The Globe and Mail – December 5, 2003 (Page R3).   The mayor of Regina has asked the city’s library board to withdraw its controversial decision to close the Dunlop Art Gallery, and has apologized for the lack of public consultation.

Anthony Kiendl, a former director of the Dunlop, now director of Visual Arts and the Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre, says he hopes the board members will support the mayor’s recommendation. But he says they also need to start rebuilding the public’s trust. “They need to put a director in place,” says Kiendl. “They need to re-examine the board’s relationship to, and understanding of, the gallery. And they need to find alternatives to cutting the other library services.”