Vancouver VIFF conflict changes date of Mayor’s Arts Vancouver’s Cultural Services department is changing its plan to hold the Mayor’s Arts Awards on Sept. 29 after realizing the awards would conflict with the opening night of one of the biggest cultural events of the year, the Vancouver International Film Festival.  Globe and Mail, September 20, 2011 

Winnipeg  Human rights museum will engage all of Canada, chairwoman says Even from two provinces over, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is going to give Alberta a generation of “active, informed and engaged citizens,” said its leading campaigner.  Edmonton Journal, September 20, 2011 

Windsor Art gallery, aquatic centre combo touted Combining a new downtown public library branch with the Art Gallery of Windsor at the $63-million aquatic centre will save thousands of dollars in construction and operating costs, according to supporters of the proposal.  Windsor Star, September 20, 2011

Toronto NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM Prize-winning American photographer Richard Barnes has a knack for catching museums off guard. For more than a decade, he’s captured behind-the-scenes views of vaunted institutions, posing questions about their role in contemporary life. Now, with an exhibition in Toronto and a book available nationwide, Barnes talks with Leah Sandals about Egypt, arsenic, the Civil War and more.  National Post, September 20, 2011  

Toronto ends all-night budget meeting with controversial cuts still up in the air  As the mayor backs off the most controversial cuts, numbers, nighties and song are used as weapons to fight the budget axe.  Globe and Mail, September 20, 2011

VISUAL ARTS   Fifteen up-and-coming artists are in the running for the $25,000 top prize in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Now marking its 13th year, it’s become one of the key events on the fall Canadian cultural calendar.  Globe and Mail, September 19, 2011

Montreal NSIDE THE WILD WORLD OF JEAN PAUL GAULTIER  ‘I don’t want to see this,” said the woman beside me. “Disgusting! Terrible! Kitsch!” She could have been referring to the clothes on display, or those worn by the people jockeying for a closer look at the couture of Jean Paul Gaultier at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.  Globe and Mail, September 20, 2011 

New York Preserving the American Folk Art Museum’s Place in New York  The American Folk Art Museum is threatening to dissolve, and disperse its outsider art collection to other museums. That would be a huge mistake. New York Times, September 20, 2011

Roberta Smith Throws Weight Behind Rescuing the American Folk Art Museum  NY Times art critic Roberta Smith has officially joined the Save the American Folk Art Museum campaign, with a powerful opinion piece .  CultureGrrl, September 19, 2011      

Yokohama Swimming in noodle heaven  As befits a nation of noodle lovers, the Cup Noodles Museum in Yokohama, which opens today, joins a growing number of museums across Japan that celebrate the foodstuff, including a Ramen noodle museum in Shinyokohama.  Vancouver Sun, September 17, 2011

Sydney  Respected Curator Of Aboriginal Art Quits Museum, Calls For New Approach The "mainstreaming of Aboriginal art and culture has largely failed us", she said. The Australian, September 20, 2011 

 International   Art Facebook Censors "Facebook has repeatedly disabled users' accounts for posting images of Gustave Courbet's The Origin of the World, 1866. The erotic work of art, in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, falls foul of the site's prohibition of offensive materials." The Art NewspaperSeptember 16, 2011  

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