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Althea Thauberger’s striking collaborations with Canada’s women soldiers in Afghanistan made the cover of the spring 2010 edition of Canadian Art. Here, we offer more images from Thauberger’s compelling reworkings of our war-artist tradition.
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In the spring 2010 edition of Canadian Art, Calgary painter Chris Cran profiles his longtime Cowtown colleague John Will, a figure who ranges from painterly sage to art-world wise guy. This special online portfolio shows the wide swath of Will’s work.
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Though the number of art prizes in Canada is growing, the Governor General’s Awards remain the ultimate acknowledgement of a Canadian artist’s career. Here, we offer a quick look at the work of all eight of this year’s honourees.
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In his spring 2010 article for Canadian Art magazine, Paris- and London-based curator Vincent Honoré meditated on patterns of artmaking he recently observed in Toronto. This bonus portfolio shows work from several artists noted in Honoré’s essay.
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Vancouver’s Ian Wallace has been going strong for more than four decades, and, as Tate Modern curator Jessica Morgan notes in a spring 2010 article for Canadian Art, his influence is still growing. This image album recaps Wallace’s conceptual credentials.
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Reel Artists 2010 was full of highlights. This album includes pics from the gala Canadian premiere of Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, the sold-out world premiere of Fold, Crumple, Crush: The Art of El Anatsui and much more.
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From ships in a bottle to cardboard cities, Toronto artist John Dickson has an uncanny knack for the alchemy of ordinary materials, a truth writer R.M. Vaughan makes clear in the winter 2009 edition of Canadian Art magazine. This special online bonus portfolio recaps a decade’s worth of Dickson’s creative chaos.
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In the winter 2009 print edition of Canadian Art, writer Daniel Baird examines the portrait projects of artist Arthur Renwick. This special online supplement offers more examples of Renwick's striking photography, as well as samples of a very different form of Renwick's creative work—his blues-inspired music.
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In the winter 2009 edition of Canadian Art magazine, Toronto critic Gillian MacKay takes on the imaginative, enigmatic installations of German-born artist Iris Häussler. These online bonus images give further glimpses into the projects that have made Häussler a key name in Canadian artmaking.
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Though the 2010 Winter Olympics don’t officially begin until this coming February, Vancouver’s cultural landscape is already transforming in anticipation of the games. Here, in a special online supplement to the Newsfront section of our winter 2009 magazine, a slideshow of nine images highlights Olympic art projects by Canadian and international artists.
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Attended by patrons, curators, artists and dealers, Canadian Art’s annual fundraising gala is always a good time for a great cause. This 12-image portfolio shows some of the revellers at this year’s event, held September 24 at the KoolHaus in Toronto.
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Adad Hannah’s carefully staged video tableaux of pre-existing images have become hallmarks of the Montreal-based artist’s practice over the past few years.
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U.K.-based artist Kelly Richardson’s surreal video landscapes inspire Toronto writer David Jager to consider the nature of reality and disbelief in our image-saturated society in the fall 2009 print edition of Canadian Art.
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Failed modern utopias and childhood radicalism drive the work of artist Corin Sworn.
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Vancouver artist Gareth Moore has made a name for himself through his wry performances and complex ephemeral sculptures that blur the lines between art and life.
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Eleven films, two shorts, a public performance and two workshops to take place at the Alberta College of Art + Design
Hear a bestselling author lecture about the Group of Seven, and his related book, on March 25
Walker Art Center curator to visit Toronto from May 26 to 28
Panel, book launch, gallery tours and reception to take place Saturday, May 29
Straight from the Sundance Film Festival, Tamra Davis' moving documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child pays homage to her friend, the legendary artist, in his own words
Two top documentaries on Swiss art will be followed by a special Q and A with Beyeler Foundation head Samuel Keller!
Whimsical, fascinating film to premiere at the Reel Artists Film Festival
World, North American and Canadian premieres to be introduced by specially invited artists, authors, curators and directors, including Susan Vogel, Joanne Tod and Barbara Fischer.
This fall, Canadian Art’s young patron group visited the home and studio of Jason McLean, where they toured the artist’s personal collection.
Canadian Art launched its much-anticipated winter issue at Leo Kamen Gallery in Toronto on Wednesday, December 16, 2009.
The spring issue of Canadian Art hits newsstands and computer screens across the country this week, offering many must-read articles. Web extras on cover artist Althea Thauberger and the 2010 Governor General’s Awards also excite.
In his latest solo show, Adrian Norvid mashes up art-world fundraiser antics with exquisite-corpse techniques. Add in DIY flair and painstaking attention to detail, and you’ve got another wild voyage into Norvid’s wacky parallel universe.
Libraries of books have been written on abstraction in painting. But it’s abstraction in photography that gets the focus with “Photogenic,” a Vancouver show that features 1920s work by László Moholy-Nagy alongside contemporary artists’ prints.
Hamilton is the only Canadian stop for a new exhibition, curated by NYU photo chair Deborah Willis, that interrogates notions of beauty and blackness. As reviewer Sally Frater observes, Willis’ approach provides antidotes to some longstanding art conundrums.
David Merritt is having a quartet of related exhibitions in southern Ontario this year. In his review of the project’s first iteration, “shim,” Sky Glabush marvels at Merritt’s ability to meander between objective clarity and deferred, slippery potential.
