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• DIANE CARR ON JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: ‘I think another 50 years out of Big Blue is worth the investment’

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 433
  A WELL-LOVED VOICE OF VIC WEST WANTS TO SAVE BIG BLUE   A new bridge will serve for the next 100 years? Come on! If transportation changes as much in the next hundred years as it has in the past hundred, and given the accelerated rate of change, we’ll probably be flying by then. I think another 50 years out ...
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• SHEILA PROTTI ON REPAIRING JOSEPH STRAUSS’ JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: ’smaller tax burden… less disruption… more efficient process’

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 433
  VICTORIA TAXPAYER THINKS R EFURBISHMENT OPTION IS MORE REASONABLE: A N UPGRADED BRIDGE, EARTHQUAKE PROOF, WITH A HEALTHY LIFESPAN   Thanks for presenting the options for the Johnson Street Bridge (Nov. 29). Until now, I have seen little from the City [of Victoria]  about the refurbishing option. ...
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• MARY LOWTHER ON JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE: ‘Ventures as expensive as this one should automatically go to referendum’

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 433
  ‘ALTERNATIVES TO REBUILDING THE BRIDGE SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED’   I’ve learned not to rush into things, especially when someone is pressuring me to do so and a lot of money is at stake. Hasty decisions rarely pan out because there isn’t time to look into other approaches that might work better. Take the ...
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• ‘BLUE BRIDGE’ PETITIONER DOES COOK STREET VILLAGE: Gregory Hartnell signs up Peter Boles, Peggy Kim Brousseau for JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE REFERENDUM

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 433
  Got the blue vest from the Savoy office of the JohnsonSreetBridge.org petitioners, and did the half hour promenade, north up Cook on the east side, and then back south on the west side. Total strangers read the legend on the vest: BLUE BRIDGE PETITION and approach, asking what it is, or wanting to sign up right away. ...
  2 days ago

• Black Thursday: Depictions of Thanksgiving

  
  Art Talk Chicago — Authority: 416
  by Jeriah Hildwine It may be a truism that the more a thing is beloved by the majority of the American population, the more it will be disdained by the art world.  This is true of artists:  consider Monet, Rockwell, and of course Thomas Kinkade.  (Bob Ross is somehow too lovable for even the most bitter cynics to ...
  1 week ago

• What a Novel Idea: the Artist as Public Intellectual, Not Decorator

  
  Hrag Vartanian — Authority: 415
  These two lines put a smile on my face. In all the zaniness about the New Museum we’ve forgotten that artists shouldn’t only strive to decorate the homes of the super rich but lead or mold discussions on important topics that impact our global culture. While some artists simply reflect society, some are critical ...
  1 week ago

• Politics is Like Trying to Screw a Cat in the Ass (Part 3)

  
  Art Talk Chicago — Authority: 416
  by Jeriah Hildwine On Saturday, November 7, Sign of the Times opened at Monique Meloche in her new location on Division Street.  More Economics than Poli Sci, the work in Sign of the Times is all about the money.  The works address economic hardship and decline, unemployment, globalization, and recession, and ...
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• ELECTOR RESPONSE FORM FOR CITY OF VICTORIA’S ‘JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECT’ Alternative Approval Process pdf

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 433
  FORTIN’S SEMI- FINAL 10% SOLUTION An Elector Response Form for the City of Victoria’s ‘Johnson Street Bridge Replacement Project’s alternate approval process,’  (AAP)  or ‘counter petition process’ in pdf format only is found in the Comments section below.   - Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell, ...
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• What is a museum supposed to be?

  
  Hrag Vartanian — Authority: 415
  My apologies to Jean-Jacques Davids "Le Serment du Jeu de paume" (1791) As the New Museum controversy rages on, people are finally asking questions that we should periodically be asking of our arts institutions. The reason they haven’t come up before was probably because for the last six years we were all too ...
  2 weeks ago

• Politics is Like Trying to Screw a Cat in the Ass (Part 2)

  
  Art Talk Chicago — Authority: 416
  by Jeriah Hildwine Political art is at home in Chicago, but this is sometimes a risky proposition.  Consider Frederick Hollands painfully didactic American Blend, from last years Consuming War at the Hyde Park Art Center.  "American Blend" Some of the work in that show was quite good; I suspect that the ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Do We Reform the Art World?

