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LUANNE MARTINEAU PORTFOLIO: AN ONLINE SUPPLEMENT TO THE FALL 2009 PRINT EDITION OF CANADIAN ART
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Installation view of Luanne Martineau works at Trépanier Baer Gallery in 2007 Left: Portrait 2006 Right: Parasite Buttress 2005 Courtesy Trépanier Baer Gallery |
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The exhibition “Fray” was a mammoth project involving 19 artists working with a vast range of textile-related approaches. The show could have been framed as a survey of current textile-based practice in Canada, but such thinking appeared less important than demonstrating that textile work, now commonplace in contemporary art, is still regularly relegated to the art world’s edges.
Reportage, shifting identities, hybridity and the return of the museum of curiosities”— images flood into my head as the curator Wayne Baerwaldt uses these words to describe the themes of the upcoming Biennale de Montréal.
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.
