Calgary

Arts space rises from old fish warehouse

“An old seafood warehouse is being turned into a temporary arts space in Calgary's East Village for local theatre, music and visual art groups. The building, at 630 Seventh Avenue S.E., is slated to be demolished but Calgary Arts Development convinced the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation to try opening it up to artists until then.”  CBC, April 9, 2010

United States

American Museums Scale Down, Cut Expansions

"The economic downturn is reshaping American museum expansions. Recently, two well-known museums have cancelled plans by internationally known firms and commissioned more modest projects by local firms, while a third high-profile addition remains on hold." The Architect's Newspaper, April 6, 2010

San Francisco

Fisher Collection's Saga Demonstrates Perils of Single-Collector Museum

“Among the people happiest about Fisher Collection at SFMOMA are Fisher offspring, who won't have to maintain private-collection museum.”  CultureGrrl(blog), April 9, 2010

Los Angeles

Phoney art sales draw 7-year prison term

“A Los Angeles-area woman who sold $20 million US in phoney art through manipulated TV auctions and duped more than 10,000 art collectors has been sentenced to seven years in prison.” CBC, April 9, 2010

New York

Conversation About Picasso Spanning 4 City Blocks

Two shows of Picasso prints, at MoMA and Marlborough Gallery, complement each other.  New York Times, April 9, 2010

A Photographer Whose Beat Was the World

“The photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson is the subject of a handsome and large — though surely not anywhere near large enough — retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.”  New York Times, April 9, 2010

Met Will Finally Show a Picasso He Disowned

The Metropolitan Museum determines that “Erotic Scene” (or “La Douleur”) is indeed by Picasso.  New York Times, April 9, 2010

London

Reinvigorating an Artist’s Fantasy

The fantastical London home of the 19th-century painter Frederic Leighton reopens with loans and reproductions. .  New York Times, April 9, 2010

International

What's The Right Temperature For Art?

"No one would argue that environmental fluctuations should be allowed to occur unchecked within a museum. But the question is this: given the scientific evidence that works of art made from multiple categories of media have not been shown to sustain damage from the incremental fluctuation of relative humidity to a greater extent than currently prescribed, is it time to arrive at an international consensus on loosening environmental strictures?" The Art Newspaper, April 8, 2010

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