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Year-end best lists often highlight popular favourites. But looking back over 2011, what lingers for managing editor Bryne McLaughlin are the figures who have gone against the grain—even, impressively, in one of the fall season’s biggest shows.
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Mythic creatures, Warholian visions and mid-century dreams—for assistant editor David Balzer, the best shows of 2011 had a tendency to play off elements of the past, or place a renewed focus on them. In capable hands, he notes, the results are daring, not dated.
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From dreamy phantasms to hard-knuckle labour, Canadian Art intern Mariam Nader took in appealing shows on a wide range of themes this year. Here are the three exhibitions in Montreal and Toronto that made it onto her best-of list.
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What's left to say about this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach and its dozens of concurrent fairs and events? Quite a lot, if you’re looking to know the Canadian artists, dealers and presence there. Find out more in Leah Sandals’ report.
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To many, Newfoundland’s Fogo Island is a barren landscape of marsh, scrub and lichen-mottled boulders at the edge of the continent. But as author Lisa Moore reports in our fall issue, new arts programs (and dramatic buildings) are changing that image.
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In this feature from our fall 2011 issue, critic R.M. Vaughan travels to Malmö, Sweden. There, he finds a gloomy city harbouring some bright talents: Sarah Jane Gorlitz and Wojciech Olejnik, the young Canadian duo known collectively as Soft Turns.
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Auction houses Heffel, Joyner Waddington’s and Sotheby’s hold their major fall Canadian-art events in Toronto this week. Besides the intriguing stories that have surfaced around certain works, it’s notable that many of the pieces going under the gavel are from the postwar (and post–Group of Seven) era.
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Last week, National Gallery of Canada director Marc Mayer gave public talks in Toronto and Winnipeg on an oft-controversial arts topic: taxpayers’ money. Here, in follow-up interview with Leah Sandals, he discusses what he’s like to do with the gallery’s budget in the future.
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This month, Vancouver artists Holly Schmidt and Sharon Kallis have put some of their innovative urban-agriculture projects to bed for the winter. As contributing editor Robin Laurence reports, both have sown new seeds for community and creativity in the city.
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New Orleans’ Prospect.2 biennial was founded to revitalize the city, and despite budget overruns and a recently resigned artistic director, reviewer Nancy Tousley finds that its artwork still shines brightly. Read on for her highlights of the event.
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N.E. Thing Co.’s Eye Scream was a restaurant/artwork opened in 1977 in Vancouver. It closed after a year and a half, but its legacy lives on in an IAIN BAXTER& retrospective in Chicago. Here, Mark Clintberg speaks with BAXTER& about the project.
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What is the new Inuit reality? What is the future of the Canadian North? In this slideshow drawn from our Fall 2011 issue, award-winning photographer Donald Weber addresses these questions by juxtaposing seal-oil-lamp past and iPhone-friendly present.
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For Cannes-celebrated Inuit director Zacharias Kunuk, the North has moved “from the stone age to the digital age in a single generation.” In this fall-issue feature, novelist Timothy Taylor explores how Kunuk confronts that shift on a daily basis.
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The winner of the 2011 Grange Prize was announced this week, with Delhi–based artist Gauri Gill taking home the $50,000 first prize. Gill’s work, on view to November 27 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, addresses migration, marginalization and other postmodern realities.
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The latest instalment of our archives series delves into the Fall 1996 issue of Canadian Art with a compelling profile of Paterson Ewen. In it, author Ron Graham deftly addresses the famed artist’s struggles with depression, anxiety and alcoholism.
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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.
