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Sept. 30 – Oct. 6, 2011

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Fixer-Upper With Unique Challenge

Robin Pogrebin, The New York Times, 5 October 2011

 

NEW YORK – “Their work has been transformative and widely celebrated, as when they turned a former power station into the acclaimed Tate Modern in London in 2000. So why would the prizewinning Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron take on the Park Avenue Armory, a project that is more restoration than renovation, more fixer-upper than fresh take? Wouldn’t their sense of creative license be inhibited by the wood-paneled period rooms originally designed by the likes of Louis Comfort Tiffany and Stanford White? Wouldn’t they yearn to break free of the building’s 19th-century confines by inserting their own contemporary vision? On the contrary, Mr. Herzog said in a recent interview, the armory presented a compelling architectural challenge. Rather than transform it, he said, the architects would use the building to explore the very act of transformation, the evolution of an important structure as it is seen and used and worn down by one generation after another. …”

 


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From Pop-Ups to Permanent

Jordy Gold, OpenCity Projects, 6 October 2011

 

TORONTO – “The Globe and Mail has noted that “Pop-Up” projects or initiatives that are run on a temporary basis in city centres at relatively little expense have come a long way and seem to be catching on around the world. From Copenhagen temporarily closing Strøget Street to cars in the 50’s to Paris currently playing with a range of installations guiding citizens and assisting with ecological initiatives, innovative urban trials are becoming all the rage. Copenhagen never re-opened Strøget Street to traffic and city official in Paris are encouraging feedback to determine which “Pop-Ups” should in fact be made permanent fixtures. Toronto is no stranger to “Pop-Up” projects. Whether we are looking at closing down the streets at major hubs like Yonge and Dundas for tens of thousands of fans to watch the opening night of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey season or decorating our city for one night a year during Nuit Blanche, we are getting that hang of these types of projects. Toronto could use a little more colour and incorporate more creativity into our buildings and public spaces. It is for this reason I love the magic that happens during art festivals like Luminato and Nuit Blanche. During these special times you will find installations ranging from tens of thousands of “feathers” decorating halls to giant balloon clowns suspended high above in the alleyways of our business district. …”

 

Two new museums for India: Bihar and Kolkata plan major spaces

Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper, 5 October 2011

 

BIHAR, INDIA – “India’s sub-standard state museum infrastructure is set to be enhanced by plans for a new museum in Bihar, east India, scheduled to open in 2015. The museum will be built on a 13-acre site in the state capital Patna and focus on Pataliputra, the ancient predecessor of Patna. The principal funder, the state of Bihar, has hired UK culture consultancy Lord Cultural Resources to develop the masterplan for the museum, which has an estimated budget of $80m. “Great figures of ancient India—Buddha, Mahavir and Ashoka as well as scholars and poets of the court—will be featured in the museum, which will focus on the contribution of what is now Bihar to Indian and Asian civilisation,” says Barry Lord, co-president of Lord Cultural Resources. …”

 

Walters Art Museum removes copyright restrictions on 10,000 images

Recent News, artdaily.org, 4 October 2011

 

BALTIMORE, MD – “The Walters Art Museum announces the launch of its redesigned works of art website with the removal of copyright restrictions on more than 10,000 online artwork images through a Creative Commons license. In addition to being able to download these images for free, the site introduces a new look and feel, and enhanced searching, tagging and community collections features. The website now has additional information about the artworks, including nearly a century of history concerning exhibitions and conservation treatments. It is also substantially more accessible to users with disabilities due to its increased compliance with the United States government’s internet accessibility standards. “By adding conservation histories and exhibition records to our works of art site, the Walters is demonstrating its belief that openness and transparency are key components to holding artworks in the public trust,” said Director Gary Vikan. “As an additional element to eliminating admissions fees at the Walters, the works of art site does away with barriers of access to the museum’s collection and allows a depth and quality of information on artworks that will appeal not only to scholars, but also to art enthusiasts, students and the casual online visitor.” …”

 

How a New Cinema Center Could Change the Busan Film Festival

Organizers hope the $15 million Busan Cinema Center, designed by Coop Himmelblau, will dazzle festgoers arriving for one of Asia's most important film events.

Lee Hyo-won (Degen Pener), Hollywood Reporter, 1 October 2011

 

SOUTH KOREA – “Destination architecture is hitting the film festival world with the opening of the Busan Cinema Center. Designed by influential contemporary architects Coop Himmelblau of Austria, the building will serve as the home of Asia's largest cinema event, the Busan International Film Festival, which opens Oct. 6 in South Korea's second-largest city after Seoul. […] All that BIFF was missing was a signature screening venue, but now that problem has been solved. The $15 million Cinema Center could make having an expensive and shiny new screening venue a must-have for film festivals, much as Frank Gehry's spectacularly sculptural Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, spurred other arts institutions to build architectural marvels to lure audiences. Yet there are potential pitfalls to banking too much on "if we build it, they will come" architecture, as cultural organizations around the world have learned. […] Many festivals have spent handsomely on new centers, but it's safe to say none has resulted in world-class architecture. Cannes expanded its Palais des Festivals in 1999 to unremarkable results, and Toronto in 2010 unveiled the Bell Lightbox, a handsome though uninspiring condo tower that houses the festival on its lower floors. "There is definitely a trend to doing film centers. If you go back to the 1920s, we had those great movie palaces. It's an interesting phenomenon now that in an era of home entertainment, film centers are becoming something that's really important," says Gail Lord, co-president of Toronto-based cultural-planning firm Lord Cultural Resources, which consulted on the Bell Lightbox launch. …”

 

Illumination: Einstein comes to Toronto

Blog TO, 1 October 2011

 

TORONTO – “FREE EVENT!

