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'We are their home, so we should display them' *
GEOFFREY YORK reports on a campaign to recover looted relics that would put a dozen bronze animals back on their pedestals in Beijing. [More]

92-Year-Old Canadian Art Treasure John Koerner Launches Autobiography *
A Brush with Life will prove a valuable source book for art historians and curators, and of course for the many collectors of Koerner’s art. [More]

A mighty brain stretch *
The Joao Penalva and Liam Gillick shows at the Power Plant are baffling, but SARAH MILROY finds the journey toward understanding them is worth the effort. [More]

A photo a day keeps the mundane away *
All of the shows on today's agenda are about accumulation, about art in aggregate. [More]

Amelia Alcock-White Exhibition *
Art opening: Thursday, November 25, 2004, Vancouver, BC [More]

André Alexis: A nomad at play in radio land *
Given carte blanche by the CBC to try his hand at writing for radio, author ANDRÉ ALEXIS discovered it's all about voice. [More]

Architects realize their seating plan *
Shim-Sutcliffe Architects join the storied ranks of designers to have breathed new life into the humble chair, LISA ROCHON writes. [More]

Art in the war zone *
Many, including art critic Robert Hughes, argue that modern and contemporary art have little of value to say about atrocities, GUY DIXON writes. [More]

Art of Resistance *
November 21st to December 8th, 2003, Victoria, BC [More]

Art that's ready for takeoff *
There's great art at Terminal 1. But where are the Canadians? asks SARAH MILROY. [More]

Bad on purpose or just plain bad? *
The themes Judy Radul is exploring in her video installations are worthy enough, but viewing them is mind-numbingly boring, writes SARAH MILROY. [More]

Banff TV body in money crisis *
Two weeks after Pat Ferns gave up his executive director's chair, the Banff Television Foundation has made another startling announcement: The venerable arts institution is filing for bankruptcy protection. [More]

Bark if you love art *
Ever wonder what a dog sees on his strolls through the world? Canadian artist Jana Sterbak did, and the resulting video installation is opening a few eyes at the Venice Biennale [More]

Between a rock and a landscape *
SARAH MILROY looks at the legacy of E.J. Hughes, an artist who forged a distinct view of the B.C. vista, only to be distracted by the influence of his dealer. [More]

Canada Council asks for increased funding *
The Canada Council for the Arts has asked Ottawa to increase arts funding to "reaffirm the importance of arts and culture in Canadian society and, more broadly, in the world." [More]

Canadian fights Elizabeth Taylor over a Van Gogh *
Elizabeth Taylor is suing a Canadian lawyer and his two South African siblings to prevent them from claiming a van Gogh painting that she has on the wall of her Los Angeles mansion -- a painting they say was looted from their great-grandmother by the Nazis before the start of the Second World War. [More]

Carr painting fetches record price *
A tranquil forest scene by Emily Carr fetched a $1,121,250 at auction Thursday, a record for the late B.C. artist. [More]

Christie's auction breaks record for Toulouse-Lautrec *
A portrait by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec sold for $22.4 million (U.S.) Tuesday at a Christie's sale of Impressionist and Modern paintings and sculptures, the highest auction price ever paid for a work by the artist. [More]

Colville's unspoken truths *
Eerie and ominous, even the 82-year-old artist's newest works can leave viewers feeling unsettled, SHAWNA RICHER writes. [More]

Confounding the senses *
Nestor Kruger and Luanne Martineau's works at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver both challenge and defy ordinary perception with their high and street-art sensibilities, SARAH MILROY says. [More]

Coquitlam Art Show *
November 5, 2005, Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC [More]

CRTC move threatens new media *
Funding cutbacks deal a body blow, industry says [More]

Doris McCarthy: Portrait of a happy artist *
Doris McCarthy is still painting, travelling and writing at full throttle at the age of 93, SARAH MILROY writes. [More]

Dream Girls show announced for Prague *
July 1st to September 15th, 2004 -- Prague, Czech Republic [More]

