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Featured Story100 years ago, the Mona Lisa was stolen "That impenetrable smile. Bemusement? Seduction? Indulgence? Vincenzo Peruggia was able to gaze leisurely at those fine curving lips, alone, for two years. Just he and La Gioconda — the Mona Lisa to you and me, the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece Peruggia stole from the Louvre, where he worked, in Paris on Aug. 21, 1911. It was the art world’s first blockbuster heist. An act that made international headlines and fuelled global whodunit theories until the portrait was recovered and the thief unmasked. It turned out he had simply tucked it under his smock and walked away. There was an unexpected by-product of Peruggia’s daring larceny: It was good for the art business …" | ||
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Lord ClientsQR Codes offer tour of new museum WINNIPEG – A good smartphone and about half an hour is all it takes for a self-guided tour of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights construction site. Just click a photo of one of five Quick Response code signs attached to the fence around the massive site at The Forks and you can hear what workers are building on the other side. How much the QR code signs appeal to people will help the museum's staff develop a similar interactive tour when the $310-million museum opens in about two years, spokeswoman Angela Cassie said Tuesday after taking the Free Press on a QR exterior tour. "But we don't want technology to be a barrier to anyone," she added … Jewish Museum Picks Director From Art World NEW YORK – “The Jewish Museum has chosen Claudia Gould, director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, as its new director, succeeding Joan Rosenbaum, who is retiring after 30 years. Following Ms. Rosenbaum’s long tenure, in which she reinforced the museum’s focus on Jewish history and culture, the selection of Ms. Gould, who has spent her career in contemporary art, reflects the desire of the Jewish Museum’s board to add more dynamism and fresh ideas to this 107-year-old institution on the Upper East Side of Manhattan ...“ One Thousand and One Nights (Parts One and Two) EDINBURGH - “Everyone thinks they know stories from One Thousand and One Nights. But unsurprisingly Tim Supple’s epic adaptation is a little different to how we’re used to hearing the tales. Firstly, this isn’t a show for children - unless you don’t mind them seeing foot-long phalluses and they don’t mind sitting through two three hour shows performed in English, Arabic and French. […] Hanan al-Shaykh’s versions, dramatised by Supple, stay as close as possible to the original Arabic texts […] Once you get used to the disappointment that unlike Supple’s acclaimed 2008 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, One Thousand and One Nights is not going to feature cartwheels, people dropping from the ceiling and actors climbing all over the walls, you’ll realise that yet again, his staging is perfect. […] The director has had five years - and $2million from Toronto’s Luminato Festival - to get the duo of performances just right, including two years to search most of the Arab world for the 19-strong generous and expressive cast and the five musicians who also composed the emotive score …” [see also Edinburgh Festival 2011: One Thousand and One Nights, Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, review, By Sarah Crompton, The Telegraph, 22 August 2011] Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Wins $150,000 Grant for Archaeological Collection CAMBRIDGE – The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has been awarded a Museums for America grant of $150,000 from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Over the next two years, the Museum will catalog, document, inventory, and photograph the Peabody's most important archaeological collections with the grant. "Our collection will be more accessible to researchers, especially educators," says Senior Collections Manager David DeBono Schafer, who will manage the project. "These are among our most requested materials. Now researchers will be able to quickly determine exactly which archaeological objects are in the collection." … Scholar and Curator Douglas Druick named new Art Institute of Chicago Director CHICAGO, IL – "Tom Pritzker, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago, announced today that Douglas Druick has been selected as the new President and Eloise W. Martin Director of the Art Institute of Chicago. Druick, the chair of two of the museum's eleven curatorial departments, is an internationally recognized scholar and curator who has been serving as the acting president and director of the museum since the departure of James Cuno in June 2011. Druick has been with the Art Institute for 26 years, and his appointment is effective immediately ..." Bill Poole appointed director of Waterloo gallery WATERLOO, ON – "The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery has a new executive director — kind of. The Waterloo ceramics gallery has appointed William