Victoria

Eye-catching design attracts U.S. museum.  Stained-glass creation by Harold Alfred and Buzz Rivest to go on permanent display at the Smith Museum of Stained Glass in Chicago.  Times Colonist, July 11, 2012

Calgary

Western lifestyle gets refreshing perspective. The Artist Ranch exhibition breathes new artistic life and meaning into old perceptions of western art.  It includes Calgary area artists: Dave Casey, Penny Chase, Jill Hobson, Adrian Stimson and Shona Rae. Calgary Herald, July 11, 2012

Winnipeg

Artist inspired by spirituality, community.  Artist Brian Gasenzer says he is heavily inspired by Indian culture and spirituality, which is reflected in his new mural on the side of India Palace. Winnipeg Free Press, July 11, 2012

Ottawa 

Karsh portraits donated to CHEO. Although Yousuf Karsh never pursued his first love of becoming a physician, his work found a place in the halls of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario on Tuesday after his widow donated 30 more of his intimate portraits to the existing collection, making CHEO the home of the largest permanent Karsh photography collection in the world. Ottawa Citizen, July 11, 2012

Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton Budget Woes Imperil City Museum. The Trenton City Museum, home to many ceramics treasures, has struggled to operate because of deep cuts the city has made during its budget crisis.  New York Times, July 11, 2012

New York

Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Says That’s All, Folks – for Now  The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, in SoHo, announced, without elaboration, on its Web site on Monday that it was closing its “physical location,” effective immediately. The museum, which celebrated its 10th anniversary last year, also puts on the MoCCA Festival, a two-day celebration of comics, every April.  New York Times, July 10, 2012

Klagenfurt, Austria

Austrian City's 'Virtual Public Library', With QR Codes Instead Of Card Catalogues "Strangely, the Austrian city of Klagenfurt doesn't have a public library ... However, an initiative dubbed Project Ingeborg is turning the municipality into a book repository of sorts with 70 QR code and NFC chip-equipped stickers. Plastered throughout town, they direct users to web pages where they can download public domain works." Endgadget, July 10, 2012

Rome

Book Claiming Discovery Of 100 Caravaggios Withdrawn After Questions "Their claims were met with scepticism by many scholars, while the custodians of the archive said they were unaware that the two art historians had been researching the collection. The withdrawal of the book raised questions about why the historians' claims, which garnered worldwide media attention, had not been peer-reviewed." The Telegraph (UK) July 10, 2012

Tunis

Artists Under Threat In Tunis Artists in Tunis still feel under threat following protests by hundreds of hard-line Salafi Islamists last month against a number of works shown at the Printemps des Arts contemporary art fair. The Art Newspaper, July 10, 2012

International

UNESCO Lists 26 New World Heritage Sites "Sixteen of the 26 new World Heritage sites are from outside of North America and Europe, signalling Unesco's commitment to addressing the list's geographic imbalance by including more sites from Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands, Latin America and the Caribbean as well as the Arab states." The Art Newspaper, July 11, 2012