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Getting to “Safar/Voyage” is a journey in itself. First, there is the winding ride to UBC’s bucolic, suburban-feeling campus. Then, the walk into what recent signage tells you...
Kenneth Parcell meets Steve Jobs. David Rokeby meets Martin Short. Marina Abramovic meets Super Mario Brothers. So might one describe the performance persona of on-the-rise Toronto artist Jeremy...
Brian Jungen’s recently opened exhibition at the Kunstverein Hannover is comprised of eight years of work, almost all of it produced since the artist’s survey at the...
When Gordon Rayner died suddenly at 75 of a heart attack in his Toronto home on September 26, 2010, he was two weeks shy of unveiling an...
Chandeliers, by definition, are excessive and opulent. At the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, for example, a multi-storey structure called the Chandelier, said to be composed of 2...
From laptops to handhelds, from bank accounts to anatomy, from gross national debt to the termination of the penny: size matters. In “Vanity Fare” at the Art...
One Saturday afternoon in early March, I boarded a school bus parked outside the Art Gallery of Ontario at the behest of Toronto performance duo Life of...
Hotel hallways are not usually venues for art exhibitions. Toronto-area artist Marco Cibola has fun with this idiosyncrasy in his first Canadian solo show, “It’s About Time,”...
The first thing one sees upon entering “Dark Matter,” the current exhibition at Arsenal Toronto, is a floating black blob: Ugo Rondinone’s The Twenty-First Hour of the...
In mounting the first Canadian solo exhibition of LA artist Paul Sietsema—who has been a Guggenheim Fellow and received solo exhibitions at MoMA and the Whitney—Mercer Union...
On a massive wall in the sixth-floor foyer that marks the entrance to the exhibition “Inventing Abstraction 1910–1925,” there is an equally massive wall graphic that attempts...
Niall McClelland’s first solo exhibition in New York, “Bruce to Brock and Back” at Envoy Enterprises, explicitly engaged grand perennial themes of nature, landscape and wilderness. Although...
Punctuated with multicoloured lightboxes, glowing neon tubes and glittering LEDs, the dark central space of London’s Hayward Gallery currently bears a distinct resemblance to a discotheque. The...
What does it take to get inside the mind of an artist? This is a question that can hover around those of us who look at and think...
Friends said to expect sun, outdoor cafés and an early jump on spring in Maastricht for the TEFAF art fair this past week. Instead, an extra jacket...
Duane Linklater’s exhibition at the Or Gallery was a minimal effort, in the nicest sense: with only a few elements (a video, a vitrine, a framed photograph),...
Corita Kent (1918–1986) was an innovative printmaker and radical Catholic nun (a Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary) who taught at Immaculate Heart College in Los...
“You have to start somewhere, with something, and it may well be with something that has already been fully thought out. Freedom will be acquired through the...
The Ryerson Image Centre may be mandated to focus on the visual, but you will hear the boom of Martin Luther King Jr.’s voice echo through the...
On the threshold of Ciprian Mureşan’s first Canadian solo exhibition, “Recycled Playground,” at Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery, one encounters the video Choose (2005). In it, the artist’s...
