain Walker, painter
“The Beauty of Tone” – John Lessore, painter
“Seeing Nature’s Palette” – (Professor) Roger Scruton, philosopher, composer
“Delacroix’s forgotten warnings” – Michel Favre-Felix, painter, now president of ARIPA (Association Internationale pour le Respect de l’Intégrité du Patrimoine Artistique)
“Sir Ernst Gombrich OM” (Obituary) – Michael Daley
“The Biter Bit: Ruskin and Turner’s Fading Watercolours” – Selby Whittingham
“Vermeer’s Lost Jewels of Glazing” – Frank Mason
“Spot the Mistakes” – restoration induced changes to Vermeer’s Girl with a Flute, Michael Daley
“Leonardo’s Adoration, the World Trade Towers and business as usual” – James Beck
“Transporting Body and Soul” – Anton Glikin
“The ArtWatch File (The restorations of: The Feast of the Gods, G. Bellini/Titian; Madame X, J. S. Sargent; and The Ambassadors, Holbein) – Michael Daley
“The Louvre, Paris: An exemplary fight to preserve sauces and juices” – René Huyghe
“The removal of a yellow toning glaze” – Barbara Bibb, painter/restorer
“Velazquez’s Technique Laid Bare” – Alexander Zafiropulo
“Acid Bites” – Thi Minh Ngo
“From Academicians to ‘Gallerists’” – Michael Daley
“An Identity Restored” – Glynn Williams, Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art
“The Fate of the Parthenon Sculptures in Athens before and after Elgin” – Ellis Tinios
“Turner and Girtin: A Postscript” – Selby Whittingham
“Manipulating Sculpture’s Mugs” – Professor Michael Sandle R.A., sculptor
“Letter from France” – Michael Fell, painter
“Cleaning St Paul’s Cathedral” – Florence Hallett, art historian
“A Restoration Without End? Brancusi’s ‘Column’ in Târgu Jiu, Romania” – Eric Shanes, painter, art historian
“The Conservation of the ‘Taddei Tondo’ by Michelangelo” – John Larson, (then ) Head of Sculpture and Inorganic Conservation at the Conservation centre, Liverpool
“The Odd Couple” – Michael Daley (on two upgraded ‘Rubens’ attributions)
“The supposedly ‘model’ restoration of St Paul’s Cathedral” Part 1- Florence Hallett; Part 2 – Michael Daley
“The age-defying stucco finishes of St Petersburg” – Anton Glikin
“The Deconstruction of Pskov” – Irina B. Golubyeva, Chief Historian of Arts at the Pskov Institute, Russia
“The New Consumer Restoration” – Anatoly Alyoshin
“Whitewashing St Paul’s Cathedral III” – Michael Daley
“We ruined the Rembrandts ourselves – let’s not talk about it” – Alexander Eliot, author and former Time magazine art editor
“A painter recalls” – 1 Frank Mason; 2 John Pittuck
“Ship lost at Clark. Many records feared missing. Establishment unfazed” – Edmund Rucinski, painter, musician
“Visit to the Tomb: The Deaths of Turner and his Works” – Selby Whittingham
“Know how they were made” – Donald Fels, painter and period musical instrument maker
“Letter from Athens” – Spiros Kalogeropoulos, member of the Committee for the Salvation of the Acropolis
“Stevens, Skanska, Salvo, Buggins and Prescott – A Betrayal of Heritage” – Mira Bar-Hillel
“What price three mountains, a valley, an ancient town, a way of life and World Bank guidelines?” – Sherban Cantacuzino, founder and president of Pro Patrimonio
“The restoration of a Transylvanian Clavichord” – Jessica Douglas-Home
“Brighter than right” – Michael Daley on the declared “grand project to renew the Cathedral [of St Paul’s]”
“Now you don’t see, now you did – what lies beneath ‘the weirdest Turner’” – Michael Daley
“The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown USA”
“Blue, bluer, bluest” – Michael Price, painter
“Surprises in Athens” – (Dr) Dorothy King, classicist
Issue No 21 Rubens Special Issue II)
“The Samson and Delilah – a question of attribution” – (Dr) Kasia Pisarek, art historian and critic
“‘Prove it!’ ~ When experts stand united” – Michael Daley
Issue No 22 (James Beck Memorial Issue)