Luminato presents a sneak preview of its upcoming 2012 Festival marquee production, Einstein on the Beach. It has been 20 years since this landmark opera by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson has been seen on stage. Luminato has co-commissioned this epic new production and will present its North American Premiere in Toronto next June. Join us for a screening of the behind-the-scenes documentary Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera on the video wall of the Sony Centre. Following the film will be a talk back featuring acclaimed opera and film director Atom Egoyan, and the Canadian Opera Company’s Alexander Neef, and other invited panellists close to the work. Moderated by a special guest from the CBC, the discussion will explore why Einstein is considered one of the most important works of the 20th Century and what audiences can expect this June. Afterwards, participants are invited on a special backstage tour of the beautiful Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, where Einstein will open the 2012 Luminato Festival on June 8. …”

 

Current issue: 34-4/EGYPT

FUSE, 30 September 2011

 

TORONTO – “We’re very pleased to announce the September 29 release of FUSE 34-4/Egypt, the first issue in our States of Postcoloniality series. Thanks to everyone who came out to TSV to celebrate with us! This provocative collection features exclusive interviews with the directors of artist-run centres in Cairo and Alexandria, coverage of independent film programming on Egypt, and a look at the Bidoun Library’s Egypt acquisitions. Focusing resolutely on current events such as this year’s ongoing revolution in Egypt, the series asks how inhabiting states of postcoloniality informs the politics of the present and the practices of resistance we develop here. 34.4/Egypt contributors: Nahed Mansour and Bassam El Baroni (ACAF); Denise Ryner and Babak Radboy (Bidoun Library); Damon Kowarsky; Olive McKeon; Joseph Banh [Consultant at Lord Cultural Resources, bio at https://www.lord.ca/Media/JosephBanh.pdf], Moataz Nasreldin (Darb 1718), Mia Jankowicz (CIC) and William Wells (Townhouse); Themba Lewis; Aliza Ma, Rasha Salti and Gabe Klinger; Anna Feigenbaum; Francisco-Fernando Granados; Leila Timmins.

 

CASE STUDY: Centre for Green Cities at Evergreen Brick Works (Toronto, Canada)

Reimagining an Industrial Relic: Evergreen, an environmental organization dedicated to making cities more livable, breathes new life into a defunct manufacturing complex in the heart of Toronto.

Diamond and Schmitt Architects

By Joann Gonchar (AIA), GreenSource, September 2011

 

TORONTO – “North American cities are littered with abandoned factory buildings, warehouses, and obsolete infrastructure. Occasionally, these relics are repurposed for the postindustrial age, getting a new lease on life. Such is the case with the Don Valley Brick Works, a deteriorating brick-making facility in the heart of Toronto closed since the late 1980s, but recently transformed into an environmental center for Evergreen—a Canadian non-profit organization focused on bringing nature into urban environments to make them more livable. …” [see also Documentary Brick by Brick tells the tale of a landmark, by Guy Dixon, From Saturday's Globe and Mail, Published Friday, Sep. 30, 2011 7:04PM EDT]

 

Vancouver Art Gallery turns 80

Lena Sin, The Province, 5 October 2011

 

VANCOUVER – “If the objects in our homes say something about who we are, then what would the art in the Vancouver Art Gallery say about it? Well, how about for starters that this 80-year-old dame was once a rather conservative aristocrat (only British painters would do) who grew to admire and champion Canadian artists and develop a wide-ranging sensibility of art, collecting the humorous and eclectic alongside the serious and iconic from both local and international artists. Eighty years ago Wednesday the VAG opened its doors in a building at 1145 Georgia St., the province’s first and only art gallery at the time. As it celebrates its milestone birthday Wednesday with free cake and admission by donation, it’s also taking a look back with an exhibit titled An Autobiography of Our Collection. …”

 

Ottawa provides $1M for Moncton’s Transportation Discovery Centre

Craig Babstock, Times & Transcript, 4 October 2011

 

MONCTON, NB – “For Robert Goguen, a celebration of this community's transportation heritage makes perfect sense.

"Who in Moncton doesn't have a relative who worked in the rail industry?" the Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe MP asked yesterday afternoon. "Transportation is in our DNA." Goguen was speaking moments after a news conference in which he announced $1 million in federal funding for the Transportation Discovery Centre, which will be built onto the Moncton Museum, doubling the size of the facility from 4,500 square feet to between 9,000 and 10,000 square feet. The federal government previously contributed $500,000 to the planning of the project, which has been in the works for more than a decade, bringing its total involvement to $1.5 million. Goguen made the announcement on behalf of Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore. "Heritage Canada is about celebrating successes and culture," said Goguen. …”

 

Bush lauds construction of presidential library

Recent News, artdaily.org, 3 October 2011

 

DALLAS – “Former President George W. Bush said Monday that his presidential center will be a venue for learning and action, and that it already exceeds his expectations. The George W. Bush Presidential Center will feature a presidential library and policy institute when it opens in spring 2013. Bush said the institute, which will focus on education reform, global health, human freedom and economic growth, will help him to stay involved in the areas that interest him. "The challenge is after you are president to make sure you are still constructive, that you add something to society," Bush told some 600 people gathered at a ceremony to mark the placement of center's last construction beam. "I thought long and hard about how I wanted to do that." He described the center as "an exciting place. A place of learning, a place of scholarship, but most importantly, a place of action." …”

 


Museums

 

Historic alliance opens door to Academy Museum at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Recent News, artdaily.org, 5 October 2011

 

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – “The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) have taken a step toward realizing a museum dedicated to motion pictures and the creation of a new and unique cultural center for the city of Los Angeles. On Tuesday night (10/4), the Academy’s Board of Governors joined their LACMA counterparts in agreeing to sign a memorandum of understanding to work in good faith in establishing the Academy’s movie museum in the historic May Company building, currently known as LACMA West. The memo paves the way for the two organizations to discuss details of a future contract and for the Academy to begin developing plans for fundraising, design, exhibitions, visitor experience, and modifications to this historic site. “It is appropriate and long overdue for the city that is home to the motion picture industry to recognize this art form with a museum of its own. The LACMA Board is delighted to be facilitating this important cultural event, which has special resonance for me, having spent most of my life dedicated to the great art of movies,” said co-chair of the LACMA Board of Trustees Terry Semel. “The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will provide a much needed destination for cultural tourists and Los Angelenos to learn more about cinema, and the setting could not be more ideal, nestled next to the largest encyclopedic art museum in the Western United States.” According to Academy President Tom Sherak, “The new museum will be a world-class destination that is a tangible representation of the Academy’s mission. And the idea of our museum being part of a larger cultural center for the arts, in this city that we love, was incredibly compelling to the Academy Board.” …”

