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The bigger they are . . . .

Here we have below in items 1 & 4 a tale of two cities wherein the media 
report bad things are happening at its biggest Art Gallery (Vancouver) and 
its newest Museum (Winnipeg). The first town is sobering-up to how divided 
the elites are about spending a half billion on new digs while the second 
town is still drinking-in the costs of erecting and operating a national 
museum dedicated mainly it seems to the racial slur. With all the arguments 
and accusations flying between various aggrieved ethnic elements demanding 
their forbearers' pains and suffering be highlighted, there hasn't been a 
spectacle like this among high priests since the Popes were moved to 
Avignon.

Bob Rennie is onto the VAG pyramid building madness at the Gallery, and his 
"decentralize" solution has merit as far as it goes. Broken into four 
locations the Gallery could not become a monstrous money-gulping operation 
whose holdings would grow even larger and costly. At least it wouldn't do so 
as rapidly. The real solution, however, is to stay put, remain modest-sized, 
and disperse 80% of the collection though permanent loans to whichever bars, 
hotels, cafes, schools, etc. are eager to mount their own displays. Since by 
far most of the VAG collection was acquired without any curatorial rigour, 
the hope would be that the institution need never have to have those loaned 
items returned.

As for the CMHR's woes in Winnipeg, its a classic case of governments 
forcing museums into the "business model". Heretofore science, art, and 
history were at the apex of such institutions. Yet now we have an inverted 
pyramid wherein the organizational heights are occupied by managers, 
administrators, financiers, publicists, and retailers. The small curatorial 
and artistic elements are listed at the bottom, almost an afterthought, 
really. By my count in item 4 below, bosses, moneychangers, and flacks 
comprise fully 55% of the current staff.

Another Canadian city - Montreal - has white elephant lessons in both its 
Olympic Stadium and Mirabel Airport fiascos to offer these two towns. Often 
being the biggest can also mean being very vulnerable to a sharp jolt - just 
ask Goliath.

Dan Gallacher



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o The collector vs. the director: Bob Rennie and the VAG
o Adad Hannah: tableaux vivants du Mexique à la Russie
o Arctic orchids and other delights
o Want a job? CMHR is probably hiring
o Peinture actuelle au Musée régional de Rimouski
o Mystery at the military museum
o Turtle celebrates 90 with berries and a bash
o Moving historic aircraft to museum a 'labour of love'
o Tiny James Naismith museum is no bull
o Une Plutonienne au musée
o Historic globe project hits stumbling block for former Victorian



The collector vs. the director: Bob Rennie and the VAG
The Globe and Mail Share/Partager
 The rain was falling and the Blue Mountain Brut was flowing on the rooftoop 
of the Rennie Collection at
Wing Sang as guests, protected under a giant white tent, toasted visiting 
Tate director Nicholas Serota with
a dinner put on by the collection's founder: Bob Rennie, condo king and art 
collector and provocateur.
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Adad Hannah: tableaux vivants du Mexique à la Russie
La Presse Share/Partager
 Ses tableaux vivants ont bien du succès dans le monde de l'art. L'artiste 
montréalais Adad Hannah
poursuit sa carrière internationale cet été: le musée Tamayo de Mexico et le 
San Antonio Museum of Art,
au Texas, lui ont commandé des oeuvres qu'il présentera dans quelques 
semaines. More/LIRE PLUS

Arctic orchids and other delights
Ottawa Citizen Share/Partager
 Travelling the Arctic with shotguns on their backs, four botanists from the 
Canadian Museum of Nature
have been unlocking secret plant life: unusual ferns, Arctic versions of 
dandelions, even orchids. They flew
through rapids in canoes crammed with science gear and found 'carpets' of 
bright flowers, almost no
weeds, and many plants that science has never identified. More/LIRE PLUS

Want a job? CMHR is probably hiring
Winnipeg Sun Share/Partager
 The beleaguered Canadian Museum for Human Rights - fraught with delays, 
massive cost-overruns,
funding shortfalls and high-ranking resignations - won't open until 2014 at 
the earliest. But that hasn't
stopped museum brass from bulking up its taxpayer-funded workforce, which 
now stands at 68 employees
with an annual payroll of $5 million. More/LIRE PLUS

Peinture actuelle au Musée régional de Rimouski
Le Devoir Share/Partager
 Le Musée régional de Rimouski (MRR) fait la part belle à la peinture cet 
été avec deux expositions qui
défendent des aspects très actuels de la pratique picturale. C'est le cas de 
David Lafrance qui, pour sa
première exposition muséale, présente ses tableaux dans un ensemble 
scénographié incluant sculptures et
bande sonore. More/LIRE PLUS

Mystery at the military museum
Vancouver Province Share/Partager
 Among the treasures unearthed as Seaforth Armoury is being cleaned out for 
renovation is a passport
from 1890. It was in an envelope in a pile of magazines dropped off at the 
desk of Capt. Rob MacDonald,
curator of the Armoury Museum and regimental historian of the Seaforth 
Highlanders who use the Burrard
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Turtle celebrates 90 with berries and a bash
The Canadian Press Share/Partager
 Gus the tortoise celebrated his 90th birthday with almost 1,000 people at 
the Museum of Nature in Halifax.
Museum staff believe Gus, who is barely bigger than a kitten, is the oldest 
gopher turtle in the world. They
estimate he hatched sometime between 1920 and 1925. His guests were treated 
to birthday cake and
lemonade, but Gus himself dined on organic blueberries and strawberries. The 
fruit was a 'special treat' for
the almost-century-old tortoise. More/LIRE PLUS

Moving historic aircraft to museum a 'labour of love'
Calgary Herald Share/Partager
 Two Rolls-Royce engines, each weighing more than 400 kilograms, a 
13-metre-long fuselage and a box
labelled Mosquito nose cone were some of the hundreds of items that arrived 
at the Bomber Command
Museum recently. More/LIRE PLUS

Tiny James Naismith museum is no bull
Ottawa Citizen Share/Partager
 James Naismith doesn't quite play basketball, but if you throw a ball at 
him, he'll jump. And maybe even
moo. James Naismith is Stephen Overbury's pet bull, named after the famed 
Canadian founder of
basketball. More/LIRE PLUS

Une Plutonienne au musée
La Presse Share/Partager
 Jusqu'au 3 septembre, le Musée de la culture populaire de Trois-Rivières 
abrite entre ses murs une
étrange créature: une Plutonienne, touriste fraîchement débarquée de Pluton. 
Intriguée par la culture
québécoise, elle invite les familles àparticiper à un rallye-enquête dans 
les différentes salles d'exposition.
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Historic globe project hits stumbling block for former Victorian
Victoria News Share/Partager
 A former provincial heritage minister is irate after the Royal B.C. Museum 
backed out of an agreement to
exhibit evidence that, if true, would upend B.C.'s history books. For the 
past three years, Sam Bawlf has
been lobbying the government to digitize and display a Molyneux globe, a 
415-year-old map created after
Sir Francis Drake's voyage around the world from 1577 to 1580. More/LIRE 
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