Fort McMurray

Fort McMurray artist lauded for photos depicting life in work camp “When I saw those places the oil industry built for transient workers, I thought it was insane,” Karklin says. “There are thousands of people living together, yet they are isolated, separated by the thinnest drywall. Those visuals — the blandness and bizarreness of it all — appealed to my artistic senses.  Edmonton Journal, August 6, 2012

Toronto

Fight waged over Richard Serra sculpture in field north of Toronto  Over the decades, thousands of art lovers have clandestinely found their way by foot, snowshoe, snowmobile and ski to a field about 50 kilometres north of Toronto to peer at and walk around Shift, a still relatively unknown outdoor installation completed in 1972 by internationally acclaimed sculptor Richard Serra.  Globe and Mail, August 14, 2012  

Los Angeles

Getty Museum Signs Art Exchange Pact With Rome "The museum said it has signed a bilateral agreement with Rome's Capitoline Museums to create a framework for the conservation and restoration of artworks as well as future exhibitions and long-term loans. The Capitoline Museums are a group of art and archaeological museums that date to the 15th century. They are among the oldest public art museums in the world." Los Angeles Times, August 13, 2012  

Houston

Houston Lighting Artist Jeremy Choate Killed In Hit-And-Run Incident The 33-year-old father of two, who created installations at galleries throughout the US, worked often with musicians and dance companies as well as in theater. He was thrown from his motorcycle on Saturday night when a driver ran a red light, struck him and then fled the scene on foot. Houston Chronicle, August 14, 2012  

Boston

MFA Boston Hires New Curator of Chinese Art Nancy Berliner has been appointed curator of Chinese art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Currently serving the World Monuments Fund as an advisor on the Forbidden City Qianlong Garden project, she assumes her new position at the MFA in October.  Art in America, August 13, 2012

London

Tate seeks new sponsor for Turbine Hall commissions  Unilever bows out with Tino Sehgal’s performance piece (Tino Sehgal's These Associations is the first "live" project in Tate's Turbine Hall and the last one sponsored by Unilever )  The Art Newspaper, August 14, 2012

Edinburgh

The World's Culture Ministers Gather In Edinburgh "In bringing together such a distinguished and varied line up of leading thinkers and operators across the areas of culture, technology, politics and industry we are reaffirming the key role that culture plays in the success of nations today." BBC, august 13, 2012

Kassel, Germany

Roving Eye: Defining Exhibitions  (Documenta 13) 13In dOCUMENTA's Guidebook, Christov-Bakargiev sets out the parameters of a show that extends beyond its traditional venues (the Fridericianum, the documenta-Halle) to dozens of temporary sites throughout Kassel and locations in Kabul, Alexandria and Banff. In the introduction, the curator explains, "an exhibition is always the act of locating artworks and bodies producing an understanding of the role of partiality, of the importance of engaging with a site and, at the same time, producing a polylogue with other places." This contingency is spatial but also temporal, she says: "A place of no fixed thing; it has an episodic history and takes its particular aspect through an intense immersion  Art in America, August 10, 2012  ."(The Guidebook is available in the Vancouver Art Gallery Library)

Sydney, Australia

Eugene Atget, Old Paris , from Friday, 24 August in Sydney The French photographer Eugene Atget’s work is widely lauded as both pioneering and influential. The Parisian’s audacious images of Paris life marked the beginning of documentary-style photography and helped shape the future of the medium.  The Art Newspaper, August 14, 2012