“Blockbuster Exhibitions: the Hidden Costs and Perils” – A Report: Michael Savage and Michael Daley
Obituaries from The Times (Michael Daley), The Guardian (Michael Savage), The Independent (Selby Whittingham)
“Ruskin’s Sculptural Love” – (Dr) Cynthia Gamble, author, Secretary of the Ruskin Society
“ArtWatch Post 9-11-2001” – James Beck, 2002
“Abusing Barnes’s legacy” – Nick Tinari, patent attorney
“Populism: The Living death of Museums” – David Lee
“Appraising today’s appraisers” – Kasia Pisarek
“A memorial address given on October 6 2005 for Peter Coker R. A.” – Frances Spalding, art critic, author
“The Unmitigated Disaster of the Diana Memorial Fountain” – Ivor Hall, architect
“Amber Delight” – Donald Fels
“The ArtWatch File: Restoration Injuries to Klimt” – Michael Daley
“All that Glitters is not Art” – Arcadi Nebolsine
“The Man who Re-invented the Louvre” – Kasia Pisarek
“Good light. Bad light” – Michael Savage
“Death of Venice” – Alexander Zafiropulo
Obituaries: Alex Thomson; Jack Millar; John Ward; R. B. Kitaj; James Beck
Issue No 24 (A special issue on the Fight to Save the Classical city of St Petersburg)
“The Classical City of St Petersburg” – Anton Glikin
“St Peter sburg Real Estate Development” – Carmen Román, architect/planner
“The Destruction of Pennsylvania Station and the Salvation of Grand Central Station” – Frank Mason and Scott Mason, painters
“A History of vandalism in St Petersburg” – Vladimir G. Lisovsky, Professor of Architecture History, St Petersburg Academy of Arts
“A Conversation with Clark McLain” – Anton Glikin
“The Spirituality of Classic St Petersburg” – Arcadi Nebolsine
“The Image of Atlantis from Plato to Krier” – David Watkin, Professor of the History of Architecture and Head of the department of Art history at Cambridge University
“The Conservative Modernism of Delano and Aldrich” – Peter Pennoyer, classical architect, and Anne Walker, writer
“The Berlin Palace Rises Again” – Genia Chef, artist and Fellow of the New Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg
“A ‘Beaubourg-effect’ for the Imperial Fora in Rome!” – Léon Krier, architect and architectural theorist
“Freedom and Order of Neo-Academism” – Alexander Medvedev, Professor of Visual arts at the St Petersburg State University
“The Soviet Legacy and the 1996 International Summer Studio on St Petersburg” – Jean M. Verzhbitsky, leading architect of the Soviet era
“Meeting of Minds” – Thomas Gordon Smith, Professor of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
“Timor Novikov and Neo-Academism” – Anton Glikin
“St Petersburg – The Bobrinskoy Palace in the Life of Our Families” – Countess Tatiana Bobrinskoy, Grand Chancellor of The Sovereign Order of Orthodox Knights Hospitalier of St John of Jerusalem
“Sculpture as Ornament” – John M. Kelly, classical sculptor
“Arno Breker – Sculptor and Architect” – B. John Zavrel, Honorary Consul of the Czech Republic in the USA
“Modernism’s secret passion?” – Michael Daley
“Stop Gazprom from Devastaing the World Heritage Skyline of St Petersburg!” – An appeal from “Europa Nostra” to President Putin
“A letter to the Governor of St Petersburg” – Professor Michael Petzet, President ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites)
“The Shock of the Old Country” – Nick Tinari
“Undermining Amsterdam” – Maaike Dirkx, writer/researcher
“On the Market” – Alexander Zafiropulo
Obituaries: Anatoly Alyoshin; Jack Cardiff; Frank Mason
“Painting, the essential way” – Donald Fels
“Restoration blues” – Michael Daley
“Once, twice, thrice wrong” – Ellis Tinios
“Undoing, redoing, and re-redoing old masters” – Michael Daley
“Razing Rosecrans House” – Edmund Rucinski
“On their Travels” – Mark Zucker
“On the Market” – Alexander Zafiropulo
“The Elgin Marbles Dispute Part I: The Marbalistas and a perfect Leftist cause célèbre” – Michael Daley
“Pricing the Masterly touch” – Kasia Pisarek