Poole permanently to a position he held on an interim basis. The gallery started looking for a new administrative head in January after striking a search committee consisting of staff, board members and community leaders in arts and culture. It received more than 75 applications from across Canada, in addition to the United States, Europe and Asia. Nine candidates were interviewed and a final three were interviewed by the board, confirms board chair Armin Froelich. In June, 2010, Poole was appointed interim director after executive director Robert Achtemichuk went on long-term sick leave. Achtemichuk resigned in January, 2011, ending his decade-long association with the gallery. Poole remained as interim director until he assumed the position permanently …" BBC and Victoria & Albert Museum announce major new year-long partnership LONDON – "The BBC and V&A today announce Handmade in Britain, a year-long season of programming that will be the most wide-ranging and ambitious exploration of decorative arts ever to be undertaken on British Television. Furthering the BBC’s commitment to building partnerships with the arts sector that go beyond broadcast, from sharing expertise to widening public engagement in UK arts, from autumn 2011 to autumn 2012, Handmade in Britain will present three, three-part series and a selection of individual hour-long films, focusing on a wide variety of art and design disciplines: ceramics, wood, metalwork, textiles, stained glass and paper …" Madison Children’s Museum / The Kubala Washatko Architects MADISON, WISCONSIN - "The new Madison Children’s Museum by the Kubala Washatko Architects is an imaginative, adaptive reuse project that was completed in August 2010. The MCM now occupies the 1930’s multi-story historic building that originally housed a Montgomery Ward’s department store on Madison’s Capitol Square. The reuse was implemented as a result of a need to expand the museum’s capacity, thereby expanding the museum’s interdisciplinary capacity to serve the needs of its audience. The end result is a creative and cost-efficient exercise that revamps outdated office space and transforms the space into an interactive and dynamic learning environment …"
MuseumsRedefine museums as educational resources "THE Australian arts community has never been shy about talking about its value to our society. So there is little doubt that hundreds of urgent, articulate voices will be raised in response to the government's National Cultural Policy discussion paper, released earlier this month. Whatever the individual viewpoints, there should be a strong embrace of this rare opportunity to help shape the way we as a society invest in culture. Some responses will take a broad view of what is meant by culture, others will argue more for the primacy of particular art forms. The wording of the discussion paper lends weight to the broad view. The document doesn't simply concentrate on the arts in a narrow sense but embodies a broader social aim …" Museum of Latin American Art appoints Stuart A. Ashman as new President and CEO LONG BEACH, CA – "Mike Deovlet and Burke Gumbiner, Co-Chairmen of the Museum of Latin American Art’s Board of Directors, announced the appointment today of Stuart A. Ashman as MOLAA’s President and CEO. His appointment is the result of a six-month international search and his tenure will begin on September 6, 2011. Ashman joins MOLAA at an exciting time, as the museum’s 15th anniversary draws to a close. Driven primarily by an evolving and strengthened artistic direction over the last two years, MOLAA has seen growing admissions and increasing accolades from the museum industry and media critics locally, nationally, and internationally. …" Art Museum Partnership announces program for 2011 Directors Forum conference NEW YORK, N.Y. – "The Art Museum Partnership has just released the program for The 2011 Directors Forum conference. Leaders of art museums from across the nation will gather in New York City on Sunday, October 23 – Tuesday, October 25 for an extraordinary program. The 2011 Directors Forum Conference This fall museums leaders from across the nation will meet in New York City on Sunday, October 23 – Tuesday, October 25 for the 2011 Directors Forum. Art. No other professional conference offers this singular opportunity. Prominent speakers will delve into a variety of timely subjects for the recession-weary museum director. Keynote Speaker This year's keynote speaker is Maria Ann Conelli, Founding Dean of the School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts at Brooklyn College and former executive director of the American Folk Art Museum. The topic is “Budgets, Boards and Bad Decisions. …" Documentary about Museum's Renovations Airs August 26, 2011 OTTAWA – "A documentary about the extensive six-year renovations to the Canadian Museum of Nature's public exhibitions site is hitting the airwaves this August. A Modern Castle: The Rebirth of the Canadian Museum of Nature will be broadcast Friday, August 26, 2011, at 10:00 PM EST on Discovery World HD, a specialty channel of Bell Media (Rogers channel 245 