 

North Bay council supports proposed museum for base underground complex

Jamie Lyle, Bay Today, 4 October 2011

 

NORTH BAY – “North Bay City Council members relived many important historical events while listening to a special presentation during Monday night's regular council meeting, Military history buff, Trevor Schindeler, gained unanimous support from council with his noble quest to have the Government of Canada consider developing the Underground NORAD Complex into a World Class National Cold War Museum. The facility has immense historical significance. It was there that Canadian and American military personnel stationed in North Bay fought and won the Cold War. If developed into a world-class museum, as envisioned by Schindeler, the underground NORAD Complex could become a major tourist attraction drawing thousands of visitors from across North America and from around the world. …”

 

First Look at Alice Walton's Crystal Bridges Museum Finds No Evidence of "Cultural Money-Laundering"

Julia Halperin, Artinfo, 4 October 2011

 

ARKANSAS – “Want a sneak peek of the best funded, most controversial, and most highly anticipated museum opening in recent history? Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton's mammoth Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas will soon be open for business, and the Washington Post's Philip Kennicott snagged the coveted first look. The $800 million museum has been subject to sharp skepticism in the art world (though not, it should be noted, in the New Yorker or the New York Times). Many art professionals believe the museum is "too rich, too conservative, and too reflexively American" to be a major player, according to Kennicott. So what's his verdict? Apparently, money may not buy the art world's happiness, but it can buy a pretty impressive museum. "There's no embarrassment about the immense fortune that made the museum possible, no old-fashioned cultural money-laundering in the manner of Carnegie or Mellon," writes Kennicott of the museum, which will be free for everyone, forever thanks to a $20 million donation from Wal-Mart. "It is a mature, serious, relatively progressive museum launched at a time when increasing numbers of people consider themselves socially tolerant and fiscally conservative." …”

 

Les musées de la Montérégie, parents pauvres de la culture: Le Biophare tire le diable par la queue

Louise Grégoire-Racicot, Les 2 Rives, 4 octobre 2011

 

QUEBEC – “Malgré les annonces du ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine (CCCF) d’investir quelque 3M$ dans la rénovation de la salle Georges-Codling, on peut, sans se tromper, affirmer que la Montérégie est le parent pauvre du Québec en matière de dépenses publiques. Ce qui rend fragilise des musées comme le Biophare de Sorel-Tracy. Chiffres à l’appui, Montmusée, un organisme montérégien regroupant 17 organismes, a rappelé la semaine dernière que le financement public des musées, à Québec, atteint près de 89$ par habitant, contre 1,10$ per capita en Montérégie. …”

 

Le milieu muséal québécois réuni à Montréal

Radio-Canada, 4 octobre 2011

 

MONTREAL – “Plus de 300 professionnels des musées, centres d'exposition et lieux d'interprétation de toutes les régions de la province participent au grand chantier des États généraux des musées du Québec qui s'ouvre mardi, à Montréal.

L'avenir du réseau muséal québécois sera au coeur des débats de cette grande rencontre mise en oeuvre par la Société des musées québécois (SMQ). Plus précisément, une soixantaine de recommandations sur les enjeux et défis du secteur muséal, formulées à la suite d'une vaste consultation débutée à l'automne 2009, seront discutées pour adoption lors de ce grand chantier. Les difficultés financières des musées québécois seront évidemment au centre des discussions. « De l'avis de tous, le sous-financement demeure le principal enjeu du réseau. Inévitablement, la solution passe par une augmentation significative des enveloppes dédiées aux musées par les différents paliers de gouvernement », a déclaré Michel Perron, directeur général de la SMQ. …” [For more commentary on this issue, see also Les musées crient à l’aide, By Marcel Aubry, Le Nouvelliste, 4 octobre 2011]

 

Free admission boosts popularity of museums

Xinhua contributed to this story, China Daily, Updated: 2011-10-03 07:51

 

BEIJING – “About 30,000 people visited the National Museum of China on Sunday, a record high after it reopened in March with a free admission policy following renovations. The museum has witnessed a large increase in the number of visitors since it abolished its 20-yuan ($3.13) entrance fee. "I would not have come here if it were not for free," Yang Shucheng, a 65-year-old retiree, told Xinhua News Agency. Like the National Museum, most of the museums and memorial sites administrated by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage no longer charge admission fees after the central government issued a notice in January 2008 calling for free admission to all museums and memorial sites. …”

 

New Canadian art pavilion in Montreal reflects bustling cultural scene

Jonathan Montpetit, The Canadian Press, 3 October 2011

 

MONTREAL – “As visitors enter the new wing of Montreal's Museum of Fine Arts to behold the masterpieces of Canadian art history, they pass under a giant bronze angel that seems to transform before their eyes. With its perforated stomach, mechanical arms and disembodied hands gripping its face, the sculpture is unmistakably modern.

But artist David Altmejd's contribution, commissioned for the opening of the new wing, also makes a conscious nod to the past, invoking classical works and local history alike. It is a fitting symbol for a city undergoing a cultural metamorphosis of its own, at once renewing its space for traditional art and branching out in exciting new directions.

"The city is bubbling," said Nathalie Bondil, the MMFA's director and chief curator. "It is an artistic centre that is very rich." The flashy showpiece of this current resurgence is the museum's Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion of Quebec and Canadian Art, which opens to the public on Oct. 14. …”

 

No shame acting like kids: Volunteers loving museum’s new toys

Erin Madden, Winnipeg Free Press, 3 October 2011

 

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA – “After a nearly a 10-month closure for renovations, the Manitoba Children's Museum at The Forks reopened at the start of summer completely transformed. Twelve new galleries opened, but it's tough to know who's been enjoying those new galleries the most -- the children who visit or the museum's volunteers. Holly Baetsen has been a volunteer with the Children's Museum for nearly three years, working as a gallery ambassador and camp counsellor. She said her favourite new gallery features a giant water table where kids can get wet. …”

 

U.S. Holocaust Museum Receives Institution’s Largest Endowment Gift

eJP, eJewish Philanthropy, October 2, 2011

 

