Visual Arts News from Vancouver Art Gallery Library June 5-7, 2010
Submitted by VAG Library on June 7, 2010 - 10:24am
Vancouver
“Showcasing many rare drawings that have never before left France, a new Vancouver exhibit depicts a watershed moment in art history and in women’s lives.” Globe & Mail, June 5, 2010
Drawings tell story of emerging Modern Woman
“As an art exhibition, it doesn't get much better than The Modern Woman: Drawings by Degas, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and Other Masterpieces from the Musee d'Orsay. Curated by Isabelle Julia from the d'Orsay and Thomas Padon from the VAG, the 97 works aren't just the leisure 'greatest hits' of late 19th century drawings from the d'Orsay.” Vancouver Sun, June 5, 2010
French masterpieces on display at Vancouver Art Gallery
Slide show of several works in The Modern Woman on at the Vancouver Art Gallery. CTV News, June 6, 2010
Peter Simpson, chief executive of the Greater Vancouver Home Builders Association, likens some of the negotiations between cities and developers to “creative arm twisting.” National Post, June 5, 2010
Victoria
Things just seem to get worse for arts and culture in Victoria and the rest of British Columbia. Times Colonist, June 5, 2010
Art collectors, Paul McNair and Andrew Hall, found themselves with a logistical problem when they moved into a 970-square-foot downtown townhouse in Victoria after their move from Halifax. Ottawa Citizen, June 5, 2010
Toronto
Pastiche unleashed: How prim Victorian ladies invented our mash-up ...
“Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage, which opened this Friday at the Art Gallery of Ontario, may seem at first like a collection of absurd eccentricities.” National Post, June 7, 2010
Whyte: Ken Danby show feels wide of the mark
“Whatever side of the fence you fall on, Danby, who died in 2007, is getting the royal treatment at the Odon Wagner Gallery, with a show of 50 works from his estate opening today this weekend.” Toronto Star, June 5, 2010
Ottawa
Why you should take your kids to Pop Life
Should you keep your teenagers away from Pop Life: Art in a Material World at the National Gallery, because it includes images of hardcore sex? Maybe the question should be: Who's more likely to be traumatized by a bit of explicit sex -- your kids, or you?... That's the thing about Pop Life: It's a ready-to-go lesson in contemporary art and its issues -- sex, yes, but principally the fine line between art and commerce.” Ottawa Citizen, June 5, 2010
“Love him or hate him, there's no getting around Andy Warhol -- artist, self-marketer.” Ottawa Citizen, June 5, 2010
Goddard: Controversy and exploitation in the nation’s capitol
“The exhibit Pop Life: Art in a Material World opens Friday, amply knee-deep in the kind of controversy that provides the National Gallery with the brazen hope it may have a genuine summer hit on its hands.” Toronto Star, June 5, 2010
Seattle
After 10 years, Seattle’s Experience Music Project is still perplexing
"It's a sculpture, one of the most successful public-arts pieces in Seattle. It's a bit irresponsible and irreverent in the same way the music it represents was. It's gutsy. Seattle needs a few buildings like that -- just not too many." Seattle Times, June 6, 2010
New York
Tobias Wong, Witty Designer and Conceptual Artist, Dies at 35
Tobias Wong, a designer whose outrageous send-ups of luxury goods and witty expropriation of work by other designers blurred the line between conceptual art and design, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan.” The artist, known as Tobi, was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on June 10, 1974. New York Times, June 2, 2010
Boston
Boston Globe: Museum Renting Art Is Okay
"Brandeis University is raising eyebrows in the museum world with its plans to lend out artworks for money, but exploring this option is a reasonable way to preserve the financially strapped school's collection." Boston Globe, June 6, 2010
London
Self-publish or be damned: why photographers are going it alone
"Self-publishing is not a new development in photography, but recently the trend to make, edit, design and produce your own photobook seems to have become an underground phenomenon.” Guardian (UK),
Venerable British Museum Enlists in the Wikipedia Revolution
“The British Museum has begun an unusual collaboration with Wikipedia, the online, volunteer-written encyclopedia, to help ensure that the museum’s expertise and notable artifacts are reflected in that digital reference’s pages.” The New York Times, June 4, 2010
Sydney
Sydney Opera House gets $132M upgrade
Government officials in Australia have unveiled $132 million in new funding for the Sydney Opera House for a major upgrade of the landmark. CBC News, June 6, 2010
Weimar
"Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus--the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919." New York Review of Books, June (24), 2010