in Ottawa). The 44-minute feature, directed by David Finch, was produced by the museum and Picture This Productions of Montréal, Quebec, over a two-year period from 2008 to 2010. The movie documents the makeover that transformed the 100-year-old Victoria Memorial Museum Building into a museum of natural history for the 21st century …" As Europe marks the 20th anniversary of the Soviet collapse, Bulgaria opens museum of socialist art SOFIA – "Giant statues of Soviet dictators Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin. Paintings of enthusiastic socialist laborers. A huge red star that graced Communist Party headquarters. As Europe marks the 20th anniversary of the Soviet collapse, this nation that's still shaking off its troubled communist legacy is opening a museum dedicated to the totalitarian past. A debate's raging on whether the museum romanticizes the Soviet era or teaches new generations about its horrors. Other former communist countries like the Czech Republic and Hungary have long had similar museums; the fact it's taken Bulgaria this long to open one is a sign of its fraught transition to democracy …" Dia art museum achieves warmer hue with Beacon BEACON, NY — "Dia:Beacon has launched a series of initiatives to engage more fully with the broader community around it. The importance of this is underscored by an independent report that says it has a $12.5 million annual impact on that region. Dia was not always known for local engagement. In the early days of Dia, the massive modern art museum that startled the art world by landing in this small Hudson River city, its first director took a remarkable photo from the air. Michael Govan's picture in 2002 showed the former Nabisco printing plant, now home to Dia's collection of minimalist art, set serenely amid green trees next to a gray-blue Hudson River. Hardly any homes, structures or signs of human life showed. That photo was an artful framing showing Dia in a world of its own while omitting the urban density of Newburgh across the river and most evidence of Beacon …" Artsy crowd meets over makeup of Tel Aviv museum search committee TEL AVIV - "Over a dozen leading figures from the Israeli art world convened Sunday to discuss the future of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, which is facing challenges over the makeup of a search committee tasked with finding a new museum director. About 450 leading members of Israel's creative community have signed a petition seeking to stop the work of the search committee convened following the death earlier this summer of Director Mordechai Omer …" UCL publishes collections review toolkit LONDON - "University College London (UCL) Museums & Collections has produced a toolkit for museums interested in conducting collections reviews. The UCL Collections Review Toolkit draws on the department's experience in carrying out a wholesale review of its collections between 2007 and 2009 in order to survey aspects of their care, use and significance. The Museums Association (MA) was an external stakeholder during the process …" Iconic Japan cartoon cat gets his own museum TOKYO (REUTERS) - "He's a small, blue robot cat from the future who's been the inspiration for an animated TV series, served as Japan's cartoon cultural ambassador and is beloved around the world. Now, the iconic Doraemon has his own museum on the outskirts of Tokyo -- though he shares the space with his creator, Fujiko F. Fujio. The museum collection features 50,000 items, many of which are original drawings, as well as a desk and other things used by Fujio until his death in 1996. The museum building also includes a small theatre and coffeeshop …" Earthquake closes Smithsonian museums; damages Washington National Cathedral WASHINGTON (AP) – "All of the Smithsonian Institution museums on the National Mall have been closed in the wake of an earthquake centered in Virginia that shook the nation's capital. Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough tells The Associated Press that staffers are examining the buildings for damage, and no injuries were reported. Clough, who is an earthquake engineer, says a main concern is the Smithsonian Castle, the red, gothic-style building that was constructed in 1857. He says he was meeting with his staff when they felt the floor move. Clough says there are some minor cracks and broken glass in the castle. There are also reports of damage at two Smithsonian facilities in suburban Maryland that do not receive visitors. …" Dallas Museum of Art appoints Sue Canterbury as Associate Curator of American Art DALLAS, TX – "Patricia 'Sue' Canterbury has been appointed The Pauline Gill Sullivan Associate Curator of American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, it was announced today by Olivier Meslay, the DMA’s Interim Director and its Senior Curator of European and American Art and The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Curator of European Art. She will begin work in Dallas on September 19, 2011. Canterbury comes to the Dallas Museum of Art from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, where