Vancouver

Best of Vancouver 2010 Readers' Choices - Best public art gallery ...
To view a winner's details, click on their name. Best public art gallery. 1. Vancouver Art Gallery. 2. Contemporary Art Gallery. 3. Museum of Anthropology  Georgia Straight, September 23, 2010

Turn art gallery building back into courthouse, B.C.’s top judge says

Mr. Justice Lance Finch pitches idea of restoring heritage building to its original use ‘in a dignified setting worthy of its origins’  Globe and Mail, September 27, 2010

Bygone era recalled in art exhibit
Since May, the art installation, titled from shangri-la to shangri-la, has garnered widespread interest from crowds at Offsite, the Vancouver Art Gallery's North Vancouver may soon be home to several permanent squatter shacks -- a move that was warmly welcomed by six North Vancouver district councillors and Mayor Richard Walton at a recent council meeting.

There's a hitch, of course: these shacks are not intended to be habitable dwellings, but public art.  North Shore News, September 24, 3020

Goldcorp gives $ 10 million to SFU arts school
Welcome to the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. Simon Fraser University’s new downtown campus has been rebranded as the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts after mining giant Goldcorp donated $ 10 million.  Vancouver Sun, September 24, 2010

Toronto

Art dealer Mira Godard dead at 82

Romanian immigrant represented luminaries such as Christopher Pratt, Alex Colville.  Globe and Mail, September 24, 2010

Janet Carding settles in at the ROM

Janet Carding, new director of the Royal Ontario Museum, says she ‘likes to innovate’ and the ROM’s Crystal looks like just the right kind of place to try new things.  Globe and Mail, September 25, 2010

Jennifer Murphy’s sculpture-collages weave a hypnotic web

Also this week: Melanie Friend and Eva Kolcze – reviews of Toronto exhibitions.  Globe and Mail, September 25, 2010

Ontario creates $27M Arts Investment Fund

The Ontario government has announced it will give an additional $27 million over the next three years to non-profit arts groups as operating funds.

In announcing the funding Thursday, Culture Minister Michael Chan said arts organizations do valuable work to "enrich our communities and strengthen our economy."  CBC, September 24, 2010

Montreal

The beast within

Examining German artist Otto Dix's fascination with human savagery

A new exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Rouge Cabaret: The Terrifying and Beautiful World of Otto Dix, showcases the work of one of the 20th century's most important and controversial artists. As Patricia Bailey discovers, Dix's experiences in the First World War led him to explore and expose the barbaric side of the human psyche. CBC, September 24, 2010

Canada

Culture Attache
This weekend, Canada’s first-ever Culture Days hopes to attract thousands of people to free events at under-visited galleries, theatres, studios and arts organizations across the nation. Despite some grand cultural building projects and the Richard Florida-driven, creative-city buzz of the past decade, research shows that close-to-home activities such as reading, listening to recorded music and going to the movies remain the country’s most popular cultural activities.  Toronto Star, September 25, 2010

Trio of books celebrates Canadian artists

Reviews of three new books about Robert Bateman, The Painters Eleven and George Fertig.  Victoria Times Colonist, September 26, 2010

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Ralph Coe, 81, Collector of Native American Art, Dies

Mr. Coe, a former museum director, played a central role in reviving interest in the works of American Indian artists.  New York Times, September 26, 2010  

New York

Lehman Brothers art auction fetches $12M

Art hailing from the collection of failed investment bank Lehman Brothers fetched more than $12 million US at an auction in New York on the weekend. CBC, September 27, 2010

Embarrassing - The Lehman Collection Painting That Failed To Sell

"Damien Hirst's 1993 We've got Style, (The Vessel Collection, blue/green) failed to find a buyer at a pre-sale estimate circling $1 million. Ironically, Hirst had a record $198 million one-artist auction in London on the same day in 2008, Sept. 15, that Lehman filed for bankruptcy." New York Observer, September 26, 2010

At the Tilton Gallery, Works by Noel Anderson and Others

New show by Pipilotti Rist “goes through the motions.”   New York Times, September 24, 2010

Guillermo Kuitca at Sperone Westwater on Bowery

The Sperone Westwater Gallery opened on the Bowery this week with an exhibition of paintings by the Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca.   New York Times, September 24, 2010

Roy Lichtenstein Pop Art at Morgan Library and 2 Galleries

Works by the Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein are on view in three separate exhibitions spread around Manhattan.   New York Times, September 24, 2010

Park Avenue Armory Plans Gala and Arts Season

A renovated Park Avenue Armory is ready to showcase a variety of art.  New York Times, September 26, 2010  

Richard Serra Sculpture Rusts in Bronx Crane Yard

Huge pieces of a Richard Serra sculpture have been hiding in plain sight in a South Bronx crane yard for years.  New York Times, September 26, 2010

Washington, D.C.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo at the National Gallery of Art

“Arcimboldo, 1526-1593: Nature and Fantasy” shows the artist as more than just an inspiration for the Surrealists.  New York Times, September 24, 2010

London

Costumes From Serge Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes

At the Victoria and Albert Museum, a look at Serge Diaghilev and the costumes of the Ballets Russes.   New York Times, September 24, 2010

 Paris

In France, Monet Is Rediscovered

Claude Monet, whose art was widely criticized in the Paris of his lifetime, is making a showy comeback there, with two major exhibitions.   New York Times, September 24, 2010

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