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Manila hosts int’l confab on children, climate change
Manila
Bulletin, 1 December
2011
MANILA –
"Hundreds of delegates from around the world are expected to attend the 2nd
Asian Children’s Museum Conference on Feb. 2-4, 2012, at the Manila Hotel.
Organized by Museo Pambata Foundation, Inc (MPFI), the three-day conference
with the theme "Children and Climate Change" will discuss how educators,
parents, and adults and the yong people can address these pressing environmental
issues. The conference is made possible through a grant from Japan
Foundation. California Academy of Social Sciences’ Meg Burke, Lord
Cultural Services’ Laure Colliex, Learning Innovation
Network-Osaka’s Keiko Kuroiwa, and Lilibeth LaO of Museo Sang Bata sa Negros
will discuss how their museums have developed interactive exhibits to raise
children’s awareness of natural disasters, global climate change and other
environmental issues."
Nerua, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao restaurant headed by chef
Josean Alija, obtains its first Michelin Star
Recent News,
artdaily.org, 2 December 2011
BILBAO – "After
only six months of existence, NERUA, the new gastronomic space dedicated to
gourmet cuisine at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, headed by chef Josean Alija,
has won its first star in the prestigious Michelin restaurant guide, which
sets the standard for haute cuisine throughout the world. At the eagerly awaited
presentation of its annual ratings, held at the Palace Hotel in Barcelona,
the prestigious Michelin Guide of Spain and Portugal has granted full
recognition to the work of Josean Alija, the chef who took over the
restaurant at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 1998 and who, after being
awarded the prize for Best Young Cook in 2000, has won numerous awards for
his revolutionary purist style that is replete with aromas, textures and
flavors at the same time."
Cronenberg and Polley films among TIFF’s top 10
From Wednesday's
Globe and Mail, Published Tuesday, Dec. 06, 2011 7:30PM EST
TORONTO – "The
top 10 Canadian films of 2011 were announced Tuesday night by the Toronto
International Film Festival, with both big-name directors and emerging
filmmakers filling out this year’s impressive list. David Cronenberg’s A
Dangerous Method, Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz, Guy Maddin’s Keyhole and
Jean-Marc Vallée’s Café de flore were among the high-profile candidates to
make the cut, while Nathan Morlando’s Edwin Boyd, Guy Édoin’s Marecages,
Philippe Falardeau’s Monseiur Lazhar, Ken Scott’s Starbuck, Sebastien
Pilote’s Le vendeur and Jason Eisener’s Hobo With a Shotgun filled out the
list."
Luminato
and Batsheva Dance Company of Israel present the North American premiere of
SADEH21 in June 2012
Luminato, 24 November 2011
TORONTO – "Luminato
will present the North American premiere of a new work by the Batsheva Dance
Company, popularly embraced as one of the most exciting contemporary dance
companies in the world, in their much anticipated return to Canada after a
long absence from Toronto. Presented in collaboration with the Israel
Festival, Jerusalem, the Batsheva Dance Company will perform the new work
SADEH21, co-commissioned by Luminato, and choreographed by Batsheva’s
Artistic Director Ohad Naharin, for three performances only from June 14-17,
2012 at the MacMillan Theatre, University of Toronto. SADEH21 – literally
translated Field21 – had its world premiere in 2011 at the Israel Festival in
Jerusalem."Batsheva Dance Company deeply appreciates Luminato’s partnership
and support in the creation of SADEH21, the company’s most recent creation.
We are proud to be part of Luminato and to bring SADEH21 to Toronto," said
Ohad Naharin, Artistic Director and Dina Aldor, Executive Director."
Port Hope's cultural needs explored
Ted Amsden, Northumberland
Today, 7 December 2011
PORT HOPE,
ONTARIO – "Local citizens sat down with Lord Cultural Resources team
members Monday to offer their views on a cultural plan for the Municipality
of Port Hope and a seniors facility feasibility study. Two similar meetings
took place Monday: an afternoon session at the Canton municipal offices and a
similar meeting at Port Hope Town Hall in the evening. A cultural study is
being done to see what the needs are with regards to culture within the
municipality. A 10-year plan and policy development will be assembled from
the meetings, research and other input factored in by LCR consultants,
according to Julia Snoek, acting program manager with the municipality."
Public questions aired at CMHR forum
Issue of
Holodomor, museum land’s archeological study raised
Carol Sanders, Winnipeg
Free Press, 7 December 2011
WINNIPEG – "No
one said starting a museum from scratch about a sensitive subject, using
evolving technology in a shaky economy, would be easy or come without a few
questions raised. On Tuesday, at the first public meeting hosted by the Canadian
Museum for Human Rights, people wanted to know everything from how museum
planners are dealing with controversy and finances to the very ground the
unique structure is built on. The museum, not expected to open now until
2014, held the public meeting in the Manitoba Museum."
Ottawa's Arts Court gets $40K cash advance
CBC News, 6
December 2011
OTTAWA –
"Managers of Ottawa's Arts Court got the $40,000 advance they were looking
for to help cover a funding shortfall on next year's budget allocation. City
councillors approved the money without argument at Tuesday's finance and
economic development committee to continue paying staff until January. The
city-owned facility on Daly Avenue receives $183,000 a year to house more
than 25 artist groups, including the Ottawa Art Gallery and the Ottawa Dance
Directive. Arts Court Foundation chairwoman Susan Annis said a critical
fundraiser originaly planned for November had to be postponed to March
because of a scheduling conflict. Higher marketing costs also hurt the bottom
line, she said.
"We're not
asking for more money, we're simply asking for an advance to get us through
this difficult period," said Annis."
Maritime
Museum of B.C. floats unique plan for new building
Roszan Holmen,
BCLocalNews.com, 6 December 2011
BRITISH COLUMBIA
– "Having lost the bid to lease the CPR Steamship Terminal, Barry Rolston of
the Maritime Museum of B.C. wants the public to know "we’re not going away."
On Friday, the museum revealed its intention to pursue a new location – on
the water. The idea is to "get a concrete barge that would be floating somewhere
in the Inner Harbour," said Rolston, the museum’s president. "The advantage
for us of doing that, is that it would be on the water. We want to be able to
bring boats to our place."
Ottawa right to fund new Royal Alberta Museum
The Globe and
Mail, 5 December 2011
EDMONTON – "The
announcement that the federal government will contribute to a new Royal
Alberta Museum has been criticized by some, both for the haste with which
it must be built (construction must start a year from now, or the federal
money can be pulled, meaning the result may not be the sort of architectural
jewel many had hoped) – and for the fact that the money is being spent at
all. Among the critics espousing the latter concern is Conservative Edmonton-St.
Albert MP Brent Rathgeber, who argues that his own government’s
$122.5-million share of the $340-million project is not core, and thus is
money it didn’t need to spend. [text omitted] MP
Rathgeber, of course, because of his job, spends a good part of the year in
Ottawa, which as the nation’s capital has a splendid collection of museums.
