Vancouver

BACK CHAT
Readers debate the Vancouver Art Gallery’s request that the city donate an expensive block of downtown real estate for the eventual site of a new $350-million gallery.  The Province, April 30, 2010

Vancouver Art Gallery has eye on free site.  The Vancouver Art Gallery's plans for a new building that will cost millions hinge on free land from the city, Kirk Williams reports CBC News (Video), April 29, 2010

http://www.watchmojo.com/tv/Grab/CBC/4129045/

Finding art in the simple fax

Walk into FAX on the second floor of the Burnaby Art Gallery and you may be underwhelmed. But give it time. Give it some concerted attention, too. FAX is a show of many small works, some of them pinned to the walls and others collected in ring binders.  Georgia Straight, April 29, 2010

CONSUME Consumed

Nicole Dextra’s CONSUME is being consumed on the Stanley Park Seawall. The heat of the day is melting the word molded in ice and colored blue with food dye. For the next few hours – probably until about 3 p.m. - the icy word will be melting one blue drop at a time. Culture Seen, April 29, 2010

Toronto

Canadian, U.S. artists compete for Grange Prize

Canadian photographers will be competing with photographers from the U.S. for the $50,000 Grange Prize in 2010.  The Art Gallery of Ontario announced Thursday it will collaborate with Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Photography to judge and administer the 2010 competition.  CBC, April 30, 2010

Ottawa

Canada Council head Robert Sirman reappointed

Sirman, who was originally appointed to a four-year term as director and CEO of the Canada Council in June 2006, will continue in the post until June 2014.  CBC, April 30, 2010

Tucson

A Photographer Making His Bones

"For the past three years, Francois Robert has spent hundreds of hours arranging the bones of a single human skeleton into a series of striking iconic shapes, creating a photographic series he calls 'Stop the Violence.' The results are beautiful and haunting." Design Observer, April 22, 2010 (includes slideshow)

Chicago

Progress Report: Chicago's Museum Of Contemporary Art In The Passing Lane

“When Madeleine Grynsztejn became director at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art in 2008, the then-40-year-old institution was in the throes of what she called "a healthy midlife crisis" Gauging her success, of course, will take time. But one critical marker is incontestable: attendance at the museum is at record levels.” The New York Times, April, 29, 2010

Chicago's MoCA Lures Top Curator Michael Darling From Seattle Art Museum

"Seattle Art Museum's contemporary/modern curator Michael Darling is the big boy with the unkillable career, ascending ever more heavenly realms - from LA Weekly art critic to LA MOCA curator to SAM in 2006 to Chicago July 12, where he'll be chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art." The Stranger (Seattle), April 29, 2010

New Curator Is Chosen for M.C.A.

As director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Madeleine Grynsztejn has made the museum younger, in focus and in staffing, as her appointment of a new curator shows.  New York Times, April 30, 2010

New York

Tweaking a Name In Long Island City

P.S. 1 and MoMA rebrand for the 10th anniversary of their merger. New York Times, April 30, 2010

All the Picassos in the Cupboard

The Met’s Picasso show, arranged chronologically, introduces the basic metabolism of the artist’s career.  New York Times, April 30, 2010

The Poet as Gardener And Tiger Lily

 “Emily Dickinson’s Garden,” a show at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, recreates the poet’s flower beds that were her inspiration. New York Times, April 30, 2010

London

Burtynsky's Oil images win photo book prize

Edward Burtynsky's Oil, a decade of photographs exploring the impact of oil on landscapes around the world, has won the And/or Book Award for photography.  CBC, April 30, 2010

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