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Shows based on today’s art collectors are increasingly frequent. But it’s rarer to get a glimpse of historical patrons. Now Gabrielle Moser explores the possibilities in an interview with René Villeneuve, curator of “Lord Dalhousie: Patron and Collector.”
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Born in Trinidad, raised in Mississauga and based in New York, Denyse Thomasos is known widely for her striking abstract paintings. Following spates in large-scale installation, Thomasos returns to smaller canvases in her latest Toronto solo show.
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Reinterpreting movie posters, song lyrics and the idea of the artist documentary, Tony Romano brings a playful, experimental spirit to his latest solo show at Diaz Contemporary in Toronto.
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Love it or hate it, the 2010 Olympics had an inescapably surreal quality in its final days. Here, in the last of three reports from Vancouver, Danielle Egan captures the moods and madness of the games’ end and muses on the potential hangover to come.
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Dan Perjovschi’s large-scale installations of critically edged drawings on gallery walls have been featured at the Venice Biennale, Tate Modern and other notable venues. With his latest project now on in Toronto, Bryne McLaughlin talks with the artist about his life and work.
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Dozens of openings, talks and other events happening from coast to coast this week, March 4 to 10, 2010.
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Using lines of photo-luminescent tape in a darkened space, Scott Rogers’ installation Wireframe evoked retro-futurist imagery of the 1980s. Now, Mikhel Proulx reflects on how Rogers effectively mashed up real place and time with its representation.
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Outwardly, the group show “Monster” abounds with man-eating demons, hair-pulling ghosts, wart-covered witches and black-tongued sea creatures. But as Robin Laurence observes, the exhibition offers some inner psychological ogres to meditate on as well.
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This weekend, the seventh annual Reel Artists Film Festival hits the Al Green Theatre with a smart array of world, Canadian and Toronto premieres. Though some screenings are sold out, there are still seats available for top films on our era’s most iconic artists.
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Montreal’s Nuit Blanche is Canada’s oldest all-night art party, and is celebrating its seventh year this Saturday with installations, exhibitions and performances throughout the city. Here, Canadian Art offers a guide to the most promising offerings in each of the festival’s four top districts.
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Red-jerseyed Olympics fans are lining up across Vancouver for free entrance to decked-out galleries and behemoth corporate party tents. In her second of three reports from Vancouver, Danielle Egan deals with sensory overload, creative competition and raucous art fever.
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Dozens of openings, screenings, talks and other events taking place coast to coast this week, February 25 to March 3, 2010.
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Increasingly, it seems that “pedagogy” is the term foremost in the art world’s critical mind—the ur-discourse of late, if you will. Now, a two-part symposium in Toronto aims to delve into the heart of related discussions.
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Artist James Nizam is known for eerie investigations of abandoned, soon-to-be-destroyed homes. In “Memorandoms,” he applies this strategy to Vancouver’s Little Mountain housing project, which was recently demolished to make way for condos.
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Nerves are jangling in Vancouver, a city under siege from red-mitted tourists, international media, corporate brands and fighter jets, among other forces. Danielle Egan delivers her first report in a series of three from a metropolis where the games are, on many fronts, just beginning.
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Eleven films, two shorts, a public performance and two workshops to take place at the Alberta College of Art + Design
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.
Canadian Art launched its much-anticipated winter issue at Leo Kamen Gallery in Toronto on Wednesday, December 16, 2009.
Places as finalist in competitive, first-ever best e-newsletter category
On October 23, the Canadian Art New Contemporaries enjoyed a series of art talks and gallery tours at the Toronto International Art Fair.
This year’s festival showcases 13 films on top art world figures including world, North American and Canadian premieres.
Shows based on today’s art collectors are increasingly frequent. But it’s rarer to get a glimpse of historical patrons. Now Gabrielle Moser explores the possibilities in an interview with René Villeneuve, curator of “Lord Dalhousie: Patron and Collector.”
Born in Trinidad, raised in Mississauga and based in New York, Denyse Thomasos is known widely for her striking abstract paintings. Following spates in large-scale installation, Thomasos returns to smaller canvases in her latest Toronto solo show.
Reinterpreting movie posters, song lyrics and the idea of the artist documentary, Tony Romano brings a playful, experimental spirit to his latest solo show at Diaz Contemporary in Toronto.
Love it or hate it, the 2010 Olympics had an inescapably surreal quality in its final days. Here, in the last of three reports from Vancouver, Danielle Egan captures the moods and madness of the games’ end and muses on the potential hangover to come.
Dan Perjovschi’s large-scale installations of critically edged drawings on gallery walls have been featured at the Venice Biennale, Tate Modern and other notable venues. With his latest project now on in Toronto, Bryne McLaughlin talks with the artist about his life and work.