One of those, the Canadian Museum of Nature, just reopened after a
magnificent $216-million renovation. The new Canadian War Museum in Ottawa,
which opened in 2005, cost $137-million. It is unknown whether the MP avails
himself of the opportunity to visit these wonderful institutions, but
unfortunately, not every Canadian is able to visit Ottawa.
That makes
provincial museums like the RAM in Edmonton so vital, and indeed is why the
federal government has traditionally contributed funds towards them."
The Royal Ontario Museum and Parks Canada bring ancient
creatures to life
Recent News, artdaily.org,
3 December 2011
TORONTO – "The Royal
Ontario Museum and Parks Canada announced the launch of the Burgess Shale
online exhibition, as part of the Virtual Museum of Canada. The website
provides, for the first time ever, an immersive journey into the world of the
bizarre prehistoric creatures that formed the foundation for all animal life
on Earth half a billion years ago. Through the use of never-before-seen
visuals, including stunning virtual animations, the website brings to life
over 100 years of research and discoveries, in which the ROM and Parks Canada
play a vital role."
Post office art to be preserved for new museum
Marta Gold, Edmonton
Journal, 3 December 2011
EDMONTON –
"These beautiful panels, hidden from view to the casual passerby, adorn the
south face of the old Canada Post building just north of downtown, at 9808
103A Ave. Mike Swick has admired them many times, and felt compelled to
preserve them in a photograph for fear they'd be demolished as part of the
construction of the new Royal Alberta Museum. "I thought, 'Let's
record these before they're gone,' " Swick says. Happily, the work,
created by local artist Ernestine Tahedi in 1964, will be saved and
incorporated into the new building that will go up on the site, says Bob
Walker, vice-president of Ledcor Construction. They won't have to be moved or
rebuilt, he adds."
Dewar, Holmes knock 'inadequate' funding for Museum of Nature
Underground
parking dropped from plans, sparking protest
Neco Cockburn, Ottawa
Citizen, 2 December 2011
OTTAWA –
"Another Ottawa politician says the federal government has failed to provide
sufficient funding to the Canadian Museum of Nature, which has dropped
its plans to build underground parking. Ottawa Centre MP Paul Dewar joined
Somerset Councillor Diane Holmes to issue a joint statement on Thursday
criticizing the government's refusal to adequately fund our national
museums, which make significant contributions to arts and culture in
Canada."
Mississauga to draft waterfront development plan
Adrian Morrow, From
Saturday's Globe and Mail, Published Friday, Dec. 02, 2011 10:47PM
EST, Last updated Friday, Dec. 02, 2011 11:01PM EST
MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO –
"Mississauga is forging ahead with an ambitious plan to redevelop parts of
its Lake Ontario shoreline by backing the creation of a single agency to
oversee it. City council voted unanimously to have staffers design the
structure of a public waterfront development corporation and draw up its
budget. Their report is expected early in 2012."
Biblioteca Mídia Museu: The Manual of Museum Planning
Luiza Duarte Paris, Mídia
Museu, Novembro 25, 2011
The Manual of Museum
Planning leitura gratuita
disponível em inglês no Google Books. Em sua segunda edição, o texto de Gail
Dexter Lord e Barry Lord data, porém, de 1999.
For new Greek museum, there's no place like home
Steve Johnson, Chicago
Tribune, 8 December 2011
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – "The
National Hellenic Museum's journey to its new, modernist building on a
prominent Greektown corner was long and difficult. There were many obstacles
on the way. The trip was, you might say, an odyssey. To get to the corner of
Halsted and Van Buren streets, the institution didn't have to battle Scylla
or ignore the Sirens, as the hero of Homer's "Odyssey" did, but it
did have to fundraise its way out of its most recent home, the fourth floor
of the office building above the Greek Islands restaurant, just up Halsted.
Nor did it not have to compete in a pentathlon like Odysseus, but it did have
to win city permits for a 40,000-square-foot building and plan the
exhibitions inside, creating a splendid new addition to the city's museum
landscape that will be unveiled to the public on Saturday."
Despite Higher Admission Fee, Höller Show Draws Record Crowds
to New Museum
Randy Kennedy, The
New York Times – Arts Beat Blog, 8 December 2011
NEW YORK CITY –
"The New Museum, which recently raised its general admission price to pay for
extra workers to accommodate the crowds for its exhibition of the work of
Carsten Höller, said Thursday that the show – a highbrow funhouse with a
slide, a sensory deprivation tank and a slow-motion carousel – had become the
most highly attended show in the museum’s 35-year history. The show, which
continues through Jan. 15, is drawing a daily average of 1,700 visitors, said
Gabriel Einsohn, a museum spokeswoman."
Cooper-Hewitt announces the completion of the capital
campaign for the redesign
Recent News, artdaily.org,
8 December 2011
NEW YORK CITY –
"The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum announced that it
has completed its $54 million RE:DESIGN capital campaign goal and commenced
renovating the Carnegie Mansion to create enlarged and enhanced facilities
for exhibitions, collections display and education programming. The museum
also announced the completion of the renovation of the museum’s two
townhouses on East 90th Street, which house the National Design Library, the
Master’s Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design and
administrative offices. Students, design professionals and the public can now
benefit from the modernized National Design Library located in the
townhouses, with restored historic reading and study areas, as well as
reference spaces, open stacks and a rare-book room."
Tutankhamun Exhibition international tour finishes with 8
million visitors; sets Australian visitor record
Recent News, artdaily.org,
7 December 2011
LOS ANGELES, CA – "The
touring exhibition of King Tut’s treasures Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of
the Pharaohs has closed its doors after an 8-month showing at the Melbourne
Museum in Australia, shattering records as the most successful touring
exhibition in Australian history with 796,277 visitors. This brings the
exhibition’s 6.5-year international tour to a close with more than 8 million
visitors in total."
Le
Musée Reina Sofia ouvre de nouvelles salles
Artclair, 7 décembre 2011
MADRID - "Le Musée Reina Sofia a ouvert de nouvelles salles au public
depuis mercredi 30 novembre. Dédiées à l’art de 1962 à 1982, elles complètent
les deux espaces du musée déjà existants. "
MoL bids to run museum development in London
Simon Stephens, Museums
Association, 07.12.2011
LONDON – "MA members'
meeting also discusses partnership working, funding and advocacyThe Museum of
London’s (MoL) application for funding from the new Renaissance major grants
programme and its plan to bid for money to run the museum development officer
network in the region were among the topics discussed at this week’s Museums
Association (MA) members’ meeting in London. This was the third in a series
of free meetings for MA members in the regions and home nations. Like events
held earlier this year in Yorkshire and Wales, the London meeting at the
British Museum allowed members to hear more about the MA’s work and to give
their views on how the organisation should develop."
