Canadian Art

FOUNDATION NEWS

• Canadian Art Gallery Hop Microsite Now Online!

  Join us on Thursday, September 23, and Saturday, September 25, for exciting events that celebrate the visual arts.

• New Contemporaries 2010–2011 Events Calendar Now Online

  Canadian Art’s under-40 patron group launches its second year with a program of extraordinary behind-the-scenes art events.

• Canadian Art Writing Prize Winner Announced!

  Congratulations go to winner Pandora Syperek and runners-up Deirdre McAdams and Vency Yun.

• RBC Canadian Painting Competition Semifinalists Announced

  The Canadian Art Foundation, with RBC, is pleased to announce the 15 semifinalists in the 12th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition.

• Canadian Art Gallery Hop Vancouver: Panel Discussion

  In this video, recorded on Saturday, May 29, 2010, as part of the Canadian Art Gallery Hop in Vancouver, Kitty Scott, director of visual arts at the Banff Centre, and Douglas Fogle, chief curator of the Hammer Museum, joined artists Lisa Anne Auerbach and Althea Thauberger to offer their thoughts on the artist’s role in the world.

• Employment Opportunity: Online Production Manager

  Canadian Art is currently seeking an Online Production Manager to join its team. Applications are due September 10, 2010.

• Employment Opportunity: Copy Editor

  Canadian Art magazine is currently seeking an editorial professional to join its team. Applications are due September 15, 2010.

• Canadian Art New Contemporaries: Dinner with Dean Baldwin

  Canadian Art’s under-40 patron group had a fun make-your-own dining experience with one of Toronto’s hottest young artists

• Anne Lind International Program’s Peter Eleey lecture now online

  Learn about the influences that shaped the PS1 curator’s thinking as he prepared for his exhibition “The Talent Show”

• Save the date for the Canadian Art Gallery Hop Toronto

  Join us September 23 for a gala benefit and September 25 for a free day of talks at galleries citywide

More Foundation news

ONLINE

• On Newsstands & Online Now: Canadian Art Fall 2010

  Canadian Art’s biggest issue ever hits newsstands across the country this week with Ed Burtynsky’s Gulf oil spill photos, Lisa Moore’s look at fellow Newfoundlander Will Gill and more. Online, select features and bonus portfolios are up for the viewing.

• TIFF 2010: A New Museum for Movies

  The Toronto International Film Festival’s red-carpet cachet has perennial pop appeal. But this year’s fest will also excite hardcore cinephiles and art fans with the opening of an impressive new building and exhibition that supplements its other avant-garde programs.

• Melanie Gilligan: Credit Reports

  Recently, Banff hosted the North American premiere of a film by Toronto-born, UK-based artist Melanie Gilligan. As Johan Lundh reports, Gilligan’s views of the financial crisis (supported by Artangel and other key institutions) are ironically rich and robust.

• Angela Grauerholz: The Image Life

  Based in Montreal since the late 1970s, German-born artist Angela Grauerholz has forged one of the most impressive photographic careers in the Canadian art world. Now, a retrospective at the National Gallery presents rich meditative opportunities for viewers.

• Bodies in Trouble & Time3: Performing the Capital

  In Ottawa, it’s usually political performance that’s the focus of the day. But as Sky Goodden writes of her recent trip to the capital, the city’s artist-run centres have also been hosting some excellent events on performance art and its documentation.

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