Calgary

Injury inspires new body art
Morgan Mallett’s body has always been a source of inspiration. The Calgary-based jewelry-maker’s passion for sport and athleticism is one of the driving forces behind her line of geometric, tactile body-fitting pieces.  Vancover Sun, June 8, 2010

Toronto

AGO to close for G20 weekend

The Art Gallery of Ontario plans to remain closed during the G20 summit in Toronto, even though it's outside the two security zones.  CBC, June 8, 2010

Ottawa

LODESTONES AMID ARCHIVAL PHOTOS
Whether it’s ski-resort hot tubs, tropical-island electromagnetism or sub-urban-nabe DeLoreans, our culture has a certain obsession with timetravel tools. Same goes, some might say, for Montreal artist Angela Grauerholz, who more seriously uses photography as a portal to past and future.  National Post, June 8, 2010

Los Angeles

Diller Scofidio + Renfro Is Broad Museum Front-Runner

Anonymous sources said Eli Broad favors the firm to design his art museum, but they "cautioned that Broad could still change his mind and pursue a design by one of the other architects," particularly if the Diller Scofidio plan proved too costly. First, of course, he has to get approval for the downtown L.A. site. Los Angeles Times, June 8, 2010

New York

Siblings’ Two Worlds Collide in War Over Chinese Art Trove

A daughter and the son of a Chinese immigrant who collected ancient artwork are in a $50 million court battle. New York Times, June 8, 2010

Washington, D.C.

His Heart Is in the Art of Sleuthing

Robert K. Wittman, whose memoir, “Priceless,” came out last week, was the F.B.I. agent behind the Art Crime Team. New York Times, June 7, 2010

Big Ambitions For One Of Smithsonian's Smallest Museums

"An anthropologist by training, [Johnnetta Betsch] Cole had little experience with the museum world. Instead, she has a track record of turning around educational institutions. Even so, no one is surprised by the bold steps Cole has taken, even in times of financial struggle at an underrated institution," the National Museum of African Art. Washington Post, June 6, 2010

London

Tate Show Puts British Humor Under A Microscope -

Tate Britain has turned outrageously rude this summer. Rudely comic. Its new show, Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, tracks humorous British art through the swamp of saucy seaside postcards, comics and grimy newspapers right up to the high ground of Sotheby’s where the likes of the grand cartoonists of the past, James Gillray, William Hogarth, George Cruikshank and Thomas Rowlandson, now reside.  The Times (UK) June 8, 2010

FOR SALE: VAMPIRE KILLING KIT — LIKE NEW
There is a mermaid in the window of Christie’s Auction house in Brompton, west London. The late-18thcentury creation of part monkey, part fish and papier mâché, is a hoax once claimed to be a mummified mermaid skeleton.  This and other curiosities will be auctioned.  Vancouver Sun, June 8, 2010

East Lothian, U.K.

Scaling Antony Gormley's 84-Foot Squatting Sculpture

"I've climbed up to its testicles, but not much further," the artist says. "It's like a bridge or a piece of civil engineering. ... The smallest bit of it is the bit that's closest to the ground, that is the complete reverse of the way that stable structures are made." The Times (UK) June 8, 2010

South Africa

South Africans artists pushed aside at World Cup
South African music, poetry and art are everywhere in Johannesburg, except within a half kilometre of its glittering new soccer stadium.  As the country prepares to launch World Cup celebrations, young people in South Africa are angry at how little opportunity they have to take part.  CBC, June 7, 2010

Sydney, Australia

Sydney Opera House, Safety Hazard
"Anyone who spends any time at the Opera House and here on the forecourt is aware of the multiple incidents that happen here on a daily basis," Opera House CEO Richard Evans said. "There have been 200 reported incidents, many of which have necessitated ambulances coming ... many of these people are tourists, and then ended up getting flown home. It's really not a great situation." Sydney Morning Herald, June 8, 2010

Issues

Can jewelry be art? Or is it fashion? It all depends on who you ask
Can jewelry be considered sculpture? Can an outlandish necklace be art in the same way that sculptures by David Altmejd or Richard Serra can?  Vancouver Sun, June 8, 2010

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