CM announces museum proposal after ruckus
Ambarish Mishra &
Mahima Sikand (TNN), The Times of India, Dec 7, 2011, 02.54AM IST
MUMBAI – "In the run up to
the crucial BMC polls, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has announced that
the Maharashtra government will soon clear the decks to house a national
museum in the memory of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar at the National Textile
Corporation (NTC)-owned India United Mill's plot in central Mumbai."
Monument Fellow helps transform Outer Hebridean museum
service
Geraldine Kendall, Museums
Association, 07.12.2011
ISLE OF LEWIS, OUTER
HEBRIDES – "MA Fellow contributed to Museum nan Eilean's successful £4.6m HLF
bid. A spokeswoman from Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (CnE-Siar) has told how
hosting a Monument Fellowship helped staff at Museum nan Eilean gain the
support and knowledge that contributed to their successful bid for a £4.6m
grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). Funded by the Monument Trust, the
Museums Association’s Monument Fellowship scheme ran between 2007-2011 and
offered funding to retired museum professionals to enable them to pass on
their collections knowledge."
The Next Frontier of Museum Ethics
AAM, Center for the
Future of Museums, 6 December 2011
USA – "Here at CFM, we’re
wrapping up Round Three of Forecasting the Future of Museum Ethics. The
survey closes Dec. 9 (there’s a link below if you still haven’t participated)
and I can hardly wait to compile the input from our Oracles and the public.
Most of the issues that have surfaced during the forecasting exercise are
echoes of ongoing arguments from a hundred year or more of the museum
literature. [text omitted] But the
forecast looks at one issue that may actually be new—or at least so different
in degree as to be different in kind as well: the challenge of curatorial
authority vs. crowdsourced input/community curation/participatory design."
Resisting Renaming Of Miami Museum
Robin Pogrebin, The New
York Times, 6 December 2011
MIAMI — "Walking across a
sun-baked construction site in his hard hat the other day, Jorge M. Pérez
said he was proud that this city’s major art museum, whose new home is being
built here beside Biscayne Bay, is now going to bear his name. But not
everyone is happy that the institution, now known as the Miami Art Museum,
will be recast as the Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County to
recognize Mr. Pérez’s $35 million gift in cash and art. Four board members
have resigned in protest. Several are threatening to rescind their
contributions. Protest e-mails to museum officials have complained that an
institution being built on public land and largely financed by taxpayers
should not be named for an individual, no matter how generous."
Haus der Kunst chooses Base Design to develop a new visual
identity for the museum
Recent News,
artdaily.org, 6 December 2011
MUNICH – "Haus
der Kunst announces the selection of BASE DESIGN to develop a new Visual
Identity for the museum. The comprehensive proposal for a completely
redesigned visual identity system presented by BASE DESIGN, which has offices
in Brussels, Barcelona, Madrid, New York, and Santiago de Chile, was selected
after an international search in which six design agencies from five
different countries participated. The jury comprised of members of the Haus
der Kunst staff, and the board of the museum."
Museum Opens for a Jewelry and Glass Master
Nazanin
Lankarani, The New York Times, 6 December 2011
WINGEN-SUR-MODER,
FRANCE — "Best known today for its crystal artifacts and decorative objects,
the name René Lalique was first a symbol of refinement and audacity in
jewelry making. Last July, the first French museum dedicated to the work of
René Lalique opened its doors to highlight the many facets of the artist, a
landmark of both the French Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements. It showcases
the range of his artistic production from jewelry and perfume bottles to the
decorative objects the company he founded continues to produce. "The project
was born out of the desire to acknowledge the talent of this exceptional
artist," said Véronique Brumm, director of the museum."
Scarborough Museum recognized, awarded a $400,000 grant
Mike Adler, Inside
Toronto, 6 December 2011
SCARBOROUGH,
ONTARIO – "Youth changes the way community museums do business. And when it
comes to involving young people, and particularly young New Canadians, the
Scarborough Museum has been recognized as one of the best.
The federal
Citizenship and Immigration ministry has given the city-run museum in Thomson
Memorial Park a $400,000 grant. Scarborough Museum will use the money to
further expand its Canadian Museums and Youth Diversity Experience program
through 2014 and share it, along with its Youth Mentorship Tool Kit with
other three museums, including the Markham Museum."
New Paris museum location due to open in January
Sylvie Berry, Paris
Star (ON), 6 December 2011
PARIS, ONTARIO –
"The Paris Museum and Historical Society has settled into its newly
refurbished home at the Syl Apps Community Centre. The museum exhibits and
staff made the official move on Nov. 28, taking three days to ship all of the
items from their former residence on Curtis Avenue. "It's a very
comfortable space to work in," said curator Lana Jobe. "It has
exceeded my expectations." The County of Brant presented the Paris
Museum and Historical Society with the opportunity to move its operations to
the more central and high profile location of Syl Apps earlier this year.
After the launch of their capital campaign, From the Past through Tomorrow,
in August 2011, renovations of the 3,000-square-foot space at Syl Apps
began."
Création du Musée des Lilas à Saint-Georges
Éric Gourde, La
Voix du Sud, 5 décembre 2011
SAINT-GEORGES,
QUEBEC – "La Société d’horticulture de la Chaudière et la Ville de
Saint-Georges se sont entendus pour la création du « Musée des Lilas », un
projet touristique d’envergure internationale et unique au monde, soit une
collection de plus de 1000 cultivars de lilas. Pour ce faire, la Ville et la
Société ont conclu une entente qui permettra d’acquérir, sur une période de 4
ans, la collection développée par monsieur Frank Moro, hybrideur de grande
renommée et fondateur de Select Plus International nursery, détenant
actuellement la plus grande sélection de lilas au monde."
Councillor wants major changes to museum
Cheryl Brink, Standard
Freeholder, 4 December 2011
CORNWALL, ONTARIO – "Coun.
Syd Gardiner wants out of his commitment to the Cornwall Community Museum
board, after a year of little progress. He requested a seat on the committee
for this term of council, hoping to suggest both minor and sweeping changes.
So far, he says no one seems to be listening. "I don't think they're
moving forward," he says. "It's not even open enough hours."
Curator Ian Bowering says their hours are standard, especially since budget
cuts removed the option of a second staff person. With only one full-time
employee available to man the building, the doors remain closed when he's
sick, on vacation, or picking up a donation out of town. During the winter,
the site is open Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. or by appointment.
In the summer – April to November – it's staffed from Wednesday to Sunday, 11
a.m. to 4 p.m. With summer student workers, doors open an hour earlier. But
Gardiner says the building hasn't been properly marketed or made available to
the public, even after the city invested $1.5 million when it was moved to
its current location in Lamoureux Park."
