Visual Arts News from the Vancouver Art Gallery Library, May 1-3, 2010

Vancouver

30 reasons this summer will be wonderful

“A completely subjective sampling of what Robert Cushman, Mike Doherty, Lia Grainger, Karen Hawthorne, Ben Kaplan, Chris Knight and Mark Medley are looking forward to this summer” include: The Modern Woman: Drawings by Degas, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and Other Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, at the Vancouver Art Gallery. National Post, May 1, 2010

Town Talk – Malcolm Parry

“Christie and Jamie King attend the Vancouver Art Gallery Masquerade gala which raised a reported $200, 000.” Vancouver Sun, May 1, 2010. 

Catch a rising artist at the Emily Carr grad show

“Works by more than 300 students are featured in university’s annual exhibition.”  Vancouver Sun, May 1, 2010

Vancouver curator to take part in Sydney Biennale

“Tania Willard is one of six curators to participate in Canada Council initiative to expand skills and raise the profile of First Nations artists.”  Vancouver Sun, May 3, 2010

Victoria

Artists show their 'living, breathing art'

“Exhibit of weavings brings together First Nations from four compass points.” Times Colonist, May 2, 2010

New York

Avigdor Arikha, Artist of the Everyday, Is Dead at 81

Mr. Arikha, who found beauty and unease in simple things, painted from a perspective informed by the Holocaust.  New York Times, May 1, 2010

Is New York Afraid Of Tall Buildings? (One Has To Wonder)

"Jean Nouvel's Tower Verre was going to be the biggest thing to hit the midtown skyline since the Empire State Building. Then the city told him to chop off 200 feet. Scoffs the French architect: Why is Manhattan, of all places, afraid of heights?" New York Magazine, May 2, 2010

Santa Fe

Collections Online

Collections Online represents a selection of the wide range of works in the Museum and Research Center.  Works are being added online on an ongoing basis. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, May 2010

Milan

Giuseppe Panza, Collector of Postwar American Art, Dies at 87

“Count Panza made deals that greatly enhanced the holdings of several American museums.” New York Times, May 2, 2010

Rome

Local Heroes, Far From Home

“Edward Hopper’s work, like all good art, remains local on some crucial level, and that’s just as true for those Italian and German old master paintings that fill museums.” New York Times, May 2, 2010

Chieti, Italy

Leonardo Self-Portrait IDed By Fingerprint

"Three fingerprints have led experts to conclude that a tattered picture considered inferior by its owners is a self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci. It could be worth almost $290 million." The Australian, May 3, 2010

Sydney, Australia

Australian Art Royalty Plan Attacked

“Critics are labelling the resale royalty scheme for Australian artists a "bureaucratic nightmare" for galleries and auction houses that will do nothing to help artists and their families.” Sydney Morning Herald, May 4, 2010

International

Why Now's A Great Time To Sell An Art Blockbuster

"Counter-intuitively, now may be a good time to put a masterpiece on the block. The uncertain economy means auction catalogues aren't clogged with goods. Buyers can focus. A dearth of enticing offerings over the last couple of seasons means buyers are primed." The Art Newspaper, April 30, 2010