-- Advertisement -- | ||
|
|
|
-- Advertisement -- | ||
-- Advertisement -- | ||
|
|
|
|
-- Advertisement -- | ||
In an age when print is on the decline, the art of Ève K. Tremblay has a special poignancy. As Daniel Baird writes in this feature from our current issue, Tremblay's projects cogently intertwine printed books with life experiences and vital memories.
Continue reading this article...
To look at an early Edward Steichen image is to see a hybrid artist working on the cusp of painting and photography. In this article from our Winter 2012 issue, Richard Rhodes observes that Toronto photographer and publisher Michael Torosian provides a wonderful look at Steichen's practice in his new book Eduard et Voulangis.
Continue reading this article...
What’s left to see in painting that we haven’t already seen? In this feature from our current issue, writer and curator Leah Turner considers how young LA-based, Vancouver-trained artist Monique Mouton is meeting that question—often in fresh new ways.
Continue reading this article...
For more than three decades, Ken Lum has made overlooked subjects into endearing, noble and transformative works. Find out more about the artist, his East Van roots, and his struggles with the art system in this current-issue feature by Danielle Egan.
Continue reading this article...
Born in Tehran and based in Toronto, Abbas Akhavan has spent the past five years making drawings, videos and performances that hinge on travel in Vancouver, Dubai, Berlin and beyond. Find out more in Hadani Ditmars’ feature from our current issue.
Continue reading this article...
Opening on May 27 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, “Oh, Canada” will be the largest survey of Canadian contemporary art ever held on American soil. In this interview from our Spring 2012 magazine, critic Sarah Milroy talks about the show's development with MASS MoCA curator Denise Markonish.
Continue reading this article...
In this feature article from our Spring 2012 magazine, Sarah Scott looks at the long and diverse career of Windsor artist IAIN BAXTER&, as well as some of the unexpected influences he has had on European practitioners.
Continue reading this article...
One of Rebecca Belmore's most recent works, The Blanket, continues the artist's practice of speaking to the centuries of abuse Aboriginal peoples have endured in Canada. In this interview with Lee-Ann Martin from our Spring 2012 magazine, Belmore discusses her critically acclaimed works and their meanings.
Continue reading this article...
Victoria Hospital, a painting by Jack Chambers, is a careful (and in retrospect, perhaps haunting) portrayal of the London, Ontario, institution where Chambers was eventually diagnosed with leukemia. In this brief feature from our Winter 2012 issue, curator Dennis Reid reveals the evolution of the piece, which was co-initiated with another famed London artist, Greg Curnoe.
Continue reading this article...
Toronto sculptor Evan Penny's Jim Revisited—at three metres tall, his biggest work ever—presides over Penny's touring survey "RE FIGURED," which debuted in Germany in 2011 and will wind up at the Art Gallery of Ontario in the fall of 2012. In this David Balzer–penned feature from our Winter 2012 magazine, Penny shares some perspectives on the evolution of his uncannily hyperreal sculptures.
Continue reading this article...
Michel de Broin's new street-lamp sculpture in New Orleans is a notable return to North America for the artist, who has spent much of the past six years living and working in Europe. In this feature from our Winter 2012 issue, managing editor Bryne McLaughlin takes a closer look at de Broin's work, which is both popular and powerful.
Continue reading this article...
You enter artist-designer-architect Jacques Bilodeau's Montreal studio expecting a stark modernist interior, but what you find instead is a sort of Plato's cave of blue-black steel, all hollows and shadows. This and other surprises abound in critic Gary Michael Dault's feature on the artist, published in our Winter 2012 issue.
Continue reading this article...
Tim Whiten is a professor emeritus of York University's fine arts faculty, but when asked how he fits into the current Canadian art scene, he says, without hesitation, "I don't." This and other revealing perspectives are offered in author Ann Ireland's feature on the artist, which appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Canadian Art.
Continue reading this article...
To many, Newfoundland’s Fogo Island is a barren landscape of marsh, scrub and lichen-mottled boulders at the edge of the continent. But as author Lisa Moore reports in our fall issue, new arts programs (and dramatic buildings) are changing that image.
Continue reading this article...
In this feature from our fall 2011 issue, critic R.M. Vaughan travels to Malmö, Sweden. There, he finds a gloomy city harbouring some bright talents: Sarah Jane Gorlitz and Wojciech Olejnik, the young Canadian duo known collectively as Soft Turns.
Continue reading this article...
Full talks and tours schedule, Douglas Coupland conversation info, and magazine launch details posted for free day of activities
Applications due May 9 for $55,000 in prizes
Free art tours for high-school students to take place in April and May
New writers on contemporary art encouraged to apply by June 1
Dates already set for next year’s Toronto festival
Applications for this $7,000 student award are due April 6
Event to feature a conversation with Douglas Coupland, gallery tours, a magazine launch and more
Films on Shary Boyle, Elmgreen & Dragset, Michel de Broin and Jon Gnarr set to open the festival on March 22
Opening-night celebration and art-industry talks highlight fifth year of fair
Don’t miss the North American premieres of films on Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth, happening February 23
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