Curtain Could Fall On A Dazzling Arts Center In Spain
Lauren Frayer, NPR, 4
December 2011
AVILES, SPAIN – "In the
boom years, Spain spent billions on big infrastructure projects — high-speed
railways, roads and gleaming structures like the Niemeyer Center for the arts
in Aviles, in the country's north. Opened in March this year, the dazzling
museum has hosted sold-out performances by Kevin Spacey and Woody Allen. But
it's slated to close on Dec. 15, after barely nine months of operation,
because of regional budget cuts. And the fate of the Niemeyer could be an
omen of what could happen across Spain, as conservative politicians cut
funding for the arts and other big public projects become white elephants
littering the landscape."
The Long Slide: Museums as playgrounds.
Jerry Saltz, New York
Magazine - Entertainment, Published Dec 4, 2011
NEW YORK CITY – "J’accuse
museums of bullshit! Of bogusly turning themselves into smash-hit consumer
circuses, box-office sensations of voyeurism and hipster showbiz. This year,
the institution-critiquing art known as Relational Aesthetics—essentially
audience-participation art, often work that moves, lights up, or involves
living nude beings—entered its decadent phase. Many museums are drawing
audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just
sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things
that make noise—all are now the norm, often edging out much else."
Three International Olympic Committee employees fired in
museum embezzlement case
Stephen Wilson
(Associated Press), Recent News, artdaily.org, 3 December 2011
LONDON – "The
IOC's finance department is being overhauled in the wake of an embezzlement
scandal at the Olympic Museum involving up to $1.85 million. Three members of
the department have been fired for "negligence" in the alleged
fraud by the former manager of the museum shop in Lausanne, Switzerland,
International Olympic Committee director general Christophe De Kepper told
The Associated Press on Thursday."
Waxworks likely heading out of town, owner says
Former terminal
tenant cites high rents, lack of space
Darron Kloster, Victoria
Times-Colonist, 2 December 2011
VICTORIA, BC –
"More than 350 wax heads and matching sets of hands are still chilling in a
undisclosed climate-controlled warehouse, waiting to see daylight - and
tourists - again. But don't expect Ken Lane to re-emerge with his Royal
London Wax Museum any time soon - or in Greater Victoria, for that matter.
More than a year after Lane was forced out of the CPR Steamship Terminal for
a $5-million earthquake retrofit - and a day after the keys to the historic
building on the Inner Harbour were handed over to the Greater Victoria
Harbour Authority - the wax figures that stood in the space for more than 40
years may be heading out of the city. Lane said in an interview Thursday he
is "90 per cent certain" the attraction will emerge somewhere else
in B.C. or in the east. He cites high rents and the lack of museum-quality
space in the capital for the potential move."
Le
Louvre lance un nouvel appel au mécénat individuel pour deux de ses œuvres
égyptiennes
Artclair, 1er décembre 2011
PARIS - "En 2010, la campagne de mécénat individuel menée par le
Musée du Louvre avait emporté un réel succès auprès des donateurs privés.
Plus de 7 000 personnes avaient permis la réunion de plus d’un million
d’euros en vue de l’acquisition du tableau de Lucas Cranach, « Les Trois
Grâces ». En 2011, le musée parisien réitère l’expérience. La générosité du
public est à nouveau sollicitée mais, cette fois, pour la restauration et le
remontage des « Trésors du Caire ». "
Museum of Liverpool opens more galleries as it announces
record visitor figures
Recent News,
artdaily.org, 1 December 2011
LIVERPOOL – "The
new Museum of Liverpool will open even more galleries and an entire new floor
before the end of the year. The news comes as it is announced that it has
received a record half a million visitors in the first three months since
opening in July. Galleries including The Great Port and much awaited
Liverpool Overhead Railway will open on Friday 2 December, along with a 38
metre time traveller’s timeline, and a gallery dedicated to Liverpool’s
King’s Regiment. Janet Dugdale, Director of the Museum of Liverpool said:
"Having already had 500,000 visitors through our doors to see the first
galleries opened, we’re so excited to be opening even more, which will reveal
some much-loved and anticipated objects that we know will be taken into the
hearts of our visitors."
Growing Recognition: Unveiling of designs for African
American Cultural Garden realises a 34 year old objective
World Architecture News,
8 December 2011
CLEVELAND, OHIO –
"Stretching back 34 years ago, in a faded version of Cleveland Ohio, when
George Voinovich was Mayor, four acres of land were decidedly destined for a
noble dedication. After an inspired local drive, headed by the late
politician Booker Tall, it was decided to cultivate at Cleveland Cultural
Gardens, at Rockefeller Park, a befitting project to recognise the African
American community."
Alésia Museum to open in 2012: Subtle historical references
found in Bernard Tschumi Architects' Alésia Museum
World Architecture News,
7 December 2011
ALESIA, BURGUNDY, FRANCE -
"The Battle of Alésia was waged by Julius Caesar in September 52BC against a
united league of Gallic residents in a French settlement in Burgundy. A major
hill fort - Alésia - was the site of the vicious encounter which was
eventually won by the Romans, and it is this historic location which has been
transformed by architectural theorist and celebrated designer Bernard
Tschumi. On 23rd March 2012, an opening ceremony will be held for the first
phase of the Alésia Museum; a cylindrical band of wooden elements that houses
an interpretive information centre."
QC
officials lead groundbreaking of Green Museum Project
Philippine Information Agency,
7 December 2011
QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES –
"Quezon City (QC) officials led the recent groundbreaking ceremony in the
construction of the city's very own operational museum in a one-hectare area
in the Quezon Memorial Circle. The long-awaited project, which will be the
country’s first social history museum, highlights the city government’s
continuing effort to promote QC’s social development, particularly in the
areas of urban planning and cultural and heritage preservation."
Planning for post-Olympics: OPLC announces 10 competing
designs, aiming to create a new park legacy in London
World Architecture News,
7 December 2011
LONDON – "On 3rd December
the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) unveiled the final ten designs
shortlisted for potential implementation in London’s newest public spaces.
Located in the already rejuvenated East End of London, between the Aquatics
Centre, the Olympic Stadium, the ArcelorMittal and the 2012 Gardens, this
latest project will continue the trend of seeking a lasting impact on the
area. With the appearance of a flurry of constructed infrastructure and
features which has followed in the wake of the United Kingdom’s successful
Olympics bid, it’s becoming increasingly important to ensure that change is
more than a temporary benefit."
171
millions d’euros pour la 2e phase des « Grands travaux » du Château de
Versailles
Artclair, 7 décembre 2011
PARIS - "Frédéric
Mitterrand a annoncé, le 5 décembre 2011, le lancement de la deuxième phase
des travaux du « Grand Versailles » qui auront lieu entre 2012 et 2017.
