>From the New York Times, Friday, February 4, 1994 (City Edition):
 
"Athens Journal: Under Acropolis, Art Meets Politics, Explosively"
by Alan Cowell
Melina Mercouri, illegal excavations, politics: there's a movie here!
When the new Acropolis Museum opens Culture Minister Mercouri
says, "we will leave one room empty to wait for the [Elgin] marbles."
(p. A4)
 
"An Ancient 'Lost City' Is Uncovered in Mexico" by John Noble Wilford
A 'lost city,' 1,500 years old, has been discovered at El Pital in
Mexico. (p. A10)
 
"Chronicle: Kevin Roche Plans to Cast a Wider Net" by Nadine Brozan
Kevin Roche, architect for the Metropolitan additions, has been elected
president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (p. B4)
 
"Dr. Marigja Gimbutas Dies at 73; Archeologist With Feminist View" by
Richard D. Lyons (p. B6)
 
"Elodie Osborn, 82, Modern's First Head of Traveling Shows"
Died of natural causes. (p. B6)
 
"INSIDE ART" by Carol Vogel
"To the Rescue in Los Angeles" LA County Museum will receive annual
county financing of $14.2 million and a loan of $25 million
for the purchase of an 8.6-acre site for a cultural center.
 
"Museum Staff Changes"
Margit Rowell to become cheif curator of drawings at MoMA, replacing
John Elderfield, who became chief curator at large last year.
Nicholas Turner of the British Museum to become curator of drawings
at the Getty.
Peter Sutton leaving MFA in Boston to become senior director of Old
Master paintings at Christie's New York. (p. C20)
 
"ART IN REVIEW"
"Peter Noever" review by Herbert Muschamp
Avant-garde impresario and director of the Museum of Applied Art
in Vienna shows his designs combining architecture, sculpture and
landscape at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmore Street.
Through Feb. 26. (p. C21)
 
1/4-page ad from the Met for the Lucian Freud exhibit showing a big,
fat, naked Leigh Bowery from the back. Who says the Met is stuffy?
(p. C21)
 
REVIEW/ART
"A Robert Morris Tour of Contemporary History" by Roberta Smith
Retrospective at the Guggenheim organized by director Thomas Krens
and art historian and critic Rosalind Krauss. Uptown AND downtown.
"Work that may be most interesting as illustrations of the
artist's ideas about art." Through April 4. (p. C24)
 
That's all.
 
Robbin Murphy
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