  
  Hrag Vartanian — Authority: 415
  Charlie Finch has an interesting idea: The auction houses should be required by law to tell us who bought what, but, more importantly, transparency would be in the best interests of the auction world because more people would get involved and it would be more fun! Unfortunately, “fun” is the last thing that art ...
  2 weeks ago

• Are Art Prizes a Waste of Time?

  
  Hrag Vartanian — Authority: 415
  The Philadelphia Inquirer ’s contributing art critic Edward Sozanski seems to think so , and he makes a convincing case: For all but a handful of the chosen, the prize ethos is corrupting. Pitting artists against one another as if they were gladiators is inherently insidious. And every year lots of artists waste ...
  2 weeks ago

• MORE ART CRITICISM : ON CHRISTOPHER HEATHCOTES KIND OF BLUE

  
  poetry & ideas — Authority: 112
  CHRISTOPHER HEATHCOTE, Kind of Blue Gallery 101 [Ground level, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne]; November 4-28th, 2009 At Christopher Heathcotes opening the other night at 101, red in hand & generously at hand, the trio smoothly dipping in & out of Coward, Brubeck, Monk, Miles et al , not yet playing the ...
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• Sam Gilliam on what it means to be an artist

  
  Victoria Webb - Furious Dreams. Painter, Designer, Activist — Authority: 114
  Gilliam juried my work into an exhibit last spring at Philadelphia’s  Woodmere Museum of Ar t and I love that he says success for an artist is in just ‘doing it’, more than anything else. And that change is a routine part of the job. ”Art is the best position (to have) in any country….it’s the best ...
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• How Does One Measure Great Art?

  
  View on Canadian Art — Authority: 507
  On Friday, I blogged about an exhibition that I had gone to see. I gave it a hasty, dismissive review and got some interesting and passionate comments in return.Bruce Nauman, Green Light Corridor, 1970. Image: guggenheim.comThe reason for my review was less about the actual exhibition itself – the art wasn’t, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brooke Moyse, “Forest M.E.” (2009)

  
  Hrag Vartanian — Authority: 415
  This is one of my favorite works from the season, and it’s on display during BETA Spaces in Bushwick tomorrow. Sharon from Two Coats of Paint tells us a little about Moyse’s show, “The Otherside:” At Norte Maar this month, [Jason] Andrew has installed [six] paintings by Bushwick artist Brooke Moyse . ...
  3 weeks ago

• On the Universality of Art

  
  Precious Bodily Fluids — Authority: 124
  That unfortunately lofty title implies that there’s a lot more below it than there can reasonably or realistically be. However, after hundreds of consecutive posts of particular films (interspersed with little news items or trailers and the occasional comparative study), larger concerns keep getting caught in the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Should VoCA be More Critical?

  
  View on Canadian Art — Authority: 507
  Dear VoCA readers,Should VoCA be more critical?I’m starting to feel (again) that Toronto is one big artistic love-in, when the fact is that a lot of art being made today is just not very good. (Thank you Jerry Saltz for backing me up on this.) The danger is that really good work is [...]
  4 weeks ago

• The Art World is Dead. Long Live Art.

  
  Pretty Lady — Authority:
  By now, anyone who cares is well versed in the Tragedy of Becky Smiths Bellwether. Once sales dried up by the fall of 2008, Becky called three of her largest collectors, pleading for some business — “I tried playing it cool, and then I tried playing it direct,” she said. She recounted a typical ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Yield at Heaven Gallery

  
  Art Talk Chicago — Authority: 416
  by Madeleine Bailey Wilderness, and the rendering of a clear sense of place, is strongly referenced in many of the collected works showcased in The Yield.   Manifested visually by references to trees, tree branches, foliage, and leafy fronds of all sorts, this show at Heaven Gallery brought together over 50 artists ...
  4 weeks ago

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