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Lord Dalhousie: A Collector Ahead of his Time Shows based on today’s art collectors are increasingly frequent. But it’s rarer to get a glimpse of historical patrons. Now Gabrielle Moser explores the possibilities in an interview with René Villeneuve, curator of “Lord Dalhousie: Patron and Collector.”
Continue reading...04.03.2010 OTTAWA Brian Jungen talk 7pm National Gallery of Canada 380 Sussex Dr
04.03.2010 WATERLOO Spencer Finch talk 7pm Arts Lecture Hall University of Waterloo
04.03.2010 TORONTO "Sculpture as Time" first day AGO 317 Dundas St W
05.03.2010 HALIFAX Nina Levitt opening 8pm SMU Art Gallery 5865 Gorsebrook Ave
10.03.2010 GUELPH Iwona Blazwick lecture 5:30pm War Memorial Hall University of Guelph
Dozens of openings, talks and other events happening from coast to coast this week, March 4 to 10, 2010.
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This weekend, the seventh annual Reel Artists Film Festival hits the Al Green Theatre with a smart array of world, Canadian and Toronto premieres. Though some screenings are sold out, there are still seats available for top films on our era’s most iconic artists.
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Montreal’s Nuit Blanche is Canada’s oldest all-night art party, and is celebrating its seventh year this Saturday with installations, exhibitions and performances throughout the city. Here, Canadian Art offers a guide to the most promising offerings in each of the festival’s four top districts.
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Red-jerseyed Olympics fans are lining up across Vancouver for free entrance to decked-out galleries and behemoth corporate party tents. In her second of three reports from Vancouver, Danielle Egan deals with sensory overload, creative competition and raucous art fever.
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Using lines of photo-luminescent tape in a darkened space, Scott Rogers’ installation Wireframe evoked retro-futurist imagery of the 1980s. Now, Mikhel Proulx reflects on how Rogers effectively mashed up real place and time with its representation.
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Outwardly, the group show “Monster” abounds with man-eating demons, hair-pulling ghosts, wart-covered witches and black-tongued sea creatures. But as Robin Laurence observes, the exhibition offers some inner psychological ogres to meditate on as well.
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Nerves are jangling in Vancouver, a city under siege from red-mitted tourists, international media, corporate brands and fighter jets, among other forces. Danielle Egan delivers her first report in a series of three from a metropolis where the games are, on many fronts, just beginning.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child isn’t just a movie—it’s becoming a phenomenon. Following sneak peeks at Art Basel Miami and the Sundance Film Festival, this compelling documentary has its gala Canadian premiere on February 24 in Toronto.
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A new St. John’s show pairs two east-coast artists, Michael McCormack and Jason Penney. Both divine future visions from reclaimed materials and locales, creating scenarios that are alternately tongue-in-cheek and apocalyptic.
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Artist James Nizam is known for eerie investigations of abandoned, soon-to-be-destroyed homes. In “Memorandoms,” he applies this strategy to Vancouver’s Little Mountain housing project, which was recently demolished to make way for condos.
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Increasingly, it seems that “pedagogy” is the term foremost in the art world’s critical mind—the ur-discourse of late, if you will. Now, a two-part symposium in Toronto aims to delve into the heart of related discussions.
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Eleven films, two shorts, a public performance and two workshops to take place at the Alberta College of Art + Design
Straight from the Sundance Film Festival, Tamra Davis' moving documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child pays homage to her friend, the legendary artist, in his own words
Two top documentaries on Swiss art will be followed by a special Q and A with Beyeler Foundation head Samuel Keller!
Whimsical, fascinating film to premiere at the Reel Artists Film Festival
World, North American and Canadian premieres to be introduced by specially invited artists, authors, curators and directors, including Susan Vogel, Joanne Tod and Barbara Fischer.
This fall, Canadian Art’s young patron group visited the home and studio of Jason McLean, where they toured the artist’s personal collection.
