It's Summer ... and we're taking a break.

Arts News will appear only on Wednesday and Thursday,

until we resume our Monday to Thursday coverage

on August 7, 2012

Vancouver

With Papergirl Vancouver, access to art knows no boundaries.  After their exhibition at the Roundhouse, (July 23 to 27), [artwork on paper or fabric] will be given away by “Papergirls” to the wider world.  On July 28, along a still-undisclosed urban route, volunteers on bicycles will deliver the art at random. Rolled up like newspapers, the prints, drawings, paintings, poems, textiles, and photographs will be handed to strangers in an act that is equal parts art, philanthropy, and social intervention. Georgia Straight, July 17, 2012

Whistler

Valuable Haida mask stolen from Whistler home. Whistler RCMP are asking the public for help in finding a $15,000 Haida mask that a thief stole from a residence in the resort town sometime between July 4 and 9.  The resin mask is one of six replicas made by Ben Davidson, son of renowned artist Robert Davidson.  Vancouver Sun, July 18, 2012

Toronto

Michael Snow invites art interaction in Objects of Vision.  A new exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario titled Objects of Vision explores the veteran Toronto artist's fascination with the notion of looking and framing perception. (Includes video). CBC News, July 19, 2012

At Honest Ed’s today’s Special is art, not bargains. Koffler Centre of the Arts has staged its second off-site exhibition in the Annex’s landmark discount department store Honest Ed’s. The group exhibition “Summer Special” features 7 contemporary art installations right in the store, and they riff on pricing and display signage, the retail vernacular. National Post, July 12, 2012

Ottawa

Art in a moment in time.  A new exhibition showcases the latest acquisitions of the Ottawa City Hall Art Gallery. Ottawa Citizen, July 19, 2012

Artists wanted for LRT stations.  

The city is looking for established professional artists to join the design teams for the light-rail stations it's planning. Ottawa Citizen, July 18, 2012

Glasgow

How Glasgow conquered the art world. How has one city managed to produce a generation of international contemporary artists like Douglas Gordon, Jim Lambie, Karla Black, Martin Boyce, Richard Wright and Simon Starling, and scoop an incredible number of nominations for Britain's top visual art award, the Turner prize? BBC News Scotland, July 17, 2012

United Kingdom

The Cultural Olympiad: where's the culture? Why dress up a sporting event with daredevil dancers, balancing buses and poetry falling from the sky? It's all show and no brains.  The Guardian, July 17, 2012

International

Brandalism: Street artists hijack billboards for 'subvertising campaign' Nicknamed ‘Brandalism’, because it feeds into the graffiti versus vandalism debate, it has been taken up by artists in Britain, Australia and America and elsewhere. It is, like all street art, illegal. But street artists and graffitists are boldly exploiting the convenient rectangular spaces which normally purvey L’Oreal products or the latest albums. The Independent, July 17, 2012

The Fine Art of Being a Curator. Over the last decade, as the contemporary art world has grown to planetary size — more galleries, more fairs, more art-selling Web sites, bigger museums, new biennials almost by the month — it has sometimes seemed as if a new kind of cultural figure has been born as well: the international curator, constantly in flight to somewhere. The New York Times, July 18, 2012