“The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has received a gift of $17.2 million from the estate of Eric F. Ross of Palm Beach, FL, and West Orange, NJ. It is the largest single gift to the institution. Eric and his late wife, Lore, both of whom were refugees from Nazi Germany, donated more than $12 million to the institution during their lifetimes. In total, they have contributed more than $30 million to the Museum. This gift will support the Museum’s endowment fund, which will provide permanent resources to secure the Museum’s future and global impact, ensuring that the timeless lessons of the Holocaust remain a transformative force in the 21st century. Over the next eight years, the Museum’s goal is to raise an additional $200 million for its endowment fund. …”

 

Three men investigated over $130 million art heist from Paris' Museum of Modern Art

Recent News, artdaily.org, 1 October 2011

 

PARIS – “Three men are being formally investigated over the theft of five famous paintings by artists including Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse from a French museum, the Paris Prosecutor's office said on Saturday, in a heist worth $130 million. The artworks, stolen from Paris' Museum of Modern Art 18-months ago after the alarm system failed to trigger, have still not been recovered, said an official from the Prosecutor's office. Picasso's Cubist 'Dove with Green Peas', one of the snatched paintings, was worth $28 million, according to estimates given by the museum at the time of the heist.

The other paintings included Matisse's 'Pastorale', Georges Braque's 'Olive tree near l'Estaque', Amedeo Modigliani's 'Woman on the range' and Fernand Leger's 'Still Life with Candlesticks'. …”

 

Piece by piece, Afghanistan reclaims its history

Sanjeev Miglani, Recent News, artdaily.org, 29 September 2011

 

KABUL – “While everyone else is worrying about Afghanistan's future, a dedicated band of men and women is gathering up its past, hoping that a growing museum collection will show the world Afghan culture is more sophisticated than the tide of news reports suggest. Kabul's rebuilt National Museum, near the haunting remains the bombed-out royal palace, is running out of secure rooms to house centuries-old Buddhas, gold and silver coins from antiquity and other rare artefacts. Many of the museum's original pieces were broken, destroyed or stolen during the Taliban era or the civil war that preceded it in the 1990s, but some have been pieced back together and a series of archaeological digs have also unearthed new treasures. Among the fresh discoveries are a wooden Buddha dating back to the fifth century and Buddha heads made of clay and plaster. They are helping a whole nation slowly rediscover a classical past as a confluence of cultures from India to China and from Iran and central Asia to the East. …”

 

Whitney Museum awarded prestigious grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences

Recent News, artdaily.org, 29 September 2011

 

NEW YORK, N.Y. – “This September the Whitney Museum of American Art has been awarded a $200,000 National Leadership Grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services for a three-year research project to investigate the long-term impact of its teen programs. For this research project the Whitney is collaborating with the Walker Art Center, the Contemporary Art Museum Houston, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. All four institutions offer teen programs that have been in existence for more than a decade and provide a diverse group of participants the opportunity to learn about art, go behind the scenes at each institution, and take on leadership roles within the museum and in their community. …”

 

Oshawa military museum may have to sell tanks

Tom Godfrey, Toronto Sun, 29 September 2011

 

TORONTO – “Members of the Ontario Regiment Museum say they may have to sell some of their historic military vehicles to keep their doors open to the public. The museum is fighting to survive and its volunteers are working hard to prevent it from being the second military history centre to close in the Greater Toronto Area in recent weeks. The locks were changed and the doors were closed to the public at the Canadian Air and Space Museum at Downsview Park last weekend. The Ontario Regiment Museum, located in Oshawa, is a link to history dating back to the 1850s and has about 70 operational vehicles, including the Sherman, M60 Patton and M551 Sheridan tanks, as well as a variety of armoured personnel carriers and jeeps. “It is a constant struggle to keep the doors open,” said museum spokesman Terry Woods. “We are in danger of having to sell some our vehicles to stay open.” …”

 

Neon museum would let old signs shine again over Edmonton

Organizers hope to sign deal soon for use of downtown building

Gordon Kent, Edmonton Journal, 28 September 2011

 

EDMONTON – “The illuminated newspaper reader who advertised the old Mike’s News shop might soon be swinging his foot over Edmonton again as the city prepares to open its long-sought neon sign museum. The project was stalled for years as organizers tried to find a suitable location, but heritage planner David Holdsworth hopes a contract will be signed within weeks to use the Telus equipment building at 104th Street and 104th Avenue. An initial nine signs could be glowing again by early in the new year, including ones from Mike’s News on Jasper Avenue, Canadian Furniture on 97th Street, Cliff’s Auto Parts on 96th Street and Whyte Avenue’s Princess Theatre. There are also signs from Pantages Theatre and the Georgia Baths on Jasper, and two from W.W. Arcade. While some were stored at the city artifacts centre, others are donated by the public — one for an unknown drugstore turned up in the basement of a Boyle Street building, Holdsworth says. “Our interesting old signage … was a unique artistic design that had a big impact on our landscape,” he says.  …”


Architecture

 

World Monuments Fund Releases Its 2012 Watch List

Asad Syrkett, Architectural Record, 5 October 2011

 

“The former home of the Manufacturers Hanover Trust, at 510 Fifth Avenue, has made the World Monuments Fund (WMF) 2012 Watch List, along with 66 other sites from 41 nations across the globe. On October 5th, WMF released its biennial list of archaeological, architectural, and cultural sites threatened by development, climate change, and natural decay. The 56-year-old Manufacturers Hanover Trust building, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s Gordon Bunshaft in 1954, has long been embroiled in a battle between New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission and intrepid developers who want to alter the Modernist building to accommodate more retail space. The Manufacturers Hanover Trust Building is but one of the many notable places cited in the 2012 Watch List. The diversity of the sites– from the Jacmel historic district in Haiti to a nineteenth-century, Ottoman Empire-era railway station in Turkey– reflects the program’s broad scope and dedication to raising global awareness about endangered buildings, neighborhoods and urban areas. Countries that are frequently underrepresented in preservation advocacy– Macedonia, Turkmenistan, and Panama among them– appear on this year’s Watch List, their cities and cemeteries given equal billing beside three Brutalist transit centers in the United Kingdom. …” [see also World Monuments Fund Places Manufacturers Hanover Building on At-Risk List, Robin Pogrebin, The New York Times, 5 October 2011]