Edmonton scientist gets $1.6-million for virtual reality work *
Musicians thousands of miles apart could jam in cyberspace and engineers from different continents could analyze designs in virtual reality if a University of Alberta researcher's work pays off. [More]

End of B.C. Film seed money decried *
Filmmakers in British Columbia have just lost a lucrative source of funding... [More]

Fibre Art and Paintings by Karen Chapnick *
December 15, 2005 to January 18, 2006, Vancouver, BC [More]

Finding Comfort in controversy *
A Charles Comfort mural is unveiled in its new home at Simon Fraser University. [More]

Flamboyant West Coast artist Onley dies in crash *
This time, renowned flying artist Toni Onley did not escape. After surviving a series of close calls during his 39-year flying career, one of Canada's most flamboyant, prolific and wealthy artists died on Sunday when his familiar float plane plunged into the Fraser River. [More]

Flimsy case held AGO's stolen ivories *
The case housing five miniature ivory portraits stolen from the Art Gallery of Ontario was so flimsy that thieves were able to break in simply by bending the metal sides and opening the glass door, an AGO employee told The Globe and Mail on Monday. [More]

Floating on the resale market *
The big three auction houses of Sotheby's, Joyner Waddington and Heffel are offering 1,000 lots over the next three weeks. But, JAMES ADAMS writes, will they fetch the record-setting numbers of the last three years? [More]

Foolproof Canadian marketing blitz *
But is the unprecedented campaign for the film motivated largely by the glittering prize of Telefilm funding? GAYLE MACDONALD reports. [More]

Friends remember late arts patron Doris Shadbolt *
When 85-year-old Doris Shadbolt died last week, not only did Vancouver's arts community lose a writer, educator, curator and devoted supporter, but her friends say that her sudden death is also cause for arts patrons across the country to mourn. [More]

Fringe festival dance group on the limp *
The fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists (fFIDA) is in deep crisis: Unless $20,000 is raised by the end of October, it may not be able to continue. [More]

Gauguin painting fetches record price for the artist *
Mysterious buyer snaps up Maternitéat [More]

Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95 *
Legendary French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who travelled the world for more than a half century capturing human drama with his camera, has died. He was 95. [More]

Imageworks Winter Show 2005 *
Vancouver, BC, February 1 - 25th [More]

Imagine peace, or else! *
Yoko Ono's new art installation in London is all about imagining peace, but pretty much everywhere the place is knee-deep in gore. One woman at its opening gala on Thursday sized up the grim display and observed, with the dry brevity of a New Yorker cartoon: "I see post-Iraq is the new post-9/11." [More]

Is the Canada Council's largesse good art? *
You can become so inured to bad news in the arts --- shrinking budgets, aging audiences, battered endowment funds -- that when a piece of good news comes along, it can be difficult to grasp. [More]

Ivories safe with me, Thomson says *
Billionaire art collector Kenneth Thomson said yesterday that for the next several years he will privately enjoy the five ivory cameos recovered on the weekend."I just want to keep them safe," Mr. Thomson said. "They will not be stolen again, I can assure you." [More]

Jeremy Deller: Taking it from the street *
SARAH MILROY talks to Jeremy Deller about his brand of folk art. [More]

Kenojuak Ashevak: 'Art is my job and my love' *
She's a celebrity guest on board an Arctic cruise, but nothing the Inuit artist does broadcasts her profession. When the ship pulls into Cape Dorset, however, it's as if the Queen herself has landed. [More]

Lawren Harris painting sells for $1.4-million *
The bullish Canadian art market showed no signs of slowing down yesterday as Sotheby's Canada sold more than 160 lots worth almost $6-million at its spring auction in Toronto, setting records for least four Canadian painters in the process. [More]

Lawren Harris work expected to take top dollar at upcoming auctions *
As a populace, Canadians have an ambivalent view of snow, an ambivalence that turns to outright disgust at this time of year. But as art lovers, well . . . it seems we can't get enough of the white stuff. [More]

