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The new Canadian Museum of History: Whose history will it tell? The Globe and Mail, 16 December 2012
HULL, QC – "When the Canadian Museum of Civilization emerges from renovations in 2017 to become the new Canadian Museum of History just in time for the 150th anniversary of Confederation, the Rocket’s jersey is sure to be prominently displayed. But will the No. 9 Canadiens sweater worn by Maurice Richard in the 1959 Stanley Cup final be presented as a sacred icon for a hockey-mad Canada – or for a politically awakened Quebec? Richard was a French-Canadian hero whose suspension by an English hockey-league president in 1955 led to riots by Montreal fans that are now often interpreted as nationalist demonstrations that heralded the province’s Quiet Revolution. The jersey itself came to the CMC in 2002 when Ottawa won a tussle with Quebec over who would acquire memorabilia from the Richard family, with the museum in Gatineau paying $600,000 to keep the collection in federal hands. " [See also Featured letter: Taking our nation’s pulse a healthy habit for new museum, Edmonton Journal, 20 December 2012 and Canadian Museum of History: A chance to embrace our national narrative, Toronto Star, 7 December 2012]
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KFYR-TV 14 December 2012
BISMARCK, ND – "Work on the expansion at the North Dakota Heritage Center is nearing the end. Construction started in the spring of 2011 and is expected to be complete by this spring. One part of the construction is turning heads this week. It`s big, it`s strange and it`s kind of odd-looking. But just what is it? A teepee? A grain bin? Or something else? Well, that`s kind of the point, explain architects working on the Heritage Center expansion project. "
Canadian/Hong Kong team beats stars to win Kowloon art venue Architects Journal, 10 December, 2012
HONK KONG – "Canadian-based practice Bing Thom Architects with Ronald Lu of Hong Kong has seen off the likes of Foster + Partners and Mecanoo to design one of the first buildings within the West Kowloon Cultural District. The team was chosen to mastermind the ‘landmark’ Xiqu (Chinese opera) Centre - among 17 arts venues planned for the £1.7 billion waterside district in Hong Kong - ahead of an international shortlist of stars. "
La Tribune de l’Art, 4 décembre 2012
LENS, FRANCE – "Dans The Art Newspaper de décembre, Vincent Pomarède, directeur du département des peintures du Musée du Louvre, répondait avec humour à nos critiques sur le Louvre Lens, notamment sur la « Galerie du Temps » dont il est un des commissaires, en expliquant qu’on ne pouvait pas critiquer un film sans l’avoir vu, et encore moins tant que le montage n’était pas fait." [See also Louvre opens new wing in the north, BBC World Service, 5 December 2012 and Tokyo-based SANAA and New York-based Imrey Culbert complete Louvre-Lens, World Architecture News, 3 December 2012]
Visite virtuelle : le Louvre-Lens FranceInfo, 4 décembre 2012
LENS, FRANCE – "France Info vous invite à découvrir la Galerie du Temps, salle principale du tout nouveau musée du Louvre à Lens."
Le Centre culturel et touristique du vin prend corps La Vigne Magazine, 28 novembre 2012
BORDEAUX, FRANCE – "Le futur Centre culturel et touristique du vin a été présenté le 27 novembre dans le cadre du salon Vinitech, qui se tient à Bordeaux. C’est parti. Le premier coup de pioche du Centre culturel et touristique du vin devrait être donné en avril 2013, pour une mise en service début 2016."
The Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum / Ateliers Jean Nouvel Archdaily, 26 novembre 2012
ABU-DHABI, EMIRATS ARABES UNIS – " The Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum, designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, aims at creating a welcoming world which associates lights and shadows as well as shimmers and calm places in a serene atmosphere. Its objective is to belong to its country, to its history, to its geography, avoiding being either a dull translation of this reality or a pleonasm meaning boredom and convention. It also aims at emphasizing the fascination generated by rare encounters. More images and architects’ description after the break."