 

Give 'Em Shelter: Shigeru Ban on Creating Innovative (and Cheap) Refuges for Natural Disaster Victims

Janelle Zara, Artinfo, 4 October 2011

 

NEW YORK – “In 1985, Shigeru Ban kept all the fabric tubes left over from the cloth interior he designed for the Emilio Ambasz exhibition at Tokyo's Axis Gallery. They were motonai, a Japanese word that means "too good to waste." A year later, those tubes became the interior of the Alvar Aalto exhibition in the same space, and it was then the paper architect was born. After 26 years, recycled and natural fibers have become signature in Ban's work. Aside from his unusual choice of materials, what further separates him from the rest of the architecture community are his prolific pro bono humanitarian efforts. At "Shelter From the Storm," his aptly titled New Yorker Festival event this weekend, Ban discussed a handful of these: the 1995 homes he built for Vietnamese refugees in Kobe, Japan; a temporary music hall still in the works in earthquake-torn L'Aquila, Italy; and a cathedral set to open next year in New Zealand. All were designed in cardboard tubes.  "What is temporary and what is permanent?" Ban asked a theater of New Yorkers. "A concrete building made by developer commercially just to make money, maybe some few years later, a developer buys the land then destroys the building to put new building. Even buildings in concrete can be very temporary as long as this building, it makes money. But even the building made in paper, if people love the building, it becomes permanent. So whether it's permanent or temporary depends whether people love the building or not." …”

 

Taiwanese Architect Hsieh Ying-Chun Wins Curry Stone Prize

Tim McKeough, Architectural Record, 4 October 2011

 

TAIWAN – “Hsieh Ying-Chun, a Taiwanese architect who helps communities rebuild after natural disasters, has won the 2011 Curry Stone Design Prize. The $100,000 annual award, which aims to champion designers as a force of social change, is bestowed by the Curry Stone Foundation, an Oregon-based charitable group. Two additional firms will receive $10,000 awards – Paris-based Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée, a collective that aims to transform urban spaces through citizen engagement, and London-based FrontlineSMS, which helps organizations manage text-message communication in the developing world. …”

 

WOHA's The Met Building in Bangkok wins prestigious RIBA Lubetkin Prize 2011

Recent News, artdaily.org, 3 October 2011

 

LONDON – “The Met in Bangkok, Thailand by WOHA has scooped the Royal Institute of British Architects' (RIBA) prestigious RIBA Lubetkin Prize for the most outstanding work of international architecture by a member of the RIBA.

A residential skyscraper incorporating outdoor spaces, balconies and gardens, The Met is a 66 storey perforate tower which uses the power of nature to cool the apartments. Wind speeds at that height are considerable, so by punching holes through the building and drawing air up vertical voids in the structure, the architects have been able to introduce natural ventilation to flats at all levels. Some of these floors are kept open to provide communal spaces, which include a garden, a gym, a 50 metre swimming pool and other leisure facilities, such as barbecue and seating areas. …”

 

Architect Hadid's zig-zag school wins top UK prize

Recent News, artdaily.org, 2 October 2011

 

LONDON – “Iraq-born Zaha Hadid has won Britain's main architecture prize for a second year running with her design for a futuristic Z-shaped school in London, unexpectedly beating the 2012 Olympic Games cycling arena. The Royal Institute of British Architects' judges awarded the 20,000-pound prize to Hadid for the Evelyn Grace Academy, a new school in south London which they described as a "highly stylized zig-zag of steel and glass". The London-based architect won last year's competition for a modern art gallery in Rome and also designed the swimming pool complex for the 2012 Games. Her latest design has a bright red running track that cuts under the school building. "It is what every school should and could be," said RIBA President Angela Brady. "The unique design, expertly inserted into an extremely tight site, celebrates the school's sports specialism throughout its fabric." …”

 

St. Patrick's School Library and Music Room in London wins the RIBA's 2011 Stephen Lawrence Prize

Recent News, artdaily.org, 2 October 2011

 

LONDON – “An ingenious school library and music room for St Patrick’s School in north-west London by Coffey Architects has been awarded the RIBA’s 2011 Stephen Lawrence Prize. The Stephen Lawrence Prize was set up 14 years ago in memory of the teenager who was setting out on the road to becoming an architect when he was murdered in 1993. Funded by the Marco Goldschmied Foundation, the £5,000 prize rewards the best examples of projects that have a construction budget of less than £1 million, is intended to encourage fresh talent working with smaller budgets. Coffey Architects' delightful school extension delivers a library, music room and store room with a simplicity that comes from a straightforward plan and the prevailing use of two materials: zinc and timber. The space is lined on three sides by bookshelves at ground level, and the storage display of musical instruments on the first floor mezzanine. The central volume created by this arrangement is an open and flexible space for musical practice and a group reading area. This simple arrangement is given a third dimension by the openable glass wall with a freestanding external canopy, which creates an informal area for play. …”

 

Contemporary Art Museum by Brooks + Scarpa and Clearscapes

Dave, Contemporist, October 2nd, 2011

 

RALEIGH, NC – “Brooks + Scarpa Architects and Clearscapes Architecture designed the Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) in Raleigh, North Carolina. Located in Raleigh’s revitalizing Historic Depot District, an unlikely butterfly has emerged from its decades-long cocoon. The historic 1910 two-story brick structure built for Allen Forge & Welding Company and enlarged around 1927 for the Brogden Produce Company — and more recently home to longtime occupant Cal-Tone Paints — has emerged from its asbestos clad sheathing into a new incarnation as the home of Raleigh’s Contemporary Art Museum (CAM). The Depot District contains Raleigh’s only significant collection of buildings related to the heyday of railroad transportation and shipping in the Capital City. By recycling this important building, CAM preserves an important part of Raleigh’s history and demonstrates its commitment to sustainability and leadership in historic preservation. …”

 

New York City Readies for First-Ever "Archtober"

Architectural Record, 30 September 2011

 

