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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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Dozens of openings, talks and other events happening from coast to coast this week, January 12 to 18, 2012.
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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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From traditional wildlife to shiny Ski-Doos, Kananginak Pootoogook documented contemporary Inuit life from the 1950s right up till his death in 2010. Now, a keenly observed memorial exhibition is on in Vancouver. Robin Laurence reviews.
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This weekend, London's Tate Modern wraps up its career survey of German painter Gerhard Richter, which will soon travel to Berlin and Paris. Here, Richard Rhodes reviews the bold oeuvre that managed to recalibrate painting as conceptual art.
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The term “reconstruction” can be associated with Civil War history, plastic surgery and financial crises alike. As Pete Smith reports, the term also gets fresh aesthetic definition in Nicole Collins’ new paintings, currently on view in Toronto.
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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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Dozens of openings, talks and other events happening from coast to coast this week, January 5 to 11, 2012.
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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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Talks, tours and other events happening from coast to coast over the holiday period, December 22 to January 4.
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Talk to take place January 26 at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Canadian premiere of new Marina Abramović documentary to be fêted February 22 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox
All our best wishes for the new year to come
Talks by Dan Cameron and Annie Cohen-Solal, free gallery programs among highlights of 2011
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Free exhibition at the Power Plant highlights our nation’s emerging painting stars
Award in Portrait Photography category recognizes Donald Weber's artist project in the Fall 2010 issue
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.
