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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
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.
Places as finalist in competitive, first-ever best e-newsletter category
On October 23, the Canadian Art New Contemporaries enjoyed a series of art talks and gallery tours at the Toronto International Art Fair.
This year’s festival showcases 13 films on top art world figures including world, North American and Canadian premieres.
Shows based on today’s art collectors are increasingly frequent. But it’s rarer to get a glimpse of historical patrons. Now Gabrielle Moser explores the possibilities in an interview with René Villeneuve, curator of “Lord Dalhousie: Patron and Collector.”
Born in Trinidad, raised in Mississauga and based in New York, Denyse Thomasos is known widely for her striking abstract paintings. Following spates in large-scale installation, Thomasos returns to smaller canvases in her latest Toronto solo show.
Reinterpreting movie posters, song lyrics and the idea of the artist documentary, Tony Romano brings a playful, experimental spirit to his latest solo show at Diaz Contemporary in Toronto.
Love it or hate it, the 2010 Olympics had an inescapably surreal quality in its final days. Here, in the last of three reports from Vancouver, Danielle Egan captures the moods and madness of the games’ end and muses on the potential hangover to come.
Dan Perjovschi’s large-scale installations of critically edged drawings on gallery walls have been featured at the Venice Biennale, Tate Modern and other notable venues. With his latest project now on in Toronto, Bryne McLaughlin talks with the artist about his life and work.
