Vancouver

A palpable sense of loss pervades VAG's Marian Penner Bancroft exhibit. “As we walk through the Marian Penner Bancroft exhibition SPIRITLANDS: t/HERE, we repeatedly encounter photographs of people and landscape. The people are the artist’s family—her sisters, her parents, her daughter, her ancestors—and the landscape is profoundly linked with who they are and where they have been.”  Georgia Straight, July 10, 2012

Show pushes boundaries of Inuit vision.  Works by Jamasie Pitseolak, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Geronimo Inutiq (aka Mad Eskimo) and Nicholas Galanin are being show-cased until early August at Grunt Gallery.  “Although the group exhibition is a small one that focuses on the work of four artists, the exhibition is innovative in its reframing of art produced by [young] Inuit artists.” Vancouver Sun, July 12, 2012

Surprises dwell in drawing/collage fusions. “Works made with a combination of drawings and collage that draw the viewer in with their intimacy and then surprise people with their unsettling content are part of one of the exhibitions during Vancouver Drawn, the annual city-wide festival of drawing.”  Vancouver Sun, July 12, 2012

Victoria

Window exhibit turns heartbeats into light show. “A new exhibition at G++ Interactive Media Gallery is taking the gadgets into the realm of experimental art. Vancouver-based artist Danielle Gotell has teamed up with the engineers at Victoria's Limbic Media to create Impulse, a work that transforms participants' vital signs into an electronic light show.” Times Colonist, July 12, 2012

Calgary

D’Arcy Levesque: The man who holds the purse strings for Enbridge’s support for the arts. “Whatever some artists may think of his company or the energy sector in general, D’Arcy Levesque is popular in the Calgary arts scene. It’s not just because he holds the purse strings to Enbridge’s philanthropic treasures, but also because he displays an appreciation for the arts.”  Globe & Mail, July 10, 2012

An art collection that pays homage to artists connected to the Canadian West.  As soon as he left the University of Western Ontario and landed a job, Peter Boyd, bought a car, some furniture and his first work of art.  An entrepreneur and the chair of Calgary Arts Development Authority, he has since spent “hundreds of thousands” of dollars on his art habit.  Globe & Mail, July 11, 2012

Edmonton

Life as emerging artist challenges University of Alberta grad. “I recently attended Latitude 53’s Rooftop Patio Series, where the figurative paintings of Jennie Vegt, an emerging artist featured in their weekly Incubator Series, caught my eye. A dreaminess floated through her figurative work, a blend of naturalistic and fantastical.”  Edmonton Journal, July 12, 2012

Winnipeg

Art of renewal.  An exhibition, Mayan Families, is currently on view on at the Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery.  It includes 50 paintings and 10 large wall-hangings by Mayan artists, as well as 50 photos that curator, Kevin Harmer has taken of the artists, their families and the town. Winnipeg Free Press, July 12, 2012

Los Angeles

Getty to keep PST rolling.  As the success of the original project is measured, talks begin in Los Angeles about a Pacific Standard Time (PST) sequel.  The Art Newspaper, July 12, 2012

New York

Mysterious Buyer Of Munch's Scream Revealed "New York financier Leon Black paid Sotheby's nearly $120 million for The Scream, Edvard Munch's 1895 pastel of a terrified man holding his head, according to several people close to the collector." The Wall Street Journal, July 12, 2012

The Art Project, Apple, And The Secret Service "The moment this deeper conversation began, the project turned into a collaboration with Apple and the Secret Service. I didn't own it anymore, it belonged to the commenters who were keeping it alive in spite of my virtual death." Wired, July 11, 2012

London

It Takes a Village London’s art festival offers spectacle to coincide with the Olympic Games..Artnews, July 12, 2012

Paris

The Centre Pompidou shakes up its US fundraising arm  New leadership following fall out between the President of the Paris museum and former chairman of the American foundation.  The Art Newspaper, July 11, 2012

Singapore

Singapore Airport Unveils 'The World's Largest Kinetic Art Sculpture' "The seemingly alive installation, composed of 1,216 bronze droplets attached to individual motorized pulleys, bobs and weaves in Terminal 1's departure hall at Changi Airport." The Atlantic, July 12, 2012 (includes video)