Vancouver  

Biennale's contemporary art throughout the city never sleeps

“Over the years, without much fanfare, [Barry Mowatt] has created the Vancouver Biennale, an art show that takes the position that the principle behind Venice's famous biennale can be borrowed and brought to Canada's West Coast.” Vancouver Sun, June 21, 2010

Victoria

Victorians receive Order of Canada

Three Victorians were among 45 accomplished Canadians who received the Order of Canada at Rideau Hall in Ottawa yesterday. Governor General Michaëlle Jean presided over the ceremony in which Nancy Turner, Roland Priddle and Ian Thom were invested as members of the order. Times Colonist, June 21, 2010

Haida Gwaii

Nearly a century later, a symbol of the Haida returns to its people

“Raven totem pole back on Haida Gwaii after decades at a railway station in Jasper.” Globe & Mail, June 21, 2010

Toronto

The art gallery as theatre

“What’s new in the Art Gallery of Ontario’s summer show Drama & Desire is the exhibition’s sheer theatricality in displaying dramatic paintings.” Globe & Mail, June 18, 2010

Hoping for a pair of class acts

“A cutting-edge Norwegian firm is creating bold new buildings at two Ontario universities. Fingers crossed that it imports its flare for dramatic innovation too.” Globe & Mail, June 18 ,2010

A wondrous, monstrous hymn to hardwood

Reviews of exhibitions by Dennis Lin, Nada Sesar-Raffay, and Erin Thurlow. Globe & Mail, June 18, 2010

Artist Doris McCarthy turning 100 amid big show

Doris McCarthy’s birthday is marked by an exhibition featuring rare works. CBC News, June 19, 2010

New York

Museum For African Art Takes Up Residence On Manhattan's Museum Mile

"Now after more than a decade pursuing what some saw as an impossible quest Elsie McCabe Thompson is preparing to open the Museum for African Art’s new $95 million home on upper Fifth Avenue next spring." The New York Times, June 20, 2010

New Haven, CT

Study: Aesthetic Judgment Is Driven By Social Pressure

"In his study, How Pleasure Works, Paul Bloom argues that taste is driven by psychological patterns and the way we want world to see us” The Observer (UK), June 20, 2010

London

Auctions could set records for Impressionist and modern art

“This week’s sales of Impressionist and modern art at the two houses, including blockbuster canvases by Monet, Manet, Picasso, Derain and Matisse, are expected to be the largest-grossing art auctions ever held in London, and together could exceed the high estimate of 575-million.” Globe & Mail, June 21, 2010

The Science In Understanding Art

"Today, techniques involving infrared imaging, as well as x-ray photography, electron microscopy and mass spectrometry, many of them pioneered by the National Gallery, are mainstays in the business of art curation. And occasionally their use makes headlines, as was the case with The Madonna of the Pinks." The Observer (UK), June 20, 2010