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On Newsstands & Online Now: Canadian Art Spring 2010 The spring issue of Canadian Art hits newsstands and computer screens across the country this week, offering many must-read articles. Web extras on cover artist Althea Thauberger and the 2010 Governor General’s Awards also excite.
Continue reading...11.03.2010 TORONTO Alessandro Petti lecture 7:30pm Prefix 401 Richmond St W
12.03.2010 HALIFAX "No Money Down: 15 Years at the Khyber" opening 7:30pm Khyber 1588 Barrington St
12.03.2010 TORONTO Dorian Fitzgerald opening 7-9pm Clint Roenisch 944 Queen St W
13.03.2010 HALIFAX Gerald Ferguson opening 1-3pm Gallery Page & Strange 1869 Granville St
13.03.2010 LETHBRIDGE Brendan Tang/Nanna Debois Buhl openings 8pm SAAG 601 3 Ave S
Dozens of openings, talks and other events happening from coast to coast this week, March 11 to 17, 2010
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Love it or hate it, the 2010 Olympics had an inescapably surreal quality in its final days. Here, in the last of three reports from Vancouver, Danielle Egan captures the moods and madness of the games’ end and muses on the potential hangover to come.
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Dan Perjovschi’s large-scale installations of critically edged drawings on gallery walls have been featured at the Venice Biennale, Tate Modern and other notable venues. With his latest project now on in Toronto, Bryne McLaughlin talks with the artist about his life and work.
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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.”
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Born in Trinidad, raised in Mississauga and based in New York, Denyse Thomasos is known widely for her striking abstract paintings. Following spates in large-scale installation, Thomasos returns to smaller canvases in her latest Toronto solo show.
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Reinterpreting movie posters, song lyrics and the idea of the artist documentary, Tony Romano brings a playful, experimental spirit to his latest solo show at Diaz Contemporary in Toronto.
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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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Eleven films, two shorts, a public performance and two workshops to take place at the Alberta College of Art + Design
Hear a bestselling author lecture about the Group of Seven, and his related book, on March 25
Walker Art Center curator to visit Toronto from May 26 to 28
Panel, book launch, gallery tours and reception to take place Saturday, May 29
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!