Goodbye, geeky engineering shows. The Design Exchange shifts gears Globe and Mail, 18 November 2012
TORONTO, ON – "The Design Exchange’s august front entrance – the Art Deco facade of the old Toronto Stock Exchange – faces Bay Street, one of the most famous avenues in the country. But the foot traffic out front is nothing compared with the crowds that flow past the design museum’s back door, which links to Toronto’s underground PATH system. Thousands of office workers stream through the PATH labyrinth every day, yet during one recent lunchtime, the stairway up to the Design Exchange was as empty as the DX itself. "
Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg The Star.com, 16 November 2012
WINNIPEG, MB – "Even before they started to build it, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights aspired to reach for the stars. And now, after several years of funding problems, bitter controversy over its contents, and an unsettling number of departures by senior managers and its first board chair, the museum’s fortunes have taken a striking turn for the better. Things are looking up indeed, once again reaching in the right direction. The latest evidence: a very wise gesture of good faith that should heal relations with some members of the Ukrainian Canadian community who felt their genocide wasn’t going to get enough prominence in the museum’s permanent exhibitions. "
Filippetti confirme le retour de l’Etat dans le financement de Lascaux 4 Le Journal des Arts, 16 novembre 2012
BORDEAUX, FRANCE – "En visite à Bordeaux, la ministre de la culture a officiellement annoncé que l’Etat financerait finalement en partie la construction du site Lascaux 4."
Le Louvre signe un partenariat de 5 ans avec les musées de San Francisco Le Journal des Arts, 19 novembre 2012
SAN FRANCISCO, ÉTATS-UNIS – "Encouragé par ses premières collaborations outre-Atlantique, le musée du Louvre vient de formaliser un nouveau partenariat de cinq ans avec les musées des beaux-arts de San Francisco."
The 2012 Chicago Cultural Plan Unveiled ArtSlant, 13 November 2012
CHICAGO, IL – "The 2012 Chicago Cultural Plan was recently released after roughly five months worth of town hall meetings, focus groups, interviews and conversations with artists and experts. The city hasn’t had this type of grandiose cultural road map since the 1986 Cultural Plan drafted after eighteen months of informational meetings conducted by then Mayor Harold Washington’s administration. The preparation of the Plan was outsourced to the Canadian firm Lord Cultural Resources, who dressed it up with full bleed color photos, color coding, pie charts and infographics and divided it across four downloadable pdfs. It’s comprised of four sections: People, Places, Policies, and Planning, that contain a total of thirty-six “recommendations” which are accompanied by specific, accomplishable initiatives. "
La restauration des toitures de Vaux-le-Vicomte s’est achevée par le dôme La Tribune de l’Art, 5 novembre 2012
MAINCY, FRANCE – "Historiquement et artistiquement, Vaux-le-Vicomte est assurément le plus important château privé français. Depuis maintenant quatre générations, la famille Vogüé s’attache à entretenir et restaurer cet immense domaine et à l’ouvrir au public."
Artists gather for Holocaust Education Week’s ‘culture of memory’ The National Post, 1 November 2012
TORONTO, ON – "Musicians, authors, photographers and artists of every stripe are participating in the 32nd annual Holocaust Education Week in Toronto, a series of discussions, performances, recitals and readings centred around this year’s theme of “the culture of memory.” (The series kicks off Thursday night with a talk from acclaimed author Nathan Englander at the Royal Ontario Museum.) "
Museums
Yale reopens art gallery following $US$135m revamp Attractions Management,13 December 2012
NEW HAVEN, CT – "The Yale University Art Gallery, in Connecticut, US, has reopened its doors this week following a US$135m (103.44m euro, £83.75m) expansion. The refurbished gallery occupies three buildings, expanding floor space to 21,328 sq m from 12,273 sq m, and houses African, Asian, Indo-Pacific, ancient American, European and contemporary art. The museum's collection is more than 185,000 works strong and includes Vincent van Gogh's Night Café (1888), Marcel Duchamp's Tu m' (1918) and Henry Moore's Draped Seated Woman (1957-58). "
Le ministère de la Défense lance un plan de restauration du musée de la Marine Le Journal des Arts, 11 décembre 2012
PARIS, FRANCE – "Poursuivant sa politique de soutien des établissements culturels placés sous sa tutelle, le ministère de la Défense vient d’annoncer le lancement d’un plan de rénovation du musée national de la Marine."
