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As part of Art Toronto 2009, the Power Plant organized a day of panels—titled the Power Forum—that tackled key issues for contemporary art and its audiences. This video documents the Power Forum entitled "Art Publishing in the Digital Age," which included Guardian art critic Adrian Searle, e-flux founding director Anton Vidokle and OCAD Strategic Innovation Lab research director Greg van Alstyne.
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“Promise” is the theme of the 2009 Gallery Hop, so we’re wrapping up web week with a look to futures near and far. Details on Saturday’s talks, an audiocast with panellist Emily Vey Duke and a video chat with Matthew Teitelbaum provide excellent prep for all tomorrow’s parties.
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Canadian Art’s annual gala happens tonight, and we’ve got must-know cocktail chatter: a profile of rising star Ryan Sluggett, who’s created a work for the gala, a video convo with original event host Olga Korper and an audiocast with dealer Yves Trépanier.
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Sometimes rocky, but always rewarding—that's been the road to creating our national art magazine. Now, a special essay by past editor Jocelyn Laurence and exclusive video chats with three magazine insiders reveal all the behind-the-scenes ups and downs.
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Going once… going twice… and gone! Works by the nation's best artists go under the gavel at Canadian Art’s annual auction this week. Discover select live-auction works and interviews with auction artists in this special online feature.
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Canadian Art magazine is celebrating its 25th anniversary this fall in many ways—including daily audio, video and text updates during Gallery Hop week. Get the scoop on Canadian Art secrets old and new with exclusive interviews and special content.
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In this video talk exclusive to Canadian Art, Paris-based curator Vincent Honoré, best known for his previous work at Tate Modern, discusses the increasing importance of private art foundations in maintaining quality exhibition spaces in Europe.
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In a clip from the 2009 Reel Artists Flim Festival, director Terrence Turner speaks with Jane Perdue about his film Adele’s Wish, a story that reconstructs the legal battles to reclaim five Gustav Klimt paintings that were stolen by the Nazis in 1938.
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Listen in as filmmaker Katherine Knight speaks with Chiara Clemente, director of Our City Dreams.
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A highlight of the 2009 Reel Artists Film Festival was director Andrew Neel’s chat with critic Sarah Milroy about his grandmother and documentary subject, painter Alice Neel. Now a video brings the best of their discussion online for all to enjoy.
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In this January 2009 studio visit, Toronto artist Allyson Mitchell speaks to Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes about her upcoming exhibition “Ladies Sasquatch” at the McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton. Melding feminist practice with fun fur, Mitchell’s savvy sculptures are bigger and better than ever.
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Canadian Art’s not the only organization interested in how art schools are doing these days. 2008 has seen a wealth of conferences, panels and exhibitions on the matter. In this video slideshow, Toronto curator Jennifer Cherniack speaks about one such show she recently curated featuring alumni from the University of Manitoba.
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The Canadian Art Foundation, in collaboration with the Banff Centre and the Alberta College of Art and Design, proudly presented Polly Staple, director of London’s Chisenhale Gallery, as part of the Canadian Art International Lecture Series on October 24, 2008.
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Listen in as UK-based artist Mark Lewis, Canada’s official representative at the 53rd Venice Biennale, discusses his films and plans for his installation with Barbara Fischer, commissioner of the Canadian pavilion. This talk was recorded as part of Canadian Art’s Room with a View program in Toronto, November 2008.
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Toronto art fixture Mercer Union recently relocated from the glamour of Queen West to the down-at-the-heels streets of Bloor and Lansdowne. In this video slideshow, artists Sandra Rechico and Gwen MacGregor join curator Dan Adler to discuss its reopening show, which riffs, quite appropriately, on the geographies of relocation.
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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.
