Vancouver

Once merely condo royalty, Bob Rennie emerges as Vancouver's cool king of modern art

“Bob Rennie, CEO of Rennie Marketing Systems, takes immense risks as a businessman and art collector.  Here Rennie talks about the Olympic Village, the 2010 Olympic Games, the Vancouver Art Gallery, Mayor Gregor Robertson, and the Wing Sang Gallery, where he shows off his riveting collection of modern art.”  Vancouver Observer, August 15, 2010

Minister Krueger Shouldn’t Feel “Threatened

A response by the Alliance for Arts and Culture’s to an interview with Kevin Krueger on CBC’s Early Edition, August 26. Alliance for Arts and Culture (Blog), August 27, 2010

Toronto

Poles Apart

In Plakat: World Cinema Through the Eyes of Polish Graphic Artists, an exhibition timed to coincide with the Toronto International Film Festival, 40 full-scale posters are on loan from the Poster Museum at Wilanow in Warsaw. National Post, September 1, 2010

Fredericton

Artists tell our truths

“Artists work for the common good — they create so we can have leisure and see the world created.  And some I know have literally worked themselves to death for the common good. Without this common good, no utilitarian world would matter much.” --- David Adams Richards. CBC News, September 1, 2010

Montreal

Montreal's UQAM gallery buys Altmejd's Werewolf

The art gallery of the University of Quebec in Montreal plans to buy Canadian artist David Altmejd's Loup-garou 1, or Werewolf, with a $30,000 endowment it has received.  CBC News, August 31, 2010

MSO gets $35.5M from Loto-Québec

The Quebec government has announced a dedicated fund for MSO, the “jewel of Montreal culture” totalling $35.5 million over four years. The money will come from Loto-Québec, making the government's gaming agency the MSO's largest public funder.  CBC News, August 31, 2010

Sacramento

California Passes Stolen Art Bill

"California lawmakers gave final approval Monday night to a bill that would extend the time in which people can sue museums to try to recover what they believe are stolen works of art." The New York Times, September 1, 2010

Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California

This Particular Roadside Attraction Gets Repeatedly Humiliated

A California beachfront town "thought it was honoring surfers when it spent $120,000 to erect a 16-foot tall statue of one riding a wave." No such luck: the sculpture has been variously dressed up like a clown, put in a tutu, devoured by a giant papier-mâché shark. Wall Street Journal, August 31, 2010

Detroit

Detroit: Culture hums under the hood

There's a new engine revving in Detroit's downtown.  This once-gorgeous, battered city is a place of extraordinary Art Deco skyscrapers, palatial industrialists’ mansions and a vibrant arts community.  Globe and Mail, September 1, 2010

Istanbul

Rich Turkish Families Racing To Accumulate, Display Art

"A quiet war is under way among Turkey's richest families to assemble the best and most expensive art collections." The Guardian (UK), August 31, 2010

Baghdad

Zaha Hadid Designs First Project for Her Native Iraq

"Authorities at Baghdad's Central Bank have confirmed that the award-winning architect has been picked to design a new headquarters for the institution. Hadid's new design will replace the bank's previous home," which was destroyed by suicide bombers in June. Artinfo, August 31, 2010

International

How Our Sense Of Memorials Is Changing

"We've stopped putting great men on pedestals and started commemorating their victims. In the process we are losing a sense that human history involved leadership and struggle and, yes, sacrifice." The Spectator, September 2010

Just How Do We Assert The Value Of Artists In Our Culture?

"Though government and academic aims are often different, their views toward the struggling artist are often the same, arrogant without knowing, and dismissive without cause." CBC, September 1, 2010

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