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  • Features04.03.2010

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    Dan Perjovschi: Drawing Criticism

    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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  • Features04.03.2010

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    Lord Dalhousie: A Collector Ahead of his Time

    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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  • Online04.03.2010

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    Full Opening and Event Listings

    Dozens of openings, talks and other events happening from coast to coast this week, March 4 to 10, 2010.
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  • Reviews25.02.2010

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    Scott Rogers: Tron, McLuhan and the Space Between

    Using lines of photo-luminescent tape in a darkened space, Scott Rogers’ installation Wireframe evoked retro-futurist imagery of the 1980s. Now, Mikhel Proulx reflects on how Rogers effectively mashed up real place and time with its representation.
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  • Reviews25.02.2010

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    Monster: The Fear Inside

    Outwardly, the group show “Monster” abounds with man-eating demons, hair-pulling ghosts, wart-covered witches and black-tongued sea creatures. But as Robin Laurence observes, the exhibition offers some inner psychological ogres to meditate on as well.
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  • Features25.02.2010

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    Reel Artists Film Festival: Stellar Screenings

    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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  • Features25.02.2010

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    Nuit Blanche: Best Bets for Montreal’s All-Night Art Party

    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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  • Features25.02.2010

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    Report from Terminal City: More Cowbell on Vancouver Art

    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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  • Online25.02.2010

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    Full Opening and Event Listings

    Dozens of openings, screenings, talks and other events taking place coast to coast this week, February 25 to March 3, 2010.
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  • See It18.02.2010

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    Extra-curricular: Of Lectures and Lesson Plans

    Increasingly, it seems that “pedagogy” is the term foremost in the art world’s critical mind—the ur-discourse of late, if you will. Now, a two-part symposium in Toronto aims to delve into the heart of related discussions.
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  • See It18.02.2010

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    James Nizam: Little Mountain’s Residual Life

    Artist James Nizam is known for eerie investigations of abandoned, soon-to-be-destroyed homes. In “Memorandoms,” he applies this strategy to Vancouver’s Little Mountain housing project, which was recently demolished to make way for condos.
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  • Features18.02.2010

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    Vancouver Report: Let The Art Games Begin

    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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  • Features18.02.2010

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    Reel Artists Opening Night: Basquiat Bonanza

    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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  • See It18.02.2010

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    Michael McCormack and Jason Penney: Bric-a-Brac to the Future

    A new St. John’s show pairs two east-coast artists, Michael McCormack and Jason Penney. Both divine future visions from reclaimed materials and locales, creating scenarios that are alternately tongue-in-cheek and apocalyptic.
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  • Online18.02.2010

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    Full Opening and Event Listings

    Dozens of openings, talks, screenings and other events happening from coast to coast this week, February 18 to 24, 2010.
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  • On Newsstands & Online Now: Canadian Art Spring 2010

    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.

  • Adrian Norvid: Wrongo

    In his latest solo show, Adrian Norvid mashes up art-world fundraiser antics with exquisite-corpse techniques. Add in DIY flair and painstaking attention to detail, and you’ve got another wild voyage into Norvid’s wacky parallel universe.

  • Photogenic: Imaging the Abstract

    Libraries of books have been written on abstraction in painting. But it’s abstraction in photography that gets the focus with “Photogenic,” a Vancouver show that features 1920s work by László Moholy-Nagy alongside contemporary artists’ prints.

  • Posing Beauty in African American Culture: Colour Fields

    Hamilton is the only Canadian stop for a new exhibition, curated by NYU photo chair Deborah Willis, that interrogates notions of beauty and blackness. As reviewer Sally Frater observes, Willis’ approach provides antidotes to some longstanding art conundrums.

  • David Merritt: Roping Viewers In

    David Merritt is having a quartet of related exhibitions in southern Ontario this year. In his review of the project’s first iteration, “shim,” Sky Glabush marvels at Merritt’s ability to meander between objective clarity and deferred, slippery potential.

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