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Anxiety, dementia and mental illness provide potent entry points in “Losing It,” a Halifax group show. Featuring panhandler-sign replicas, dislocated projections and sculptural “coping mechanisms,” the show mixes horror with humour.
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The New Museum’s spring blockbuster, “Skin Fruit,” drew conflict-of-interest criticism in droves; it was based on trustee Dakis Joannou’s collection and curated by collected artist Jeff Koons. Now, curator and critic Joseph R. Wolin wonders whether the ethical risk was worth it.
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Lots of openings, talks and other events happening across Canada this week, August 12 to 18, 2010.
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The National Gallery shook up the art world’s summer lull this week when it announced that Vancouver artist Steven Shearer would represent Canada at the 2011 Venice Biennale. The news also signalled an unexpected structural shift for our country’s approach to the event.
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The late DJ, artist, restaurateur and community organizer Will Munro, who passed away in May following a battle with brain cancer, influenced many in Toronto’s art, music and queer communities. Now, the AGO celebrates Munro’s life with a survey of his multivalent practice.
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History’s legacies run both sweet and sour in the intricate, sugar-based murals and sculptures of Montreal’s Shelley Miller. Since 2006, Miller has investigated sugar’s history and its links to slavery and colonization. Now, a range of her works are on view.
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From hand-carved boats to T-shirt slogans to three-foot floating spheres, a notable range of public-art projects are paying homage to watercourses in Calgary this summer. They’re all part of “Celebration of the Bow River,” a unique six-artist, four-month series.
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The second of four Arts & Minds episodes on Canadian Art launched on Bravo! on July 31. The video, now online, features an Elizabeth McIntosh interview, a visit to “Extreme Painting” in Montreal and more.
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Lots of openings, talks and other events happening from coast to coast this week, August 5 to 11, 2010.
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The sixth Berlin Biennale attempts to question art’s relationship to reality and pinpoint wider societal self-deceptions. As Diana Sherlock reports, the massive show contains much to disrupt common assumptions of our crisis-prone times.
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Summer group shows can often be seen as sleepy. Make the theme still lifes, and culturati will suspect a real snorer. But the wittily titled “Triumphant Carrot” blockbuster brings excitement to the genre and season with top-flight artists and diverse works.
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Toronto artist Flavio Trevisan’s first solo show at Diaz Contemporary features map-based works that extend from the wall, calling to mind ancient, frescoed reliefs. A trained architect, Trevisan seems to both expand and shrink our urban landscapes.
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The Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal sometimes seems to have cornered the market on theatrical art exhibitions. Last year’s look at J.W. Waterhouse was a sensory extravaganza, and this summer it’s Miles Davis’ turn.
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In Swiss artist Roman Signer’s topsy-turvy oeuvre, chaos is a courted guest and disaster is never far away. But as Mitch Speed observes at an unusual Zurich show of Signer’s models and drawings, the artist also has an unapologetic and energizing fascination with the world.
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Lots of openings, talks and other events happening across the country this week, July 29 to August 4, 2010.
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Join us on Thursday, September 23, and Saturday, September 25, for exciting events that celebrate the visual arts.
Canadian Art’s under-40 patron group launches its second year with a program of extraordinary behind-the-scenes art events.
Congratulations go to winner Pandora Syperek and runners-up Deirdre McAdams and Vency Yun.
The Canadian Art Foundation, with RBC, is pleased to announce the 15 semifinalists in the 12th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition.
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.
Canadian Art is currently seeking an Online Production Manager to join its team. Applications are due September 10, 2010.
Canadian Art magazine is currently seeking an editorial professional to join its team. Applications are due September 15, 2010.
Canadian Art’s under-40 patron group had a fun make-your-own dining experience with one of Toronto’s hottest young artists
Learn about the influences that shaped the PS1 curator’s thinking as he prepared for his exhibition “The Talent Show”
Join us September 23 for a gala benefit and September 25 for a free day of talks at galleries citywide
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
