Holly, Andy Warhol, 1966. Image: thecityreview.com

1. For one, the art market is glamorous. Putting down significant money on an artwork virtually guarantees entry into a rarified world where big spenders are treated with the utmost respect. Continue reading →

1. Art is not a liquid asset, it must be sold to yield gains.

2. You are more likely to see returns on higher-priced works like Mid-Century or Old Masters, but lower returns than on high-risk younger artists. So the upfront investment can be daunting.
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THE GOETHE INSTITUTE has long been one of Toronto’s most lively and vibrant venues for contemporary art and film. Director Doina Popescu has been - and continues to be - instrumental in creating an international dialogue between German and Canadian artists, setting a standard for internationalism in Toronto’s visual arts scene.

So it is a tragedy that we recieve the news of the Goethe’s gallery closing.

While continuing with its cultural programming, “the future success of the German-Canadian cultural exchange via the Goethe Institut, Germany’s official cultural centre abroad, will increasingly depend on the demand of partnership initiatives through its Canadian counterparts…The Goethe-Institut Toronto will give up its gallery, its movie theatre and its library…(remaining) on the second floor of its present location….This will also be the perspective for the Goethe Institut in Montreal.”

More information HERE

On a good note, Images festival presents, in collaboration with the Goethe, LIVE IMAGES 4: Quasar by Jurgen Reble and Thomas Koner at the Music Gallery this Friday, April 13 at 9:30 pm.

For tickets, click HERE

A puppet in the image of artist Rirkrit Tiravanija.
Image: visualarts.walkerart.org/the artist

VoCA caught up with Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija on the eve of the opening of his exhibition at OCAD’s new Professional Gallery.

Tiravanija is known in contemporary art circles world-wide. He won the Guggeheim’s Hugo Boss prize in 2004 and was featured in the New Yorker magazine in October 2005.

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1. SHEN YUAN at Centre A, Vancouver
April 6 – May 5, 2007

Shen Yuan, Blue Freeway, 2003. Image: centrea.org

Curated by Hank Bull, Makiko Hara, this exhibition offers a preview of the artist who will represent China at this year’s Venice Biennale. The exhibition features four major installation works from the late 1990s to the present that bring together several cities including Beijing, Paris, Venice, Istanbul, Brussels, San Francisco and Vancouver. Continue reading →