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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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Los Angeles artist Jed Lind is inspired by everything from Buckminster Fuller’s utopian legacy to the provisional architecture of coastal societies. In this brief video, Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes offers his thoughts on Lind’s current solo show in Toronto.
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In this brief video, Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes looks at veteran figurative painter Will Gorlitz’s new works, which range from images of trees askew to zoo animals in fields of snow. Together, these make for an ambitious and topical show.
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Does John Eisler’s new work present “Jackson Pollock in three dimensions”? Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes explores this idea in a brief video look at Eisler’s current show at Diaz Contemporary in Toronto.
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The Canadian Art Gallery Hop is always kicked off with a stimulating panel on key issues in art today. In this video, Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes introduces the 2008 Gallery Hop panel on the theme “Delicate: Art and Post-Millennial Culture.” Curator John Zeppetelli of Montreal’s DHC/ART Foundation discusses the topic in relation to his recent exhibition on British sculptor Marc Quinn and the group show “Re-enactments.”
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Listen in as curator Helena Reckitt explores the new mood of modesty, distress and community-based approaches as reflected in recent exhibitions at Toronto’s Power Plant. Reckitt spoke as part of the 2008 Canadian Art Gallery Hop panel on theme “Delicate: Art and Post-Millennial Culture.”
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In this video, taped during the 2008 Canadian Art Gallery Hop, Globe and Mail critic Sarah Milroy discusses themes of transformation and materiality in the work of German-born, Ontario-based artist Reinhard Reitzenstein. Listen in as the artist, also present at the talk, speaks about his interest in photography and his need to heighten the tangibility of the world around him.
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In 2010, at the age of 35, Toronto artist/DJ/promoter/activist Will Munro succumbed to brain cancer. Here, David Balzer reviews the first big survey of Munro’s work, which makes apparent how talented, prolific and perceptive this creator was.
The Dulwich Picture Gallery’s recent Group of Seven show was one of the UK museum’s biggest hits ever, drawing 41,000 visitors. The attention was deserved, writes Sarah Milroy, as the exhibition offered new insights even to seasoned Canadian-art observers.
The Occupy movement has galvanized the way we think about haves and have-nots. But where do artists fit in? As Joseph R. Wolin observes in this review of David Altmejd’s show at the Brant Foundation, context can be as powerful as content in determining the split.
What happens to identity when our relationship to land and language is disrupted? This is a key question raised in “A Stake in the Ground,” an exhibition of works by 25 First Nations artists, curated by Nadia Myre, that’s currently at Montreal gallery Art Mûr.
Our education and careers site has just posted more stories and tips to help students achieve a great winter term. Highlights include a profile of internationally renowned fashion designer Jeremy Laing, a Q&A on grad schools and more.
