Krueger Confirms Bad News for the Arts

Arts Minister Kevin Krueger is quoted by Michael Smyth in The Province this morning.

"It's a heck of an unfortunate way to meet some of these people that I've admired most of my life, but these are hard times. The government doesn't have any more money."

Visit Stop BC Arts Cuts for more information

Protest Arts Funding Cuts Today

RALLY TO PROTEST ARTS FUNDING CUTS IN B.C.

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Where: In front of the Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street
When: Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 at noon
Wear Gray – the colour of life without art
Bring your family, friends, board members, audiences – anyone who feels that the cultural life of BC is important.

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British Columbia’s arts and culture sector is being decimated by a government that is clearly contemptuous of one of the province’s most productive economic sectors.

Arts funding has and is being cut despite recent headlines telling us it has been “restored” - This is only for a few and only temporarily. Despite what we are being told, the figures we have at present tell us that our sector will be cut by up to 92% by the end of this government’s mandate. This while their own studies show that for every $1 they invest, they receive a return of $1.38 in taxes.

We ask you to consider the ways that arts and culture touch your daily lives at home, in the streets, your children in schools, on TV, your music, on the internet, in videogames and in theatres. We ask you to think about culture as part of our individual and community identities, a way to connect with our origins with who we are today, and with what we care about.

Our world would be a gray place without our art and culture. Art is not a frill. Culture matters.

Please join us.


For more information, visit the following links:
http://www.vancouversun.com/Victoria+backs+down+arts+funding+cuts+after+
outcry/1957999/story.html
http://www.straight.com/content/arts/arts-notes
http://www.allianceforarts.com/
http://www.theprovince.com/life/Gambling+with+other+people+money/1957693
/story.html

Saturday April 18th - Vancouver Art Hop

CANADIAN ART GALLERY HOP VANCOUVER

JOIN US FOR A DAY OF ART, CONVERSATION AND FILM
Saturday April 18th, 2009

TICKET PRICES
Tickets available at www.casv.ca
Full-day tickets include opening lecture, screening and reception: $75 / CASv members $60 / students $30
Screening and reception only: $60
Ticket for lecture only: $15 -- This ticket level is SOLD OUT -- To be placed on the wait list, please send an email with your contact information to info@casv.ca
Full-day Art Hop ticket PLUS one year CASV Membership special promotion: $195

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

11 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
SARAH THORNTON
Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street

Begin your day with a special talk by Sarah Thornton, author of Seven Days in the Art World. Thornton's acclaimed book takes us behind the scenes at Christie's auction house, a "crit" class at CalArts, Art Basel, the Turner Prize, Takashi Murakami's studio and the Venice Biennale. She will reveal how she went about researching the book, explain how its narratives are "ethnographic" and address some of its recurrent themes, such as artistic validation and social hierarchies.

A Canadian based in the U.K., Thornton has a B.A. in art history and a Ph.D. in sociology. She writes about art, the art world and the art market for many publications, including the Art Newspaper and Artforum. She has taught cultural studies at Sussex University, and was a visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Presented as part of ART TALKS: Canadian Art INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER SERIES
Sponsored by BMO Financial Group

1:30 - 5:00 p.m.
FREE GALLERY TALKS
In the afternoon, hit Vancouver's galleries. Canadian Art will have the experts on hand to introduce the artists and dealers who make the gallery world tick.

Please see below for more details.

SPECIAL SCREENING AND RECEPTION
HERB AND DOROTHY
5:30.- 8:30 p.m.
Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street

Complete your day with a special screening of Herb and Dorothy, Megumi Sasaki's award-winning documentary film, followed by a cocktail reception with fellow art lovers. You don't need to be a Rockefeller to collect art. He was a postal clerk. She was a librarian. With their modest means, this couple managed to build one of the most important contemporary-art collections in history. Meet Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, whose passion and committment defy stereotypes and redefine what it means to be an art collector. The Washington Post calls this film "a love affair with art."

Director Megumi Sasaki will be present to introduce the film and participate in a Q&A.

Presented in partnership with:

Thank you to our sponsors:

GALLERY TALK SCHEDULE

DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER

Access Artist Run Centre
206 Carrall Street
(604) 689-2907

Art Beatus
108-808 Nelson Street
(604) 688-2633
Tomoyo Ihaya, "Drawings-Trees and Water"

Artspeak
233 Carrall Street
(604) 688-0051
Group Show, "Literally"

Bel Art Gallery
100-602 West Hastings Street
(604) 685-7823

TALK 1:30 pm
Blanket Contemporary Art, Inc.
235 Alexander Street
(604) 709-6100
Matthew A. Chambers

Buschlen Mowatt Galleries
1445 West Georgia Street
(604) 682-1234/1-800-663-8071
Ricardo Mazai, new paintings

