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This week, the 28th edition of the Festival International du Film sur l’Art gets underway in Montreal with screenings of 230 films from 23 countries. Here’s Canadian Art’s top FIFA picks for contemporary-art fans.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child isn’t just a movie—it’s becoming a phenomenon. Following sneak peeks at Art Basel Miami and the Sundance Film Festival, this compelling documentary has its gala Canadian premiere on February 24 in Toronto.
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Though sporting events will be the main draw for many this month in Vancouver, there’s also plenty to see on the cultural front. Here, Canadian Art rounds up six of the most compelling Olympic art events to check out in Terminal City.
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Since the 1970s, Raymonde April has studied key contemporary issues in photography. Now, with her art spawning three Montreal exhibitions, Bryne McLaughlin talks with curator Eduardo Ralickas about what makes April’s art so compelling.
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The sixth annual Exposure photography festival kicks off this week with 30 venues and nearly 40 exhibitions in Calgary, Banff and Canmore. Canadian Art’s top picks for the fest range widely, from conceptual group shows to intimate solo offerings.
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This week, Western Front kicks off “Learning from Vancouver,” a symposium and exhibition on the city. Interestingly, the person who might be learning (or relearning) the most about Vancouver right now is Caitlin Jones, the Front’s new director. In an in-depth interview, former NYCer Jones discusses market issues, web-art history and future hopes.
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Though the Bank of Canada says the recession is over, it’s still surprising to see any business expanding its operations. As Leah Sandals reports, Bau-Xi is taking the plunge, launching the new year with a new Toronto gallery devoted to photography.
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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
On February 24, art-world glitterati came out to Koerner Hall in Toronto for the highly anticipated Canadian premiere of Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. Sold-out screenings were a hallmark of RAFF 2010.
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.
Co-curated by acclaimed artist Robert Gober, “Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield” received high praise during an LA stop last fall. Now, with the show on at Buffalo’s Burchfield Penney Art Center, critic Ashley Johnson talks with Gober about regionalism, realism and reinvention.
In her first solo show at a major North American institution, the Nairobi-born, New York–based artist Wangechi Mutu presents arresting videos and visceral, large-scale collage works. Here, Gabrielle Moser notes the impressive tensions in Mutu’s art.
Light and luminosity have long been top concerns for Montreal artist Marie-Claire Blais. But as Bryne McLaughlin notes, Blais’ latest show of works—created using an auto-industry spray gun—reaches towards a sense of the cosmic as well.
Myfanwy MacLeod is known for forays into modernism’s iconic moments as well as for delving into the vernacular. Here, National Gallery curator Josée Drouin-Brisebois reviews MacLeod’s latest show with an eye to her “high” and “low” influences.
This week, the 28th edition of the Festival International du Film sur l’Art gets underway in Montreal with screenings of 230 films from 23 countries. Here’s Canadian Art’s top FIFA picks for contemporary-art fans.
