Vancouver

Make Art History's public symposium challenges arts funding system in B.C.

The symposium takes place on June 25 at 151 West Cordova Street from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.  Georgia Straight ,Arts Notes, June 17, 2010

Panel tackles B.C.'s cultural plan at the Alliance for Arts and Culture’s Arts Summit 2010

Arts Summit 2010 takes place June 24 and 25 at Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre in Surrey. Registration is required to attend. Georgia Straight, Arts Notes, June 17, 2010

Artist Damian Moppett goes to Glenfiddich for the summer

Vancouver-based contemporary artist Damian Moppett is moving across the Atlantic this summer to learn about the art of whisky-making. Moppett is one of eight artists from around the world selected to be part of the ninth annual Glenfiddich Artist-in-Residence program in Scotland. Georgia Straight, Arts Notes, June 17, 2010

Banff

Alberta's Culture Minister: 'Why Do I Fund So Much Crap?'
Lindsay Blackett on homegrown talent: "I sit here as a government representative for film and television in the province of Alberta and I look at what we produce and if we're honest with ourselves, why do I produce so much shit? ... Why aren't broadcasters picking up more Canadian content? It's because Canadian content isn't what it should be." The Globe and Mail, June 17, 2010

Seattle

Finding the essence of Kurt Cobain in a Seattle pilgrimage

Grungy, depressing, and oozing undiluted DIY attitude, the mixed-media installation Standing Wave Séance pretty much captures the essence of the late Kurt Cobain. Kurt runs to September 6 at the Seattle Art Museum.  Georgia Straight, June 17, 2010

New York

Downtown, Can The Whitney Live Up To Its Past?

"Critics don't normally weigh in at this stage of a design or dwell on the many tricky decisions involved in maintaining the design's integrity in the face of financial pressures. But in this case those pressures are unusually intense, and the way they are resolved will determine the answer to [this] question ... : Will the final result be an experience as good as -- or better than -- Marcel Breuer's Whitney?" The New York Times, June 17, 2010

London

Damien Hirst To Open His First Gallery

The filthy-rich artist has submitted plans to create a gallery space from an old munitions factory in London's Hyde Park. His plan is to install "the cream" of his personal collection, "including works by artists including Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Giacometti and Jeff Koons" (plus the diamond-encrusted skull, naturally). London Evening Standard, June 15, 2010

Winterswijk, The Netherlands

Mondrian painting stolen from Dutch museum

Thieves forced open the doors of the Freriks Museum in the eastern town of Winterswijk early Tuesday morning and snatched a painting called Portrait of Arda Boogers-Ruhwandl, according to police.  CBC, June 17, 2010

Porto Ercole, Italy

Caravaggio's bones matched using DNA

Italian researchers say they have confirmed with 85 per cent certainty that bones found in the Tuscan beach town of Porto Ercole belong to the artist Caravaggio.  .  CBC, June 17, 2010

Miscellany

Make Your Own Damien Hirst Diamond-Crusted Skull!

iArtist London is a “company” that believes that “art should be for everyone,” and as a result, provides (relatively) easy-to-use looking kits for creating your own versions of famous works by contemporary British artists like Damien Hirst, Tracy Emin, Rachel Whiteread, Marc Quinn, and Banksy. – Flavorwire, June 15, 2010

Today’s birthdays:  M.C. Escher (1898) and Charles Eames (1907)

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