Lord, He's hot *
Talk about resurrecting your career. Name the arts genre and Jesus was there in 2003, MICHAEL POSNER writes. [More]

Margaret Atwood: The art of the matter *
Science is a tool -- the arts express those dreams for which we want to use our tools, says MARGARET ATWOOD, who delivered the 2004 Kesterton Lecture. [More]

Mau's grand design goes deeper *
The acclaimed designer's Massive Change exhibition ambitiously looks to redefine every one of our organizational endeavours, SARAH MILROY writes. [More]

Modernism is cool, but who wants to live there? *
We seem to be going through another "Art Deco revival," an event that the media gorge themselves on every 10 years. [More]

New Canadian design history-theory online course planned *
A new Canadian design history-theory course, soon to be available from Emily Carr Institute. A fascinating trip through Canada's past. [More]

New Leonardo da Vinci sketch uncovered *
National Gallery experts using infrared techniques have discovered a Leonardo da Vinci sketch hidden underneath a painting by the Italian master, conservationists said Friday. [More]

Not coming to the multiplex *
Toronto's Images Festival features 200 works exploring images in sequence. It's storytelling at its most un-Hollywood, LIAM LACEY writes. [More]

O come all ye rich (and shameless) collectors *
If you're a visual artist, you've undoubtedly had at least one, if not all of the following recurring nightmares: Your show opens and nobody comes; the best show of your career hangs on the walls unsold; or, most horrifying, you are asked to donate your work to a charity auction. [More]

Old Man attends Queen's *
With his deeply furrowed brow, unsure expression and black shroud, the arrival of an old man in a cap is one of the most spectacular recent art events to take place at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont. [More]

Pain: 'The curse of ballet' *
Geon van der Wyst could be a poster boy for the injuries a dancer can expect in the ballet world. When the National Ballet of Canada opens its mixed program tomorrow, and returns with The Sleeping Beauty the following week, van der Wyst will not be on stage. [More]

Painting confirmed as a Vermeer *
She sits at a keyboard, in her white skirt and yellow shawl -- until now, a woman of mystery... [More]

Paintings by Alec Joseph Becker *
Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery at the Jewish Community Centre, Vancouver, BC, Thursday, January 17, 2007 to Wednesday, February 6th, 2007. Opening reception, January 17, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. [More]

Patron, partner, pioneer *
After decades of bringing world art to Canadians, Ydessa Hendeles is being lauded for her vision and influence from Paris to London to New York to Munich, where a show from her private collection has established her as one of the world's great curators. [More]

Picasso piece sets auction record *
Pablo Picasso's 1905 painting Boy with a Pipe sold for $104-million (U.S.) Wednesday at Sotheby's, shattering the record for an auctioned painting. [More]

Portsmouth looks like Venice, doesn't it? *
Few travellers would confuse the southern English port city of Portsmouth with the wonders of Venice and its canals. [More]

Protesters to greet Gehry unveiling *
Demonstration is aimed at issue of 'institutional expansion,' not Gehry design, JAMES ADAMS reports. [More]

Recovery depends on motive *
Five ivory cameos stolen on the weekend from the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto could end up four blocks or 4,000 kilometres from where they last were seen. They could even end up being clandestinely returned to the back door, so to speak, of the AGO. It all depends on the motivation of the thief or thieves. [More]

Richard Brodeur: Mastering the real art of hockey *
On the ice, the zone means that the puck is the size of a beach ball, the play moves in slow motion, and the goalie seems to stop everything with the greatest of ease; there's a zone in painting, too, says Richard Brodeur. [More]

Rites of Passage *
Collective of Black Artists celebrates struggle and survival with its dance show Middle Passage, PAULA CITRON writes. [More]

Sheila Larson's Art exhibit of works of Liliana Kleiner *
"Fierce and intuitive, the artist's vision is guided by the spirit of the earth. The paintings explore elemental transformations; meeting places of life with death, the mundane with the sacred, the senses with the transcendent" [More]

