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Canadian Art -- Nancy Tousley's Top 3: Supercharged Surveys Two Vancouver Art Gallery exhibitions made the list – The Colour of my Dreams and Traffic. Canadian Art, Winter, 2011
By the people, for the people Michael Audain was a teenager the first time it occurred to him that he had to go to Mexico City. He had seen pictures of the city’s great murals in an art book and he knew he needed to see them for himself. The Province, December 24, 2011
Lofty goals for Vancouver Biennale The Vancouver Biennale is a temporary two-year exhibition of sculpture by international artists, now concluding its second iteration. The 2009-2011 biennale saw 38 artworks installed on public land around Metro Vancouver. De-installation of the sculptures began in summer, and was due to be completed by the end of the year, with the exception of a few special extensions. Vancouver Sun, December 30, 2011
San Francisco John Buchanan, San Francisco Fine Arts Museums Director, Dead At 58 "[The] ebullient and controversial director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco since 2006," who was known, and sometimes criticized, for his "flamboyant approach to audience building and institutional growth" by means of blockbuster exhibitions, "died Friday at his San Francisco home of cancer." San Francisco Chronicle, January 1, 2012
New York Richard Prince Lawsuit Focuses on Limits of Appropriation Beyond the legal questions in a copyright infringement lawsuit involving the artist Richard Prince, the case asks if the flow of creative expression, riding a tide of instantly accessible digital images, can be slowed. New York Times, January 1, 2012
Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Painter, Dies at 83 Ms. Frankenthaler, whose staining technique was essential to the development of Color Field painting, was one of the most admired artists of her generation. New York Times, December 27, 2011
How Important Was Helen Frankenthaler? "Over the course of a six-decade career, Frankenthaler jump-started American painting not once, but twice... Frankenthaler's achievement is to have put the language of abstraction to the service of art's historic need to address large ideas. As such she occupies an enduring place in the pantheon of American masters. Yet her legacy already seems in peril. " The Wall Street Journal, December 28, 2011
How Helen Frankenthaler And John Chamberlain Changed American Art The two artists, who died within a week of each other, "brought a new, unfettered approach to materials that pushed their respective mediums toward greater expressive freedom, unabashed physicality and a rough-edged, aggressively color-based beauty. These qualities became identifying hallmarks of American art, especially in the 1960s, but remain crucial to it even now." The New York Times, January 29, 2011
Eva Zeisel, Ceramic Artist and Designer, Dies at 105 In her dinnerware and vases, Ms. Zeisel applied modernist principles that fed a desire for less formal styles of living and objects of beauty and utility. New York Times, December 31, 2011
United States Intriguing Items From a Year of Auctions Specialty museums closed by the dozen this year, but broader institutions and their benefactors still had cash to make high-profile purchases. New York Times, December 29, 2011
Ireland In Ireland, Making Art From the Rubble Anger at the architects of Ireland's economic collapse is being translated into new work, and empty buildings are being turned into galleries -- or into the subjects of new artworks. New York Times, January 3, 2012
London Dulwich Picture Gallery Restores 'Stunning' Baroque Canvas - Now, Who Painted It?
"It was in the most sorry state imaginable - terribly torn, with parts peeling off, no frame, and almost black - and for about 150 years lay unloved at the back of the stores in one of the world's oldest public galleries." The Guardian (UK) December 29, 2011
Paris The Louvre Has Overcleaned A Leonardo, Claim Two Top Conservators "Two of France's top art experts have voiced their protest over the cleaning of The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne - a jewel of western art - by resigning from the Paris museum's advisory committee responsible for its 'restoration'." The Guardian (UK) December 28, 2011
Pompeii More Collapses At Pompeii
"A courtyard column of a Roman house collapsed on Thursday, the latest in a series of crumbling artifacts at the site, Reuters reported. Last year there were other collapses, including part of what is known as the House of Gladiators. The damage played a role in a no-confidence vote against Culture Minister Sandro Bondi earlier this year." The New York Times, December 24, 2011
Europe New European Art Resale Law Will Put London Dealers, Auction Houses At Disadvantage, Say Critics "From New Year's Day under European legislation the UK's art dealers and auctioneers must pay the heirs or estates of artists deceased within 70 years up to 4% of the sale price of each work they sell for more than €1,000 (£840). With Picasso, Matisse, Bacon, Lowry and Sickert all in this category, critics of Europe's imposition of Artist Resale Rights (ARR) claim the EU directive will put London at a competitive disadvantage with top art works going instead to rival markets in New York, Geneva and Hong Kong, where no such levy applies." The Guardian (UK) December 23, 2011
Middle East Arab Protesters Say It Through Art On The Streets "What is interesting to see in Egypt, and in all these countries, is that artists are not only going out into the city, they also become agents of change in society." The Art Newspaper, December 30, 2011
Sydney Sydney's MoCA Has Asbestos Problems
"A call for an investigation of asbestos inside and around the Museum of Contemporary Art could delay the official opening of its new wing, set for next March." Sydney Morning Herald, December 29, 2011
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