L’établissement public disposera de 171 millions d’euros, dont 2/3 financés
par l’Etat pour mener à bien les mises aux normes de sécurité des
appartements royaux. Le reste, réservé principalement à la rénovation des
décors, sera pris en charge par l’établissement ou le mécénat. "
Newsmaker: Tina di Carlo, Founder of ASAP
Interview by
Asad Syrkett, Architectural Record, 5 December 2011
NEW YORK CITY –
"Tina di Carlo is on a mission for architecture: Having served as a curator
in the architecture and design department at New York’s Museum of Modern Art
(MoMA) from 2000 to 2007, and as a contributing editor at LOG: Observations
on Contemporary Architecture and the City, di Carlo is now launching an
organization called Archive of Spatial Aesthetics and Praxis. The group’s
acronym, ASAP, a riff on the phrase "as soon as possible," was chosen to underscore
the urgency di Carlo feels should be given to elevating and promoting
architecture as a form of art, alongside painting, sculpture, and other
traditional media. Along with her colleague, curator Danielle Rago, a
graduate of London’s Architectural Association and former RECORD intern, di
Carlo has begun collecting photographs, texts, and digital media–among other
things– that explore the many uses of architecture in all its contexts and
forms. The public can view a catalogue of the archive online, though the
collection includes physical objects, such as books, drawings, and design
objects."
My kind of architect is
Famous name or
talented newcomer? Picking the right one to build your art museum is fraught
with difficulty
Javier Pes., The
Art Newspaper, From Art Basel Miami Beach daily edition, Published
online: 02 December 2011
"The
increasingly close relationship between leading private museums, the
collectors who founded them and public institutions was unpicked in a talk at
Art Basel in June. One panellist taking part in the Art Basel Conversation
was Chris Dercon, the director of Tate Modern, who expressed his concern that
private museums were proliferating and, with a few exceptions: "They show the
same art and are designed by the same architects." Ironically, the same
charge, especially about architects, could just as easily be levelled at
major public institutions."
Première
visite aux Archives de Pierrefitte
Connaissance des
Arts, 2 décembre 2011
PIERREFITTE-SUR-SEINE,
France - "Depuis la pose de la première pierre le 11 septembre 2009, le
chantier des Archives nationales à Pierrefitte-sur-Seine est allé bon train."
Architects Set the Scene at Design Miami
With
installations by Bjarke Ingels and David Adjaye, dealers serving up Le
Corbusier, and parties in prominent buildings, the design fair puts
architecture in the spotlight.
Fred A.
Bernstein, Architectural Record, 1 December 2011
MIAMI – "Bjarke
Ingels seems to be everywhere these days, so it's a surprise to learn that he
had never been to Miami Beach before. "It's a lot like Tel Aviv,"
the Danish architect said, referring to the cities' white stucco expanses.
Ingels sipped Perrier-Jouet at the opening of the Design Miami fair (where
his installation framed a concept car from Audi), then headed to a party
sponsored by Ferrari a few blocks away in the Herzog & de Meuron-designed
parking garage, 1111 Lincoln Road. Each December, when Art Basel descends on
Miami Beach, the 10-year-old art fair and its satellite exhibitions bring
hordes of collectors to town. Purveyors of luxury goods follow, promoting
cars, champagnes, and, these days, architecture. In addition to
architect-designed objects for sale at the fairs, there are installations by
prominent designers and parties in showpiece buildings making architecture a
big part of the spectacle."
Le
nouveau siège européen de Google abrite à Paris un institut culturel
Artclair, 8 décembre 2011
PARIS - "Le
président exécutif de Google Eric Schmidt et le président de la République
française Nicolas Sarkozy viennent d’inaugurer à Paris le « Googleplex ».
L’installation en France du nouveau siège du géant américain témoigne de
l’importance de ce pays pour Google, qui prévoit de dédier une partie de cet
espace à la culture. " [see also Sarkozy Inaugurates Google Headquarter in Paris, International
Business Times, 6 December 2011]
Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at National Gallery in London
coming to world movie screens
Recent News, artdaily.org,
8 December 2011
NEW YORK (REUTERS) -
"Leonardo's latest is coming to a multiplex near you -- but that's da Vinci,
not DiCaprio. In the latest example of high-brow culture being beamed into
movie theaters, "Leonardo Live," an HD presentation of the sold out
"Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan" exhibition at London's
National Gallery will play limited engagements at U.S. movie theaters and
throughout the world. Billed as the first-ever tour of a fine art exhibition
created for movie theater audiences, "Leonardo Live" will afford
art lovers a two-dimensional look via satellite at the sold-out exhibition,
which cannot tour due to the works' fragility."
Computers in Museums: Necessary, or Expensive Mistake?
Reach Advisors, Museum
Audience Insight, 6 December 2011
USA – "One of the most
common questions we get is about the use of computers in museum settings.
Are they necessary? Should museums be putting them in to attract broader
audiences? Do visitors expect them? Or do visitors come to museums for
other reasons? To find out, we have a few sets of data that we can pull
from. In our pro bono work, we have never explicitly asked about technology
in museums, while we do have more explicit questions in some of our client
work."
Museum as Node: What to Love About the Walker Art Center's
New Website
The Minneapolis museum
makes a play to become a networked cultural powerhouse.
Alexis Madrigal, The
Atlantic, Dec 5 2011, 12:37 PM ET
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA –
"The Walker Art Center launched a new website last week that should be a model
for other institutions of all kinds. The site repositions the Walker, in the
words of Artlog, "at the center of the global conversation about
contemporary art," by incorporating ideas, words, and art from far
outside the museum's walls. The Walker is in Minneapolis, a wonderful city
that is not near the physical centers of contemporary art production.
Nonetheless, through smart curation and creative engagement, the museum has
become an international symbol for how to make an arts venue work in a medium-sized
city." [see also Walker Art Center launches newly-redesigned website and
publishing platform, Recent News,
artdaily.org, 4 December 2011 and The Walker, venturing into online magazine style content,
By Andre Bouchard, Technology in the Arts, December 6, 2011]
The Craft and Folk Art Museum launches the online finding aid
for the first 32 years of the CAFAM archives
Recent News, artdaily.org,
5 December 2011
LOS ANGELES –
"The Craft and Folk Art Museum has played an important historical role in the
development of the Los Angeles art scene and has launched the careers of
well-known artists who are currently highlighted in the exhibition Golden
State of Craft: California 1960-1985, a part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard
Time initiative. The documents of this important historic period are now
available in the CAFAM Records, 1965 – 1997, housed in UCLA Library Special
Collections, and an index is available online. Former CAFAM librarian Joan
Benedetti, working with the Special Collections staff, has completed the
14-year task of creating a keyword-searchable online finding aid now
accessible to scholars worldwide in fields including art history,
contemporary crafts, folk art, product design, world arts and cultures,
folklore, museum studies, library and information studies, women’s studies,
and studies of Los Angeles, among others. This finding aid provides an index
to the contents of the 6,208 folders in the 550 document boxes that hold the
records. Individual sections of the finding aid include "scope notes" that
describe or offer background on that particular section."
