The Library will be closed for a summer break from August 11-30.

The Arts News will be intermittent during this time.

Vancouver

19 B.C. organizations receive $800,000 to create artistic and cultural legacies

19 projects will receive a total of $800,000 in funding from APCD. Initiated as a three-year funding program to assist B.C. organizations in creating world-class artistic work, this is the fifth and final round of funding for APCD. The projects include: Ken Lum: Mirror Maze with 12 Signs of Depression and House of Realization, will see two-large scale art works by Ken Lum further developed, created and then presented together with a survey exhibition of his work at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Canada Newswire, August 10, 2010

Arts Partners in Creative Development hands out last of funding for new work

Georgia Straight, August 11, 2010

Jane Danzo leaves position as B.C. Arts Council chair

The provincial government has announced that Jane Danzo is stepping down as chair of the B.C. Arts Council. Her interim replacement is Stanley Hamilton, a professor emeritus of B.C.'s Sauder School of Business who sits on the Arts Club Theatre board and is former vice-chair of the B.C. Arts Council. Georgia Straight, August 11, 2010

Toronto

Toronto’s folly: What’s wrong with this picture?

“It’s a wearying constant around here that we in our “world class” city spend as much time counting what we’re missing as what we’ve got.  Comparing Toronto to New York, as too many of us do, is just plain silly; no city comes out of that match-up well, so let’s just drop that one right off. But take it down a notch to, say, Vancouver and Montreal, and you’ve got a real complaint... Practising a big-umbrella approach, [Kathleen] Bartels empowered her curators to bring the local context into a museum focused on touring blockbuster crowd-pleasers... and let Vancouver in on what the world already knew...”   Toronto Star, August 12, 2010

Ottawa

Former National Gallery head Shirley Thomson dies

Shirley Thomson, former head of the National Gallery of Canada and one of the country's most passionate advocates for the arts, died on Tuesday at the age of 80.  CBC News, August 11, 2010

Halifax

Her quilts are no patchwork

“Laurie Swim’s exhibition explores Nova Scotians’ connection to the sea.” Globe & Mail, August 10, 2010

Los Angeles

“Get art out of the basement”…

Increasing access to permanent collections, education, de-accessioning, changing demographics and other challenges for US museums, were highlighted at the annual American Association of Museums conference in Los Angeles.  The Art Newspaper, August 11, 2010

Albany, NY

Bill to Halt Certain Sales of Artwork May Be Dead

“A bill to prohibit cultural institutions from selling pieces from their collections to cover operating costs has all but died in the New York State Legislature.”  New York Times, August 10, 2010

London

To Whom (Or What) Does Britain Owe Its Modern Art Boom?

 "If we agree, as apparently everyone does, that Britain's modern art boom is a national glory, then we have to acknowledge the place of public generosity in making it possible. Above all, the authority of Tate has made it modern art's Bank of England. And all the Tate galleries are free." The Guardian (UK), August 11, 2010

Jacmel

Jacmel artists win Clinton Bush grant

“After more than six months of working to produce their trademark art in ruined backyard workshops, the struggling papier mâché artists of Jacmel have finally won a boon: a $50,000 (U.S.) infusion from the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.” Globe & Mail, August 10, 2010

Sydney, Aust.

Portrait of daughter playing dead earns art prize

“A painting of Michael Zavros's five-year-old daughter playing dead has earned the Australian realist artist the country's richest portraiture prize.” CBC News, August 11, 2010

Shanghai

Take Taikang Road

“The reopening of the Liuli China Museum in the artistic enclave in Shanghai last week adds sparkle to a neighbourhood known for Old and New World flavour.” Globe & Mail, August 11, 2010