Vancouver

What's done with Larwill Park must please the citizens
Are we ready to make a decision on the Vancouver Art Gallery's possible move or on Larwill Park, a historically significant property?  (Letter to the Editor)  Vancouver Sun, August 6, 2010

Langley, B.C.

History revived from archive

Langley Centennial Museum is adding old news photos to the historic record. Piecing together the history of Langley should be easy, if you have a vast archive of photos stretching back decades - Unless those photos are largely unlabelled, sometimes undated, and unsorted. The Langley Centennial Museum is now trying to put some order into the chaos of Langley Advance photo archives from the 1950s to the 1970s. Langley Advance, August 5, 2010 http://www.langleyadvance.com/History+revived+from+archive/3341518/story.html#ixzz0vqBs3kmx

Victoria

Maritime museum has new director
Kevin Carlé has been appointed as executive director of the Maritime Museum of B.C., taking over from Shirley Vickers, who has served as interim executive director for six months.  Victoria Times-Colonist, August 5, 2010

Fredericton, N.B.

Dali painting from N.B. on the move

A popular painting at Fredericton's Beaverbrook Art Gallery has taken a road trip.

Salvador Dali's Santiago El Grande is part of an exhibition of the artist's work at Atlanta's High Museum of Art.

The exhibition, which begins Saturday and runs until January, will feature more than 100 works done by the celebrated Spanish surrealist after 1940.  CBC, August 6, 2010   

Las Vegas

At Cosmopolitan Resort in Las Vegas, Yoko’s on View  

A public art project at the new Cosmopolitan resort in Las Vegas has Yoko Ono, among others, on the marquee.  New York Times, August 5, 2010

New York  

The Brooklyn Museum Challenge

"How to appeal to a new generation in a climate of persistent financial pressure and the ambition to grow, to do more, to expand its audience? By some measures it has succeeded. By others, including attendance goals articulated by the museum itself, it has not." The New York Times, August 6, 2010

Small Shows at the Metropolitan Museum

Forget the Picassos for now: the small, gemlike shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are worth a good, long look. The New York Times, August 6, 2010

‘Inspired’

Photographs often are inspired as much by other photographs as by what they picture. Organized by the art collector Beth Rudin DeWoody, “Inspired” makes this explicit. The New York Times, August 6, 2010

9/11 Memorial And Museum: Not Just Another Museum?

"Far from being the toothless, tasteful tribute to American greatness many expected after an earlier incarnation, the International Freedom Center, was abandoned five years ago, the revamped museum promises an unblinking account of the violence and terror of Sept. 11, 2001." New York Observer, August 5, 2010

Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries

Abstract art is unusually visible in galleries around Manhattan this summer. The New York Times, August 6, 2010

Nigeria

Nigerian Collectors Rescue, or Maybe Create, the Nation's Art Scene

In a country where public galleries can't even count on a steady electricity supply, some oil and mineral tycoons "put their own money into gathering and cataloguing thousands of works of art." Says one major collector, "For me, this is a philanthropic act." The Economist, July 29, 2010

China

Chinese Culture Chief Says Building Boom Is Destroying National Heritage

“Shan Jixiang, who heads the government's administration for cultural heritage, told state media, "Bulldozers have razed many historical blocks. The protection of cultural heritage in China has entered the most difficult, grave and critical period." Shan made a point of criticizing the waste of building materials and the "boring" new cityscapes.” The Guardian (UK), August 4, 2010

Japan

Japanese Architects Create Eye-Catching Homes For Really Small Lots

"Few Americans would consider a parking-space-sized lot as an adequate site to build a house. But in Japan, homes are rising on odd parcels of land, some as tiny as 300 square feet" - spaces for which inventive architects are designing "unorthodox and visually stunning houses." NPR, August 3, 2010  (includes slideshow)

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