NEW YORK – “A new month follows September this year: It’s called “Archtober,” and it’s a cornucopia of events for New York architecture and design lovers. Initiated by the AIA New York chapter, openhousenewyork, and the Architecture & Design Film Festival, this month-long October fest expands on Architecture Week (held annually by AIANY since 2003) and unites several diverse programs and events under one banner for the first time. With 33 partner organizations involved, there’s guaranteed to be something for everyone. For a complete schedule, see the Archtober website: archtober.org. …”

 

Signature Theatre company to open Frank Gehry-Designed Signature Center in February 2012

Recent News, artdaily.org, 29 September 2011

 

NEW YORK, N.Y. – “Signature Theatre will open Signature Center, its new, permanent home designed by Frank Gehry, in February 2012. Spanning an entire city block at 42nd Street between Dyer and 10th Avenue, Signature Center will feature three intimate theatres, a studio theatre, rehearsal studio, and a public café and bookstore. The Center will be both a theatre community hub and a neighborhood destination, and has been designed to foster interaction among playwrights, collaborators, and the public. The $66 million project is being funded through a public-private partnership and will be staffed by more than 400 people annually. …”

 


Technology

 

IFACCA launches WorldCP: international database of cultural policies

European Festivals Association, Thursday, 06-10-2011

 

“The Executive Director of the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA), Sarah Gardner, today unveiled the prototype of a major new initiative, WorldCP, an international database of cultural policies. WorldCP, www.worldcp.org , will be a new central, web-based and continuously updated database of country-specific profiles of cultural policies modelled on the Council of Europe/ERICarts Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe. The prototype WorldCP website, currently operating for demonstration purposes, holds profiles of 12 countries in five continents: Algeria, Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Egypt, Italy, Malta, Serbia, South Korea and Zimbabwe. IFACCA anticipates that another six to ten profiles will be added to the database in the coming 12 months including Viet Nam and Tunisia. These will supplement the profiles for a further 35 European countries that are accessible through the Compendium at www.culturalpolicies.net and will eventually be available on WorldCP. …”

 

Leveraging the Virtual and the Real

Naina Singh, Technology in the Arts, October 6, 2011

 

“The art world is experiencing a virtual boom. A boom that began with the advent of the street view technology used by Google, which has now forayed into the world of art. Within the last two years, the Google Art Project has photographed, digitized, scaled, and organized some of the most famous artworks in renowned galleries and museums such as the Tate, the Uffizi Gallery, and the Palace of Versailles. Moreover, this digitization of famous artworks is not any mere reproduction; rather it is a reproduction of the grandest or perhaps the smallest of scales: gigapixel images. …”

 

Apple’s Visionary Redefined Digital Age

John Markoff, The New York Times, 5 October 2011

 

“Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He was 56. The death was announced by Apple, the company Mr. Jobs and his high school friend Stephen Wozniak started in 1976 in a suburban California garage. A friend of the family said the cause was complications of pancreatic cancer. Mr. Jobs had waged a long and public struggle with the disease, remaining the face of the company even as he underwent treatment, introducing new products for a global market in his trademark blue jeans even as he grew gaunt and frail. He underwent surgery in 2004, received a liver transplant in 2009 and took three medical leaves of absence as Apple’s chief executive before stepping down in August and turning over the helm to Timothy D. Cook, the chief operating officer. When he left, he was still engaged in the company’s affairs, negotiating with another Silicon Valley executive only weeks earlier. “I have always said that if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s C.E.O., I would be the first to let you know,” Mr. Jobs said in a letter released by the company. “Unfortunately, that day has come.” By then, having mastered digital technology and capitalized on his intuitive marketing sense, Mr. Jobs had largely come to define the personal computer industry and an array of digital consumer and entertainment businesses centered on the Internet. He had also become a very rich man, worth an estimated $8.3 billion. Tributes to Mr. Jobs flowed quickly on Wednesday evening, in formal statements and in the flow of social networks, with President Obama, technology industry leaders and legions of Apple fans weighing in. …” [see also Steve Jobs: the man who changed your world, By Omar el Akkad, From Thursday's Globe and Mail, Published Wednesday, Oct. 05, 2011 11:33PM EDT, Last updated Thursday, Oct. 06, 2011 1:32PM EDT]

 

Investir la culture sur le web

Jean Siag, La Presse, 5 octobre 2011

 

MONTREAL – “Le colloque sur la participation culturelle piloté par Montréal Culture a pris fin hier après deux jours de conférences. Les nombreux exposés portaient essentiellement sur le profil des consommateurs de culture, notamment sur les publics issus de l'immigration, mais aussi sur les pratiques numériques des jeunes, qui bousculent les habitudes de fréquentation des lieux culturels. «Nous n'avons qu'une vision partielle de la participation culturelle, dit Simon Brault, président de Culture Montréal. On réalise aujourd'hui qu'il y a un mouvement migratoire immense d'une partie de la culture vers le web et les médias sociaux. Et qui attire, entre autres, les jeunes issus des communautés culturelles

La vidéaste Myriam Verreault en a fait la preuve en présentant son webdocumentaire Ma tribu,c'est ma vie, produit par l'ONF, qui mesure l'impact de l'internet auprès de huit personnes qui ont en commun leur attachement à un style musical. «J'avais le souci de montrer que l'internet peut avoir des effets positifs. De toute façon, son impact sur notre manière de communiquer est irréversible. À la fin, on voit bien qu'il y a au moins huit manières d'utiliser l'internet …”

 

From Six Degrees of Separation to Art.sy

Elizabeth Quaglieri, Technology in the Arts, October 5, 2011

 

“Whether your goal is to start an art collection, expand your collection, discover a new artist, or simply to keep up with everything there is to know about your friends on Facebook, the soon-to-go-live startup website Art.sy is worth a look. […]Created by Carter Cleveland, a Princeton University computer science engineer, and backed by a handful of today’s most influential players in the social media, fine arts, and technology industries, Art.sy is the newest and potentially most powerful addition to a collector’s and artist’s networking toolkit. …”

 

Museum makes photo history

Chilliwack Times, 4 October 2011

 

