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		<title>Photographic Reprise of Bill Reid&#8217;s Monumental Sculptures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Bill Reid got older, Parkinson&#8217;s disease began to take its toll on his body, and consequently, on his ability to produce more artworks. As if in response, Reid&#8217;s sense of scale grew to mammoth proportions, a change that required a team of artisans and assistants to help him out. Where Reid had begun alone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1513</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Live-Blogging&#8221; A Very Short Introduction to Art Theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Diego Velázquez&#8217;s Las Meninas image from Wikipedia Cynthia Freeland&#8217;s Art Theory in Oxford University Press&#8217;s &#8220;A Very Short Introduction&#8221; series is a nice counterpart to Arnold&#8217;s work on art history (see the preceding post). Like Arnold, Freeland has a gift for taking a complex subject and making it accessible and interesting to the average person [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1496</link>
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		<title>A Very Short Review of A Very Short Introduction to Art History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vermeer&#8217;s Maid with a Milk Jug image taken from Wikipedia I just finished Dana Arnold&#8217;s book Art History from Oxford University Press&#8217;s &#8220;A Very Short Introduction&#8221; series. The book comes in at just over one hundred small pages, and so is very short indeed. A sign of the book&#8217;s excellence is that I wished it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1476</link>
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		<title>On Making Multiple Presences Share the Same Physical Space in Northwest Coast Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[See the previous post for information on each pole This post grew out of the preceding one, a brief summary of Hilary Stewart&#8217;s excellent book Looking at Totem Poles. The Haida and Kwakiutl poles above feature something that has intrigued me for some time: the presence of multiple presences within the same physical space, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1451</link>
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		<title>A Very Short Summary of Hilary Stewart&#8217;s book &#8220;Looking at Totem Poles&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[See below for information on each pole An introduction already aims to summarize a field, but this post aims to be a particularly short summary of some of the material in Hilary Stewart&#8217;s excellent introductory book (reviewed in the previous post) Looking at Totem Poles. This post is in part inspired by a very brave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1427</link>
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		<title>A Review of &#8220;Looking at Totem Poles,&#8221; by Hilary Stewart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Looking at Totem Poles,&#8221; by Hilary Stewart. Image taken from the Spirit Wrestler Gallery website Today I finished Looking at Totem Poles, by Hilary Stewart, whose earlier, most excellent book Looking at the Art of the Northwest Coast was instrumental in helping me to understand the traditional forms of First Nations northwest coast art. Looking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1400</link>
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		<title>Klahowya Village in Vancouver&#8217;s Stanley Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nest with eagle and eaglets by Richard Krentz Yesterday I visited for the first time the Klahowya Village exhibits in Stanley Park. The village, which recalls a living First Nations presence in the land that would later become known as Stanley Park, includes several booths with First Nations artisans and artists selling their productions. One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1367</link>
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		<title>Bill Reid&#8217;s Killer Whale Sculpture at the Vancouver Aquarium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I finally filled a blogging hole I have been wanting to get to for some time: I brought a camera to Bill Reid&#8217;s amazing sculpture that stands in front of the Vancouver Aquarium. It is, of course, the Killer Whale, a monumental work sculpted in bronze. The energetic, kinetic vitality of the killer whale [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1348</link>
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		<title>The New Textiles Exhibit at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am really enjoying the new textiles exhibit, entitled Time Warp at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art. The two blankets shown above, are woven in the northern geometric (left) and chilkat (right) patterns. The gallery also features several woven cedar-bark pieces, which I will likely post in the near-future here. The textiles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1346</link>
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		<title>Update to Reading Reid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My second edition Shadbolt [see the preceding post] arrived some days ago, and I read the last chapter and admired all the photographs in it. The photographs are much better, for the most part: they are brighter and sharper than in the first edition. As far as I can see, the text in the bulk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1327</link>
