20 - Wednesday, January 16, 1991 — North Shore News

pertorms tor the North Shore Community
Concerts Senos Jan 24 an8 pom. Admissian
by membership onty

Capilano College. Soon hour concert senes
featuring tyre soprano Mactleone Sedimau and
pranit Renneth Johnson. jan. 22, 1-2 p.m, in

WORK BY Lori Goldberg.

phat Nai tucente

Window dressing art

HE RECENT $1.3-

million purchase of a

Barnet Newman
painting by the National
Gallery of Canada and
Sotheby’s $17-miilion sale
of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
confirm the accuracy of a
claim made by the cele-
brated Australian art critic,
Robert Hughes, that art is
now esteemed “‘for its
convertibility to cash.”’
* The art world is currently im-
mersed in a sea of buying and
selling, one in which culture is
reduced to a commodity judged
in terms of its monetary worth.
This has generated a dilemma
that all serious contemporary ar-
tists presently face: How to keep
their heads above the waves,
thereby preserving the esthetic
integrity of works of art and the
independent spirit of the artistic
enterprise.

The North Shore Arts Commis-
sion recently iaunched itself inte
these murky waters with a shor
window exhibition of art works
that was part of the city-wide
First Night celebrations.

intended to function as a tem-
porary “street gallery,’’ the
show was designed to meet cwin
goals: Promote the “unique
character of the Lonsdale retail
community, and ... all that the
visual arts community has to of-

er.”

ARCHIE
GRAHAM

arts critic

As a first attempt, the show
was a brave and innovative ef-
fort. It helped to provide artists
with an alternative exhibition
space to the established galleries
and museums. It also brought
art, literally speaking, closer to

home, or at least, onto the streets

where a potentially large au-
dience would be more likely to
see it.

Some of the works on view
were intellectually stimulating
and visually arresting: Nicole
Dextras’ ironic paper sculptures
at the Paper Go Round, Sudasi
Gardner’s Tarot-inspired painted
quilts at the North Shore Arts
Commission office, and Lori
Goldberg’s childlike oil and
pastel works at Ceramic Tile.

But Goldberg’s mini-show ex-

emplifed how difficult and risky it

i5 to realize the task undertaken
by the North Shore Arts Com-
mission: Her work was among a
number of serious and compell-
ing pieces that were ineffectually
showcased or significantly com-
promised by the competing in-
terests of the Lonsdale retail set-
ting.

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North Shore

Centennial Theatre: Moody ile Theatre
presents Henrik Ibsen's Gaosts. To fan. 19 at
8 p.m., and Jan. 19. 2 p.m. matinee.
Directed by Don §. Willams. $10/7.50. Into:
984-4484.

Presentation House: The Pinchpenny Phan-
tom oF the Opera. A “budget comic ver-
sion of the famous musical hears little rela-
tion to the orginal. Opens fan. 24-Feb. 16,
Wed.-Sat at 8 p.m. $12/9, Res.: 986-1351.

Elsewhere

Arts Club, Granville Island Stage:
Speed-The-Plow by David Mamet, starring
Jay Braveau. Opens Jan. 18. Showtimes:
Mon-Tues. 8 p.m.; Wed.-Fri, 8:30 p.m.: Sat.
689.36 p.m: Wed. 2/1 5 p.m. matinee.

Revue Stage, Granville Island: David

King’s zany musical, Maniac Bride. The Mat-
timonial Musical. Through January. Mon.-
Tues. 8 p.m. Wed.- Fri. 8:30 p.m.: Sat. 6 and
9pm. Wed. 2/1 matinee 5 p.m, Info: 687-
1644.

Seymour Street Stage: The Necessary Steps.
By Morris Panych. An absurd love story
about two people trying to find truth and
happiness ina senseless world. Showtime:
Mon-Tues.. 8 pun.: Wed-Fri, 8:30 p.m.; Sat.,
é and 4 p.m,

— Monday performances at alf Arts Club
theatres now 2/1.

Vancouver Playhouse: Michel Tremblay's
Hosanna. The Man Who Would be Queen
of the Nile, starring John Moffat. To jan. 26
at 8 p.m, Tickets; 873-3311.

The Metropolitan Cooperative Theatre
Society: Watch Our Table Manners. Pant one
of Alan Ayckbourn’s zany comedy trilogy.
The Norman Conquests. Wed.-Sat. at 8 p.m.
To Feb. 2. Tickets: 266-7191.

Freddy Wood Theatre: Our Country's
Good. An uplifting play about the resifience

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Vancouver panist Ares Wong in concert
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