CHILLIWACK, B.C. – “A recent upload of historic photographs has pushed the number of images in the Chilliwack Museum's online archive to more than 20,000. The museum has recently added more than 8,000 images from the Norman Williams, Cecil Bradwin and Chilliwack Progress press collections. The reinforced collection now boasts one of the largest online publicly available collections of archives and photos in the region. "Our museum software program Past Perfect, has enabled us to become a leader in collection management and accessibility in Canada," said curator Paul Ferguson, who has been working with the program for over 10 years. "The program has allowed local and international researchers to access all kinds of historical information about Chilliwack. This means that Chilliwack photographs and objects are being used in journals and books published around the world. …”

 

In Jacob’s Pillow archives, moving history

Sarah Kaufman, The Washington Post, 30 September 2011

 

BECKET, MASSACHUSETTS - “For the Zen of ballroom dancing, watch Pierre Dulaine and Yvonne Marceau waltzing to Strauss in 1982. It’s a minute and 22 seconds of perfection, writ in whipped cream. Or so it seems. You’ll wonder, can humans whirl like that any more? For the answer, keep clicking around in Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive, perhaps the closest thing the dance world has to an online museum. Since 1932, companies from around the world have performed at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, located on a former farm in Becket, Mass. Just this past March, the Pillow launched a performance video collection (danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org) that includes more than 100 excerpts of performances recorded at the summer dancefest. A priceless treasury of history and art, this movable feast could very well suck you in by surprise. …”


Art and Culture

 

A big-thinking cultural policy in the offing

Matthew Westwood, The Australian, October 04, 2011 12:00AM

 

AUSTRALIA – “THE federal government's national cultural policy has the potential, if there is political will, to radically change Australia's creative landscape. The proposed policy will embrace not only the traditional arts such as theatre, music and painting but film, television and the internet, school education, cultural tourism and export and the so-called creative industries, including fashion, design and electronic games. Arts Minister Simon Crean, whose other portfolios are regional Australia and local government, wants people to have cultural stimulation no matter where they live. The National Broadband Network will be a key part of that distribution. The proposed policy will have a 10-year span so that a decade from now we can look forward to a more enlightened, cohesive and creative citizenry. Crean intends that no Australian should be untouched by culture. …”

 

Bilbao Effect Sputters as Spain Closes Dazzling Oscar Niemeyer Center Just Six Months After Its Opening

Janelle Zara, Artinfo, 4 October 2011

 

SPAIN – “It was expected to be for Avilés what Frank Gehry's Guggenheim is for Bilbao: a starchitect-designed landmark that would put an otherwise unknown city on the map. Instead, the stunning Niemeyer Center, designed by 103-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, will be closing just six months after it opened, the Guardian reported. While Avilés is only 180 miles west of Bilbao, the same formula didn't quite translate for the industrial seaport town, as Spain is currently experiencing an economic slump. The Asturian regional government, which partly finances the $58.4 million cultural center, is shutting it down for at least two months due to "serious irregularities" — alleged exorbitant spending on hotels, trips and restaurants: "Receipts and invoices needed to justify some of the spending are absent," regional culture chief Emilio Marco told the Guardian. Niemeyer administrators called their $1.2 million annual budget "very modest." …”

 

Succès pour la 10e Nuit Blanche

Artclair.com, 04.10.2011

 

PARIS – “La Nuit Blanche 2011, qui fêtait sa 10e édition dans la nuit du 1er au 2 octobre à Paris, a connu des records de fréquentation. Selon la mairie de Paris, 2,5 millions de personnes se sont déplacées pour voir les 80 projets artistiques disséminés dans la ville. La 10e édition de la Nuit Blanche, qui s’est tenue du 1er au 2 octobre à Paris, a enregistré une forte affluence. Selon Christophe Girard, adjoint à la Culture à la mairie de Paris, environ 2,5 millions de personnes ont participé à la manifestation ; un chiffre bien supérieur à l’année précédente. Selon lui, ce succès est dû à plusieurs facteurs : la date anniversaire, le beau temps mais également la crise. « Dans ce contexte, les gens ont un réel besoin de rêve, de vie collective » a-t-il affirmé à l’AFP. …”

 

Popular program gives new Canadians free access to cultural institutions

Dawn Walton, The Globe and Mail, 4 October 2011

 

CANADA – “When Darshan Harrinanan acquired his Canadian citizenship, he celebrated by taking his wife and three young children to marvel at the treasures of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum. In the year since that fall day in 2009, his family visited a variety of cultural institutions around the province at least 20 times – and all of them at no charge, thanks to a unique homegrown program that offers new Canadian citizens a 12-month “cultural access pass” to attractions nationwide. “It would give me the opportunity to learn more about Canada, while at the same time spend time with my family,” said Mr. Harrinanan, 37, who is originally from Trinidad and now works for the University of Toronto as a business analyst. The program, dubbed CAP and managed by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, is exploding in popularity: What started three years ago in Toronto with six participating facilities now has enrolment rates of 80 citizens a day, with 1,000 attractions nationwide expected to be on board by year’s end. …”

 

Supreme Court copyright case will decide fate of millions of once-public works

Robert Barnes, The Washington Post, 4 October 2011

 

DENVER — “Another school year has begun at the University of Denver music department, renewing a familiar pattern for professor Lawrence Golan. He instructed a nervous young conductor on the proper way to grip her baton. He patiently guided the orchestra through its second rehearsal of Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5. He prepared for the season’s first concert. But the fall also marks a culmination for Golan, whose 10-year trek through the legal system on behalf of fellow conductors, academics, film historians and others ends Wednesday at the Supreme Court. Golan and his colleagues are asking the justices to overturn a decision by Congress giving copyright protection to millions of works by foreign artists that once were in the public domain. Films by Alfred Hitchcock, paintings by Picasso and the symphonies of the great 20th-century Russian composers are among the works that are no longer available to be freely quoted, copied, played, shared or republished without paying royalties or seeking permission. In Golan’s case, that means he can no longer afford music that once was part of his basic repertoire. …”

 

London theatres unite for 2012 festival

Matthew Hemley, The Stage, Monday 3 October 2011 at 13:12

 

