[BCMA] CMA Clipping Service: Dec 14

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Not long after the Stanley Cup Riot and Occupy Vancouver left the front 
pages, another battle for downtown Vancouver is glowing red hot as VAG 
director, Kathleen Bartel's and uber realtor Bob Rennie hurl competing 
visions at each other while poor taxpayers huddle near their banks' ATMs, 
praying there'll be enough cash left for a Greyhound ride out of town.

As shown in the clipping below, Rennie's latest revelation is his plan to 
use the existing site - the old wonderfully located courthouse currently 
home to the VAG - to house and exhibit outstanding Canadian historical art, 
and scatter the rest into less imposing still anonymous addresses around 
town.

When one considers Bartel's masterstroke of wanting the City to erect a 
nearly half-billion dollar tower on a sunless False Creek slope into which 
truckloads bearing the existing collection will unload their burdens of 
unexceptional though locally produced works just to have them finally 
available for the citizenry to see, then Rennie looks like a genius by 
comparison.

Want more proof?

Marching at Bartel's side are scores of lower mainland artists thrilled at 
the prospect that their own paintings, drawings, sculptures, etc. no long 
have to be stuffed away in basements, but will be welcomed into this new 
palais de personnes creatifes, not only now, but evermore, no matter how 
stuffed it in turn is bound to become.

The real villain in all this is a conceit that plagued most Canadian museums 
and galleries for decades leading to the millennium; the dream of unending 
accessions. What room will there be for quality when quantity pervades the 
scene. And what remedy will there be when there'll be no more money to build 
another tower?

Dan Gallacher

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o Le nouveau pavillon du Musée des beaux-arts ouvrira un an plus tard
o Collector wants to split up Vancouver gallery
o National human rights tool kit for teachers planned
o Québecor donne 1,5 million de dollars pour l'agrandissement du Musée 
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o Ancient stump at root of new museum display
o Hamilton in the midst of a grassroots cultural revival

Le nouveau pavillon du Musée des beaux-arts ouvrira un an plus tard
La Presse Share/Partager
Le futur pavillon du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec devrait ouvrir 
ses portes en septembre
2015, soit près d'un an plus tard que prévu. Même si le nouvel appel 
d'offres sera finalement lancé le 19
déc., l'échéancier est décalé «par la force des choses», a expliqué en 
entrevue le président de la
Fondation du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, John Porter. More/LIRE 
PLUS

Collector wants to split up Vancouver gallery
Vancouver Sun Share/Partager
 Bob Rennie has been critical of the Vancouver Art Gallery's ambitious plan 
to build a new gallery that could
cost $300 million. Now Vancouver's most successful real estate marketer has 
teamed up with urban
demography expert David Baxter to offer an alternative: a $150 million plan 
that would see the art gallery
spread out over several buildings. More/LIRE PLUS

National human rights tool kit for teachers planned
Winnipeg Free Press Share/Partager
 The Assembly of First Nations has joined the partnership to compile, 
promote, and distribute a human
rights national tool kit for teachers. The Canadian Museum for Human Rights 
and the Canadian Teachers
Federation announced the resource recently in Winnipeg. The group will 
encourage young people to work
on grassroots projects as Canadian Defenders for Human Rights. More/LIRE 
PLUS

Québecor donne 1,5 million de dollars pour l'agrandissement du Musée 
national des beaux-arts du
Québec
Le Devoir Share/Partager
 Un rêve autant qu'une nécessité, le projet d'agrandissement du Musée 
national des beaux-arts du Québec
prit son essor à l'automne 2010 alors que fut lancée une ambitieuse campagne 
de financement. Àl'automne
de la même année, le consortium formé par la firme néerlandaise OMA et la 
firme québécoise Provencher
Roy Associés remporta le concours architectural avec son concept cubiste 
privilégiant les surfaces en
verre. More/LIRE PLUS

Ancient stump at root of new museum display
Regina Leader-Post Share/Partager
 It was elk Don and Julia Waddell were after that fall day on the Athabasca 
River. What they thought at first
was a large boulder along the banks turned out to be far more interesting: 
the biggest petrified stump to be
discovered in Alberta. More/LIRE PLUS

Hamilton in the midst of a grassroots cultural revival
Toronto Star Share/Partager
 "People out on the highway look at those smokestacks and think Hamilton is 
some kind of stink hole," says
Tom Wilson, arguably the Hammer's most famous contemporary artist, a 
lumbering, sulphur-breathing rock
'n' roll animal whose ribald poetry, hairy edges and musky mystique make him 
the perfect poster boy for the
Steeltown that few people on the east side of the QEW divide ever get to 
see. More/LIRE PLUS

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