Sifting for beauty in the junk yard *
Ken Gregory is a Winnipeg 'anti-engineer' who creates vivid art from stuff the commercial world has left behind, writes ROBERT ENRIGHT. . . [More]

Silver: Dreams, Screens & Theories *
November 29, 2003 to February 8, 2004, Victoria, BC [More]

Snapping hounds *
A Winnipeg exhibition of 145 photographs of dogs is full of canine wit and human folly [More]

Soulosphere: Spheres of Experience opening *
Despite a heavy hand in the design department, this display venue shows promise. Opening: February 6, 2006, 7:00 p.m., Vancouver, BC. [More]

Squeaky-clean David ready for 500th anniversary *
The contested cleaning of David is done, with decades of grayish grime stripped from Michelangelo's towering tribute to nude male beauty months ahead of 500th anniversary celebrations for the masterpiece. [More]

Stilt walkers shut out of Olympics *
Canadian culture has been shut out of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens this August now that the Vancouver arts troupe invited to represent the country has been denied government funding for transportation. [More]

Stolen ivory cameos will be difficult to fence, official says *
'Fairly unusual,' 300-year-old works by Le Marchand won't appeal to all art collectors. [More]

Stolen sculptures recovered *
Police have recovered the five ivory sculptures stolen Jan. 17 from the Art Gallery of Ontario. The palm-sized sculptures are worth $1.5-million. [More]

Stolen: Portrait of a Woman and Her Daughter with a Whippet *
One of the AGO cameos stolen in January, 2004 [More]

Stolen: Portrait of Charles Mordant, 3rd Earl of Peterborough *
One of the AGO cameos stolen in January, 2004 [More]

Stolen: Portrait of Christopher Wren, Jr *
One of the AGO cameos stolen in January, 2004 [More]

Stolen: Portrait of Sir Humphrey Morice, Governor of the Bank of England *
One of the AGO cameos stolen in January, 2004 [More]

Stolen: Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton *
One of the AGO cameos stolen in January, 2004 [More]

The Art of the Heist *
Art theft ranks only behind drug and weapons trafficking as the most popular criminal enterprise, according to Interpol. Roughly $9-billion worth of fine art is stolen every year around the world. [More]

The Baroness and Joseph Beuys *
The Italian art lover is wildly passionate about the work of the famous 20th-century German artist, SARAH MILROY writes. [More]

The Bilbao effect *
Art versus architecture: Which will win out? SARAH MILROY looks at the magnificence of the new museums and wonders if their beauty is only skin deep. [More]

The case of the gilded urn *
Significant British art-world trial pits wealthy Canadian against Christie's and a marquess. [More]

The deco and the decadent *
Although it leaves some thorny questions hanging, a new exhibit captures art deco's drop-dead elegance, SARAH MILROY writes [More]

The new AGO *
Major highlights of Frank Gehry's redesign of the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto... [More]

The painter of Lahore's outcasts *
Artist Iqbal Hussain has spent the past 30 years painting the city's shunned community of prostitutes. [More]

The Paintings of Michael Furtado *
December 12 to 18, 2003, Victoria, BC [More]

The sound of a Canadian identity *
Two exhibits set out to document the relationship between music and art in Canada, but end up doing much more, writes SARAH MILROY [More]

The spooky place where art meets science *
Stem-cell revelations, nanotechnology used to make molecular graffiti -- they're at the Subtle Technologies festival of art and science. Psychic birds didn't make the cut, STEPHEN STRAUSS writes. [More]

The Vancouver Fringe Festival celebrates its 22nd year with the return of the Graffiti Art Pit *
September 9 and 10, 2006, Vancouver, BC [More]

Through, solo show *
November 28, 2003 to January 13, 2004, Vancouver, BC [More]

Transvestite potter wins Turner Prize *
"It's about time a transvestite potter won the Turner Prize," said Perry, who appeared at the prize ceremony in a lilac dress with puffed sleeves. [More]

