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In a recent article in the Globe and Mail, author Margaret Atwood asks: Why did the Conservatives take the weed whacker to Canadian arts promotion abroad? During the last days of September, I was at a trilingual literary festival in Vincennes, near Paris. It’s called Festival America: Littératures et Cultures d’Amérique du Nord. It was Canada’s year of honour, so
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Happy Man, 2000. Image: sparklehorse.org Sparkehorse, 1999. Image: sparklehorse.org Happy Man, 2000. Image: sparklehorse.org When experimental filmmaker Garine Torossian defied authority at York University by pasting Super-8 footage onto 16mm film offcuts, it was a harbinger of things to come. She has become adept at mixing formats (super 8, 35mm and video), perfectly illustrating the desire of artists to redefine
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Image: dccomics.com Check out the response to my article on Art and the Media in Canada, on Zeke’s Gallery. Ouch! And then check out my comment…
A cursory Google of this year’s Turner Prize announcement in London found coverage in the Telegraph, the Guardian, on BBC news and on Channel 4, among others. The same search conducted for the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s annual $50,000 art prize that Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook won in October, found coverage from CBC.ca and the arctic paper The Nunatsiaq News.
The Art Gallery of Ontario has just recieved Bernini’s Corpus, donated by collector Murray Frum. Cast around 1650, the sculpture was seen as one of the most significant Old Masters works still in private hands. Corpus was traced back to Bernini’s own collection. Bernini (1598-1680) is considered the most important sculptor, architect, draughtsman and painter of the 17th century. He
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Ever feel that you’re missing out on the art world? Couldn’t get to Miami in December? Or you’re just not feeling up to hobnobbing..? Well, you can indulge your voyeuristic tendencies – and it’s great people watching – at vernissage tv. Bruce Nauman, Violins Violence Silence, 1981-82. Image: pbs.org/Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society Play ‘spot the art-world celebrity’ at the opening
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Some of Canada’s most interesting contemporary art is happening within ARTIST COLLECTIVES across the country. Collectives – such as the ancient sculpture workshops set up near marble quarries in Greece and Italy – have been around for many years, and are wonderful forums for cross-pollination of ideas, beliefs and experimentations. They also can be taken as a sign that artists
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Andrea Carson writes on contemporary art, architecture and design...