TALK 2:30 pm
Centre A
2 West Hastings Street
(604) 683-8326
Group show, "Another City"

TALK 3:30 pm
Contemporary Art Gallery
555 Nelson Street
(604) 681-2700
Tim Gardner
BGL

Gallery Atsui
602 East Hastings
(604) 562-5088
"The New Photographers"

Gallery Gachet
88 East Cordova Street
(604) 687-2468
Sylvia Kind

Helen Pitt Gallery
102-148 Alexander Street
(604) 681-6740

Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
206 Cambie Street
(604) 688-7323
Group show, "Arctic Wildlife"

TALK 4:00 pm
Jeffrey Boone Gallery
1 East Cordova Street, #140
(604) 838-6816
Mike Grill, "Parrot"

Jennifer Kostuik Gallery
1070 Homer Street
(604) 737-3969
Diane Bos
Aron Hill

TALK 4:00 pm
Marion Scott Gallery
308 Water Street
(604) 685-1934
Edward Epp, "Mystic North"

Or Gallery
555 Hamilton Street
(604) 683-7395
Group show, "Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods"

SFU Art Gallery
515 West Hastings Street
(778) 782-4266
"Black Communities in British Columbia, 1858-2008"

Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG)
750 Hornby Street
(604) 662-4700
"Legacies of Impressionism" (January 31 - April 19)
"How Soon Is Now" (February 7 - May 3)
"Enacting Abstraction" (February 14 - May 10)
"Western Landscapes" (March 7 - May 18)

MAIN STREET/MOUNT PLEASANT

Antisocial Gallery
2337 Main Street
(604) 708-5678
Anna Szaflarski, "Helen Major/A Documentary Account"

TALK 3:00 pm
Catriona Jeffries Gallery
274 East 1st Avenue
(604) 736-1554
Christos Dikeakos

TALK 4:00 pm
CSA Space
5-2414 Main Street
Ian Wallace, "On Surplus Value"

Elliott Louis Gallery
1-258 East 1st Avenue
(604) 736-3282
Andrew Tong, "So It Goes"

Grunt Gallery
116-350 East 2nd Avenue
(604) 875-9516
Dimitry Strakovsky, "...as if a forest"

VIVO Media Arts Centre
1965 Main Street
(604) 872-8337

Western Front
303 East 8th Avenue
(604) 876-9343
Elizabeth Zvonar

SOUTH GRANVILLE

The Art Emporium
2928 Granville Street
(604) 738-3510

Bau-Xi Gallery
3045 Granville Street
(604) 733-7011
Darlene Cole
Eszter Burghardt

Diane Farris Gallery
1590 West 7th Avenue
(604) 737-2629
John Dennison, "Tableau Printemps"

Douglas Reynolds
2335 Granville Street
(604) 731ñ9292
Northwest Coast Native Art

Douglas Udell Gallery
1558 West 6th Avenue
(604) 736-8900
Spring show opening, 2-4 p.m.

Elissa Cristall Gallery
2245 Granville Street
(604) 730-9611
Jeroen Witvliet, "And All the King's Men"

TALK 2:30 pm
Equinox Gallery
2321 Granville Street
(604) 736-2405
Gathie Falk, "You Are Here"
Group show, "Post Kiln"

Harrison Galleries
901 Homer Street
(604) 732-5217

Heffel Fine Art
2247 Granville Street
(604) 732-6505

Gallery Jones
1725 West Third Avenue
(604) 714-2216
Otto Rogers

Jacana Gallery
2435 Granville Street
(604) 879-9306
Veronica Plewman, "Cycle"

Kurbatoff Gallery
2427 Granville Street
(604) 736-5444
New works by gallery artists

TALK 3:30 pm
Lawrence Eng Gallery
1531 West 4th Avenue
(604) 730-2875
Group show, "Contemporary Art from India"

Monte Clark Gallery
2339 Granville Street
(604) 730-5000
Douglas Coupland, "Mum and Dad"

TALK 1:30 pm
On the Rise Artist Collective
2231 Granville Street
(604) 637-7067
Zoe Pawlak, "Art Market"

Petley Jones Gallery
2235 Granville Street
(604) 732-5353
Darrell Underschultz and Lynda Kirby, "Arcadia Revisited"

Uno Langmann Limited Fine Art
2117 Granville Street
(604) 736-8825

Winsor Gallery
3025 Granville Street
(604) 681-4870
Tiko Kerr
Patrick Hughes

UBC

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
University of British Columbia
1825 Main Mall
(604) 822-2759
Group show, "Action-Camera: Beijing Performance Photography

GRANVILLE ISLAND

Charles H. Scott Gallery
Emily Carr University
1399 Johnston Street
(604) 844-3809
Alejandro Cesarco, "Now and Then"

Federation Gallery
1241 Cartwright Street
(604) 681-5834
1st FCA Member Group Show

