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Canadian Art

Sarah Thornton Gives Successful Art Talks in Canada

Released April 29, 2009
Sarah Thornton Gives Successful Art Talks in Canada

In celebration of Canadian Art’s 25th anniversary year, the Canadian Art Foundation is pleased to present Art Talks 2009, an enhanced series of lectures with leading art-world figures: artists, writers, curators, collectors and museum directors at institutions across the country.

In April, Art Talks 2009 presented Sarah Thornton in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver. Thornton is the author of Seven Days in the Art World, and shared her views on the international contemporary art world.

The Sunday Times calls Seven Days in the Art World “The best book yet written about the modern-art boom...an excellent, vivid, wittily written book...a Robert Altmanesque panorama of...the most important cultural phenomenon of the last ten years.”

“It’s so rare that we get a chance to hear writers talk about their work, especially when the books are so popular” says Juliana Zalucky, exhibition coordinator at Blackwood Gallery. “It was an absolute treat to hear Sarah Thornton, and I’m grateful to the Canadian Art Foundation for providing such first-rate public programming.”

A Canadian based in the UK, Thornton has a BA in art history and a PhD in sociology. She writes about art, the art world and the art market for many publications, including the Art Newspaper and Artforum. Thornton has taught cultural studies at Sussex University, and has been a visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London.


 

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