Images clockwise from left: a rendering of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s addition. Image: Lang Wilson Practice in Architecture Culture Inc.; curator Kitty Scott; rendering of the Artscape Weston project.
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Kitty Scott, the Carol and Morton Rapp curator of modern and contemporary art at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, will co-curate the 2018 Liverpool Biennial. Scott’s past posts include director of visual arts at the Banff Centre, chief curator at the Serpentine Gallery and contributor to dOCUMENTA (13).
Rose Bouthillier will join Saskatoon’s Remai Modern as curator (exhibitions) in February, 2016. Bouthillier is currently associate curator and publications manager at the Museum of contemporary Art (MOCA) Cleveland. She has worked with the Whistler Museum and Artspeak, written for frieze magazine and holds a BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and an MFA from OCAD University.
The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria has been given the go-ahead for a new addition of glass and steel by Victoria’s city council. The contemporary addition will add 12,000 square feet to the gallery, a coffee shop and theatre. The gallery will now begin fundraising to try and meet the $21 million goal, and aim to begin construction in March, 2016.
Approval for Artscape Weston Hub in Toronto continues. After west-end city councillors voted in favour of the development in November, Artscape announced this week that city council also voted in favour of staff recommendations in December. The development will consist of a programming space, artist live/work housing units for artists and an outdoor area for public use, and construction is slated to begin in 2016.
