Visual Arts News from the Vancouver Art Gallery Library July 27, 2010
Submitted by cheryl siegel on July 27, 2010 - 10:24am
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Vancouver
Visions of Queertopia find their form
The Roundhouse Community Centre might seem like a queer place to find Utopia, and it is. For the next 2 ½ weeks, the centre is home to the Queer Arts Festival, a heady melange of fine art, music and theatre, affectionately dubbed Queertopia. Vancouver Sun, July 27, 2010
The Top 5 Patios in Vancouver
At 750 Hornby Street at the Vancouver Art Gallery, The Gallery Cafe is by far my favourite. Vancouver City Guide, July 25, 2010
Toronto
Great bright NORTH
David Vasquez had the kind of childhood that’s most often recounted in horror films. Born in the Dominican Republic, he was exiled to Haiti as a young man and worked as a slave labourer in the sugar fields. “My family and I spent three months sleeping out in the rain.” Vasquez is just one of the 50 painters currently showing at “From the Soul”, a new exhibit of African-Canadian art at the Royal Ontario Museum. National Post, July 27, 2010
Frank Gehry unfazed by plans to demolish childhood home in Toronto
Renowned architect says Beverley Street row house was unremarkable – but he’s no fan of what’s poised to take its place. Globe and Mail, July 27, 2010
New York
The American Association of Museum Directors has launched the Museum Directors page and the AAMDIndy tweets site. Kaywin Feldman, new president of the Association has said that her institution, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, will post pending de-accessions on their website. AAMD, July 2010
"[His] work astutely fused aspects of Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting and Minimal Art on a grand scale; his paintings sometimes measured as much as 23 feet across. The staple of his formal vocabulary was repeating vertical bars that seemed, increasingly, to levitate before clouds of vibrant contrasting color." New York Times, July 25, 2010
Los Angeles
'Pacific Standard Time': The Art Extravaganza That Will Devour L.A.
"When the many-headed exhibition extravaganza 'Pacific Standard Time' opens in October 2011, some 40 Southern California museums and nonprofit galleries will offer shows focusing in one manner or another on the origins of the art scene here, from 1945 to 1980." Now the Getty Trust, the project's lead funder and organizer, is making the event even bigger. Los Angeles Times, July 26, 3020
Washington, D.C.
'Towering Ambition' - Recreating Emblems of Architecture in Lego
An exhibition at DC's National Building Museum features facsimiles, by "Lego master" Adam Reed Tucker, of such icons as the Empire State Building, Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the Gateway Arch, Fallingwater, and Calatrava's never-built Chicago Spire. "The Lego brick … [is] the perfect toy for the age in which it was introduced, which helps explain why Tucker's models have a cultural power that ordinary architectural models might not." Washington Post, July 23, 2010
London
Arts Council England Avoids Cuts in 'Bonfire of the Quangos' "Arts Council England has emerged unscathed from a major 'efficiency' review of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's arm's length bodies, which has seen both the UK Film Council and the Museums , Libraries and Archives Council abolished." The Stage (UK), July 26, 2010
Rome
A painting recently touted by the Vatican's newspaper as a possible new work by Caravaggio was unveiled in Rome Tuesday, but experts quickly rejected the canvas as a creation of the baroque master. CBC, July 27, 2010
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