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Arts Alert Tuesday, Aug. 8 by Cathleen Bond
There's more to Canadian wildlife art than Robert Bateman ... and the Glenbow Museum in Calgary has a display running this summer that proves it.
Another exhibit, "Hunters And The Hunted," features an examination of "our changing relationship with wild-life and wilderness through the development of the conservation movement." Bateman makes an appearance here (you can't
really talk nature without talking Bateman), but he's joined by other well-known wildlife artists such as Bob Kuhn, Clarence Tillenius, Ken Carlson, and George McLean. If you're coming to Calgary this summer, the Glenbow is worth a stop. In addition to its Millennium events, they have two interesting displays by women artists: Fabrications: Stitching Ourselves
Together and First Nations Women And Peace.
Shaping the Great City
The exhibit "looks for the
first time at the explosion of new architectural ideas that occurred across
the Hapsburg Empire in its last decades and that marked the first,
adventurous years of the new republics of central Europe." Regardless of the
cultural, religious and ethnic battles, these cities prevailed and the region
was "host to a persistent cosmopolitan ideal." The exhibit goes on to examine
how this cultural melding was the mother of invention, increased
sophistication and a newfound "sense of urbanity and modernity."
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Curators at the Glenbow have dug into their collections for art and artifacts
for a show called Brush with Wildlife. It includes works by Carl Rungius "one of the most important big game painters in 20th century North America," plus sketches, drawings, and prints by other renowned bird illustrators.
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