Vancouver On This Day in History  1983: The Vancouver Art Gallery moves into the old courthouse. After a hugely successful fundraising campaign to "take the art gallery to court" — $8 million is raised, twice the intended target and more than any other arts organization in Vancouver.  The Province, October 14, 2011

 Did A Ballerina On Top Of A Bull Spark The Occupy Wall Street Movement? "When Vancouver-based Adbusters presented the idea to the world, it did so in the form of a poster that featured a dancer posed on the shoulders of the Wall Street bull statue, a foggy clamour of demonstrators behind her. The poster asked the question, 'What is our one demand?' Activist groups seized on it, as did the hacktivist group Anonymous, and a collective began to form." Crosscut (Seattle) October 14, 2011

 Moving from one medium to another Paul Wong’s Winsor Gallery exhibition includes video, photography and neon  Paul Wong likes to look. Whether it’s in his hometown of Vancouver or on the road travelling, Wong is out in the world looking at what’s going on around him. Rather than carefully planning every move he takes in advance, Wong relies to a great extent on observation.   Vancouver Sun, October 14, 2011

 Kamloops On the In the photo Patrik Andersson looks at one of the photography pieces in Kamloops Art Gallery’s exhibit, “On The Nature of Things.”  Kamloops Daily News, October 14, 2011

 Toronto Toronto artists Giroux and Young win Sobey Award  Pair win prestigious $50,000 prize for artists under 40.  Globe and Mail, October 14, 2011

 Chagall reframed: AGO casts painter in a new light  Exhibit show him in the context of his influences, in particular those he soaked up in Paris.  Starting Tuesday, Canadians will have the opportunity to consider Chagall anew as the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto presents Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. It’s a North American exclusive for the gallery – 32 works by Chagall plus 80 contributions from Russian-born Chagall contemporaries such as Wassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Sonia Delaunay and Natalia Goncharova.  Globe and Mail, October 17, 2011

 Pairing Old Goya Prints With New Text, And (Maybe) Giving It Away Toronto writer Larry Gaudet pairs Goya's "Disasters of War," print reactions to the Napoleonic wars, with his own prose about today's violence. You can get his new book for anything from $45,000 to, he hopes, a free download. Globe and Mail, October 14, 2011

 Baltimore How Did The High Museum Get So Many Matisses? Ask MoMA Museum of Modern Art director Glenn Lowry has helped his institution loan many works to the High Museum of Art. Why? "Bringing great art to Atlanta has to also over time create a culture of collecting within Atlanta. That's where you start to get a critical mass of collectors who in a very collegial way compete with each other to develop outstanding collections. That will be the legacy. The exhibitions come and go. Staff comes and goes. The legacy always is the actual works of art that remain in a community." Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 16, 2011

 New York Alfred Stieglitz at the Metropolitan Museum - Review Two exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art highlight the changing tastes of the art dealer and photographer Alfred Stieglitz.  New York Times, October 14, 2011

 ‘New Photography 2011’ Features 6 Artists at MoMA - Review  “New Photography 2011,” an exhibition of six artists at the Museum of Modern Art, makes for a useful if not revelatory crossfire of ideas. New York Times, October 14, 2011

 ‘David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy’ at the Whitney - Review The exhibition “David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy” at the Whitney connects Smith’s geometry to the shapes of various European art movements and with his identity as a laborer.   New York Times, October 14, 2011

 London Europe showcases Group of Seven While travelling overseas, Canadians often go to art exhibitions showcasing European masters. But starting Oct. 19, they can view art by Canadian masters in Europe. That’s when Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven opens at London’s Dulwich Gallery. Sunday Star (Toronto) October 16, 2011

 Art & Design London Succeeds With an Outstanding Mix of Pieces on Offer The five-day show covers the trajectory of modern art in all its facets from its early beginnings in the late 1870s to the present day.  New York Times, October 15, 2011

 Aarhus, Denmark A Bold New Art World Is Lighting Up Western Denmark Aarhus, Denmark's second-largest city, is the center of a region that is moving to rival art-centric Copenhagen, with bold exhibitions and projects that have both excited and put off the local population. New York Times, October 15, 2011

 Paris Musée d'Orsay Makes a New Impression The Musée d'Orsay in Paris will open Thursday with a brand new look after spending €20 million to remodel its galleries of 19th-century masterpieces.

 Van Gogh may not have killed himself, researchers say  Two authors argue the famed painter was killed accidentally by two boys.  Globe and Mail, October 17, 2011

 Athens In Athens, Art Blossoms Amid Debt Crisis While Greece is grappling with its past and is increasingly uncertain about its future, the present is a wonderful moment of inspiration for the country’s artists. New York Times, October 15, 2011

 International The Crazed Secondary Market May Eat Young Artists Alive "The secondary (or resale) market has historically relied upon dead or ageing artists for its supply, but the heat around contemporary art has fuelled a new phenomenon: an emerging resale market for artists in the early stages of their careers." But will it destroy those careers even as it feeds on them? The Art Newspaper, October 14, 2011 

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