2007 3(26) - UCWLC

Êóëüòóðà i ðîçâàãàОгляд книжок, фільмів,радіо, телебачення, концертів,виставок та музикиз українським змістомA review of books, films,radio, TV, concerts, exhibits,music, theatre dealing withUkrainian themesArts and EntertainmentUkrainian bust to become CanadianThe artist who commissioned the bustthat is being displayed at the Art Galleryof Ontario was 20th centuryUkrainian modernist Alexander Archipenko.Archipenko was born in Kyiv in1887, lived in France and Germany,and died in New York in 1964. Henever set foot in Canada. The seller ofFlat Torso was descended from someonewho bought it in Mannheim, Germany,in 1922. How does a Ukrainian’ssculpture, purchased in Germany,qualify as Canadian heritage? FlatTorso was cast in 1920; Archipenkodied in New York in 1964. The vendorsaid that his Flat Torso was brought toCanada during the Second World War.The Canadian Cultural PropertyExport Review Board, which dealswith about 400 export permits a year,informs curators and consultants whenan object of “national significance” isabout to be sold abroad (about 20cases a year). If the experts come upwith compelling reasons for keepingthe object in this country, the boardcan delay the sale, giving Canadianmuseums and galleries the chance tobid.The application for permission tosell Flat Torso, a sinuous, 38-centimetre-high bronze nude (a littlebigger than an Oscar) on a 9.3-cm greymarble base, by Archipenko wasblocked, allowing this Ukrainian treasureto stay in Canada.With thanks to Paulette MacQuarrieÓÂÀÃÀ!!шукає праціхудожників на обкладинки,piвнож поезії таоригінальні дописи. Щодоподальшої інформації контактуйтез pедакторомoksanabh@sympatico.caATTENTION!!is lookingfor cover artists, poets andwriters to share their originalmaterial. Please contact theEditor.Martin Cruz Smith’s2004 novel WolvesEat Dogs, set inRussia and Ukraine (Chornobyl),has a crooked character namedHoffman telling Russian policeinvestigator Arkady Renko:“Jews do not ask Ukrainiancannibals.”Nasha Doroha fall/2007 29