she was the Associate Curator in the Department of Paintings from 1998 to earlier this year …" Toledo Museum of Art Announces Three Appointments in Education Department TOLEDO, OH – "Three Toledo area women have been named to positions in the recently reorganized education department at the Toledo Museum of Art, Director Brian Kennedy has announced. Following a national search, Dr. Katherina Danko-McGhee joins the staff as director of education, and Dr. Leanne Gilbertson becomes curator of education, both effective Aug. 29. In addition, staff member Lori Foshag, who served as interim director of education for nearly a year, has been named manager of community programs. …" Montague museum gets new space MONTAGUE, PEI – "The Garden of the Gulf Museum in Montague is building a new off-site storage space for artifacts not on display, which will free up more space in the museum for exhibits when it's completed next summer. The museum will share the $283,000 cost with the federal and provincial governments. The town donated the land right next to the Cavendish Farms Wellness Centre. Until the building is finished, the third floor of the museum will remain filled with boxes of artifacts packed from floor to ceiling, said Edgar Dewar, chair of the museum board. There are even more artifacts stored in barns all across Kings County. “People will bring things in, and we'll say, ‘Well, we'd love to have it, but we just can't take it,’” Dewar said. He said the humidity on the third floor is harmful to the artifacts, and finding things is impossible. “You can't look it up on an index, and say, ‘Oh, it's on shelf A 24,’ and go find it, he said. Dewar has lobbied for the new building for three years. It will have 3,600 square feet of storage space. It will include a repair shop, a board room and lots of shelves, filled with neatly catalogued artifacts in a temperature controlled environment. …" Flight museum moving inland to Houston GALVESTON (AP) – "After sustaining more than $18 million in damage following Hurricane Ike almost three years ago, the Lone Star Flight Museum will be moving from the island city of Galveston to Houston. “I can't risk another 8 feet of water being in the facility,” said the museum's executive director, Larry Gregory. The Houston Chronicle reported (http://bit.ly/oQdGKS) that the museum will be relocated to Houston's Ellington International Airport, a former military field. Gregory said construction should begin in about 18 months and the move could take three years. Last week, the Houston City Council approved a 40-year contract with the museum for 14 acres at Ellington, said Ian Wadsworth, chief commercial officer for the Houston Airport System. The contract commits the museum to making at least $7.5 million in improvements. …" Israel Museum welcomes one millionth visitor since inauguration of renewed campus JERUSALEM – "In an unprecedented achievement for an Israeli cultural institution, the Israel Museum is proud to announce that it has welcomed one million people to its renewed campus since its inauguration one year ago. During this time, visitors have enjoyed the Museum’s renewed galleries, new architecture and rich program of exhibitions, events and activities. …" Temporary art commissions launched in celebration of new Auckland Art Gallery AUCKLAND – "Three commissioned contemporary artworks will be launched on 19 August as the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki prepares to deliver New Zealand’s largest visual arts experience. Large-scale sculptural works by Choi Jeong Hwa of South Korea, Jeppe Hein of Denmark and New Zealander Kate Newby are bound to become firm public favourites when the newly restored and expanded Gallery opens to the public on 3 September. Art Gallery Director Chris Saines is thrilled with the result of the commissions. “Choi Jeong Hwa’s playfully monumental work has had an immediate impact on Kitchener Street, and Kate Newby and Jeppe Hein’s works have taken shape across the Albert Park facing sculpture terraces. Inside and out, the building is proving a brilliant and lively platform for public art." Cinema museum to keep memories of artists alive ADANA, TURKEY / Anatolia News Agency – "Adana has been preparing to open a cinema museum, where famous artists will be commemorated for future generations to come. The cinema museum will officially be opened during the 18th Golden Boll Film Festival to be held between Sept. 17 and 25 at a historic mansion on the Seyhan Street that was recently restored. The southern city of Adana, which is known for being the hometown of a great many prominent names in Turkish cinema, is preparing to host a new cinema museum …" Musée de la civilisation: Rome bat tous les records OTTAWA – "On fait la file pour voir Rome. L’engouement est tel que l’effet se fait sentir jusqu’au port de Québec. C’est que le Musée de la civilisation bat des records d’affluence avec son exposition sur la cité italienne. Avec Rome, il pourrait bien battre l’achalandage de 2008, année faste du point de vue touristique à cause du 400e de la ville de Québec. Une année d’exception