TORONTOMAY 1 – 31, 2007 May is photography month in Toronto. CONTACT Photography Festival presents its 11th year with a host of programs and exhibitions that promise to visually energize the city. This year’s theme is The Constructed Image. For the CONTACT website, click HERE
TORONTOMAY 1 – 31, 2007 For the CONTACT website, click HERE. If you are from out of town, consider visiting Toronto in May. It’s a great time to plan an art-related visit. “Photography is all about manipulation, and as it’s evolved, it’s become more manipulative in every way. I’ve never seen photography as a truthful medium. It’s about individual perceptions
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Artist Luanne Martineau. Image: Joy Poliquin. Victoria, BC-based artist Luanne Martineau will be honoured with a $12,000 VIVA award for achievement in the visual arts on May 15th in Vancouver. The VIVA (Vancouver Institute for the Visual Arts) awards are given annually to two mid-career British Columbia artists who have demonstrated strong creative potential and a long-term commitment to their
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This panel discussion took place at the artist-run centre Gallery 1313 in Toronto on March 26, 2007. The panelists were collectors Father Dan Donovan and Steve Smart, art dealers Olga Korper of the Olga Korper Gallery and Mary Sue Rankin of Toronto’s Edward Day Gallery and Art Gallery of Ontario curator Ben Portis. This is part one of the discussion,
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MONTREALMICHEL DAIGNEAULT at GALERIE TROIS POINTSAPRIL 28 – MAY 26 Michel Daigneault, Deux Bleus. Image: galerietroispoints.qc.ca
…is on from now through April 28th. For more information click HERE The Contemporary Art Gallery is offering a free guided visit of its current exhibitions. On Saturday, April 28th at 2 pm there will be an introduction to the current exhibitions: Robin Peck: A Shallow Flight of Stairs, 2007. Image: contemporaryartgallery.ca Derek Brunen: Blind, 2007. Installation view. Image: contemporaryartgallery.ca
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LIVING CITIES: The paintings of John Hartman On now through Sunday at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Mar. 5 to Apr. 22, 2007 John Hartman, Owen Sound, 2005. Image: tomthomson.org The city is usually known as a pulsing, living space containing the grey and the dark, the vibrant and the diverse. As depicted in the current show at the
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Theatre of the World exhibition at the Walker Art Center. Image: visualarts.walkerart.org Theatre of the World, an exhibit by renowned Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping at the Vancouver Art Gallery has been pulled after demands by the B.C Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. “What’s happened here is that two important values have clashed — one is the
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Charles Mason will become the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art‘s new curator. Mr. Mason specializes in Asian art and has expertise in Chinese, Japanese and Korean ceramics. He is also knowledgeable about 18th and 19th century European porcelains and early 20th century American art pottery. Mr. Mason comes to Toronto from the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the
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Katie Pretti Dominant Recessives at Le Gallery, Toronto from April 4 – 29th, 2007 Katie Pretti, Drought Spring, 2007. Image: le-gallery.ca Katie Pretti, Drought Summer, 2007. Image: le-gallery.ca
Andrea Carson writes on contemporary art, architecture and design...