LONDON – “Composer Jonathan Dove, playwright Tanika Gupta and directors Peter Brook and Rufus Norris are among the artists creating productions for World Stages London, a theatre festival which is being staged by eight of London’s leading producing venues in 2012. As exclusively revealed by The Stage in August last year, the event is a collaboration between Battersea Arts Centre, the Bush Theatre, the Lyric Hammersmith, the Royal Court, Sadler’s Wells, Somerset House, Theatre Royal Stratford East and the Young Vic. Running from April next year, the eight shows that form the festival are being created to celebrate the “exhilarating cosmopolitan diversity of London”. Festival co-directors David Lan and Nicola Thorold said that London theatres have “never collaborated in this way before”, adding that the festival reveals that theatres “can achieve so much more than we can on our own”. …”

 

Rohinton Mistry wins international literature prize

Globe and Mail Update, Published Monday, Oct. 03, 2011 10:54AM EDT, Last updated Monday, Oct. 03, 2011 3:01PM EDT

 

TORONTO – “Indian-born Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry has won the of the $50,000 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, a prestigious award presented every two years by World Literature Today, a magazine of the University of Oklahoma, and determined by an international jury representing nine countries. “The world will quickly discover the excellence of Rohinton Mistry's luminous fiction that the Neustadt jury acknowledged with this choice,” magazine director Robert Con Davis-Undiano commented. “Giving the award to Mistry is inspired.” …”

 

IFACCA announces host for 6th World Summit on Arts and Culture

IFACCA, 3 October 2011

 

“The Chairman of the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA), Alan Davey (Chief Executive of Arts Council England), today announced that Chile would host the 6th World Summit on Arts and Culture in its capital, Santiago, on 13-16 January 2014. Receiving the honour in Melbourne today, on the eve of the 5th World Summit, was the Minister of Culture and President of the Chilean National Council of Culture and the Arts, Luciano Cruz-Coke. Minister Cruz-Coke will address delegates of the Melbourne Summit at its conclusion on Thursday 6 October and present a video invitation to Santiago and the next Summit. This will be the first time that the World Summit has been staged in Latin America. …”

 

Syrian revolt ignites revolutionary art boom

Oliver Holmes, Recent News, artdaily.org, 29 September 2011

 

SYRIA – “In living rooms across Syria young men and women are creating revolutionary poems, chants, cartoons and films, which they say provides an expressive outlet to protest and keeps up morale in the face of government bullets and torture. […]

A DANGEROUS PROFESSION

Some of Syria's eminent artists inside and outside the country have been swept up by the revolutionary spirit and now direct their art against Assad, often to their own peril. Syria's best-known political cartoonist Ali Farzat was severely beaten after he published anti-Assad cartoons, including one showing the president hitching a ride out of town with recently deposed Col. Muammar Gaddafi of Libya. […] [Malek] Jandali says the recent explosion of art in his home country is due to Syrians finding their freedom through popular revolt. "Once you have freedom, dignity and human rights, you're set. You can have art," he said. "I have never imagined a courageous young man chanting against the president, like Qarshoush, who died because of his music," Jandali said. "For him to sit on the street and come up with those beautiful phrases, that is true art. It is for freedom and love, not money."”  …”

 


Creative Economies and Urban Planning

 

The Creative Class Is Alive

Richard Florida, Atlantic Cities, 6 October, 2011 7:30 AM ET

 

“Something like how video purportedly killed the radio star, the Internet and the economic crisis is murdering the creative class today, according to a provocative essay in Salon by Scott Timberg. “This creative class was supposed to be the new engine of the United States economy, post-industrial age, and as the educated, laptop-wielding cohort grew, the U.S. was going to grow with it,” he writes. “But for those who deal with ideas, culture and creativity at street level -- the working- or middle-classes within the creative class -- things are less cheery. […] Kudos to Timberg and Salon for focusing attention on the plight of struggling artists, musicians, and writers during this devastating economic crisis. I welcome Salon’s coverage of this critical issue and very much look forward to reading the rest of the series. But in focusing on such disparate events as the closing of chains like Borders and Tower Records, the decline of independent record stores and book shops, and the mass layoffs at print newspapers, he misses the forest for the proverbial trees. As bad as the overall economic situation may be, the creative class has in fact gotten off comparatively lightly. The creative class added nearly three million jobs between 2001 through 2010, growing jobs at a seven percent clip. …”

 

Towards a Broader Conception of Economic Competitiveness

Martin Prosperity Insights, October 4, 2011

 

“The economic crisis has challenged popular conceptions of economic growth, both in terms of the definition and the measurement of it. While engendering growth and bolstering competitiveness remains high on political agendas, immediate attention has shifted to creating jobs, lifting wages, addressing inequality, and fostering long-term, sustainability prosperity. A new report from the Martin Prosperity Institute, “Creativity and Prosperity: the Global Creativity Index,” addresses the challenge of nurturing sustainable economic development head-on, shifting the dialogue from a narrow focus on competitiveness and growth to a broader focus on creativity, prosperity, and well-being. …”

 

A Critical Look at PlaNYC, Four Years After Its Launch

In 2007, Mayor Bloomberg introduced his sweeping initiative to green the city and improve living conditions for all New Yorkers. Is the plan working?

C. J. Hughes, Architectural Record, 29 September 2011

 

NEW YORK, N.Y. – “When Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled PlaNYC in 2007, it was seen as a visionary proposal that would likely define his legacy. With the city’s population expected to rise from 8 million to 9 million by 2030, the catch-all initiative sought to make the city greener and more livable by increasing the number of mass-transit options, energy-efficient buildings, and parks, among other aspects. Many goals were designed to come to fruition long after Bloomberg left office in 2013, and in many ways, PlaNYC’s scope evoked Robert Moses, sans the emphasis on cars. So how is PlaNYC faring four years after its launch? Opinions vary. Numerous aspects of the scheme, particularly its sustainability initiatives, are already visible across the city, in the form of new high-speed buses, stricter energy standards, and eco-friendly vehicles—and they score great reviews. But there also are critics who say changes have been slow to roll out and don’t improve the fortunes of all New Yorkers equally. …”