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Earlier this year at the Neuberger Museum of Art, about 30 miles outside New York City, the Cuban-born artist Tania Bruguera, who lives and works in Chicago, Havana and Paris and whose work examines the relationships among ideology, power and social behaviour, mounted a 15-year retrospective justly titled “On the Political Imaginary.” ]]> 2010-06-01T17:00:00Z http://www.canadianart.ca/art/intl/2010/06/01/split-and-splice/
In 2009, I exhibited my video What Remains at the University of Copenhagen’s medical museum. While there, I took the time to roam through an exhibition entitled “Split + Splice: Fragments from the Age of Biomedicine,” which had been organized by the Canadian artist, curator and academic Martha Fleming along with four post-doctoral researchers at the museum. ]]> 2010-06-01T16:00:00Z http://www.canadianart.ca/art/intl/2010/06/01/robert-mangold/
Robert Mangold has spent much of his career exploring variations of a formal theme: the interplay of line, frame and colour. This Albright-Knox show features four recent series of paintings and a group of studies for a public work, with emphasis on the two most recent painting series, Column Structures and Ring Images. ]]> 2010-06-01T15:00:00Z http://www.canadianart.ca/art/intl/2010/03/01/anish-kapoor/
Expectations were high for Anish Kapoor’s latest exhibition, which marked the first time a living artist has been given free rein in the Royal Academy. ]]> 2010-03-01T19:00:00Z http://www.canadianart.ca/art/intl/2010/03/01/in-finitum/
Within the labyrinthine streets of Venice is a Gothic building that recently hosted the ambitious and unusual exhibition “In-finitum.” ]]> 2010-03-01T18:00:00Z http://www.canadianart.ca/art/intl/2010/03/01/luc-tuymans/
The last big Tuymans show I saw was at London’s Tate Modern about five years ago. ]]> 2010-03-01T17:00:00Z http://www.canadianart.ca/art/intl/2009/12/01/mircea-cantor/
In “Preventative kiss for suspicious war,” the Romanian artist Mircea Cantor uses a stripped-down approach to address conflict, policing and subjugation. Such situations always contain more than one voice or mode of interpretation, and thus contradictory perspectives are incorporated into Cantor’s work. ]]> 2009-12-01T18:00:00Z http://www.canadianart.ca/art/intl/2009/12/01/allan-kaprow/
In 1961, Allan Kaprow, the putative father of both performance art and installation, filled the back garden at Martha Jackson Gallery in New York with hundreds of old tires, covering the sculptures that normally resided there with tarpaper and rope. ]]> 2009-12-01T17:00:00Z http://www.canadianart.ca/art/intl/2009/12/01/cave-painting/
There is not much paleolithic-looking work in this grouping of 27 artists, but what the show might have in common with those early stabs at the medium of painting is an exploration of what abstraction can represent. ]]> 2009-12-01T16:00:00Z http://www.canadianart.ca/art/intl/2009/09/01/piero-manzoni/
Piero Manzoni, the puckish, baby-faced Italian, has long been beloved by art students everywhere for his Merda d’artista (1961), 90 small cans of what was purportedly his own shit, sold at the time for the price of their weight in gold. ]]> 2009-09-01T15:00:00Z