Turning on to Bob Masse *
The legendary poster artist for bands such as the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane has turned his psychedelic talents to new acts like Smashing Pumpkins, ALEXANDRA GILL finds. Just don't ask him if he likes their music. [More]

Vancouver Art goes underground *
ALEXANDRA GILL descends into a dark, dusty bunker three storeys beneath the old B.C. Hydro building, where five of Vancouver's best contemporary artists are briefly reunited in a haunting show. [More]

Vancouver's Centre cuts shows, staff *
Two years after reopening with much pomp and promise, the Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts, formerly known as the Ford Centre, is facing an uncertain future. [More]

Western exposure: Artist Robert Smithson **** 1/2
Artist Robert Smithson had a taste for the magnificence of nature, SARAH MILROY writes, and British Columbia fit the bill. A current exhibition tells the tale of his four visits [More]

What does it really take to run a culture ministry? *
Arts lobbyists and culturecrats have been busy trying to assess Hélène Chalifour Scherrer, a Paul Martin loyalist from Quebec City with zero profile in the cultural community, since she was sworn in as Minister of Canadian Heritage on Friday. [More]

What's your bid for Pablo's boy in blue? *
A rare 1905 Picasso may shatter sales records at auction this week in New York. [More]

Winnipeg's singular collective raises a ruckus *
Winnipeg artists are collectively playing the numbers game. In the past, the city established a reputation for producing individual artists of singular talent -- Ivan Eyre, Don Reichert, Wanda Koop, William Eakin and Eleanor Bond are all painters and photographers whose careers have been solo affairs... [More]

Young talents return from France *
Group of nine Southern California art students return from France inspired by their experiences -- gallery show planned at MB Fine Art Gallery in West Hollywood, CA -- Wednesday, February 22, 2006 and through March 1, 2006 [More]

Yves Gaucher: The strange journey of genius *
A retrospective of Yves Gaucher is fascinating in how it shows the various phases that the late Montreal abstract painter went through, SARAH MILROY writes [More]

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* Press release: evalu8.org announces 2006 recipients of highest accolade -- its Award of Distinction *
Nominations are tendered annually by evalu8.org visitors, and voted on by evalu8.org's panel of experts in each category. Here's a list of recipients of the 2006 awards, as released June 28, 2007. [More]

38th Annual Christmas Carol Week *
Sorry, finished for 2003 [More]

André Breton Sale, Paris *
[More]

Art and Culture of India -- more than meets the eye *
India's diversity of religions, languages, and cultures is unparalleled. This complex nation's intricate ethnic mosaic is reflected nowhere as dramatically as in its art, architecture, music, and dance. [More]

Artworks 30,000 years old *
Some of the oldest undisputed artworks ever found — figurines carved from mammoth ivory around 30,000 years ago — have been discovered in a cave in Germany, shedding light on early humans' religious beliefs and confirming they were surprisingly skilled artists. [More]

Banks donate to the arts…in Tee-Zero, of course *
It was raining money yesterday in Toronto as two of the country's largest banks announced they were giving a total of almost $8-million to five major cultural institutions based in the Ontario capital. [More]

Coupeville Arts and Crafts Festival **** 1/2
The 43rd annual arts and crafts festival in the historic waterfront district of Coupeville, WA, on Whidbey Island. August 12 to 13, 2006. [More]

Danny Burns Memorial “Feed the Hungry Benefit” *
December 7, 2003, Vancouver, BC [More]

Deconstructing the AGO *
Four leading architects tell SARAH MILROY how they view Frank Gehry's design for the Art Gallery of Ontario. [More]

Diane Arbus: The voyeur is revealed *
A retrospective of the work of photographer Diane Arbus shows why her images shocked so many [More]

Elizabeth Taylor sues to keep ownership of Van Gogh work *
Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor is fighting a family's claims that a Vincent van Gogh painting she owns was taken from one of their ancestors by Nazis. [More]

