Vancouver
Sculptures take a trip to VanDusen garden On a wet Wednesday afternoon, James Fletcher’s Powell Street studio feels like a cozy clubhouse. Georgia Straight, July 30, 2014
Portrait of an Artist: John Ferrie Hundreds of shows, more than a thousand works sold or given to charity, and, still, he can’t draw a straight line. When John Ferrie paints, he finds a stillness and satisfaction that appeases his inner rebel. His passionate approach and effortless charisma have made him an icon in the Vancouver art scene. Hundreds of shows, more than a thousand works sold or given to charity, and, still, he can’t draw a straight line. Georgia Straight, July 25, 2014
LOOK AT THIS: Looking Back At A Vanishing Slice Of Vancouver With Jim Breukelman’s ‘Hot Properties’ As the founder of the Fine Art Photography program at the Vancouver School of Art in 1967 (now the Emily Carr University of Art + Design), Jim Breukelman has had a hand in the artistic development of generations of Vancouver photographers (including Scott Conarroe, whose work we featured in November). The photo above is from his late ’80s series Hot Properties: Urban House Portraiture, for which he travelled the neighbourhoods of B.C.’s Lower Mainland — Point Grey, Kitsilano, Dunbar, Arbutus, MacKenzie Heights, Kerrisdale, to name a few — to photograph the modest but immaculately tended homes homes from the 1930s and ’40s. CBC, July 30, 2014
City of Vancouver offers low-cost studio spaces to artists The city of Vancouver is inviting artists to apply for low-cost studio spaces.Seven studio spaces are available through the City of Vancouver Artist Studio Awards Program, both work-only and live-work spaces. The rental costs range from free to $470 per month, and terms last for two to three years, depending on the space. Province, July 26, 2014
Art this week: On the Move, The Art of Japanese Kimono and Vermilion Sands Local artists Kristen Roos and Ross Birdwise agreed to take a residency at Video In Video Out (VIVO) during the last three months of the media art centre’s longtime Main St. and 3rd Ave. location (it reopens in September at Broadway and Kaslo St.). So they decided to turn the relocation into art. On the second floor of a downtown Richmond business tower, you will find a cosy art gallery with roughly 200 artworks in its permanent collection. All the works are by Japanese artists, based on Japanese themes and executed in Japanese style. Vancouver Sun, July 29, 2014
Guelph
Guelph art gallery closing The impending demise of the Guelph home of a multidisciplinary artist collective may not be the end of the road if a new base can be found. Guelph Mercury, July 29, 2014
Toronto
Video Report: No Flat City at Harbourfront Centre … In this video report, Canadian Art online editor Leah Sandals visits “No Flat City: Toronto’s Incomparable Terrain”—an exhibition of work by six younger Toronto-based photographers that happens on dozens of outdoor panels at Harbourfront Centre until June 2015. Canadian Art, July 30, 2014
St. Louis
U.S. Authorities Drop Effort To Seize Ancient Mask From St. Louis Art Museum And Return It To Egypt “‘The Department of Justice will take no further legal action with respect to the mask of Ka-Nefer-Nefer,’ U.S. Attorney Richard Callahan said [Monday].” Authorities are unable to produce any evidence that the item, which disappeared from Egypt sometime between 1966 and 1973 and was purchased by the museum from a U.S. dealer 25 years later, was stolen. St. Louis Post Dispatch, July 29, 2014
New York
NYT Art Reporter Carol Vogel Caught In Unattributed Wikipedia Quote “As the comparison shows, Vogel appears to have substituted and deleted a few words, but otherwise left the structure—and several strings of words—mostly intact.” Gawker, July 29, 2014
Met Museum President Emily Rafferty Retires “The Met’s first female president managed some 1,500 workers. Working with Met director Thomas Campbell, she oversaw renovations of its Islamic galleries and American wing, new digital initiatives and an increase in attendance fueled by blockbuster shows.” New York Times, July 30, 2014
London
British Museum’s battle on the home front during the First World War Archive reveals how air raids threatened the collection and King George V intervened to stop the building being requisitioned. The Art Newspaper, July 30, 2014
Newbury, Hampshire
Stanley Spencer’s First World War paintings restored Sandham Memorial Chapel reopens next week to mark centenary of 1914. The Art Newspaper, July 30, 2014
Paris
The legacy of ‘Les Magiciens de la Terre’ Alfredo Jaar says the Pompidou’s landmark show was “the first crack in the Western art bunker” Art Newspaper, July 24, 2014
Suspect in Jewish museum shootings charged by Belgian authorities France extradites Mehdi Nemmouche who is accused of “murder in a terrorist context” The Art Newspaper, July 30, 2014
Saudi Arabia
Leading Saudi artist focuses on the modernisation of Mecca and Jerusalem Ahmed Mater to consider “uneasy fit” between architecture and social realities in the Middle East. The Art Newspaper, July 30, 2014
International
What Happens When Archives Aren’t On Paper Anymore? When Salman Rushdie donated his archives to Emory Univeristy, he didn’t mean only his papers: the collection includes four of his old computers (and will include all his later digital effects). How do archivists go about making the material on these old pieces of technology available to the public? The New Yorker, July 29, 2014
Vancouver Art Gallery Library & Archives 