The erosion in the paid media pyramid
Seth Godin, Seth’s
Blog, 3 December 2011
"Since the
invention of media (the book, the record, the movie...), there's been a
pyramid of value and pricing delivered by those that create it: [image omitted] Bespoke, Limited, Mass, and
Free. Starting from the bottom: Free content is delivered to anyone who is
willing to consume it, usually as a way of engaging attention and leading to
sales of content down the road. This is the movie trailer, the guest on
Oprah, the free chapter, the tweets highlighting big ideas. Mass content is
the inevitable result of a medium where the cost of making copies is
inexpensive."
L’histoire
de l’art en un clic
Artclair, 1er décembre 2011
PARIS - "Alors que
le site de la RMN L’Histoire par l’image fête son dixième anniversaire,
l’établissement a lancé le 29 novembre un nouveau projet internet intitulé
Panorama de l’art. Un outil avant tout destiné au monde scolaire."
Artists and their families welcome Government's decision on
the Artist's Resale Right
Recent News,
artdaily.org, 8 December 2011
LONDON – "The
families and beneficiaries of UK artists stand to benefit from millions in
royalties from 1 January 2012 with the full implementation of the Artist’s
Resale Right. This important Right pays artists royalties each time their
work is resold by an auction house or art dealer. The Right has applied to
living artists since 2006, and DACS (the Design and Artists Copyright
Society) has paid artists nearly £14 million in royalties in the last six
years. Artist Damien Hirst explains why he thinks the Artist Resale Right is
so important: ‘I’m pleased that the Artist’s Resale Right is finally be
extended to heirs and beneficiaries as in most other EU states. We need to
recognise financially their role in preserving art. They spend a lot of time
and energy on this and they should have some support.’ The full
implementation means that artists can leave this Right to their families with
the royalties helping support the vital work carried out by estates to
preserve the artist’s legacy after their death (and for 70 years following)."
Artprize announces new $100,000 Juried award
Recent News,
artdaily.org, 8 December 2011
GRAND RAPIDS, MI
– "ArtPrize, the radically open, international art competition and social
experiment, announced plans for the ArtPrize Juried Grand Prize, a new,
$100,000 award that will debut during the fourth year of the annual ArtPrize
event. Rick DeVos, founder and chairman of ArtPrize, made the announcement
before an audience of sponsors and partners. With its public vote and juried
awards, ArtPrize explores the tension between the professional and populist
in an epic conversation. The fourth edition of the popular art event will
open on Sept. 19 and run through Oct. 7, 2012. Total awards in 2012 will
swell to $550,000, making it the largest cash purse for art in the world."
La UNASUR avanza en la integración cultural
Secretaria de Cultura,
Presidencia de la Nacion, nuestraCultura, 8 de Diciembre 2011
SOUTH AMERICA – "Los
responsables de Cultura, Educación y Ciencia de la UNASUR se reunieron el
miércoles 7 de diciembre en Quito, Ecuador, en el Consejo Suramericano de
Educación, Cultura, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COSECCTI) para fijar
las prioridades durante el próximo año. En la reunión se eligió a Paraguay
como coordinación general del Consejo. La directora nacional de Política
Cultural y Cooperación Internacional, Mónica Guariglio, participó del
encuentro en representación del secretario de Cultura argentino. "La gestión
de Jorge Coscia se planteó como uno de sus ejes acompañar la decisión
presidencial de consolidar el bloque UNASUR. Venimos a esta reunión con la
convicción que es necesario construir un modelo de integración económica,
política, social, pero, por sobre todo, cultural para romper la ‘transmisión
intergeneracional de la desigualdad’, tal como lo afirmaron los presidentes
en julio de este año", dijo Guariglio."
Next Art Chicago
e-flux, 7 December 2011
Next Art Chicago 2012
Opening Night Preview
benefiting the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Thursday April 26, 2012
Public Hours
Friday, April 27 through
Sunday, April 29
www.nextartchicago.com
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – "Next
Art Chicago, the newest art fair to emerge from the producers of The Armory
Show, will debut a curatorial approach to the traditional fair model this
spring. The international fair of contemporary art will breathe new life into
the Chicago marketplace through a new core exhibition, and a renewed mission
to revitalize the historic fair. Executive Director Staci Boris will lead the
curatorial vision, drawing on her 20 years of curatorial experience at the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Spertus Museum. "The focus of
the 2012 edition of Next Art Chicago is the art," said Ms. Boris.
"With our commitment to quality, dialogue, and diversity, we are
building a show that is substantial, enduring, and thought-provoking."
Ramallah's Art Scene Comes Home
Emily Gogolak, The Atlantic
Cities, 7 December 2011
RAMALLAH – "Drive six miles
north of Jerusalem and into the hills of the central West Bank and you’ll
find the city of Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinian National
Authority and also an up-and-coming capital for contemporary art in the
Middle East. Ramallah is new to the international art scene, but interest in
Palestinian art is hardly a recent phenomenon. Palestinian artists are
regulars on the contemporary arts circuit, featured at the most important
biennales, auction houses and museums worldwide: Venice and Art Basel, the
Guggenheim and the Tate Modern, Sotheby’s and Christies."
La Argentina restituye 18 piezas arqueológicas a Ecuador
Secretaria de Cultura,
Presidencia de la Nacion, nuestraCultura, 7 de Diciembre 2011
ARGENTINA / ECUADOR – "El
miércoles 7 de diciembre, el secretario de Cultura de la Nación, Jorge
Coscia, presidió el acto mediante el cual se firmó el acta de restitución de
18 piezas arqueológicas al embajador del Ecuador en Argentina, Wellington
Sandoval Córdova."
Museums, parks 'would be forced to close'
Elaine Edwards, Irish
Times, 7 December 2011
IRELAND – "National
cultural institutions, such as museums and parks, could be forced to close or
restrict access to the public under cuts outlined by the Department of Arts,
Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Cuts of €37 million to allocations for the Arts
and the Irish language would negatively impact on tourism, employment
opportunities and on the range of services provided to the public, the
department said in a document published yesterday."
Defending the Integrity of an Artist's Life's Work
Jack Flam, The Wall
Street Journal, 7 December 2011
USA – "In the U.S.,
billions of dollars are spent annually on art. For the art market to thrive
and remain healthy, both buyers and sellers must have confidence that the
objects they trade in are authentic. There are two main ways of protecting
the integrity of an artist's output: the authentication board and the
catalogue raisonné. An authentication board provides timely opinions to
potential buyers and sellers. In some cases, as with the recently disbanded Andy
Warhol authentication board, people who submitted works have had to agree to
have them stamped as "Denied" if they were rejected. This is in
effect a way of policing the market. A catalogue raisonné, by contrast, is a
scholarly undertaking independent of the market. It is an analytical or
"reasoned" compilation of all the works created by a given artist.
Unlike an exhibition or book, a catalogue raisonné is not a selection. It
presents the full breadth of the artist's accomplishment, with nothing left
out. Works are submitted by individuals and institutions to a catalogue
raisonné committee over a period of years. They are studied, and judgments
about inclusion are made and sometimes reconsidered. Traditionally, such
catalogs have been published as books, but digital versions, such as the
online catalog of Isamu Noguchi's works announced last month, are now
becoming common."