A new museum for ABBA, but no stage reunion Reuters, 11 December 2012
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – "A new museum devoted to ABBA may attract hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Swedish capital but that does not mean the four members of the super group will ever reunite, at least on stage, former ABBA member Bjorn Ulvaeus said. The museum, a permanent exhibition within a hall of fame of Swedish pop music, opens in May next year. > Northern Alberta dinosaur museum gets thumbs up County of Grande Prairie hikes donation to push museum over the top CBC News, Dec 10, 2012
The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum will break ground this spring after the County of Grande Prairie donated a further $3 million to the project last week. “I’m absolutely overjoyed,” said project executive director Brian Brake in a news release Monday. “It’s incredibly gratifying to see these regional players step up to make this museum a reality.” Architect's rendition shows exterior of Phillip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum. Currie MuseumThe project’s plans are to tender in January 2013, break ground in April 2013 and open the museum in June 2014, said Erika Sherk, with the Pipestone Creek Dinosaur Initiative.
MoMath: Manhattan's Museum of Mathematics New Scientist, 10 December 2012
NEW YORK, NY – "MATHEMATICS is awesome, full stop. That's the philosophy behind a new museum opening next week in New York City. The founders of the Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) know they have a fight on their hands, given the pervasive idea that the subject is boring, hard and scary. But they are determined to give mathematics a makeover, with exhibits that express an unselfconscious, giddy joy in exploring the world of numbers and forms. "We want to show a different side of mathematics," says museum co-founder Cindy Lawrence. "Our goal is to get kids excited, and show them the math they're doing in school is just one tree in a whole huge forest." [See also Opening the Doors to the Life of Pi: Museum of Mathematics at Madison Square Park, The New York Times, 13 December 2012]
Cleveland Museum of Natural History Launches $125M Campaign for Expansion Cleveland.com, 4 December 2012-12-21
CLEVELAND, OH – "The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, which halted a previous expansion plan during the 2008 recession, has come roaring back with a $125 million project to transform its physical presence in University Circle. The project, which the museum will announce formally on Wednesday, calls for demolishing roughly half of its existing facility on the west side of Wade Oval, and adding two glassy new exhibit wings and a crystalline lobby. "
A Museum Full of Antiquities Embraces Modernity The New York Time, 4 December 2012
PHILADELPHIA, PA — "Visitors to the Penn Museum might never see the red clay tablet. Little bigger than the palm of a hand, it sits on a metal cart in a back room. Covered with indented rows of tiny characters, the Sumerian tablet dates from about 2700 B.C., and it is the world’s first known written account of the biblical flood. When not on its cart for visitors to see and handle, it is stored, like many of the museum’s one million other objects, in stacks of metal drawers accessible only to academics and other researchers. "
Cultural revolution: China's museum explosion As the country flexes its economic muscle, growing prosperity has also meant a proliferation of shrines to culture. AlJazeera, 3 Dec 2012
BEIJING, CHINA - "China's museum building boom has long been dominated and directed by government cultural commissars who aim to highlight the bonds stretching back more than 3,000 years between state power and Chinese culture. But while these cadres construct ever-bigger palaces to showcase art of the revolution - or of the imperial system that it replaced - a new contingent of private philanthropists has begun setting up independent outposts to highlight avant-garde artists across China and around the world. "
Dallas Museum of Art takes bold step of offering free general admission AND free memberships The Dallas Morning News (blog), 27 November 2012
DALLAS, TX – "Beginning Jan. 21, the Dallas Museum of Art will take the unprecedented step of offering an unusual one-two punch: Free general admission and free memberships, making it the first art museum in the country to do so, DMA director Maxwell Anderson announced at a press conference this morning."
Inauguration du musée de l’Holocauste et des droits de l’homme de Malines Le Journal des Arts, 27 novembre 2012
MALINES, BELGIQUE – "Situé sur le site de la caserne Dossin, ancien camp de transit utilisé par les nazis lors des déportations juives, ce nouvel espace qui cumule les fonctions de musée, mémorial et centre de documentation vient d’être inauguré par le roi des Belges."
Hermitage to open new art wing Leisure Opportunities, 20 Nov 2012
St. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA – "The restoration of the Eastern Wing at the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia is set to be complete by 2014. The Eastern Wing previously belonged to the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation will be used for exhibiting art of the 19th-21st century. Located in the General Staff Building, the restoration project is a result of joint initiatives of the State Hermitage and the government of the Russian Federation."
