Vancouver

Cloudscape's comic jams With a gallery show and a book on the way, the local group builds camaraderie amid the sometimes lonely field of indie cartooning.  Georgia Straight, May 16, 2013

Portrait of an Artist: Kuh Del Rosario Vancouver artist Kuh Del Rosario creates sculptures from discarded objects.  Georgia Straight, May 13, 2013

Victoria

Empress and attitude in art show If you know Victoria, you'll get this art show.  Michael Turner is guest curator at the AGGV.  Times Colonist, May 16, 2013

Winnipeg

Home is where the art is THE Winnipeg Art Gallery’s assumes the ambitious task of telling a 500-plus-year history of European and North American art with works drawn from museums across Canada (plus the honourary province of Minnesota). The exhibition highlights the strengths of those collections, but it also reflects their limitations.  Winnipeg Free Press, May 16, 2013

Toronto

Art Gallery of Ontario: Light My Fire Photography Exhibit a slow, satisfying burn A review of the AGO’s “Light My Fire,” the first of a year-long exploration of the gallery’s voluminous photography collection.  Toronto Star, May 15, 2013

Photographer Janieta Eyre and ‘the magic function of the camera’   For a few years in high school, Janieta Eyre stopped speaking, from a combination of depression and shyness. That’s when she learned that by being silent, you can also become invisible.  Globe and Mail, May 16, 2013

Ottawa

An eye-opening triumph The main exhibition of Sakahàn begins with a circus act and ends with a violent act, and between the two is an evolving world of indigenous culture.  Ottawa Citizen, May 16, 2013   

New York

Eric Fischl Goes Back to His Future Eric Fischl’s new memoir, “Bad Boy,” spares almost no one associated with the New York avant-garde of the early ’80s, including himself. New York Times, May 16, 2013

Thomas M. Messer, Guggenheim Museum Director, Dies at 93 Mr. Messer’s charm and diplomacy attracted donations of major collections and his leadership helped established the Guggenheim among the world’s great museums of modern art. New York Times, May 16, 2013

Christie’s Art Auction Sets Record at $495 Million The sales record was aided by soaring prices for modern masters like Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat. New York Times, May 16, 2013

At Sotheby's Sale, Buyers Turn Eclectic At Sotheby's auction of Contemporary art, buyers propelled 3 artists to record prices in an environment where well- known names did not necessarily inspire enthusiasm or confidence. New York Times, May 16, 2013

Belize

Mayan Pyramid Demolished For Road Gravel "A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced on Monday." Yahoo! (AP) May 13, 2013

London

Marcel Dzama: Under the merry-making, there’s menace  The feature on Marcel Dzama’s London show in Time Out magazine last week referred to him as a “Canadian cartoonist,” but those who have followed his work for the past decade or so know this description falls far short of the mark.  Globe and Mail, May 10, 2013

Just in Time, a Lebanese Artist’s Work Is Shown at Tate Modern  Saloua Raouda Choucair’s first exhibition in Beirut in 1947 is thought to be the first-ever show of abstract art in the Arab world. Now, as she copes with Alzheimer’s, her works are on display in London. New York Times, May 16, 2013

Germany

German Galleries Fight Against Hike In VAT On Art "The German federal association of galleries and dealers ... has, for the moment, won a major battle to keep VAT rates down on the purchase of original works of art. The European Commission has been trying to raise German VAT tax on original works of art from 7% to 19% to bring it in line with higher VAT rates in the rest of Europe." The Art Newspaper, May 15, 2013

Budapest

Artists Occupy Budapest Museum Over Replacement Of Director "Around 30 activists from the group 'United for Contemporary Art' have been occupying the entrance hall of Budapest's Ludwig Museum in the Palace of the Arts since last week. The protest, which is still ongoing, is directed at the 'lack of transparency' in the selection process of the Ludwig's new director." The Art Newspaper, May 15, 2013

Cambodia

Cambodia Presses U.S. Museums to Return Antiquities Hundreds of Cambodian antiquities in American museums lack paperwork showing their provenance. New York Times, May 16, 2013

Hong Kong

Hong Kong cries foul as giant rubber duck deflates in harbour  The giant inflatable rubber duck which has attracted tens of thousands of visitors since it sailed into Hong Kong two weeks ago was reduced to a sad, deflated disc Wednesday in the city’s harbour.  Globe and Mail, May 16, 2013