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“A group of reformers, passionately committed to correcting the ills they saw in an increasingly industrial and urban society, chose the arts as their medium...” Arts & Crafts Movement, 1880-1920 from the L.A. Museum of Art.

A new VAG location and building is closer thanks to a recently announced B.C. government cash injection of $50 million. What will happen to the old courthouse? Who will be the STARchitect?

Rhizome is a website for new media artists featuring programs and resources - such as discussions, publications, commissions, exhibitions, and events - that strive to encourage and expand the community around new media art.

From the IHT: "Art paralysis: It is a widespread and often crippling malady, striking everyone from the new college grad in his or her first apartment to the super-rich banker, lasting anywhere from a few months to a lifetime."

Following this week's armed robbery of paintings by Monet, Degas, van Gogh and Cézanne from a Swiss gallery, The Globe & Mail's Simon Houpt explores the very difficult task of offloading expensive art in the electronic age.

Design magazine was published by the British Design Council until 1999, dealing with a wide range of design topics and related issues. Click here to access and search the archives of the magazine from 1965 to 1974 and see the latest and greatest (circa 1969) of British industrial design.

In case you were wondering, our eForms have changed locations on the website. You can now find Interlibrary Loan and media booking forms, as well as ECI@NIC and UNBC request forms here.

From the Guardian: “Great, ghastly, revolutionary and hilarious - what a strange ride From Russia is. Opening on Saturday, this long-awaited, much touted, on-and-off affair, resolved only by a last-minute change in English law, has finally arrived at London's Royal Academy."

Read this CBC article about a new aboriginal film website, Isuma TV, founded by Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuatt) and his co-producer Norman Cohn. Then click above to view some fabulous works of aboriginal film and video.