US$15m Mayan museum opens in Mexico Leisure Opportunities, 19 Nov 2012
CANCUN, MEXICO – "A US$15m (11.7m euro, £9.4m) museum displaying ancient Mayan civilisation has opened in Cancun, Mexico. Located on Kukulkan Boulevard in Cancun's Hotel Zone, the museum is the largest structure built by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) since the Templo Mayor Museum in 1987. The 55,000sq ft (5,110sq m) Museo Maya de Cancun opened with 350 archaeological objects, including relics that have never before been shown to the public. "
Ouverture de l'Institut du Monde Arabe à Tourcoing France 3, 19 novembre 2012
TOURCOING, FRANCE – "Demain se conclue un petit feuilleton. Annoncée à Roubaix puis Tourcoing, prévue en février et plusieurs fois reportée, l’ouverture des locaux d’une antenne régionale de l’Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) dans la région sera effective mercredi. Demain, ce musée des cultures arabes sera inauguré."
Controversial museum on Korean history finally faces opening Yonhap News Agency, 18 November 2012
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - South Korea's long-awaited national museum dedicated exclusively to the country's turbulent contemporary history is expected to open its doors next month, despite lingering debate over the ideological partiality of the exhibits to be displayed. The 45 billion won (US$41.3 million) National Museum of Korean Contemporary History is the culmination of a project begun four years ago by President Lee Myung-bak to construct a modern history museum where the culture ministry building was formerly located in Seoul's central Gwanghwamun area.
Met Museum Is Being Sued Over Admission Fees The New York Times, 15 November 2012
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Two members of the Metropolitan Museum of Art have sued the museum, contending that it misleads the public into thinking that its admission fees – $25 for adults, and less for seniors and students – are mandatory and not simply suggested. (The museum’s original lease with the city specified that it had to be accessible free of charge several days of the week, but the museum says that changes in city policy in the 1970s allowed it to institute a voluntary admission fee.)
Worlds Largest Jewish Museum Opens In Moscow The New York Times, 8 November 2012
MOSCOW, RUSSIA — "A stream of elegant visitors stopped in their tracks on Thursday as they toured Moscow’s new Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, a sprawling, state-of-the-art complex underwritten by oligarchs close to President Vladimir V. Putin. They had never seen a shtetl like this one. Touch the screen in one exhibit in this vast building and a visitor can appear in a mirror dressed in the garb of a 19th-century blacksmith, or a trader or a “representative of the intelligentsia.” Tap a Torah in a virtual synagogue, and a cantor’s voice rings in the air. In a virtual Odessa, one can sit down in an interactive cafe to chat with long-dead writers. [The German architectural firm Graft Lab carried out the transformation. The museum design firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates carried out the exhibition design. See also Russian Jewish museum opens in Moscow, Los Angeles Times, 11 November 2012] Campus Art Museums in the 21st Century: A Conversation University of Chicago’s Cultural Policy Center, October 2012
CHICAGO, IL – "Introduction Like other kinds of cultural organizations in these early years of the twenty-first century, art museums on college and university campuses are facing the challenges both of adapting to and influencing a new and still-shifting cultural landscape. Longstanding assumptions about the roles, aims, activities, and audiences of cultural institutions are being reconsidered, even as audience interests, expectations, and behaviors are rapidly evolving, fueled in part by the technological revolution. "
Architecture
Moussavi and McAslan named on Moscow shortlist Architects Journal, 14 December 2012
MOSCOW, RUSSIA – "Two UK practices have made the shortlist for a major museum scheme in Moscow. John McAslan and Partners is among the finalists for the Museum and Educational Centre of the Polytechnic Museum and Lomonosov Moscow State University. The firm is bidding in partnership with local firm Project Meganom. London-based Farshid Moussavi Architecture also made the cut, teamed with Russian practice Rozhdestvenka Architectural Bureau. The British pair face stiff competition from Dutch firm Mecanoo; Italian practice Massimilliano Fuksas; 3XN from Denmark; and US-based Leeser Architecture. All finalists have local partners."
Musée Ferrari : elles l'ont rêvé, Modène l'a fait ! Le Courrier de l’Architecte, 12 décembre 2012
MODENE, ITALIE – "Requalifier des friches industrielles via une architecture futuriste qui relaye l’histoire du lieu, le tout situé à deux pas d’une place classée par l’UNESCO ? De nombreuses villes l’ont rêvé, Modène, en Italie, l’a fait. Via la construction du nouveau musée Ferrari, la ville italienne entérine sa présence dans les annales de l’architecture du XXIe siècle."
