Canada! Arts! News! Roundup!

A roundup with lots of shout-outs to round off the week --

--On his Untitled blog, he Toronto Star's Murray Whyte has done a good job of following the troubling events surrounding the sudden "disassociation" of Jewish cultural org the Koffler Gallery from artist Reena Katz over her views on Palestine. As he reports, more artists are now choosing to dissociate themselves from the Koffler, and more Jewish cultural orgs are dropping out of Katz's project--which was to launch this week! (Untitled)

--The Georgia Straight reports that BC is the only province to have cut funds to the arts this year. Who sez? The Canadian Conference of the Arts. (The Straight)

--Erstwhile Canuck Paddy Johnson aka Art Fag City gives Toronto gallery sites a huge FAIL. Fun! (via Gabby Moser)

--Canadian architect Arthur Erickson died this week. The Post's Ampersand blog rounds up some of his greatest hits. (The Ampersand)

--With news of increasing museum fees in Toronto going pretty quietly into the Internet ether, I really appreciate Modern Art Notes's Tyler Green and his coverage of American admission fee issues, most recently at the Art Institute of Chicago. Inspiring to us too-adaptable, too-easygoing Canucks. (Modern Art Notes)

--The Globe's Fiona Morrow has a nice profile on how head Kathleen Bartels has changed the Vancouver Art Gallery for the better. (Globe and Mail)

--Two Alberta art writers, Amy Fung and Anthea Black, take a reality-TV style approach to their separate reviews of a Steve McQueen exhibition. Same exhibition visit, same deadline, same word count. Nice idea -- the reviews go up by midnight tonight! (Prairie Artsters & Shotgun-Review.ca)

--The Coast's Meredith Dault provides more insight into Eyelevel Gallery's Internet-free, 1970s-tech-only month. Can you say "rotary dial only"? (The Coast)

--Andrea Carson and I like to disagree about a lot of things over at her blog View on Canadian Art. But her thumbs up to overlooked artist Graham Peacock? Spot on. (VoCA)

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