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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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A host of openings, talks and other events happening from coast to coast this week, December 15 to 21, 2011.
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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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In his final fall report from New York City, David Balzer reviews a show of Francis Picabia’s late paintings at Michael Werner. As Balzer observes, Picabia’s production in the 1940s seemed to predict the kitsch and remix tendencies of postmodern painting today.
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Two years ago, curator Marla Wasser developed a compelling Kitchener exhibition on Warhol’s cultural influence. This fall, she brings a similarly wide reach to a show on art and technology featuring Jim Campbell, David Rokeby and other innovative artists.
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Creation and destruction, harmony and discord, refinement and brute force—these are some of the tensions that abound in “Vertigo,” an exhibition of sculptural works by Montreal artist Maskull Lasserre currently on view at Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain.
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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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Dozens of openings, talks and other events happening from coast to coast this week, December 8 to 14, 2011.
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The landscape and people of eastern Congo, photographed with infrared film, are the basis for Richard Mosse’s remarkable prints at New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery. In this slideshow, David Balzer mulls the implications, which stretch from Conrad to Hendrix.
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It’s rare to find a talent who can bridge the structural interests of the art world with the hungers of popular audiences. But as Richard Rhodes found on a trip to the Paris suburbs last week, Danish-born film and video artist Jesper Just rises to the challenge.
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If the world tends towards decay, is that a good thing or a bad thing? On the one hand, it could be gloomy, on the other, transformative. Now, three Vancouver-connected artists are riffing on these extremes in a group show at Or Gallery.
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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.
