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Last week, bestselling author Ross King delivered a much-anticipated Toronto lecture on the Group of Seven's little-known European influences. Now, a brief chat reveals why the Saskatchewan-bred, UK-based author took on the topic, which is soon to be a book and exhibition as well.
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In the winter 2009 print edition of Canadian Art, writer Daniel Baird examines the portrait projects of artist Arthur Renwick. This special online supplement offers more examples of Renwick's striking photography, as well as samples of a very different form of Renwick's creative work—his blues-inspired music.
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In Stephen Andrews’ new works, currently on view at Paul Petro in Toronto, the artist’s critically acclaimed perspectives are pushed to a more metaphysical place. As Bryne McLaughlin observes in a chat with the artist, there is much here to reflect upon.
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An Te Liu’s Monopoly-styled house was a highlight of the “Leona Drive Project,” which repurposed rundown suburban bungalows for art. In this audio interview, Liu speaks to Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes about the development of his project.
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“Promise” is the theme of the 2009 Gallery Hop, so we’re wrapping up web week with a look to futures near and far. Details on Saturday’s talks, an audiocast with panellist Emily Vey Duke and a video chat with Matthew Teitelbaum provide excellent prep for all tomorrow’s parties.
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Canadian Art’s annual gala happens tonight, and we’ve got must-know cocktail chatter: a profile of rising star Ryan Sluggett, who’s created a work for the gala, a video convo with original event host Olga Korper and an audiocast with dealer Yves Trépanier.
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Going once… going twice… and gone! Works by the nation's best artists go under the gavel at Canadian Art’s annual auction this week. Discover select live-auction works and interviews with auction artists in this special online feature.
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Canadian Art magazine is celebrating its 25th anniversary this fall in many ways—including daily audio, video and text updates during Gallery Hop week. Get the scoop on Canadian Art secrets old and new with exclusive interviews and special content.
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Over the past few years, Los Angeles–trained, Toronto-based artist Scott Lyall has won renown for his innovative approach to installation. Now, in a Canadian Art audiocast, Lyall gives Leah Sandals a tour of his unusual exhibition “The Color Ball,” revealing thoughts along the way on SITE Santa Fe, arts fundraising galas and—most uniquely—formalist fog machines.
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Toronto artist John Dickson is one of our leading contemporary sculptors. Now, in an audio interview with Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes, Dickson talks about his current fascination with firebombed landscape, his past collective projects and more.
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Andrew Wright is known for his large-scale photo-based projects. In this interview with Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes, the Sobey Art Award semi-finalist talks about his stint in the Canadian Forces Artists Program.
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Listen in on a conversation between top Montreal dealer Pierre-François Ouellette and Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes as they discuss art fairs, Ed Pien and the Quebec scene in advance of Ouellette’s July 15 talk at Toronto’s Drake Hotel.
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In an era where high-speed communication and global connectivity are an irrepressible part of daily life, it may seem somewhat anachronistic or nostalgic to think of community broadcasting as a powerful medium. After all, with their limited ranges and resources, locally based radio or television stations are no match for the far and wide broadcast power of corporate or public media empires.
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Though that old fine-art wall between photography and painting is largely a thing of the past, it can still be a surprise these days to find an artist who is truly devoted to both.
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The 2008 Reel Artists Film Festival attracted record numbers, opening on February 21 with a conversation between filmmaker James Crump and AGO curator Maia Sutnik on Robert Mapplethorpe and Sam Wagstaff's controversial relationship. Hear what they have to say about the friends and the fest in this exclusive audiocast.
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Eleven films, two shorts, a public performance and two workshops to take place at the Alberta College of Art + Design
Hear a bestselling author lecture about the Group of Seven, and his related book, on March 25
Walker Art Center curator to visit Toronto from May 26 to 28
Panel, book launch, gallery tours and reception to take place Saturday, May 29
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.
The spring issue of Canadian Art hits newsstands and computer screens across the country this week, offering many must-read articles. Web extras on cover artist Althea Thauberger and the 2010 Governor General’s Awards also excite.
In his latest solo show, Adrian Norvid mashes up art-world fundraiser antics with exquisite-corpse techniques. Add in DIY flair and painstaking attention to detail, and you’ve got another wild voyage into Norvid’s wacky parallel universe.
Libraries of books have been written on abstraction in painting. But it’s abstraction in photography that gets the focus with “Photogenic,” a Vancouver show that features 1920s work by László Moholy-Nagy alongside contemporary artists’ prints.
Hamilton is the only Canadian stop for a new exhibition, curated by NYU photo chair Deborah Willis, that interrogates notions of beauty and blackness. As reviewer Sally Frater observes, Willis’ approach provides antidotes to some longstanding art conundrums.
David Merritt is having a quartet of related exhibitions in southern Ontario this year. In his review of the project’s first iteration, “shim,” Sky Glabush marvels at Merritt’s ability to meander between objective clarity and deferred, slippery potential.
