Jun 11th, 2008
On the web: Quebec museums, Dubai, Carnegie Museum, Tate Britain, etc
Half of Quebec museums operate with a budget of less than $ 123,000.
Manif d’Art 4 draws to its end - we’re in the final sprint until Sunday.
The Museum of French America [Musée de l'Amérique-Française] presents Forgotten Presence: The Huguenots in New France until March 22, 2009.
[photo credits: Idra Labrie, Musée de l'Amérique-Française]
This week is also the good time to visit the archaeological area of the Palais in Quebec City. It is open to the public until June 13. It is on this location the Palace of the Intendant of New France was located. It is also where the first brewery operated in Quebec. The Côte du Palais draws its name from the building.
The Visionaries’ Garden [Le Potager des Visionnaires] was inaugurated this week. Charming - but I didn’t take my breath away.
Another week, another grandiose architectural project for Dubai. This week: a new amphitheatre for the opera, designed by Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher. It must be where all that money from oil is spent. [Other photos]
[Draft of a cultural centre and an opera, Dubai; Source: Dezeen Blog]
A museum guard who did not like a painting by Vija Celmin decided to cut it with a key. The act of vandalism has proved fatal to the work. The painting Night Sky # 12 was exposed in the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh.
Some gold artworks stolen from the Museum of Anthropology at the University of BC are back.
In 1957, an art gallery in California is closed by police in Los Angeles. The exhibition by Wallace Berman is considered obscene. It will be the only solo exhibition of the artist.
In 1962, Andy Warhol presents his first solo exhibition at the same place: Andy Warhol: Campbell’s Soup Cans. Five cans were sold at $ 100 each, but the owner of the gallery bought the lot to keep it intact.
Both events took place in the Ferus Gallery. Its story is told in the documentary The Cool School, which was broadcasted this week by Independent Lenses. It reruns on Vermont Public Television (WETK) (Thursday 12, 3:00; Friday, 13, 22.00) and PBS Mountain Lake (WCFE) (Sunday 15, 23:30). Set your VCRs!
The photographer Claude Dityvon died in La Rochelle.
The exhibition of contemporary art Art Basel ended with a massive crowd success: 60,000 people have passed through the doors.
A Russian billionaire decides not to sponsor a retrospective devoted to Kabakov. The event will take place anyway.
Tate Britain asks the public to help it buy an oil sketch by Rubens. The work in question, The Apotheosis of James I, is a study of the ceiling of the Banqueting House in London. It is important for some English people.
[Banqueting House; source: wikimedia.org]