Emily Carr Student Art Show & Sale 2005 *
November 25 - 27, 2005, Vancouver, BC. [More]

Fans lament closure of Regina's Dunlop Arts Gallery *
Small but vibrant space run by the city's public library is to be closed March 1, 2004. [More]

Gallery closing sparks backlash *
Regina's mayor is asking for a decision to shut the Dunlop to be reversed. [More]

Imperial forced to change its arts funding programs *
One of Canada's major tobacco companies said yesterday it will increase its funding for the arts this year by $1-million -- or about 50 per cent -- from last year and will funnel a greater portion of that money to smaller groups. [More]

Jewison one of six G-G's award winners *
Douglas Campbell, Ian Tyson also to receive prize... [More]

Kate Taylor: The rising fear of getting dumb and dumber *
The American intelligentsia is anxious these days. Perhaps it's because of Iraq: The intellectuals know they are brighter and better informed than George Bush, but damned if he hasn't outsmarted them. There is no direct link between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, there are no weapons of mass destruction, but Bush has won the hearts and minds of the American public nonetheless. [More]

Little Miss Sunshine bright ray at SAG Awards *
The road-trip romp Little Miss Sunshine won the prize for best film ensemble, the guild's equivalent of a best-picture award. [More]

Montreal museum to host 1960s exhibition *
Starting Oct. 2, the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal will host Global Village: The '60s. The exhibit will feature about 230 works in media such as design, photography, fashion and architecture, each exemplifying something that was brand new in the 1960s. [More]

Music, visual art and the shrieks that bind them *
Music and visual art are estranged siblings, each wanting what the other one's got enough to stir lifelong resentment. They stirred first in the same cave, we assume, one daubing blood and fruit juice up on the stone and the other picking up a couple of rocks and knocking them to a beat; and they both eventually got sent to the same schools, groomed and jargoned up to the eyeballs and earholes into respectability [More]

Open Wings Photogram exhibit takes flight at Studio Blue *
Mia Weinberg, a local photogram artist rediscovers the benefits of using a technique that pre-dates photographic technology to capture the reflection of nature’s wonders. Her collaborative project with Kate Collie features photograms of dragonflies, maps and plants. [More]

Patterns of Life Show *
You are invited to a photography exhibit opening, presented by the Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery -- continues until February 19, 2006, Vancouver, BC. Admission gratis. [More]

Robert Bateman Commemorative Prints (Garber review) *****
A great idea for this Christmas is the set of Robert Bateman Commemorative Prints that are for sale at Canadian Tire stores. [More]

Security video in stolen art case released *
Toronto police released security video tapes Friday showing three “individuals of interest” at the Art Gallery of Ontario the day several ivory portraits worth $1.5-million were stolen. [More]

Strolling through an urban gallery *
One of Europe's finest art collections is on display in the public spaces of Barcelona [More]

Suzy Birstein, ceramic artist ****
This delightful artist invites you to "Celebrate the everyday -- every day." Sale dates: Saturday, December 13 and Sunday, December 14, 2003 (or by appointment), Vancouver, BC (Kitsilano) [More]

The call of the wild *
Emerging architect Pierre Thibault finds being out in nature can trigger fresh, creative ideas, LISA ROCHON writes. [More]

The East Side Culture Crawl is almost upon us *
The artists are gearing up for the East Side Culture Crawl: November 19, 20 & 21, 2004, Vancouver, BC [More]

The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson (Garber review) *****
Art historian Silcox, a wonderfully lucid stylist, describes The Group of Seven as "socially responsible, serious, fervent, egalitarian, and sensitive to the concerns of ordinary people," even though they failed to accept women artists as their equals, and expertly chronicles their mission to create an "all-Canadian art." [More]

These artists know how to rock *
Contemporary music is inspiring artists to explore the relationship between song and art, SARAH MILROY writes. Put another dime in the jukebox, baby. [More]