Vancouver

Video: The Art Emporium: Vancouver's Oldest Art Gallery

A tour of Vancouver's oldest art gallery. The gallery hosts a wealth of stellar works by Canadian masters.  Vancouver Sun, July 21, 2010

Ottawa

Cyprus mission earns place in war museum

Canada's longest-running peacekeeping mission now has its own section in the Canadian War Museum.

The Ottawa-based museum has set up a permanent display on the mission in Cyprus, where 30,000 Canadians served between 1964 and 1993.  CBC, July 21, 2010

Ungava Peninsula, Quebec

Carving of face gives hints of Dorset culture
 A Quebec archaeologist has unearthed the ghostly carving of a face left buried on a remote Arctic island inhabited 1,000 years ago by the extinct Dorset culture — the native people who mysteriously vanished from Canada’s North.  Vancouver Sun, July 21, 2010

Nain, Labrador

Inuit bones from ancestral site to be repatriated

Inuit remains that were taken from an ancestral burial site on Labrador's north coast more than 80 years ago by an American archeologist are to be returned to Canada.  CBC, July 21, 2010

San Francisco

I Went To The Blockbuster Impressionists Show And...

"The boon of blockbusters is also their curse: too many people. The Impressionist show was by no means the worst; the Palace of the Legion of Honor does an even worse job of traffic control. I have literally been held motionless by a crowd at a Mayan exhibition at the Legion. I just stood there and prayed that Brownian motion would take me safely to the next room." San Francisco Chronicle, July 21, 2010

Waltham, Mass.

Artists Boycott Brandeis Museum

Three prominent artists have withdrawn from a show at the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University because of a decision made last year to consider selling parts of the museum’s permanent collection. New York Times, July 21, 2010

New York

Marina Abramovic Disses Theatre - All Of It "To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake: there is a black box, you pay for a ticket, and you sit in the dark and see somebody playing somebody else's life. The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real." The Guardian (UK) July 20, 2010

London

Proposition: John Szarkowski Was The Most Important Post-War American Photographer

"Szarkowski was a good photographer, a great critic and an extraordinary curator. Like all good critics and curators, Szarkowski was both visionary and catalyst." The Guardian (UK) July 21, 2010

Vienna

Vienna museum to pay $19M for Nazi-looted work

Vienna's Leopold Museum has agreed to pay $19 million US and display a 1912 painting by expressionist Egon Schiele with an acknowledgement that it was stolen from a Jewish art dealer.  CBC, July 21, 2010

Jerusalem

Israel Museum Completes Three-Year, $100M Renewal

"For the last 45 years, the Israel Museum has been both the crown jewel of this country's cultural heritage and a bit of a mess," giving visitors "a feeling of being overwhelmed by quantity and mildly perplexed about substance." Beginning next week, "[t]here will be far fewer objects on display, with twice the space to view them, as well as richer links and explanations. … The idea is not simply to make the museum easier to navigate but also to suggest interesting connections among objects and between the particular and the universal." New York Times, July 21, 2010

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