Thursday, February 27, 2003

From ArtsJournal:  Tracking Down Nazi Art Loot - A Futile Task? More people are trying to track down art looted by the Nazis dureing World War II than ever before. And museums and collectors are under greater scrutiny. But "experts have become increasingly pessimistic that much more of it will ever be recovered and restored to its rightful owners. The Germans seized perhaps 600,000 important works from 1933 to 1945. "As many as 100,000 pieces are still estimated to be missing, and some have undoubtedly been destroyed. 'Obviously, what this is all about is the art world having to pay the price for lack of interest in provenance that they have shown for generations. It's a good idea to put it on the Internet and make it available, but I don't think there's a great deal of follow-up by museums'." The New York Times 02/27/03 Met Museum Lands Matisse Trove The Metroplitan Museum lands a gift of 50 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints by Matisse, valued at $100 million. "The gift, which comes from a foundation named after Matisse's youngest son, Pierre, and Pierre's wife, Maria-Gaetana Matisse, is one of the most important gifts of modern art the Metropolitan has ever received." The New York Times 02/27/03  Leonardo Interactive Leonardo da Vinci was one of the great minds in history. The Metropolitan Museum has developed a special interactive feature designed to complement the exhibit: an online tour (really an overview) of the show's eight galleries. This allows us to follow the stages in the development of Leonardo's mind through 34 representative drawings. Each of these can be enlarged several times thanks to a zoom feature. Artcyclopedia 02/03 Libeskind Chosen For WTC The proposed design by Daniel Libeskind for the World Trade Center site has been chosen. "The new building is planned to be taller than the trade center towers, which briefly stood as the world's tallest at 1,350 feet. Libeskind's tower also would surpass Malaysia's 1,483-foot Petronas Twin Towers, the tallest buildings in the world." CNN (AP) 02/26/03 1:05:35 PM

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From Anchordesk: Intel reps showed a 1.6GHz Centrino-class laptop outperforming a 2.4GHz Pentium 4-M machine running the same application. ...Centrino isn't just another chip at Intel. It's a product as seminal as the Pentium, the 486 before that, and the 386 generation of Intel chips before that. It represents the fruition of a market-changing strategic shift ...Centrino is a three-chip package. It consists of a Pentium M Processor, an Intel 855 chip set, and an Intel chip that provides wireless Wi-Fi connectivity--all optimized, or so Intel says, to work with each other.... Read between the lines. Therein lies a significant new declaration at Intel, the same strategic shift that Centrino represents: When it comes to computing for most of us, things like mobility, wireless communications, and battery life matter as much, or maybe even more than, speed. Intel is turning that recognition into commercial products--Centrino is just one among them. And that commercialization, in turn, has big implications for you and me. Intel moves the industry; it makes markets. Starting now, the industry titan is going to add its considerable weight to the momentum that's now gathering behind mobile, wireless, and communications technologies. And that in turn is going to inform the way we will think about and buy computers, PDAs, and cell phones--all the computing devices that communicate and all the communications devices that compute. In other words, just about everything.   12:55:21 PM

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