Oscar Niemeyer: Brasília and Beyond World Architecture News, 10 December 2012
BRAZIL – "Whatever your lifestyle or profession, it is moderately astonishing to keep living and working until the age of 104. But for Oscar Niemeyer, that was just the extraordinary closing act in a career full of daring, joyous, counter-intuitive activity. He was an acolyte and associate of Le Corbusier, immersed in his austere modernist approaches, yet Niemeyer's work subverted his principles, with sensuous, alluring curves and a distinctly un-modern preference for aesthetically-appealing form over function. He was also an atheist who built a cathedral, several churches and a mosque."
Shortlist for the design of M+ museum, west kowloon cultural district hong kong DesignBoom, 10 décembre 2012
HONG-KONG – "Today, the WKCDA (west kowloon cultural district authority) announced the shortlist of the design competition for M+, Hong kong's future museum for visual culture, scheduled for completion in 2017. Six exceptional design teams have been shortlisted to submit proposals for the architectural design of M+."
Architect chosen to design Winnipeg Art Gallery's Inuit Art and Learning Centre CBC, 27 November 2012
WINNIPEG, MB – "Once a collection of contemporary Inuit art climbs to more than 13,000 pieces, more storage space is probably in order. When the Winnipeg Art Gallery went looking for an architect to design their new Inuit Art and Learning Centre, there was interest from 65 architectural teams from 15 different countries. In the end, after proposals from six finalists, the selection committee chose American architect, Michael Maltzan. Based in Los Angeles, Maltzan's firm has designed a range of building styles all over the world. "
A New Italian Museum Pays Homage to the Architect Palladio The New York Times, 21 November 2012
VICENZA, ITALY — "The first and most imposing exhibit of the new Palladio Museum at Palazzo Barbarano is the Palazzo itself, built by the architect in the 1570s for the Vicentine nobleman Montano Barbarano. The Palazzo was the most unusual that Palladio ever built, not least for its asymmetry. This was because his patron insisted on absorbing existing buildings into the new fabric and acquired yet another house next door that had to be incorporated into the scheme when Palladio’s project was already under way, with the result that the grand main doorway no longer occupied a central position in the columned façade. "
Libeskind's Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin officially opened this weekend World Architectural News, 19 November 2012
BERLIN, GERMANY — " 'Hear the truth, whoever speaks it'. These are the words emblazoned across the façade of Daniel Libeskind’s latest major project, the Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin, an institution he extended some eleven years ago with a glittering angular expansion project that received mixed praise. "Translated into English, German, Hebrew, Arabic and Judeo-Arabic, this provocative quote from medieval Jewish scholar and philosopher Moses Maimonides welcomes visitors as they stroll across the piazza which links the existing Jewish Museum Berlin and Libeskind’s latest addition."
Tadao Ando's first building in Taiwan to open mid-2013 Focus Taiwan News Channel, 18 November 2012
TAIPEI, TAIWAN — "The first building in Taiwan designed by world renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the Asia University Museum of Art, is set to open in mid-2013, the museum's chief curator said Sunday. The art museum, the first one designed by Ando on a university campus, will house works of art ranging from a bronze casting of French sculptor Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker" to creations by French artist Edgar Degas and local sculptors and artists, said the curator, Su Yao-hua. "
Technology
Artdaily.org, 12 December 2012
LONDON, UK – "One of the key attractions in the Early Egypt gallery (Gallery 64) at the British Museum is the body of a man who was buried in about 3500 BC at the site of Gebelein in Upper Egypt. Known as Gebelein Man, he was wrapped in linen and matting, and was placed in a crouched position in a shallow grave. Direct contact with the hot dry sand naturally dried and mummified his remains. In ancient times chance discoveries of such well-preserved bodies may have promoted the belief that physical preservation was necessary for the afterlife, leading the later Egyptians to develop the practice of artificial mummification."
Les musées dans votre iPad: une autre évolution numérique Narominded, 11décembre 2012
FRANCE – "Comment certains musées parisiens exploitent les nouvelles possibilités liées aux produits numériques, et plus particulièrement ceux destinés aux supports iPad? C’est le focus de cette série d’articles au cours des prochains jours."
