Edmonton Celebrating Innovation in Museums – Feature Article: Breathing New life into Old Fossils: Exploring the Ancient Seas at the Manitoba Museum  "Museums have long enjoyed their status as popular places to while away a lazy afternoon, or take a field trip with a classroom of students. However, engaging the interest of the public is more challenging than ever in this age of video games, text messaging, and computers. A key to maintaining the relevance of the museum lies in creating highly interactive, dynamic exhibitions that challenge past perceptions of how we learn.  Muse (CMA), March/April 2012

Sarnia Wraps coming off new art gallery Boxes are piling up at Gallery Lambton as staff pack for next month’s move to the new Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery.  Lambton County’s public art gallery closed its Bayside Centre location to the public earlier this month so staff could concentrate on the move.  Sarnia Observer, April 28, 2012

Toronto Picasso: Awesome Arrivals   The Art Gallery of Ontario has a blockbuster on its hands in its new exhibition of highlights from Paris’ Musée National Picasso. With the French museum undergoing renovations, its stellar collection is effectively in Canada until the last week of August.  Canadian Art, May 1, 2012

Ottawa Not so fast: Baird calls off sale of valuable pieces of art Sale of federal art was intended to be part of a wide range of budget cuts and belt-tightening.  Globe and Mail, May 1, 2012  

 Quebec City Revitalisation de l'avenue Cartier: "Ça peut être extraordinaire, " croit Labeaume  "Avec le futur "quartier des beaux-arts," autour de l'avenue Cartier, la Ville et le Musée veulent créer un espace agréable à visiter à la marche, et pourquoi pas un parcours des beaux-arts, à quelques pas de la Grande Allée."  Le Soleil, 26 avril 2012

Los Angeles Getty Museums To Cut 34 Staff Jobs "The J. Paul Getty Trust announced Monday that it was cutting 34 jobs in its museum division, with the expected annual savings of $4.3 million to be redirected to art acquisitions. There will be no reductions in the exhibition schedule or public programs, the Getty said, and no cuts to curatorial and art-conservation staffs." Los Angeles Times, April 30, 2012

Hanover, New Hampshire Williams Tsien on a Roll  "This is the Year of the Museum for Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. While the firm’s new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is preparing for a late May opening, and its Asia Society Hong Kong Center opened in February, the New York firm was just selected by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, to undertake a major expansion and renovation of its 1985 structure."  Architectural Record, April 2012

United States Rise Of The Artist-Endowed Foundations "Artist-endowed foundations are the sleeping giants of philanthropy," says András Szántó, a New York-based analyst and cultural consultant. Indeed, these charitable foundations, endowed by an artist with assets (archives, property and art among them) used for the public good, are quietly but dramatically changing the US art landscape through their grant-making programmes, scholarship, research activities and contributions to museum collections. Financial Times, April 28, 2012

London This Year's Turner Prize Shortlist "Artists Spartacus Chetwynd, Elizabeth Price, Luke Fowler and Paul Noble will compete for this year's £25,000 prize, set to return to London for its 28th year" The Guardian (UK) May 1, 2012

Turner Prize shortlist taps pop-culture performance artist A performance artist who has staged works about the Incredible Hulk and Jabba the Hutt is among four finalists announced Tuesday for Britain's Turner Prize.  CBC, May 1, 2012

Who's Britain's Top Philanthropist of The Year? David Hockney The painter "shot to the top of the list after he donated £78.1m worth of paintings for charitable causes. His donations are more than double his estimated £34m wealth." The Independent (UK) April 3, 2012 

St Petersburg Feline arty at the Hermitage  We have it on good authority from our sister paper in Russia that the Hermitage in St Petersburg has resident cats let loose at night to catch any mice. Art Newspaper, May 2012  

China The State Of Contemporary Chinese Photography "However coyly subversive, much of it seems aimed both at foreign curiosity seekers and at a native moneyed class with an appetite for slick advertising and pop mockery. A regrettably high number of photographs made in China over the past decade are worthier of study as sociology than as art." The Wall Street Journal, May 1, 2012

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