Vancouver

The art gallery: Time to think on the world stage
Vancouver Art Gallery director Kathleen Bartels and the chair of the relocation committee Michael Audain spoke to the Vancouver Sun editorial board Monday. The VAG is looking to relocate after 25 years in the old courthouse building. Vancouver Sun, April 13, 2010  

Calgary

Cowtown showdown settled, academic moves on to L.A.

Lance Carlson prepares to leave the Alberta College of Art + Design to become director of design strategy for international consultancy Gensler.  Globe and Mail, April 12, 2010

Kleinberg, Ontario

Arctic chronicler Hallendy donates images to McMichael

Noted ethnographer, author and photographer Norman Hallendy has donated a trove of nearly 7,500 images of the Canadian Arctic to the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the gallery announced on Monday.  CBC, April 13, 2010

Toronto

AGO's Major Summer Exhibition Brings the Drama | AGO Art Gallery ...

This summer, the Art Gallery of Ontario gives centre stage to key artworks in a major international exhibition titled Drama and Desire: Artists and the Theatre. The works were selected from the collections of some of the world's greatest museums, including the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée d'Orsay, the British Museum, and the Victoria & Albert Museum.  AGO, March 15, 2010

For the sack of art
‘My youthful work sometimes provokes a wry smile,” artist Justin Green says of his groundbreaking 1972 comic, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary. “But to have it define your life’s work is a burden.”  National Pose, April 13, 2010

Montreal

Collector says he’s found another Leonardo
A Canadian art collector credited last year with discovering a previously unknown drawing by Leonardo da Vinci believes he may have found another piece of artwork — a 520-year-old sculpted scene depicting the beheading of John the Baptist .  Vancouver Sun, April 13, 2010  

New York

A Whitney Satellite Could Be A Good Idea (Note Caveats)

"The success of an undertaking like this hinges not on the size but on the quality of the space, which is never thought about enough and never by the people who really know what they're doing where museums are concerned. ... When will [trustees] ever learn to listen, and to people who have the right experience?" The New York Times, April 13, 2010

Convicted Art Dealer Salander's Furniture To Be Auctioned "The items," from Salander's Manhattan townhouse, "include Italian Baroque credenzas, 18th- and 19th-century American furniture, Venetian glass chandeliers and about 50 carpets. ... The Stair auction will be the first sale of Salander's property since he pleaded guilty to grand larceny and fraud in New York Supreme Court on March 18." Bloomberg 04/13/10

Valletta, Malta

‘ Obscene’ sculpture must go before Pope visits, mayor insists
The mayor of a town near Malta’s main airport called Monday for the removal of a sculpture resembling a penis near the road leading to the capital Valletta ahead of the Pope’s weekend.  Vancouver Sun, April 13, 2010