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		<title>Reading Reid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last few months, I&#8217;ve used my lengthy commuting time to get a lot of reading done. Specifically, I&#8217;ve read several books about the aboriginal art of the northwest coast. They are, in the order I finished them: -Solitary Raven: The Essential Writings of Bill Reid, edited by Robert Bringhurst -The Raven Steals the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1319</link>
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		<title>Philistines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Supposed Ming Dynasty stolen artwork image taken from the CBC I occasionally call myself a philistine when I mention that most modern art really doesn&#8217;t do much for me. I think a lot of five year olds can pull off what some contemporary artists do, and to me it doesn&#8217;t matter that the artists could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1297</link>
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		<title>The Face in the Raven&#8217;s Tale, and Other Faces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rear-side view of Bill Reid&#8217;s &#8220;The Raven and the First Men&#8221;* When I took a group of young people to UBC&#8217;s Museum of Anthropology some days ago, one of them asked me about the significance of the face at the bottom of the giant yellow cedar version of Reid&#8217;s The Raven and the First Men. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1268</link>
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		<title>Acquisitions, Accessions, and a Terry Fox Loonie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Official First Day Terry Fox Coin I recently learned that when a museum accessions a piece, it gives it a number, for example, 2003.4.3.2. The 2003 would refer to the year that a piece was acquired by the museum, the 4 would indicate that this was the fourth accession of that year, while the next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1246</link>
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		<title>The Case of the McMichael Collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Thomson Pine Island image taken from the McMichael Collection I just finished a most fascinating account of the controversy over the McMichael Collection (&#8220;Case Notes: One Premier&#8217;s Obsession? The McMichael Legislation in Ontario,&#8221; by Kenneth R. Cavalier in International Journal of Cultural Property 11:1 (2002) pp. 65–79). The McMichael Collection began as a gift [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1238</link>
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		<title>Collections Access</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading Jeanette A. Richoux, Jill Serota-Braden and Nancy Demyttanaere&#8217;s article &#8220;A Policy for Collections Access&#8221; (Museum News Vol. 59 No 7 (July/August 1981), pp. 43-47). It was interesting, but at the stage of my career, when I neither need access to stored objects nor am in a position to make decisions about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1232</link>
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		<title>Creating a Collections Management Policy Document</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Things Great and Small &#8212; Collections Management Policies, chapter 2 &#8220;Compiling Collections Management Policies,&#8221; John E. Simmons gives an overview of how museums and galleries can establish collections management policies. For obvious reasons, Timmons cautions against merely copying another institution&#8217;s policies; Timmons then recommends that the language to be used in the policy manual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1229</link>
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		<title>An Arctic Lawren Harris Sells at Auction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image of Lawren Harris&#8217;s &#8220;Bylot Island I&#8221; taken with permission from Heffel.com &#8220;Bylot I,&#8221; an Arctic themed painting by my favourite Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris just sold for $2.8 million at Heffel&#8217;s recent May 2010 auction in Vancouver. I enjoyed watching the auction, and hope to keep up with future ones.]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1223</link>
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		<title>Heffel&#8217;s Fine Canadian Art Auction of May 26, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Screenshot of live auction taken from Heffel.com I&#8217;ve just discovered that Heffel Auctions has a live link to their current auction at Heffel.com. The artwork shown above is lot 171, Emily Carr&#8217;s Emily and Lizzie, which sold for $400,000 plus a buyer&#8217;s premium. The Bill Reid sculpture I mentioned a few days ago sold for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1210</link>
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		<title>Yahweh, Bezalel, and Bill Reid, or Biblical Antecedents of the Collector: Eva Schulz on Samuel Quiccheberg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some days ago, I read a rather long article by Eva Schulz entitled &#8220;Notes on the history of collecting and of museums in the light of selected literature of the sixteenth to the eighteenth century&#8221; (Journal of the History of Collections, 1990, vol. 2. no. 2). The article was quite interesting, but one part stood [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://curatorandcollector.com/?p=1197</link>
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