Revised schedule for Arts News: Monday through Thursday

Canada

Charities paid $762M to private fundraisers

“Canadian registered charities paid $762 million to third-party fundraisers between 2004 and 2008, all of it deducted from donations and often dwarfing guidelines set out by the Canada Revenue Agency, a CBC investigation has learned.” CBC News, September 22, 2010

Vancouver

The story behind Rebecca Belmore’s “I quit” performance

“…gifting the work to the VAG was a deliberate and integral part of the performance. "[Worth] started with the whole idea of: what is an artwork worth?” Globe & Mail, September 22, 2010

Arts minister Kevin Krueger talks up arts and culture funding

“B.C.’s minister of tourism, culture, and the arts has offered a few hints about how exactly the provincial government might allocate remaining arts Legacy funding.
For 2010, $3 million has been put toward B.C. Spirit Festivals to be held in February, and $7 million has been provided to the B.C. Arts Council.” Georgia Straight, September 23, 2010

Alliance for Arts and Culture pushes legislature’s finance committee

“B.C. ranked last in the country among all provinces and territories in per capita operating funding allocated to arts and culture even before recent cuts.” Georgia Straight, September 23, 2010

Olio Festival's gallery crawls offer art that's music to the eye

“Working off the templates set by Swarm, the Eastside Culture Crawl, and former Olio curator Rachel Zott’s art walks held during the 2010 Winter Olympics, Lands has structured each night into a neighbourhood-specific campaign.” Georgia Straight, September 23, 2010

Best of Vancouver contributor’s picks, arts:

Local survey of the best of Vancouver includes:

Best big plan with the worst public campaign: Vancouver Art Gallery relocation

Best political flame- thrower in the arts: David Diamond

Best festival to give you that Berlin feeling: PuSh Arts Festival

Best of-the grid gallery: Art Emporium

Best artist gone too soon: Tobias Wong

Best lightning rod for controversy: Ken Lum’s Monument for East Vancouver

Georgia Straight, September 23, 2010

North Vancouver

Glenn Lewis retrospective values the absurd

“Influenced by Bernard Leach and his Zen approach to ceramics, Fluxus and its embrace of the antic and the everyday, and Ray Johnson and his correspondence art, Glenn Lewis worked in a time of radically shifting social, political, and aesthetic values.” Georgia Straight, September 23, 2010

Terrace

Art gallery in need of money

“Even with its recent fundraisers, the Terrace Art Association will be forced to close the art gallery if it can’t secure more financing after its provincial gaming grants were pulled earlier this year.” Terrace Standard, September 21, 2010

Toronto

Grange photographers a breed apart

“This year's Grange Prize nominees stray far from traditional photographic realism. Canadians Moyra Davey and Kristan Horton and Americans Josh Brand and Leslie Hewitt admitted they were apprehensive about viewer reaction as the exhibit of their work gets set to open Thursday at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.”  CBC News, September 23, 2010

AGO agrees to talks for Serra sculpture

“The Art Gallery of Ontario has agreed to talks with a Toronto-based developer that, if successful, could make the gallery the owner of a large outdoor installation completed almost 40 years ago by internationally renowned New York sculptor Richard Serra.” Globe & Mail, September 23, 2010

Recreational photography

“With a commission on Ontario's Greenbelt currently up at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre, photographer Mark Kasumovic tells Leah Sandals about details, driving and mixing business with pleasure.”  National Post, September 23, 2010

Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago Sues Engineering Firm Over Modern Wing

"Among the problems cited in the suit are cracks in concrete floors, condensation clouding the main vestibule glass and an air-conditioning system that can't maintain a safe climate for artwork." The estimated cost of repairs is $10 million. Chicago Tribune, September 21, 2010

London & Britain

The Joys of Creating Fake Performance Events

Tim Etchells: "Over the last year or so I've done a series of related works, creating pamphlets to announce - often in overzealous capitals and small print - the dates, times and locations for imaginary, scurrilous and often impossible events." The Guardian (UK), September 22, 2010

Britain's Museums Are the Nation's Pride (So Don't Cut Their Funding)

Jonathan Jones: "The rebuilding and renovations that have taken place in the last decade have rescued our museums. But they have also done more than that. A city or town or rural area with a fine museum is a place with pride…The recent growth and expansion of our galleries is part of a reborn pride in modern Britain." The Guardian (UK), September 22, 2010

How Britain Should Manage Its Arts Funding Cuts: Advice from a Briton Abroad

"Here's some food for thought: an open letter to [UK Culture Secretary] Jeremy Hunt from Clive Gillinson, who was the respected, indeed visionary managing director of the London Symphony Orchestra before departing five years ago to take up one of the most important cultural roles in New York, director of Carnegie Hall." The Guardian (UK), September 22, 2010

Jerusalem

Frank Gehry Defends His Rejected Design for Jerusalem Museum

The architect hastens to remind us that the reason his design for the Museum of Tolerance was, at $250 million, twice as expensive as the new version, is "because mine was twice as big. People are always complaining that my work is too expensive." He says of the project, "I'm glad I got out of it." Los Angeles Times, September 22, 2010