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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.
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Issues from the surveillance society to armed conflict get the spotlight in the Contact Photography Festival’s 2012 outing, which is themed on ideas of the public. As usual, there’s lots to see; here are our picks.
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Vancouver’s James Nizam is known for works that marry the concerns of architecture with those of photography—some of his past projects turned abandoned rooms in into pinhole cameras. Now, for his latest show at Gallery Jones, Nizam sculpts light in surprising ways.
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The Art Gallery of Ontario has a blockbuster on its hands in its new exhibition of highlights from Paris’ Musée National Picasso. With the French museum undergoing renovations, its stellar collection is effectively in Canada until the last week of August.
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Do you dream in colour or in black and white? It’s a cliché question, but Turner Prize*—the cheekily named Regina collective—has more novel uses for the answers than one might suspect. Over the past few years, it’s been restaging other people’s dreams.
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Hats off to Presentation House curator Helga Pakasaar who, since the end of January, has presented two exhibitions that open a window onto the emergence of the Vancouver school of photography in the early 1980s.
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Founded in 1988 to showcase marginalized moving-image art, the Images Festival originated as a kind of anti-TIFF. Now, 25 years later, it continues to highlight the vanguard. David Balzer picks the must-sees from hundreds of 2012 festival offerings.
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For the mathematically challenged, a certain amount of fear arises when confronted by numbers. Yet for Halifax artist Patrick Rapati, equations and geometry can be a landscape of fascination and wonder.
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Montreal artist-run centre VOX recently moved into new digs: the entire fourth floor of the slick, just-opened 2-22 building at the corner of St-Laurent and Ste-Catherine. Its first exhibition augurs well for the space, setting the grand narratives of art history wildly askew.
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Through mail art, curating and other activities, B.C. artist Michael Morris embraced concepts like social networking, image sharing and file exchange decades before the advent the Web. Now, the Belkin show “Letters” offers a well-deserved ode to his capacity for forward thinking.
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Over the past five years, the ceramic engine sculptures of Saskatchewan artist Clint Neufeld have won increasing recognition. With a Mendel Art Gallery opening this week, and MASS MoCA’s “Oh, Canada” on the horizon, Neufeld talks with Leah Sandals about his military start, farm heritage and more.
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The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia’s group show “Material World” examines the formal and conceptual possibilities of commonplace materials—from a glimmering, wilted aluminum-foil shopping cart to a massive pile of pennies.
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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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Commercial value, institutional value, entertainment value—the Foreman Art Gallery takes up these notions this winter with a group show of alternate perspectives on worth. It features a project by e-flux’s founders, interviews with museum directors and more.
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The formal beauty of black-and-white photography can be as troubling as it is pleasing, a tendency well reflected in a compelling Toronto show of major Mexican photographers Graciela Iturbide, Antonio Caballero and Enrique Metinides.
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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.