Christine St-Pierre dévoile l’Agenda 21 de la culture - Le
Québec intègre la notion de culture à son développement durable
Isabelle Paré, Le
Devoir, 6 décembre 2011
QUEBEC – "La
ministre de la Culture et des Communications, Christine St-Pierre, a dévoilé
hier soir l'Agenda 21 de la culture du Québec, fruit d'un vaste processus de
consultation visant à faire de la culture un des moteurs du développement
durable au Québec. Le fameux agenda, qui a pour objectif d'inscrire la
culture dans toutes les actions politiques du gouvernement, fait du Québec le
premier État au monde à intégrer cette notion à sa politique de développement
durable. «Nous proposons de repenser le futur de la culture et son arrimage
avec les différents ministères. C'est un document phare [...] qui contient
les clés du développement culturel du Québec pour les années à venir», s'est
réjouie hier la ministre, lors de l'annonce faite à la Maison symphonique à
Montréal."
Great Scots! For the third year running, Turner Prize is
installed north of the border
Martin Boyce wins
prestigious award for his 'art noir'
Nick Clark, The
Independent, 6 December 2011
UK – "If the Turner Prize
could become any further removed from the quintessentially English landscape
painter after which it is named it did so at least geographically this year
as the third Scottish artist in a row won. Martin Boyce secured the top award
in contemporary art at the Baltic Centre in Gateshead. The bookies' favourite
specialises in sculpture and installation and was awarded for a selection of works
include Perforated and Porous (northern skies) 2011, a steel receptacle at an
angle containing a refuse sack. The award's curators said Boyce creates
installations that "reference familiar objects", adding: "His
environments offer a sense of wandering through a long-abandoned garden, or
evoke the feeling of crossing through an urban park at night." [see also Scottish Artist Martin Boyce Wins Turner Prize
By Carol
Vogel, The New York Times, 5 December 2011]
How healthy is the arts sector?
New Arts Index launched to
provide an annual health check on the arts measuring everything from
financial investment to audience numbers
Mark Brown, The
Guardian, 6 December 2011
UK – "A new Arts Index has been launched at the House of Commons, a
kind of annual health check for the state of the sector and there are lots of
interesting facts and statistics to ponder. The Index is published by the
National Campaign for the Arts. The actor and director Samuel West, a trustee
of the NCA, says in an introduction: "The way the arts are funded and
the policy that underlies that funding is changing fast. Now is a good time
to catch up. Now, perhaps more than ever, we need to be able measure the
health of our sector and to trace the positive or negative effects of change.
The UK Arts Index lets us do this."
Methods for Finding a Lost Fresco by Leonardo Lead to a
Protest
Elisabetta Povoledo, The
New York Times, 6 December 2011
ROME — "More than 300
scholars have signed a petition to Florence’s mayor and that city’s top art
authority to stop a project that hopes to find a Leonardo da Vinci
masterpiece behind a fresco by Giorgio Vasari in the Palazzo Vecchio, now
city hall. The Leonardo fresco, commissioned by the Republic of Florence
around 1503, depicted a battle between Milanese and Florentine forces that
had occurred about 60 years earlier in Anghiari, a Tuscan town. Today a less
brutal, but perhaps no less bitter, war is brewing between art historians and
proponents of the project, led by the National Geographic Society and the
Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology at
the University of California, San Diego. Project leaders have bored holes
into the Vasari work so that an endoscopic probe can examine the wall behind
it for any trace of the Leonardo fresco. On Monday an Italian heritage
conservation group complained to Florentine prosecutors, and an investigation
has been opened."
La
grotte Chauvet en quête de reconnaissance
Le Figaro, 5 décembre 2011
FRANCE - "La France
déposera, en février, une demande de classement au patrimoine mondial de
l'Unesco pour ce chef-d'œuvre du paléolithique découvert en 1994. "
Art Education
Murray Whyte, Toronto
Star, 3 December 2011
NOVA SCOTIA –
"It’s D-day at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, though hundreds of
students and faculty at the 124-year old university won’t know what that
means for weeks, if not months. On Wednesday, Hugh Windsor, appointed by the
provincial NDP government, delivered a report on the school’s future
viability to his masters at the ministry of labour and advanced education,
and the mood around the school in Halifax is less than cheery. NSCAD
University is facing a potentially catastrophic budget shortfall this year of
more than $2 million, and speculation on its possible doomsday scenarios run
the gamut from being forcibly merged with Dalhousie University to its
outright closure. Windsor was given carte blanche in his recommendations —
none of which have been made public, said a spokesperson for NSCAD; there is
no timeline for its release — which is greater cause for worry."
The fine art of robbery
With financial
institutions dried up, the pilfering of art and antiquities has developed
into a $7-billion-a year industry, creating a new generation of cops and robbers
Trisha Bishop, Vancouver
Sun, 3 December 2011
VANCOUVER –
"When Paul Brachfeld heard about the heist of historic documents in Baltimore
this summer, the National Archives' inspector general acted quickly. First,
he checked his records to see if the suspects - Barry Landau, a well-known
collector, and his young friend, former Vancouver resident Jason Savedoff -
had visited his facilities. They had. Next, he reached out to federal investigators
and offered the services of his in-house investigative group. The Archival
Recovery Team - ART, for short - is now sorting through more than 10,000
items removed from Landau's Manhattan apartment. Their discoveries so far
include treasures that trace back to Napoleon, Newton and Beethoven.
"The vast
preponderance of those are not necessarily from my institution,"
Brachfeld said. "But if not me and my office, who would do this
work?" Brachfeld's full-time team, made up of four to five people, is one
of just a few investigative groups in the United States that focus on the
recovery of cultural property. America is the largest consumer of artwork in
the world, with a 40-per-cent share of the $200-billion global industry. It's
also the scene of nearly half of the illegal art trade, estimated to be worth
another $7 billion a year worldwide. According to the FBI, cases can drag on
for years with upwards of 90 per cent never solved."
Woolly mammoth to be brought back to life from cloned bone marrow 'within five years'
- Thigh bone discovered in permafrost soil of Siberia
- Contains elusive undamaged genes essential for nucleus transplantation
- Nuclei of elephant's egg cells will be replaced with mammoth's marrow DNA
- Embryo will then be planted into elephant womb for gestation
Simon Tomlinson, Daily
Mail (UK), Last updated at 7:45 PM on 3rd December 2011
RUSSIA / JAPAN – "Scientists
believe it may be possible to clone a woolly mammoth within five years after
finding well-preserved bone marrow in a thigh bone recovered from permafrost
soil in Siberia. Teams from Russia's Sakha Republic's mammoth museum and
Japan's Kinki University will launch fully-fledged joint research next year
aiming to recreate the giant mammal, Japan's Kyodo News reported from
Yakutsk, Russia."
