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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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Is it possible to make anything new? Even if you’re an artist who works in appropriation? In this audio interview, DHC-ART Foundation curator John Zeppetelli tackles these questions and others raised by the foundation’s current exhibition, “Re-Enactments,” which continues to May 25 in Montreal.
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In this March 3 telephone interview, San Francisco-based curator Jens Hoffman opens up to Leah Sandals about market forces, globalization processes and institutional change—some of the factors that prompt his call for "true innovation" in the curatorial realm in his essay Archaeologies of the Present in the current issue of Canadian Art.
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Speaking at Canadian Art’s second International Lecture of 2008, noted art historian John Richardson discusses his book A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932, the third volume of his biography on the famed painter, with Canadian Art Editor Richard Rhodes.
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Listen in as Lambert, founder of the world-renowned Canadian Centre for Architecture, discusses her life in New York and Paris in the early 1950s and her famous selection of Mies van der Rohe as architect of New York’s Seagram Building.
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In this audiocast, Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz discusses his work with Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes at the opening of the Muñoz exhibition “Imprints for a Fleeting Memorial” at Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art and YYZ Artists’ Outlet in Toronto on January 24, 2008.
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Award in Portrait Photography category recognizes Donald Weber's artist project in the Fall 2010 issue
More than 300 GTA teens enjoy free downtown-Toronto gallery talks during this fall’s School Hop
In 2010, at the age of 35, Toronto artist/DJ/promoter/activist Will Munro succumbed to brain cancer. Here, David Balzer reviews the first big survey of Munro’s work, which makes apparent how talented, prolific and perceptive this creator was.
The Dulwich Picture Gallery’s recent Group of Seven show was one of the UK museum’s biggest hits ever, drawing 41,000 visitors. The attention was deserved, writes Sarah Milroy, as the exhibition offered new insights even to seasoned Canadian-art observers.
The Occupy movement has galvanized the way we think about haves and have-nots. But where do artists fit in? As Joseph R. Wolin observes in this review of David Altmejd’s show at the Brant Foundation, context can be as powerful as content in determining the split.
What happens to identity when our relationship to land and language is disrupted? This is a key question raised in “A Stake in the Ground,” an exhibition of works by 25 First Nations artists, curated by Nadia Myre, that’s currently at Montreal gallery Art Mûr.
Our education and careers site has just posted more stories and tips to help students achieve a great winter term. Highlights include a profile of internationally renowned fashion designer Jeremy Laing, a Q&A on grad schools and more.