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This month, a Lyonel Feininger retrospective organized by New York’s Whitney Museum will open in Montreal. As David Balzer reports, the Canadian spin on this modern master promises to highlight overlooked output in music.
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After working in construction for 15 years, Reece Terris went to art school. Now, his works—from time-travelling apartments to guerilla bridges—marry trade tricks with inimitable insights. Find out more in this current-issue feature by Robin Laurence.
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What is a park? More than a century ago, Frederick Law Olmsted offered some answers. In this Canadian Art archives article, Max Kozloff reflects on Olmsted’s legacy as framed by photographers Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander and Geoffrey James.
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As 2012 dawns, thoughts turn to what’s next in the Canadian art scene, and there’s already a number of key events—both at home and abroad—that promise to make a major impact. Here’s a bit of what we’re looking forward to.
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As a kid in the Gaspé, Jean-Pierre Gauthier spent hours taking toys apart to see how they worked. Now, as Katie Addleman shows in this feature from our current issue, he puts that mechanical curiosity to excellent artistic use in remarkable kinetic sculptures.
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Part 2 of our year-end best-of series offers top picks by our contributing editors and art director, and kicks off with a posting by associate online editor Leah Sandals. For Sandals, art's institutions (and their troubles) are what stood out during 2011.
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In early 2011, Nancy Tousley, our contributing editor from Calgary, won a Governor General’s Award for her distinguished arts-journalism career. Now, her expertise highlights some strongly curated surveys as the year’s best shows.
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Montreal critic and Canadian Art contributing editor Isa Tousignant saw many shows this year, but the ones that rose to the surface were also the ones that pulled her down to the depths—be they suburban basements, contested histories or poetic darknesses.
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David Liss, artistic director the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, is also one of our contributing editors. His top exhibitions for 2011 include an unconventional biennial, a disturbing moving-image show and a broad invitation to non-art practitioners.
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Award-winning Canadian Art art director Barbara Solowan travelled extensively in 2011 to take in visual creations of many kinds. Her favourites for the year look beyond the traditional bounds of art into fashion, fairs and some surprisingly fun corporate ventures.
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Our Winter 2012 issue hits newsstands across the country this week with a special focus on our country’s most compelling sculpture and installation artists. Online portfolios and videos flesh out the 3-D theme.
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Kicking off week one of our year-end roundups, editor Richard Rhodes finds that his 2011 standouts had an enveloping mindfulness—as well as an ambition to push artistic and curatorial standards. Read on now for his top picks, and tune in next week for more.
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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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The winner will be published in our magazine and receive a $3,000 award
Toronto's most anticipated art party is slated for Thursday, September 20
Timothy Taylor's feature on Zacharias Kunuk and Douglas Weber's portfolio on Kunuk's hometown recognized
Full talks and tours schedule, Douglas Coupland conversation info, and magazine launch details posted for free day of activities
Applications due May 9 for $55,000 in prizes
Free art tours for high-school students to take place in April and May
New writers on contemporary art encouraged to apply by June 1
Dates already set for next year’s Toronto festival
Applications for this $7,000 student award are due April 6
Event to feature a conversation with Douglas Coupland, gallery tours, a magazine launch and more
Jon Rafman’s work enjoys a deservedly high profile at this year’s Contact Festival. As Saelan Twerdy observes in this review, Rafman’s stunning, and often funny, Google Street View scenes demonstrate how the Internet is making everything public, from information to intimacy.
The auction record for contemporary Canadian art was broken earlier this month in New York with Christie’s $3.6 million sale of a Jeff Wall photograph. This week, Canada’s top houses head into their spring sales hoping to break more records.
“Based on a True Story” in Oakville boasts the largest North American survey to date of Keren Cytter, the Tel Aviv–born artist known as one of today’s most intriguing video practitioners. Mariam Nader reviews, finding greatest hits and unexpected delights.
The history of indigenous people performing for colonial audiences inspires "Sovereign Acts,” a current Toronto group show. As Max Mosher writes, the show—featuring Lori Blondeau, Adrian Stimson and others—is both campy and contemplative.
Dil Hildebrand is one brave painter. In his new show “Back to the Drawing Board (Reprise),” he stares down the old adage that no one wants to look at a green painting, let alone buy one. There's not just one green painting here—there's a room of them.