October 2006 Page 11

> ARTLETTER

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> ACADEMIC CHARISMA

According to a NEW YORKER article limned by Anthony Grafton, on page 86 (10.23.06 issue) it was stated that, in ca. late 1700s:

"Christian Gottlob Heyne, who integrated the visual arts into the formal study of antiquity, also ran Gottingen's university library - one of the largest and best organized in Europe - and published reviews of some eight thousand of the books that he obtained and catalogued for the university's collection."

So, in the whole of academic history, Mr. Grafton has asserted that it was Mr. Heyne, "... who integrated the visual arts into the formal study of antiquity..."

If so, thanks?

It was Heyne, then... who, singlehandely "integrated the visual arts..." ?

I respectfully ask to see proof of that assertion.

Heyne might have, or did, well do a lot of cataloguing and so forth. Nevertheless, anytime I read or hear the word "integration", my hackles get up... due to how that word has been so tragically abused.

> HIGH LOUVRE

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has, by whatever means, and for whatever reasons, achieved a mighty cultural coup... by somehow persuading the Louvre to lend them a number of undoubtable art masterpieces for exhibition... at NO small cost BTW.

The Louvre collection does not extend beyond the year ca. 1850.

On the "Charlie Rose" PBS show last evening, I heard the current Louvre Director state that it is his sincere wish to include in their collection more work by American artists.

Damn so, dude!