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A global tour of the American artist’s enigmatic pavilion works
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Althea Thauberger’s provocative art takes us to the cultural front lines
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The Calgary artist John Will toes the line between genius and absurdity
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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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Fact meets fiction in Iris Häussler’s installation odysseys
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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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Everybody knows the story: “This is the story of General Idea and the story of what we wanted.”
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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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Arthur Renwick’s photography combines beauty and politics
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Repetition, reproduction and return have been persistent themes in art production for more than half a century now. The latest variation on this repro mania is re-enactment. Events as diverse as 19th-century pageants, miners’ strikes, feminist protests and Hollywood films have been obsessively researched and restaged by artists in the last few years.
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For more than three decades, Lynne Cohen’s genius has been to pause in transitional spaces, think about them, look carefully and take photographs. And not just any photographs, but ones made with a large-format view camera, the tool that most fully exploits the medium’s capacity for deep description.
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Few artists have as hands-on a relationship with the built environment as Vancouver’s Reece Terris, who has supported his interdisciplinary studies and practice by working as a builder and general contractor.
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History anchors to its writing, and in this issue we present a series of features that open
onto different aspects of the history of Canadian art, from the early 20th century to
now.
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Welcome to the 25th-anniversary issue of Canadian Art.
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Ydessa Hendeles joins U of T as professor; Ian Wallace's big honour; MacKenzie Art Gallery names Stuart Reid as head; New mandate for DHC/ART; The New Art Gallery of Alberta; Bob Rennie collection moves to Chinatown; Vancouver's "Offsite" showcase
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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
On February 24, art-world glitterati came out to Koerner Hall in Toronto for the highly anticipated Canadian premiere of Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. Sold-out screenings were a hallmark of RAFF 2010.
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!
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.
Co-curated by acclaimed artist Robert Gober, “Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield” received high praise during an LA stop last fall. Now, with the show on at Buffalo’s Burchfield Penney Art Center, critic Ashley Johnson talks with Gober about regionalism, realism and reinvention.
In her first solo show at a major North American institution, the Nairobi-born, New York–based artist Wangechi Mutu presents arresting videos and visceral, large-scale collage works. Here, Gabrielle Moser notes the impressive tensions in Mutu’s art.
Light and luminosity have long been top concerns for Montreal artist Marie-Claire Blais. But as Bryne McLaughlin notes, Blais’ latest show of works—created using an auto-industry spray gun—reaches towards a sense of the cosmic as well.
Myfanwy MacLeod is known for forays into modernism’s iconic moments as well as for delving into the vernacular. Here, National Gallery curator Josée Drouin-Brisebois reviews MacLeod’s latest show with an eye to her “high” and “low” influences.
This week, the 28th edition of the Festival International du Film sur l’Art gets underway in Montreal with screenings of 230 films from 23 countries. Here’s Canadian Art’s top FIFA picks for contemporary-art fans.