qu’on soustrait habituellement à toute comparaison. Pas cette fois. «Rome surclasse toutes nos autres expos à ce moment-ci», indique le porte-parole du Musée, Serge Poulin. Depuis son ouverture, le 10 mai, jusqu’au 7 août, 250 000 personnes ont passé les tourniquets, une augmentation d’achalandage de 33 % par rapport à l’an dernier. Seulement en juillet, 92 000 visiteurs sont passés par là, comparativement à 69 000 l’an passé. Et les perspectives pour le mois d’août sont tout aussi reluisantes. Comme la durée des expositions varie, le Musée compare leur popularité selon le nombre d’entrées par mois. Alors qu’il avait atteint une moyenne de 77 656 visiteurs par mois avec l’Or des Amériques en 2008, l’exposition actuelle fait 86 000 entrées par mois. Du jamais-vu pour ce musée. Il a même ouvert ses portes le jeudi soir jusqu’à 22h. «Ce n’est pas l’horaire d’été habituel. On a ouvert [davantage] cette année à cause de Rome», dit M. Poulin. ..." Create polar museum in Edmonton EDMONTON - "Earlier this month, a Parks Canada archeological team headed up to the Arctic to search for Erebus and Terror, the two ships that disappeared without a trace in 1847 after heavy sea ice forced John Franklin's sick and starving crew to abandon its search for the Northwest Passage. Under a memorandum of understanding between Great Britain and Canada, the Canadian government will be given control and ownership of the wrecks in the event they are found …" Museum Receives $7.6 Million Bequest from the Estate of Leonard and Bebe Levine MILWAUKEE, WI – "The Milwaukee Art Museum announced a $7.6 million gift from the estate of Milwaukee business owner and his wife, Leonard and Bebe LeVine. The donation, received after Mr. LeVine’s death in 2008, is more than double the previous largest bequest, and is designated to advance and improve the Museum’s art collection and presentation. “It is an honor to be the sole beneficiary of the LeVine’s estate. The donation will be used to further the legacy of this remarkable couple, Leonard and Bebe LeVine, who willed these funds to the Museum,” said Daniel Keegan, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum. …" Folk Art Museum Considers Closing NEW YORK – "The financial picture has grown so bleak at the American Folk Art Museum that its trustees are considering whether to shut it down and donate its collections to another institution, said a person involved in the discussions, who requested anonymity because the talks are confidential. No final decision has been made, and members of the folk museum’s staff are said to be lobbying to keep it going in some form. But the museum’s leadership has been in talks with the Smithsonian Institution for several months about possibly acquiring the collection in conjunction with the Brooklyn Museum …" [see also Options Dim for Museum of Folk Art, By Robin Pogrebin, The New York Times, 24 August 2011] Japanese-American Internment Camp Site Reopens as Museum HEART MOUNTAIN, WYOMING – "The site of a Japanese internment camp during World War II has been transformed into the Heart Mountain Interpretive Learning Center in Wyoming. The grand opening is this weekend. During World World II, as the United States battled Japan and the other Axis powers, 14,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated at a remote camp. Ex-internees, their descendants and local residents worked together to develop a place that would tell the stories of the forced relocation and teach its visitors lessons for the future …"
ArchitectureNew Taipei City Museum of Art Competition Proposal / INFLUX_STUDIO "INFLUX_STUDIO shared with us their proposal for the New Taipei City Museum of Art competition as contemporary art museums are becoming hybrid programs and transforming the way people approach art to become real places to be. The key issue they were dealt with was how to gather people and art while integrating the landscape into the museum and the museum into the park ..." Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Renovation / John Douglas Architects "1975 Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts was one of the most notable projects designed by the late Arizona architect Bennie Gonzales, FAIA, who also designed Scottsdale’s signature municipal structures, including the city hall and main library, which are linked to the arts center by the park-like Scottsdale Civic Center. Gonzales was known for his simple, pure forms that echoed both classic Southwestern and Native-American architectural themes. The 100,000-square-foot performing arts center was designed to include a large main theater, a smaller, secondary theater, gallery space, offices and a vast central atrium ..." Montreal Concert Hall to soon open: Jack Diamond on the making of a world-class concert hall "From the time he won the competition to design the new concert hall for the OSM, architect Jack Diamond knew exactly what the building needed to be. A good concert hall for an esteemed company that has long endured performing in a place with less than ideal acoustics, a good urban building that is highly legible and has good public access, and an architectural landmark …"
