Inside Art
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INSIDE ART
As the Museum of Modern Art expands its 53rd Street home, it is also embarking on a serious initiative to refine its permanent collection.

ARTS BRIEFING
Arts Briefing column: Experts at Tate Britain, correcting 30-year-old mistake, rename two landscape paintings by J M W Turner; both paintings will be on view from October 9 through January 11; British study reportedly finds that children between 9 and 13 know difference between actual and fictional violence and find violence on television news more disturbing than what they see on screen; Naxos label is set to release first 5 of 50 compact discs carrying more than 600 newly recorded sacred and secular works of American Jewish music; photos (M)…

Joseph Mallord William Turner The English painter

ART REVIEW; Conjurer of Ethereal Mysteries
One century, five decades and one year after the death of the English painter J. M. W. Turner, we are still grappling with his immense achievement.

A Censorship Story Goes Up in Smoke; No Bonfire Devoured J.M.W. Turner’s Erotica
A curator at the Tate Britain has concluded that the prudish Victorian critic John Ruskin did not set fire to erotic drawings by the artist J. M. W. Turner.

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was not only Britain’s greatest painter but arguably the finest landscape and marine painter ever. Turner was enormously prolific, producing some 550 oil paintings, over 2,000 highly detailed and finely finished watercolours, and some 30,000 works on paper. His bequest to the nation of much of this output is without doubt the greatest artistic legacy ever bestowed upon the United Kingdom. It is housed in Tate Britain, London.

CURRENTS: ARCHITECTURE; A Fitting Memorial to Turner by the Sea He Loved to Paint
Snohetta, Norwegian architectural firm, and Spence Associates of London win competition to build Turner Center, museum to honor painter J M W Turner in Margate, England; drawing; photo (S)…

A Censorship Story Goes Up in Smoke; No Bonfire Devoured J.M.W. Turner’s Erotica
A curator at the Tate Britain has concluded that the prudish Victorian critic John Ruskin did not set fire to erotic drawings by the artist J. M. W. Turner.

Joseph Mallord William Turner went to Venice, in 1819, 1833, and 1840, spending only a total of about four weeks there. Even in that brief time the city cast its spell over him.

ARTS BRIEFING
Arts Briefing column: London’s Royal Academy of Arts notifies Art Loss Register that death mask of British painter J M W Turner, not seen since mid-1980’s, is lost or has been stolen; exhibitions at Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum are to receive awards of excellence from International Assn of Art Critics/USA in ceremony on January 12 at Japan Society; rocker Ozzy Osbourne, injured in accident on all-terrain vehicle at his English estate on December 8, is released from intensive care and moved to private clinic; wife, Sharon, says recovery may take six months; animal trainer and illusionist Roy Horn, severely mauled by white tiger during Las Vegas show on October 3, reportedly returns home to continue rehabilitation; photos (M)…

ARTS BRIEFING
Arts Briefing column: Experts at Tate Britain, correcting 30-year-old mistake, rename two landscape paintings by J M W Turner; both paintings will be on view from October 9 through January 11; British study reportedly finds that children between 9 and 13 know difference between actual and fictional violence and find violence on television news more disturbing than what they see on screen; Naxos label is set to release first 5 of 50 compact discs carrying more than 600 newly recorded sacred and secular works of American Jewish music; photos (M)…

Corrections
Correction of June 13 review of show of Turner seascapes at Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass…

Joseph Mallord William Turner The English painter

Two paintings by J. M. W. Turner have been returned to the Tate Gallery in London eight years after they were stolen from an exhibition in Germany. Read more..

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Arts Briefing column: London’s Royal Academy of Arts notifies Art Loss Register that death mask of British painter J M W Turner, not seen since mid-1980’s, is lost or has been stolen; exhibitions at Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum are to receive awards of excellence from International Assn of Art Critics/USA in ceremony on January 12 at Japan Society; rocker Ozzy Osbourne, injured in accident on all-terrain vehicle at his English estate on December 8, is released from intensive care and moved to private clinic; wife, Sharon, says recovery may take six months; animal trainer and illusionist Roy Horn, severely mauled by white tiger during Las Vegas show on October 3, reportedly returns home to continue rehabilitation; photos (M)… Read more..

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was not only Britain’s greatest painter but arguably the finest landscape and marine painter ever. Turner was enormously prolific, producing some 550 oil paintings, over 2,000 highly detailed and finely finished watercolours, and some 30,000 works on paper. His bequest to the nation of much of this output is without doubt the greatest artistic legacy ever bestowed upon the United Kingdom. It is housed in Tate Britain, London.

An enchanting show in Williamstown, Mass., offers a concentrated look at the role that the sea played in James Mallord William Turner’s art. Read more..

Snohetta, Norwegian architectural firm, and Spence Associates of London win competition to build Turner Center, museum to honor painter J M W Turner in Margate, England; drawing; photo (S)… Read more..

THE TURNER SOCIETY

The Turner Society was founded in 1975 on the bicentenary of the birth of J.M.W. Turner RA to promote interest in the life, work and influence of Britain’s greatest painter.

It offers a full programme of events. These include lectures by leading experts on the artist; visits to the Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection in London; and trips to important private collections not generally open to the public.
http://www.turnersociety.org.uk/events.htm