Le patrimoine à l'ère du numérique France Culture, 23 novembre 2012
FRANCE – "Musées virtuels, applications mobiles, réalisations en 3D, données libres à partager ou plateformes de financement, les initiatives sont toujours plus nombreuses et de plus en plus encouragées par les institutions publiques. Plongée dans de nouveaux mondes culturels qui coûtent mais rapportent aussi auprès d'un public demandeur."
Seeking a Better Way to Find Web Images The New York Times, 19 November 2012
STANFORD, Calif. — You may think you can find almost anything on the Internet. But even as images and video rapidly come to dominate the Web, search engines can ordinarily find a given image only if the text entered by a searcher matches the text with which it was labeled. And the labels can be unreliable, unhelpful (“fuzzy” instead of “rabbit”) or simply nonexistent.
Qing Dynasty royal tombs go digital chinadaily.com.cn, 12 November 2012
ZUNHUA, CHINA "The State Administration of Cultural Heritage and Historic Scotland — the Scottish government's heritage agency — has announced a digital preservation project for the Eastern Royal Tombs of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The project will present to the world the largest and best-preserved mausoleum of China's last empire in 3D. The Royal Tombs project is included in the Scottish Ten Project, a five-year international 3D scanning project to digitally document Scotland's five World Heritage Sites, as well as five international sites. The Chinese project follows similar ones at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the United States and at the Rani ki Vav Stepwell in India. "
Art and Culture
Titian confirmed as painter of portrait at Ottawa's NGC Italian scholar Daniele Barbaro commissioned Titian to paint it in 1545 CBC News, 14 Dec 2012
Art experts have confirmed that a portrait in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, its authenticity long questioned, was painted by the Venetian master Titian. Experts say the portrait of Daniele Barbaro (1545), now on display at the National Gallery of Canada, was painted by the Venetian painter Titian. The portrait is of Daniele Barbaro (1514-1570), an Italian scholar and humanist, and was painted for the historian Paolo Giovio, Bishop of Como in Italy, who owned a collection of portraits.
L’Europe pourrait apporter 80 milliards d’euros au patrimoine culturel Le Journal des Arts, 13 décembre 2012
BRUXELLES, BELGIQUE – "Grâce à l’activisme de 6000 musées européens le programme européen Horizon 2020 sur la recherche et l’innovation (2014-2020) proposera un amendement visant à allouer une partie de son budget – soit 80 milliards d’euros - au patrimoine culturel."
Ayyam Gallery To Expand Into London in January 2013 & Jeddah in February 2013 ArtDaily.org, 23 November 2012
LONDON, UK - Ayyam Gallery announced the expansion of its international activities with the launch of two new galleries in London and Jeddah in early 2013. The curatorial programme of both galleries will reflect that of Ayyam Gallery’s existing locations in Damascus, Beirut and Dubai, showcasing established and emerging Middle Eastern artists with the aim of bringing the art of this significant region to a wider audience.
As Auction Week Gears Up, Claude Tousignant & Michael Snow speak out on Artist’s Resale Right Canadian Art, 22 November 2012
CANADA - As Canada’s fall auction activity reaches its apex, key artists and artist organizations are speaking up about the need for an Artist’s Resale Right in Canada—a proposed measure that would see artists receive a small percentage of secondary-market sales of their works. Auction houses and art dealers are also joining the conversation, noting that they would like any legislation developed to be fair to all concerned.
New "Intelligence" Body Will Monitor Illegal Traffic in Cultural Property Blouin ArtInfo, 21 November 2012
The International Council of Museums (ICOM) has announced the foundation of a new “Intelligence” body to monitor illegal traffic in cultural property. This new group will be called the International Observatory on Illicit Traffic in Cultural Goods. It will work as a bridge between UNESCO, Interpol, and its constituent policing agencies, as well as other research institutions in the field. The “Observatory” is now awaiting formal funding approval from the European Commission.
National survey reveals more Singaporeans and PRs see personal benefits in the arts IFFACA, 19 November 2012
SINGAPORE "The National Arts Council of Singapore today published the seventh edition of the National Population Survey on the Arts. This is the first time the report is published in full and is part of the Council’s ongoing efforts to provide arts practitioners, partners and industry stakeholders with useful resources to help plan and implement their programmes and activities. "
“How do we make art about the Holocaust?” Globe and Mail, 31 October 2012
CANADA – "In the title story of his new collection entitled What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, the American author Nathan Englander creates the character of the Holocaust-obsessed Deb.
