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  • FeaturesSpring 2010

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    Searching for Dan Graham

    A global tour of the American artist’s enigmatic pavilion works
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  • FeaturesSpring 2010

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    War Artist

    Althea Thauberger’s provocative art takes us to the cultural front lines
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  • FeaturesSpring 2010

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    The Iconoclast

    The Calgary artist John Will toes the line between genius and absurdity
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  • FeaturesWinter 2009

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    White Feathers and Tangled Gardens

    The 44th exhibition of the Ontario Society of Artists opened at the Public Reference Library in Toronto on March 11, 1916.
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  • FeaturesWinter 2009

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    Brilliant Disguise

    Fact meets fiction in Iris Häussler’s installation odysseys
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  • FeaturesWinter 2009

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    The Master of Quiet

    It is a strange, even astonishing phenomenon that a century into its checkered history, the monochrome still represents an act of daring.
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  • FeaturesWinter 2009

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    Fun with Mythmaking

    Everybody knows the story: “This is the story of General Idea and the story of what we wanted.”
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  • FeaturesWinter 2009

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    Beautiful Disasters

    Last summer, on a warm, clear day, a breezy afternoon appropriately close to the magical, dreamy stroke of Midsummer’s Eve, a deceptively simple work of art induced in me a feeling I’d thought my art-weary eyes (soul?— I wish) had lost long ago—wonder.
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  • FeaturesWinter 2009

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    ...I Shed No Tears

    Arthur Renwick’s photography combines beauty and politics
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  • ReviewsWinter 2009

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    2Fik

    The French-Moroccan Montrealer 2Fik is a gender-bending activist and self-taught photographer who considers his debut exhibition, held at Galerie [sas], to be his coming-out as a visual artist.
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  • ReviewsWinter 2009

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    Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky

    It is rare to find a creative practice that harmonizes critical thinking and positive momentum. The Vancouver-based artists Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, however, seem to have mastered this delicate balancing act.
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  • ReviewsWinter 2009

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    Diabolique

    “Diabolique” is an ambitious two-part exhibition filled with images ranging from bombs to corpses and from fighter jets to, of course, penises. If the symbols seem all too familiar, that is in part the point of the show, which is as much about violence and war as about the iconographies and processes of their representation.
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  • ReviewsWinter 2009

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    Jeremy Hof

    In his 2009 exhibition at Blanket Contemporary Art, his first after winning the 2008 RBC Canadian Painting Competition, Jeremy Hof introduces recognizably Minimalist forms into his painting, sculpture and monochromes.
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  • ReviewsWinter 2009

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    Michal Rovner

    The first work that you stumble upon in Michal Rovner’s exhibition at DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art dispels any doubt about the depth of the Israeli artist’s aesthetic.
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  • ReviewsWinter 2009

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    Animal House

    When I first heard about “Animal House: Works of Art Made by Animals,” my first thought was: if the work itself is silly, can the theoretical context that frames it be enough to make for a compelling experience?
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  • Photogenic: Imaging the Abstract

    Libraries of books have been written on abstraction in painting. But it’s abstraction in photography that gets the focus with “Photogenic,” a Vancouver show that features 1920s work by László Moholy-Nagy alongside contemporary artists’ prints.

  • Posing Beauty in African American Culture: Colour Fields

    Hamilton is the only Canadian stop for a new exhibition, curated by NYU photo chair Deborah Willis, that interrogates notions of beauty and blackness. As reviewer Sally Frater observes, Willis’ approach provides antidotes to some longstanding art conundrums.

  • David Merritt: Roping Viewers In

    David Merritt is having a quartet of related exhibitions in southern Ontario this year. In his review of the project’s first iteration, “shim,” Sky Glabush marvels at Merritt’s ability to meander between objective clarity and deferred, slippery potential.

  • 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.

  • Adrian Norvid: Wrongo

    In his latest solo show, Adrian Norvid mashes up art-world fundraiser antics with exquisite-corpse techniques. Add in DIY flair and painstaking attention to detail, and you’ve got another wild voyage into Norvid’s wacky parallel universe.

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