Malaspina Printmakers Gallery
1555 Duranleau Street
(604) 688-1724
Aysegul Izer and Emre Senan, "Prints from Turkey"

Granville Island Gallery
4-1494 Old Bridge Road
(604) 725-7515

SOUTH VANCOUVER

Linda Lando Fine Art
2001 West 41st Avenue
(604) 266-6010
Leonard Cohen, prints

NORTH SHORE

Ferry Building Gallery
1414 Argyle Avenue
(604) 925-7290

TALK 2:00 pm
Presentation House Gallery
333 Chesterfield Avenue
(604) 986-1351
Group show, "Phot(o)objects"

Seymour Art Gallery
4360 Gallant Avenue
(604) 924-1378
Alexander Koutsenko and Leonard Brett, "icons and Symbols"

NEW WESTMINSTER

Van Dop Gallery
421 Richmond Street
(604) 521-7887
New works by gallery artists

For full information on the talks including bios, please visit: www.canadianart.ca/vancouverhop/schedule

Lux Interior R.I.P. October 21, 1946 - February 4, 2009

I'm baaaaack.
I'm so sad that Lux Interior has died, I've decided to post this blog entry from The Janie Jones Archive

It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of one of music’s most original & inspiring performers, Lux Interior. Front man of The Cramps from 1972, Lux passed away from an existing heart condition on February 4th, 2009 at the age of 62.
Speaking on behalf of all the staff and volunteers at the Janie Jones Archive, we find ourselves consumed by a particularly deep sadness. Her journals indicate that Janie Jones was hugely influenced by the unbridled performative madness that The Cramps embodied. In the punk rock, alternative music milieu, Lux Interior stood out as a true original amongst many trying desperately to appear original.
Humour, horror, kitsch & sex were essential to all of The Cramps music and Lux Interior lived what he performed. As authentic as they come, it is impossible to imagine Lux could ever be anything less than he was onstage.
“Interior maintained that The Cramps wanted "to bring back some sick humour to rock'n'roll. It's way too healthy these days. It's horrible, it's obnoxious. All these rock stars doing good all over the world. At first, I thought it was kind of funny. But then it started to give me a creepy feeling."
The Independent Feb. 6, 2009
The Janie Jones Archive would like to extend our deepest condolences to Lux’s longtime creative collaborator and wife, Poison Ivy (Rorschach). Janie wrote about how the relationship between Lux & Poison Ivy represented the possibility of finding a true soul mate for life, something she personally never experienced. Poison Ivy remains one of the most empowering female role models to come out of the punk rock/psychobilly music scene. She rocks the lead guitar like no other, wears her sexuality proudly and performed stone faced as Lux Interior hurled himself about the stage in liquid rubber & high heels, deep throating the mic in his theatre of psycopathia sexualis. No one is cooler than Poison Ivy. Our thoughts are with her now.
R.I.P. Lux

silent, super 8 film ofunknown origin of The Cramps performing

permanent vacation

Reading the Globe & Mail's review of Control, the new (amazing! saw it at VIFF) film about Ian Curtis' last days, I was reminded of how little information was disseminated back in the day.
" Apart from a few photos of Bowie on his wall, Control shows Curtis' room as a teenager with little else but a turntable and stark looking journals of his writing. For a kid back then, any escape had to be created." Guy Dixon for the Globe & Mail
As we all know, that's changed significantly and I have found it difficult to spend enough time on what matters most to me - producing art.
My short flirtation with Facebook was titillating for about 2 seconds as I received "doo diddley qwa qwa" super pokes from my fellow Adam Ant fan friend and discovered the boy I dated in University "is in his underwear." Besides, Microsoft owns part of (1.6%) it now and that creeps me out. I'm a Mac.

I deleted my Facebook account this morning. Thanks for the memories .

I'm also taking a vacation from Jane's World to concentrate on The Janie Jones Archive which is my real passion these days. The Archive will be updated regularly online and will soon be housed in a proper space that can be visited by appointment, hopefully early in 2008.
Jane's World will exist for now as an archive and reference source for links to my favourite artists and writers. I'll probably post again at some point but I can't say when that will be despite dying to write about W magazine's latest Art Issue.
Thanks to everybody for reading over the last few years.

www.janiejones1979.com
www.janiejones1979.blogspot.com

CASv opening lecture

photo by Selva Barni
Massimiliano Gioni
Director of Special Exhibitions
New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC
Friday, September 21st
7:00pm
HR MacMillan Space Centre
1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, BC
Admission & parking are Free
RSVP info@casv.ca or call 604-738-3500

Born in 1973, Massimiliano Gioni is an art critic and curator. Since 2003, he has been directing the Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan, while collaborating with various institutions in Italy and abroad. In Milan, since 2003, for the Fondazione Trussardi, Gioni has organized various solo shows, special projects, and public art interventions. Former US editor of Flash Art magazine, Massimiliano Gioni has published articles in Artforum, Frieze, Parkett and Art Press, and contributed writings to numerous magazines and catalogues.