Art Fair: Business Over Activism
Karen Rosenberg, The New
York Times, 2 December 2011
MIAMI BEACH — "Would this
year’s edition of Art Basel Miami Beach be a private spectacle or a public
one? I wondered that as I headed off to the art world’s ritualistic week of
gawking, power schmoozing and peacocking, which is now a decade strong.
Certainly top collectors dominate the calendar, stir up the selling floor and
preside over what are sometimes ludicrous displays of privilege. But some
also open their houses, or at least their warehouses, to the masses. And
although you might need a V.I.P. card to party alongside A-Rod or celebrate
the latest Ferrari model, as some revelers did this year, those who want to
make art viewing the main activity have plenty of more accessible options.
Not the least of them is the fair itself, which has swelled to include some
260 international exhibitors and a full program of outdoor sculpture, video
and performance."
Possible Forging of Modern Art Is Investigated
Patricia Cohen, The New
York Times, 2 December 2011
NEW YORK CITY – "Federal
authorities are investigating whether a parade of paintings and drawings,
sold for years by some of New York’s most elite art dealers as the work of
Modernist masters like Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollock, actually
consists of expert forgeries, according to people who have been interviewed
or briefed by the investigators. Most of the works, which have sold
individually for as much as $17 million, came to market though a little-known
art dealer from Long Island, Glafira Rosales, who said she had what every
gallery dreams of: exclusive access to a mystery collector’s cache of
undiscovered work by some of the postwar world’s great talents, including
Mark Rothko and Richard Diebenkorn. In several cases, Ms. Rosales sold the
works through an art-world luminary, Ann Freedman, until 2009 the president
of the prestigious gallery Knoedler & Company on the Upper East Side.
Other works were sold by Julian Weissman, an independent dealer who had
worked for Knoedler in the 1980s and had represented Motherwell when he was
alive."
Proposed 10-per-cent cut would cost Toronto Arts Council
$1-million
Guy Dixon, From
Saturday's Globe and Mail, Published Friday, Dec. 02, 2011 10:27PM
EST, Last updated Friday, Dec. 02, 2011 10:33PM EST
TORONTO –
"Toronto museums and arts groups, who say they are already stripped to the
financial core, see city hall’s planned across-the-board, 10-per-cent cut to
arts grants as potentially devastating. The cut in city arts funding – the
Ford administration has requested 10 per cent cuts from almost all its
departments and agencies – would mean a roughly $1-million drop in Toronto
Arts Council grants. That’s basically the same amount as the $1.2-million in
total grants that it allocated to individual Toronto artists in 2010,
according to the Toronto Arts Council’s last annual report. Or a 10-per-cent
cut also equals the $1.2-million in project grants provided to community arts
and other arts projects that year. In total, the Toronto Arts Council
allocated $10.3-million in grants in 2010. The cut would also entail a
10-per-cent (approximately $100,000) drop in the arts council’s operating
budget."
China paints a new commercial world of art
Iain Marlow, From Friday's Globe
and Mail, Published Thursday, Dec. 01, 2011 6:35PM EST, Last updated
Thursday, Dec. 01, 2011 7:25PM EST
SHENZHEN, CHINA – "Yang
Chao Fu has a half-finished painting taped to the wall of his small shop on
the outskirts of Shenzhen. As he speaks, he leans back on stacked piles of
completed canvasses, while others hang above him – pastoral vistas, galloping
horses, angels, Parisian street scenes. But Mr. Yang is no starving artist.
Outside on the pavement, six more oil paintings hint that Mr. Yang has little
but money as his muse, like most of the other owners of so-called galleries
here. Each canvas laid flat on the ground is identical – a vase with purple
and white flowers – and each corresponds to one of the many photographs
scattered across Mr. Yang’s desk. These images were sent by a gallery owner
in France, who has ordered 200 such paintings at roughly $26 (Canadian)
apiece."
Heritage department will tighten belt to preserve arts
funding, Moore says
Elizabeth
Thompson, iPolitics, 1 December 2011
CANADA –
"Heritage Minister James Moore says his own department will take the biggest
hit in the government’s upcoming strategic and operating review in a bid to
preserve heritage department funding for other cultural bodies.
"When we deliver
our budget next year, the organization that gets hit the most is mine — my
department," Moore told members of the standing committee on Canadian
heritage Thursday. "We will have the biggest cut in my department. More than
anybody else — in order to protect the integrity of the Canada Council, our
national museums and festivals across the country. We will lead by example."
W.A.G.E.
As told to Lauren
O’Neill-Butler, Artforum, 11.23.2011
NEW YORK CITY – "W.A.G.E.,
or Working Artists in the Greater Economy, is a group of cultural workers
advocating for the implementation of fee schedules within cultural
institutions that contract their work. Here they discuss their first
certification project at the New Museum and their upcoming work at Artists
Space in New York, which commences with an event on January 6, 2012. [text omitted] In January, we’ll begin the
first in a series of public forums and think tanks at Artists Space involving
artists, activists, grant makers, arts administrators, curators,
sociologists, and the public in an extended conversation about the economic
practices of arts organizations."
TED Prize Awarded to an Idea: ‘The City 2.0’
Stephanie Murg, Unbeige,
December 6, 2011 10:57 AM
"The TED Prize has always
been about big ideas, but since its establishment in 2005, the $100,000 purse
and "a wish to change the world" has gone to individuals, from Bill Clinton
and Bono to oceanographer Sylvia Earle and street artist JR. The winner of
the 2012 prize is a concept: the City 2.0. "It is an idea upon which our
planet’s future depends," wrote TED’s Chris Anderson and Amy Novogratz in a statement issued this morning."
Tunisia, Italy, Romania and Russia create network to promote
cultural tourism
African Manager, [6]
December 2011
"The local and regional
authorities in Tunisia, Italy, Romania and Russia are working with academic
and research institutions to develop and promote cultural heritage tourism."
Treasuring Urban Oases
Michael Kimmelman, The
New York Times, 2 December 2011
NEW YORK CITY – "Alexander
Garvin, natty in bowtie and jacket, watched commuters hustle through the
gray, sunken concrete plaza at Citigroup Center on Lexington Avenue. Across
53rd Street, in the fading afternoon light, more New Yorkers ducked into a
faceless subway kiosk on the triangular patch of wind-swept sidewalk —
ostensibly a second public plaza — that occupies the southeast corner. This
is the city’s public realm, or part of it. What passes for public space in
many crowded neighborhoods often means some token gesture by a developer,
built in exchange for the right to erect a taller skyscraper. Mr. Garvin, an
architect, urban planner and veteran of five city administrations, going back
to the era of Mayor John V. Lindsay (1966-73), has spent the better part of
the last half-century thinking about these spaces. "The public realm is what
we own and control," he told me the other day when we met to look around
Midtown. More than just common property, he added, "the streets, squares,
parks, infrastructure and public buildings make up the fundamental element in
any community — the framework around which everything else grows."
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