Technology
Mobile App or Mobile App Platform? "At the Balboa Park Online Collaborative, most of our projects share one key objective: leveraging resources. For websites we standardized the CMS platform and deployed 20 websites in 2 years with 3 developers. For digitization we created shared studios and digitized 160,000 images, videos, films and slides and got them online in 18 months. And for shared resources we ran fiber to 14 buildings, sharing a 50 mb pipe to the Internet and a digital asset management system (How many 2 1/2 year olds can do that?). So as we pursue mobile projects that showcase the great variety of attractions within the Park (80+ destinations and 50+ events each day), that objective translated into the re-use and re-purposing of content. After all we want to solve the common problems that visitors face (like getting lost!) using a low-cost approach and ship it fast …" Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO "Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs has resigned as chief executive officer, saying in a public letter that he can no longer meet his duties in that role. The company said Jobs will be replaced by Tim Cook, who was Apple's chief operating officer. It said Jobs, 56, will continue as Apple's chairman. In the letter, addressed to the Apple board of directors and the 'Apple community,' Jobs indicated that he had always said he would step down when he could no longer meet his duties and expectations as CEO.'Unfortunately, that day has come.' …" BMW Guggenheim Lab Launches Urbanology Online, an Interactive Game Exploring Issues of City Life NEW YORK, NY – “Urbanology, an interactive game that addresses issues that arise when cities grow and inhabitants try to institute lasting change, launches online today at bmwguggenheimlab.org/urbanologyonline. Urbanology online is the companion to the large-scale, interactive installation at the BMW Guggenheim Lab, currently in New York's East Village through October 16. More than 13,500 people have already experienced the group game and now people worldwide have the chance to participate. By answering questions about key urban issues—education, housing, health care, infrastructure, and mobility—players role-play scenarios for city transformation to build a city that matches their specific desires and needs. Based on their personal responses, the player's "Future City" is created and compared with other cities around the world.
Art and CultureIndy Airport May Remove Public Art in Favor of Ad Wall INDIANAPOLIS – "The Indianapolis Business Journal reports that this week the Indianapolis airport should be deciding if it will remove a site-specific work by local artist James Wille Faust, “Chrysalis” (2008), in favor of a video wall that will feature advertisements. The artist has already declined the airport’s offer to have him modify and move the piece to the Indiana Convention Center. “It’s bastardizing his piece, No. 1 … It was never meant for any space other than that wall,” Martha Faust, the artist’s wife and business manager, said. On the artist’s website, Faust explains that the airport work “represents the transformation of a chrysalis into an open-winged moth or butterfly, symbolic of flight.” The good news is that many people have been voicing their opposition to the move to ditch the art in favor of ads and numerous editorial and articles have come down in favor of Faust’s work. …" Expo 2012 too pricey for Canada to attend "Canada has officially declined an invitation from the South Korean government to participate in Expo 2012, saying it can't afford to attend the World's Fair. Officials at the Korean Embassy in Ottawa confirmed Tuesday they received a letter last month from Heritage Minister James Moore sending his regrets that Canada will not participate in the event. Korean embassy spokesman Heon-jun Kim said the Republic of Korea tried its best to convince Canada to attend Expo 2012, but was not successful …" Espace culturel Georges-Émile-Lapalme de la PDA: une agora dédiée à l’art MONTREAL – "Inauguré en février dernier et situé au coeur de la Place des Arts, l'Espace culturel Georges-Émile-Lapalme a maintenant sa propre programmation. Dévoilée hier et entièrement gratuite, la saison 2011-2012 touchera autant la danse, le théâtre, les arts visuels que la musique et sera, la plupart du temps, en lien avec les spectacles à l'affiche. «Notre mandat est d'organiser des activités visant la sensibilisation du public et c'est à ça que sert l'Espace culturel. On veut vraiment que ça soit une place publique intérieure où vont se tenir des manifestations prévues et pourquoi pas spontanées», explique Sophie Labelle, chargée de projet à la direction de la programmation de la PDA. …" Arts conferences: too much talk and no action? "Arts organisations are great. They do amazing, life-changing work on tiny budgets. They build community cohesion, reduce criminal reoffending, help young people learn new skills. The arts combat depression, dementia and loneliness. But you knew that. That's why you're reading this. And if