Canadian Art

FOUNDATION NEWS

• Canadian Art Gallery Hop Microsite Now Online!

  Join us on Thursday, September 23, and Saturday, September 25, for exciting events that celebrate the visual arts.

• New Contemporaries 2010–2011 Events Calendar Now Online

  Canadian Art’s under-40 patron group launches its second year with a program of extraordinary behind-the-scenes art events.

• Canadian Art Writing Prize Winner Announced!

  Congratulations go to winner Pandora Syperek and runners-up Deirdre McAdams and Vency Yun.

• RBC Canadian Painting Competition Semifinalists Announced

  The Canadian Art Foundation, with RBC, is pleased to announce the 15 semifinalists in the 12th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition.

• Canadian Art Gallery Hop Vancouver: Panel Discussion

  In this video, recorded on Saturday, May 29, 2010, as part of the Canadian Art Gallery Hop in Vancouver, Kitty Scott, director of visual arts at the Banff Centre, and Douglas Fogle, chief curator of the Hammer Museum, joined artists Lisa Anne Auerbach and Althea Thauberger to offer their thoughts on the artist’s role in the world.

• Employment Opportunity: Online Production Manager

  Canadian Art is currently seeking an Online Production Manager to join its team. Applications are due September 10, 2010.

• Employment Opportunity: Copy Editor

  Canadian Art magazine is currently seeking an editorial professional to join its team. Applications are due September 15, 2010.

• Canadian Art New Contemporaries: Dinner with Dean Baldwin

  Canadian Art’s under-40 patron group had a fun make-your-own dining experience with one of Toronto’s hottest young artists

• Anne Lind International Program’s Peter Eleey lecture now online

  Learn about the influences that shaped the PS1 curator’s thinking as he prepared for his exhibition “The Talent Show”

• Save the date for the Canadian Art Gallery Hop Toronto

  Join us September 23 for a gala benefit and September 25 for a free day of talks at galleries citywide

More Foundation news

ONLINE

• Sol LeWitt: Primary Legacy

  In recent years, both the Dia and MASS MoCA have mounted tribute exhibitions to late American artist Sol LeWitt. This week, Mercer Union wraps up its own notable homage, which recreates a 1981 wall drawing LeWitt did for the then-fledgling space.

• The Khyber Controversy: Three Years' Grace

  For the past number of years, there's been controversy regarding the future of Halifax’s Khyber Arts Society. Seen by many as a key venue locally and nationally, the Khyber was back in the news this month as a city report recommended a new three-year plan for its space.

• Todd Tremeer: War Games

  Play and strife come together, DIY style, in Todd Tremeer’s Little Wars (Make Me), an interactive project that debuted this month at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. In it, viewers can collaborate on a wall-sized battle mural and “bring the war home” via paper-cutout soldiers.

• John Kissick/Gwen MacGregor: Two for the Road

  Summer is often marked by contrasts, a dynamic that the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery seems to pick up on in its current pairing of solo shows: John Kissick’s manic, multifaceted paintings and Gwen MacGregor’s calm, geoscience-toned fieldwork.

• Heat: Marvelous Meltdowns

  MKG127 acknowledges Toronto’s above-average summer temperatures with “Heat,” an exhibition that ironically offers some cool respite while displaying works that evoke bubbling tar, existential crises and blistering guitar solos.

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