Canadian Art

FOUNDATION NEWS

• The Gallery Hop Vancouver program is now online!

  Full talks and tours schedule, Douglas Coupland conversation info, and magazine launch details posted for free day of activities

• Just one month left to apply for the RBC Canadian Painting Competition!

  Applications due May 9 for $55,000 in prizes

• Canadian Art Foundation School Hop pleased to partner with the Images Festival and Contact Photography Festival

  Free art tours for high-school students to take place in April and May

• The Canadian Art Foundation Writing Prize is now open for submissions!

  New writers on contemporary art encouraged to apply by June 1

• Thanks for a terrific RAFF Toronto and RAFF Calgary!

  Dates already set for next year’s Toronto festival

• Last chance to apply for the Canadian Art Foundation Editorial Residency!

  Applications for this $7,000 student award are due April 6

• Join us for Gallery Hop Vancouver, all free and all day on April 28!

  Event to feature a conversation with Douglas Coupland, gallery tours, a magazine launch and more

• Calgary's fourth Reel Artists Film Festival offers free admission to all screenings

  Films on Shary Boyle, Elmgreen & Dragset, Michel de Broin and Jon Gnarr set to open the festival on March 22

• Buy tickets now and join Canadian Art at the Artist Project, March 1 to 4!

  Opening-night celebration and art-industry talks highlight fifth year of fair

• Catch North American, Canadian and Toronto premieres at the 2012 Reel Artists Film Festival

  Don’t miss the North American premieres of films on Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth, happening February 23

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• Arnaud Maggs: Winner of the $50,000 Scotiabank Photography Award

  The 85-year-old artist Arnaud Maggs nudged out Fred Herzog and Alain Paiement as winner of the second annual Scotiabank Photography Award, announced last night in Toronto. This $50,000 win follows the opening of a major Maggs survey at the National Gallery of Canada.

• Public: Big Ambitions

  As one of the primary exhibitions for Contact 2012, “Public: Collective Identity | Occupied Spaces” is ambitious. Charlene K. Lau observes that the two-venue show mirrors the fractures of contemporary life: public and private, visible and invisible, place and non-place.

• Abbas Akhavan: Up, Down and In-Between

  In this review, writer and artist Joni Murphy considers Abbas Akhavan’s current solo show in Montreal, which activates a variety of themes—war and art, destruction and nation building, human and animal—with a distinctively light touch.

• Luke Painter: The Ornamentalist

  Melding William Morris-style ornamentation with more contemporary concerns, artist Luke Painter detours around dry academicism for something more vibrant and visceral. Mariam Nader reviews his current Toronto show at LE Gallery, finding depth in decoration.

• Frieze New York: Taking it Outside

  Frieze opened its first New York edition last week with some surprising highlights: sculptures that were free for public viewing outside the big commercial tent. Canadian Art art director Barbara Solowan was there, and brought back this slideshow.

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