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During her 10-year tenure as director of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Kathleen Bartels has turned a quiet museum into a bustling town square. In this summer-issue feature, Hadani Ditmars reveals how Bartels did it, and what she’s got planned next.
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In this feature article from the Summer 2011 issue of Canadian Art, Trevor Boddy tours the well-designed new digs of Plug In ICA, the longtime hub of Winnipeg's world-renowned art scene.
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In this feature from the Summer 2011 issue of Canadian Art, assistant editor David Balzer thoughtfully analyzes the art of Toronto's Luis Jacob, whose deft work with archives and other themes has gained much national and international attention.
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In this cover story from the Summer 2011 issue of Canadian Art, critic Sarah Milroy visits with Vancouver artist Steven Shearer as he prepares to exhibit in the Canada Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale.
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In recent years, Victoria’s Luanne Martineau has won renown for conceptual art that employs terrific levels of textile and paper handicraft. In this feature from our spring issue, Martineau talks about her multifaceted practice with critic and artist Noah Becker.
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The Biennale de Montréal kicks off this week with a big international exhibition on the theme of chance. In this article from our spring issue, Isa Tousignant talks with biennale curators Claude Gosselin and David Liss about their curatorial gamble.
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The Automatistes might be art heroes in Canada, but their international importance is often overlooked. In this revelatory feature from our spring issue, curator Roald Nasgaard delves into the group’s pivotal (and globally prescient) production.
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Brendan Fernandes, one of the youngest artists ever to be shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award, is a talent on the rise. Find out why in this Spring 2011 issue feature penned by Canadian Art Foundation Writing Prize winner Pandora Syperek.
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Horror films, slapstick comedy and folk tales converge in the work of Myfanwy MacLeod, whose monumental The Birds sculpture for Vancouver's Olympic Plaza is explored in Danielle Egan's cover story from our Spring 2011 Issue.
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Bombastic American art star Julian Schnabel came to Toronto last fall for the premiere of his new film Miral at the Toronto International Film Festival, and the opening of "Julian Schnabel: Art and Film" at the Art Gallery of Ontario. In this feature from our Spring 2011 issue, writer Daniel Baird visits Schnabel at his summer home in Montauk, Long Island, right before his Canadian landing.
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Artist Brian Jungen, best known for his transformation of contemporary objects into Aboriginal motifs, has seen great success over the past decade. In this feature from our Spring 2011 issue, critic Sarah Milroy talks with the artist of his new work, and his longstanding ties with the reserve at Doig River First Nation north of Fort St. John, B.C.
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This article from the winter 2010/11 issue of Canadian Art provides a glimpse of National Gallery of Canada senior curator of contemporary art Josée Drouin-Brisebois as she prepares to introduce Steven Shearer to the 2011 Venice Biennale.
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Located in Old Montreal, DHC/ART is an exhibition space that operates admission-free and without public funding. "What
characterizes all of the presentations we’ve done is a sense of engagement with the world at large," says the institution's curator John Zeppetelli.
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First Nations artist Dana Claxton had a great-grandmother who walked alongside Sitting Bull, and as a creator, curator and educator she’s made great strides addressing such overlooked histories. Find out more in this winter-issue feature by Lynne Bell.
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Art, artist and art school intertwine in the recent work of Landon Mackenzie, an energetic painter and influential instructor at Emily Carr. In this feature from our winter issue, critic Robin Laurence explores the webs of connections in Mackenzie’s practice.
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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.
