James Adams

I'm a reporter @globeandmail covering a variety of arts topics, including visual arts for @globearts.

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morning in america, mourning for america

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Another significant T.O. gallery bites the dust: Diaz Contemporary announcing this a.m. it's closing @ yr's end. Rep'd K Adams, JTisiga etc

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AGO reporting Steve Martin's Lawren Harris show drew 118,000 visitors -- 3rd highest total ever for a Cdn artist. #1: 2014-15 Colville retro

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T.O. businesswoman Martha Durdin is new chair of ROM board of trustees, succeeding Bonnie Brooks. Holds the job until early 2019.

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OUCH! Variety has just pub'd quite a severe critique of TIFF16 & TIFF generally. https://t.co/6PeT98v8NB.

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Farewell to "JBM," our fond shorthand for him here at the G & M. A man of great intellectual and physical presence, yet courtly and kind.

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Ann Webb, man. dir. of ROM Contemp Culture since early 2014, is heading to Vanc. Art Gallery nxt mo. to become assoc. dir. of a lotta stuff.

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3 Cdns have made artNEWS mag's annual Top 200 art collectors list: Guy Laliberte (montreal), Bob Rennie (vancouver), David Thomson (toronto)

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Congrats to Sophie Hackett & Sasha Suda being named, respectively, photography curator and curator, European art, @ Art Gallery of Ontario.

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Terry Nicholson, recently retired dir of arts/culture for T.O., has been named interim exec director of Museum of Contemporary Art, T.O.

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Dudes: the last guy to rock backwards baseball cap look was probably Yogi Berra (RIP 2015) Also: science shows male wearers suffer IQ loss.

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A fuller version of my interview with Steve Martin online at https://t.co/dWUQrT2Lm5.

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Sad. Less than 8 months after visiting T.O. & Aga Khan Museum the great Abbas Kiarostami has died in Paris.

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Lawren Harris oil, Algoma Sketch 48 (1920), sold at auction Tues. evening in T.O. for $977,500, incl. fees. Est. going in: $400-600,000.

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Former Museum of Vancouver CEO Nancy Noble to head Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Sept.. It's had interim dir. since R. Cronin left June '15.

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Contact photo fest 2016 officially over but one of its most outstanding shows, Counterpoints, continues to July 30 @ UoT art museum.

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It's still rolling, Bob.

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AGO Toronto is reporting 8 % drop in attendance for 2015-16 vs 2014-15. Gallery had 718,200 visitors vs 789,121 for previous fiscal.

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Message from Jimi: "If the 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind."

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Please: can we stop calling Uber a ride-sharing service? It's a business, it's a ride and there's no sharing.