A secular Jew in contemporary Florida whose family has been in America for generations, Deb likes redemptive Holocaust stories that reveal humanity formed from inhumanity – and plays the Anne Frank game, asking which neighbours could be trusted to hide her and her family."
Les secrets des chercheurs d'art Connaissance des Arts, 31 octobre 2012
PARIS, FRANCE – "Art advisers ou conseillers de collectionneurs, ils sont omniprésents dans la biosphère artistique actuelle. Quelle est donc la valeur ajoutée de ceux qui savent « parler à l’oreille des collectionneurs » ?"
Creative Economies, Creative Cities and Urban Planning
Plans pushed back for convention centre digital ‘art wall’ Ottawa Citizen, 13 December 2012
OTTAWA — "The Ottawa Convention Centre proposed digital screen won’t appear on its south-side wall by Canada Day. The convention centre had hoped to have the screen, facing the Mackenzie King Bridge, up by July 1 of next year to display artistic videos, images of Canada, messages welcoming visitors and live streaming of events. But after launching a preliminary search for an organization to finance, install, operate and maintain the digital art wall and share the revenues, it’s pushing the plans back."
Baku to host first European Olympics in 2015 AzerNews, 12 December 2012
BAKU, AZERBAIJAN — "Azerbaijani capital Baku will host the first-ever European Olympic Games in 2015, in accordance with a decision taken by the 41st General Assembly of the European Olympic Committees (EOC) in Rome last Saturday. President Ilham Aliyev congratulated the Azerbaijani people on this occasion, AzerTac state news agency reported. "I congratulate all the people of Azerbaijan on this remarkable, historic event. This will be the first European Olympic Games, and the fact that it will take place in Baku is a great, historic event, and, at the same time, outstanding success of our country," President Aliyev said."
Animated whale attraction for Korea's Lotte World Attractions Management, 12 December 2012
SEOUL, KOREA — "An animated whale will interact one-on-one with visitors to the attraction. An interactive theatre show, which includes an animated whale, is the latest attraction at Korean theme park Lotte World. The Seoul-based theme park collaborated with Hollywood design firm the Goddard Group to develop the animated underwater experience, which will open in the Aqua Plaza section of the park in January 2013. Korea's Rayglyph is providing technology and content for the show and producer W.G. Choi said the attraction, which allows guests to interact one-on-one with the animated Beluga whale, will be among the most technologically advanced in Korea."
Venice is under attack once again due to the risk of flooding. 70% of the city was submerged under water in November, the highest flood since 1966. World Cities Network.org, 26 November 2012
VENICE, ITALY – "Venice is recognised across the globe as a symbol of historic beauty, home to some of the world’s most iconic architecture and art but in November this year, the city was once again under threat. The high tides, reckless winds and heavy rain along the Adriatic coast left Venice drowning, as two-thirds of it was submerged by 1.50 metres of water. Whilst the City of Water continues to fight against the Adriatic Sea, the clock is now ticking for the completion of the MOSES project, an ambitious engineering system designed to protect the city. "
Montréal, métropole culturelle: début des travaux à la Tohu La Presse.ca, 26 novembre 2012
MONTREAL, CANADA – "Le Rendez-vous 2012, Montréal métropole culturelle, a débuté ce lundi matin à la Tohu: la rencontre du milieu artistique montréalais et des élus des trois paliers de gouvernement a pour but de planifier l'avenir du développement culturel dans la métropole."
90 nouveaux musées en Algérie à l’horizon 2018 Algérie-Focus, 26 novembre 2012
ALGERIE – "Des journées d’étude au sujet de la situation des musées en Algérie ont été organisées la semaine écoulée. A cette occasion, un projet de réalisation de 90 musées à l’échelle nationale a été évoqué par un haut responsable du ministère de la culture."
Le métro de Montréal : entre transport en commun et musée souterrain Culture et communication, 20 novembre 2012
MONTREAL, CANADA – "Avec plus d’une centaine d’oeuvres réparties dans les 68 stations de son réseau, le métro de Montréal peut, aujourd’hui, se targuer d’être l’une des plus grandes galeries d’art souterraines. Véritable musée à lui tout seul, le réseau montréalais tend à nous démontrer que métro ne rime plus obligatoirement avec boulot-dodo."
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