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This fall, Halifax’s Eyelevel Gallery and Centre for Art Tapes joined forces with France’s Videospread to present three moving-image works in three public spaces through the city. As Lizzy Hill notes in this review of “3X3X3,” the effects were myriad.
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Born in Tehran and based in Toronto, Abbas Akhavan has spent the past five years making drawings, videos and performances that hinge on travel in Vancouver, Dubai, Berlin and beyond. Find out more in Hadani Ditmars’ feature from our current issue.
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Dozens of openings, talks and other events happening from coast to coast this week, March 29 to April 4, 2012.
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Who am I? What do I believe? How do I experience separations, whether between myself and others, or simply within myself? Identical twin Suzanne Zelazo mulls these questions in her review of Janieta Eyre’s current Montreal show.
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Last week, Canada’s largest peer-reviewed photography prize announced its 2012 finalists: Fred Herzog, Arnaud Maggs and Alain Paiement. The winner will receive a $50,000 award as well as an exhibition and monograph at 2013’s CONTACT Festival.]
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Drawing on influences from modernist design to children’s books, Winnipeg artist Michael Dumontier creates pared-down works full of warmth and wonky humour. Alison Gillmor reviews his current Plug In ICA exhibition, which runs to April 1.
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A glossy, chrome plated replica of the 21st-century artist’s studio forms the cool, sci-fi-tinged centrepiece of Nicolas Baier’s exhibition at Galerie René Blouin in Montreal. All at once, it seems to conjure Duchamp, Hirst and Kubrick.
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The first Montreal exhibition of BC artist Jeremy Borsos features a wall-sized, 27-channel projection drawn from home-movie footage that Borsos acquired on eBay. Caroline Bem reviews, and notes the contrasting narrative and formal approaches in Borsos’ archive art.
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Dozens of openings, talks and other events happening from coast to coast this week, March 22 to 28, 2012.
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Our latest issue hits newsstands and tablets across the country this week with features, reviews and news on Canadian artists both up-and-coming and legendary. IAIN BAXTER&, Monique Mouton and “Oh, Canada” are just some of the must-reads.
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From West Side piers to East Side schoolhouses, work by Canadian artists could be found throughout New York during last week’s art fairs. In this feature report, critic Bill Clarke recaps the north-of-the-49th highlights.
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Frances Stark’s animation My Best Thing, based on conversations in online sex chatrooms, premiered to acclaim at 2011’s Venice Biennale. Rachel Rosenfield Lafo reviews its current Vancouver showing, finding depth amid the Web’s superficialities.
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This winter in Montreal, the exhibition “For me the noise of time is not sad” presented two new sound- and video-based works by Steve Bates. In this review, Pablo Rodriguez notes that the works spoke well to the complexities of memory and communication.
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In this feature from our Spring 2012 issue, Toronto critic Peter Goddard reflects on "The Messenger," a major touring retrospective of William Kurelek's works produced jointly by the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
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Dozens of openings, talks and other events happening from coast to coast this week, March 15 to 21, 2012.
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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.
