Vancouver

Vancouver Art Gallery's Fourth Offsite Installation Features Artist Elspeth Pratt  For the fourth installation at Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite, artist Elspeth Pratt draws on architectural forms as inspiration for her investigation of how the built environment circumscribes public space.  Art Daily, July 11, 2011

Grand Hotel: Watch Vancouver Art Gallery Exhibition Take Shape Online  The Vancouver Art Gallery has launched a new website that allows the public to follow the evolution of a major exhibition on the history, design and social construction of hotels. Culture Seen (Vancouver Sun Blog), July 7, 2011

When Museum Artifacts Go Home - http://thetyee.ca/Life/2011/07/08/ArtifactsGoHome/index.html The Vancouver Museum deals with the challenges of repatriation.   Digital repatriation may also prove a solution to the enormous cost of repatriation, which includes the complicated identification process and relationship building, and the careful transportation requirements of ancient objects. While the museum faces dwindling funding for its basic core operations, and funders focus more on project related grants, repatriation requests don't fit neatly into funding guidelines and can take a long time to process. The Tyee, July 8, 2011 

Banff

Artists grumble, but they also succeed

Artists love to complain about hard times, but there are opportunities everywhere.  Globe and Mail, July 9, 2011

Winnipeg

Winnipeg’s new mural honours the missing  Many of Canada’s town and cities have turned blank walls into public art. A mural over a railway overpass in Winnipeg is a fine tribute to the numerous native women in Manitoba who have disappeared or been killed.  Globe and Mail, July 9, 2011

Algoma

New director keen to uncover gallery treasures Art Gallery of Algoma’s new director wants to put the Sault Ste. Marie cultural site on the national map. Jasmina Jovanovic is keen to exhibit art from other Canadian galleries and share works, including the Group of Seven and Norval Morrisseau.  The Sault Star, July 9, 2011 

Sarnia

Observer online poll Last week we asked: Lambton County is hiring four additional employees to staff the $ 9-million art gallery under construction in downtown Sarnia. Is this a good investment? • 80 per cent said no, there are much better uses for tax dollars. • 20 per cent said yes, the arts locally have been ignored for too long.  Observer (Sarnia) July 8, 2011 

Montreal

Mies’s Montreal gas station gets new lease on life  Designed by Mies van der Rohe, the station on Nuns’ Island is being painstakingly restored for its next role – serving youth and seniors, not cars.  GLOBE AND Mail, July 8, 2011 

Southampton, New York

Edmund Carpenter, Archaeologist and Anthropologist, Dies at 88 Mr. Carpenter did groundbreaking work in anthropological filmmaking and ethnomusicology and, with his friend Marshall McLuhan, laid the foundations of modern media studies.  New York Times, July 8, 2011 

New York

At MoMA PS1, a Summer Fete With Art, Music and Design For 14 years, the courtyard at MoMA PS1 in Queens has been home to Warm Up, a summer event that mixes music, art and modern design. New York Times, July 10, 2011  

‘Mother India’ at Metropolitan Museum - Review  “Mother India,” a small exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, gathers sculptures, paintings and drawings representing Devi, the Great Mother goddess of India.  New York Times, July 8, 2011 

London

How Charles Saatchi Remade The British Art World (Again And Again And Again) "Charles Saatchi has remade the British art market three times, most famously by championing young British artists such as Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas. But was he lucky or did he have true vision? And more importantly can he do it again?" The Guardian (UK) July 11, 2011 

Britain's Tough Visa Process Is Discouraging Artists From Coming "Non-Europeans wanting to entertain British audiences must endure a bureaucratic nightmare which, combined with rising costs, increasing delays and occasional consular rudeness, is deterring more and more of them from coming here. Britain is taking itself off the cultural map." The Guardian (UK) July 8, 2011

Copenhagen

Annals Of Inventive Architecture: Waste Incinerator Meets Urban Ski Slope "How do you turn a 100-metre-tall incinerator in the heart of Copenhagen into a social and cultural hub? By building a ski slope on the roof, of course. The unlikely combination of green energy and alpine sport was the winning bid in a competition to design a new waste-to-energy plant." The Guardian (UK) July 3, 2011 

Venice

Allora and Calzadilla at Venice Biennale - Review A political commentary from the United States with Allora & Calzadilla’s works at the Venice Biennale.  New York Times, July 9, 2011

China

China Emerges as a Force in International Design Exhibitions in Rotterdam and Milan highlight China's emergence as a force in international design.   New York Times, July 10, 2011 

International

Performance Art Becomes Epic Spectacle Marina Abramovic and Doug Aitkin "are not the only visual artists making complex musical theatre out of solo performance art, and doing it on a spectacular scale closer to opera. ... Over the past ten years, [Matthew Barney] has turned to one-off, live presentations that unfold over many hours in several locations, employ large casts and crews, and require the planning and precision of an army mobilising for war." The Art Newspaper, July 5, 2011

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