In the fall of 2006 he joined the New Museum of Contemporary Art as Director of Special Exhibitions.
Check it out: www.newmuseum.org

I'm not dead yet

I've been painting a barn in the middle of nowhere. I wish I was still there. I'll be posting again soon. Don't give up on me baby.

Upside to Civic Strike?

Indeed there is an upside to the strike. Robert Cray & Keb Mo' were moved to the fabulous Commodore Ballroom, best venue in the known universe, due to the Orpheum's civic status. Rock N'.

Holiday! Celebrate!

I'll be spending as much of the summer as possible far, far away from the internet and I plan on catching up whenever I do have a connection. I'm going to start with the most recent Art trip we took, which was to the Venice Biennale. Just images until I can slog through my notes and the stacks of catalogues I brought home with me.

Our Yacht...just kidding


quintessential preview patrons view Yinka Shonibare sculpture


The Bauer Hotel Patio


Sophie Calle's "Take Care of Yourself" - my favourite pavillion


"Storm Sequence" by Shaun Gladwell


Sigmar Polke painting


"Tijuana Chandelier" by Jason Rhoades an homage? to slang terms for vagina


more "Tijuana Chandelier" wonder bread???

Shari Hatt at Presentation House Gallery

Edna ponders her new career as a model while Shari Hatt checks out her shot
Edna's new best friend is now the amazing photographer Shari Hatt (sorry Tamar)...I can't recommend this highly enough and I can't believe that there are still appointments available but for a mere $550 Shari Hatt will photograph your dog and you will receive a 16" x 16" Portrait of your dog. If you have a dog, before reading further you must call Presentation House Gallery immediately 604-986-1351 to schedule your appointment because Shari is only doing this through Sunday.
Before anyone gets all uppity about dogs & art just keep in mind that this is Presentation House and "To The Dogs" is really engaging, well curated, interesting and, god forbid, fun.
I won't go into great detail about this at the moment but Shari's portraits of dogs evolved out of a need to resolve and/or critique the problem of class, money, privilege, and gender that is inexorably linked to the notion of portraiture in both a historical and contemporary context. To participate in having your dog's portrait taken results in one of those unique art experiences where you are both spectator and complicit in the process. I love that.
In addition to this, it is so much fun to meet and talk with Shari. I knew the second I saw her Winky & Dutch Elvis necklace that I would like her and then when our conversation turned to how David Lee Roth is both repugnant and freakishly compelling (in the 1st 5 minutes of our time together, no less) I was certain that both Edna & I would have a great time there. And we did. She's very smart and funny and her portrait of Edna is fantastic. Although of course Edna was an exceptional model.
Book it now, while you still can.
on another note, I will eventually post my photos and observation on the Venice Biennale but it is summer and I have a date with two of my longest running best pals & a glass of wine.

The Future's so bright...

My mother just said these exact words to me:
"I look like a geriatric Kate Moss except I don't smoke or do drugs."

Mountain Do

Zhabei House #1, 2002 by Greg Girard (whose exhibition just opened today at Monte Clark Gallery) estimate $2,800 - $3,500

I'd like to take credit for my clever title but to give credit where it's due I have to tell you it came from clever wordsmith Michael Turner who is clearly much more clever than I am (and most likely less redundant).
It's a bit late for this but I believe there are still some tickets available for the Presentation House Gallery's Gala Fundraiser Auction tonight at Grouse Mountain. It's always a really fun event and they have a spectacular line up of work donated for the auction.
check out this link for more information.

Montreal: Parisian Laundry May 11th, 2007

Curators Louise Dery & Wayne Baerwaldt at the opening

Kaye Beeston, Louise Dery & Benjamin Diaz

Graeme Patterson Sculpture

Graeme Patterson Sculpture (detail)

Graeme Patterson Sculpture

Graeme Patterson Sculpture

Graeme Patterson Sculpture (detail)

Graeme Patterson Sculpture

Noam Gonick & Luis Jacob Installation

Noam Gonick & Luis Jacob Installation

Montreal Photos: Opening Night

The Montreal Biennale: Opening remarks

Ann Webb, from the Canadian Art Foundation & Me (CAF Advisory Board)

Carole Pope, head of security

Michael Awad & Evan Penny

Paulo Whitaker painting

The incredibly charming Rene Blouin, NUMA & Ann Webb

NUMA's painting

A Francophone responds to art

Peaches created a cave out of the various dildos, underwear & ephemera (we were assured it was all steralized) that people have thrown on stage during her performances.

Stephen Andrews Installation (Stephen's show has also just opened at Platform Gallery in Seattle)