you attend an arts conference, it's pretty much a given that you already support the arts, most likely work in the arts, and are passionate about creating and supporting great art. So you also don't need convincing that a speaker's organisation does good work. A group of like-minded people gathered in one place could put serious weight behind something and make a practical difference. However, many of the recent events I've attended have not taken advantage of this fact. …" Egypt Names Antiquities Chief to Replace Hawass "A month after Egypt’s controversial antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass, was ousted in a cabinet reshuffle, Egypt’s prime minister, Essam Sharaf, has appointed a successor. Mohamed Abdel Fattah, the head of the antiquities sector at the Supreme Council of Antiquities, will become the council’s secretary general, the position Mr. Hawass held before former President Hosni Mubarak elevated the council to a ministry. Mr. Sharaf had previously indicated that he planned to return the council to its former status …" [see also Egypt Picks New Antiquities Tsar to Replace the Controversial Zahi Hawass, ArtInfo, 24 August 2011] Calvin J. Goodman, Influential Mentor to Artists and Advisor to Arts Organizations, Died NEW YORK, NY – "Calvin J. Goodman, influential mentor to artists and advisor to arts organizations, died in Los Angeles on August 17th, 2011 of natural causes. For over five decades Goodman worked with such renowned artists as Louise Nevelson, Hans Burkhardt, Harry Jackson, and Françoise Gilot, and countless other artists. Known for his insight into the thoughts that motivate an artist, Goodman had an uncanny ability to help creative spirits discover and connect with the audience their work would speak to. Convinced that art answers to basic human needs and is no mere fad nor ornament, Goodman became a powerful resource for artists seeking the constituency that would make all the difference between life in a garret and a successful career. Among Goodman’s unique contributions was his Art Marketing Handbook, a virtual bible for artists and art dealers addressing every aspect of its subject from gallery design to contracts, pricing, sales presentations, and professional ethics for artists – a special interest of the author …" Egypt Uprising Art Brightens Cairo, Tempts Buyers CAIRO (REUTERS) – "A flowering of Egyptian art since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak is adding color to the capital Cairo and an upswing in business at the city's galleries, as the pride, anger and optimism of a long-frustrated generation plays out on canvas. Politically-inspired photography, graphic design and graffiti sprayed or stencilled on walls, fences, bridges and fly-overs have flourished since the 18-day uprising toppled the autocratic leader. Across Cairo, faces of protesters killed during the uprising are immortalized on concrete, fists are shown breaking free from ropes and ancient mummies scream 'I am free!.' Much of the street art reflects pride in the movement that united Egyptians across class and religion to put an end to decades of calcified politics and a gaping rich-poor divide. …" Fenella France Named Chief, Preservation Research and Testing Division at the Library of Congress WASHINGTON, D.C. – "Fenella France, lead scientist for preservation research at the Library of Congress since 2007, has been named chief of the Library’s Preservation Research and Testing Division by Deanna Marcum, associate librarian for library services. France has over 20 years’ experience in heritage preservation science, including 10 years working for such federal agencies as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service and another decade as a research manager, lecturer and fellow abroad …" Melbourne Festival programme available online "Delegates to the 5th World Summit in Melbourne this year will also have the opportunity of participating in one of the world's major multi-arts festivals, the Melbourne Festival. The Melbourne Festival, one of Australia's flagship international arts festivals, officially opens on 6 October and some preview events will be held as part of the Summit cultural programme …"
TourismTrue romance: record tourist numbers head to Paris PARIS - "The City of Light is attracting visitors in record numbers this year, Paris officials said on Wednesday, as tourism remains buoyant despite the concerns over a possible return to recession. The number of tourists rose 3.5 per cent in the first half of the year to a record 7.6 million, according to Paris tourism office director Paul Roll. The hotel occupancy rate rose to 78.3 per cent to its best reading in a decade, with the average cost of rooms rising 7.8 per cent to 158.40 euros ($A218.70) …" Spectacles d’été dans les grands centres: impact négatif sur le tourisme à Rimouski QUEBEC – "L’industrie du tourisme connaît une baisse de 10 % dans la région de Rimouski, cet été, mais selon la porteparole de Tourisme Rimouski, Véronique Mariève Gosselin, la situation est loin d’être alarmante.
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