Vancouver

Vancouver arts and cultural groups get slight civic increase in ...  Big arts players such as the Vancouver Art Gallery, the HR MacMillan Space Centre and the Museum of Vancouver could see their 2011 grants increase slightly.  Vancouver Sun, March 12, 2011

A 'living building'  SFU Community Trust's new child-care centre on Burnaby Mountain is part of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s exhibition WE:  Vancouver.  Burnaby Now, March 11, 2011

Victoria

Sylvia Graham an arts pioneer   Sylvia Graham is my first choice to interview in a series dedicated to documenting the art world in Victoria. Sylvia’s husband, the late Colin Graham, was the founding director of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and Sylvia was there with him every step.  Times- Colonist, March 12, 2011

Edmonton

Art gallery looks to liven up the place  The Art Gallery of Alberta wants you to laugh, relax, use your outside voice — even dance.  “Museums are looking to not be cold, stuffy places,” said Ruth Burns, associate curator and interpretive programs manager for the AGA. “Cultural institutions, whether they’re museums or the symphony or the Roxy Theatre or the Citadel, they’re looking to go beyond the old stereotypes of what cultural institutions are.” Edmonton Journal, March 12, 2011

Moose Jaw

Crooked Tree exhibit opens Saturday at Mosaic Art Gallery  Artist Ken Dalgarno has discovered an enchanted forest right here in Saskatchewan. His exhibition The Crooked Trees of Alticane, A Saskatchewan Wonder, is currently on display at the Moose Jaw Cultural Centre Mosaic Art Gallery until April.  Moose Jaw Times Herald, March 11, 2011

Toronto

New $50K photography prize names finalist trio  Photographers from Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal will vie for a new, $50,000 honour celebrating Canadian photography. The shortlisted photographers are: Lynne Cohen of Montreal, Robin Collyer of Toronto and Roy Arden of Vancouver.  Burtynsky will serve as chair of the inaugural jury panel, along with Vancouver Art Gallery's curatorial affairs manager Karen Love.  CBC, March 12, 2011

For Persian New Year, seven artists explore the foundations of hope  The spring celebration Nowruz, a.k.a. Persian New Year is, to my mind, the most fun of the varied new-year celebrations available to Torontonians.  Globe and Mail, March 12, 2011

Ottawa

Ottawa’s new Convention Centre: A glass spaceship on the Rideau Canal  For the first time, a compelling architectural gesture has danced into the city. The Ottawa Convention Centre, designed with flare and gusto by local architect Ritchard Brisbin and officially open for business next month, hip-checks the conventional parochialism of the 19th-century lumber town that converted, reluctantly, into a national capital.  Globe and Mail, March 12, 2011

New York

Messages That Conduct an Electric Charge   Glenn Ligon’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art is a tight but ample show that refers back to America’s slave-holding past and forward to the Obama present. New York Times, March 11, 2011

Cy Twombly Artworks Acquired by MoMa   Two paintings and seven sculptures by Cy Twombly will be acquired by the Museum of Modern Art.   New York Times, March 11, 2011

‘Malevich and the American Legacy’ at Gagosian - Review   An exhibition at the Gagosian surrounds major canvases by Kazimir Malevich, the founder of Suprematism, with geometric works by Ellsworth Kelly, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin and others. New York Times, March 11, 2011

Warsaw

Warsaw's Galleries, Hidden Away, Seek to Be Found   Galleries established in the city's nondescript spaces are joining forces to make themselves more visible.  New York Times, March 12, 2011

Doha

Re-Engineering the Arab City Center in Doha  Doha is not Dubai, but still its cityscape smacks of the same developer greed, the same architectural autism in which buildings ascend as if alone, not on speaking terms with their neighbours.  Financial Times, March 11, 2011

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