New York’s Guggenheim Museum. Image: artlex.com
1. Thomas Krens To Step Down As Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation:
Read it HERE at Artdaily.com
Entries from February 2008 ↓
Headlines from around the art world
February 29th, 2008 — News: International
VoCA Recommends…Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Toronto
February 28th, 2008 — Articles by Andrea Carson, Exhibitions, Toronto
There’s an important exhibition on at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and the Blackwood Galleries, Toronto on the relationship between art and war.
January 17 - March 2, 2008
Art and war may make strange bedfellows, but artists have long explored the emotions provoked by war and documented its realities…
Kristan Horton, Drawing of A History of the First World War (Disc 01), 2008.
Image: kristanhorton.com
Click on the thumbnail to read my full article in yesterday’s Globe and Mail:
For more information on the exhibition, please click HERE.
VoCA Recommends…Arthur Danto at Guelph
February 27th, 2008 — Events/Talks, Toronto
Art Critic Arthur Danto lectures at Guelph University
March 4, 2008 at 5 p.m
World-renowned philosopher (and one of VoCA’s favorite art critics) Arthur Danto will speak on “From Photograph to Philosophy: Two Moments of Post-Traditional Art.”
Arthur Danto. Image: tate.org.uk
Well known for his expertise in philosophical esthetics, Danto is highly regarded for his work on the classic question of how you decide whether or not something is a work of art.
VoCA Recommends…Peter Greenaway in Waterloo
February 26th, 2008 — Events/Talks, Toronto
Filmmaker extraordinaire Peter Greenaway is in conversation with Robert Enright, Editor-at-large for Border Crossings magazine at the Perimeter Institute, Waterloo Ontario
Filmmaker Peter Greenaway. Image: lavenaria.it
Wednesday, March 26, 7:30 p.m.
At the Perimeter Institute’s Mike Lazaridis Theatre of Ideas
Honouring Tradition: Native art at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary
February 25th, 2008 — Calgary, Exhibitions
Honouring Tradition: Reframing Native Art at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary
February 16th - July 13th, 2008
Frederick R. McDonald, Nêhithawak (Woodland Cree) (1957-) Big Bear’s Dilemma,
Paper Promises, 1998. Image: glenbow.org
The Glenbow Museum’s new exhibit Honouring Tradition: Reframing Native Art sets traditional and contemporary Native art, side-by-side.
Traditional beaded shirts, moccasins and birchbark baskets are displayed alongside artwork by contemporary Native artists including Jane Ash Poitras, Alex Janvier, Allen Sapp and Joane Cardinal-Schubert.
VoCA loves…Improv Everywhere
February 24th, 2008 — Miscellaneous thoughts on art, Sculpture/Installation
Performance art at Grand Central Station, NYC:
Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places.
Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 70 missions involving thousands of undercover agents. The group is based in New York City.
David McCallum speaks!
February 22nd, 2008 — Artists, Interviews, Video/New Media
David McCallum is a Toronto based media artist and musician. His is characterized by a playful appropriation of everyday technology towards idiosyncratic and often performative ends. He has a background in physics and Music and received a Masters in Art and Technology from Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden.
His Warbike project was featured as one half of Sound Cycles and Mobile City a show held at Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre in Toronto this past fall.
David McCallum, Warbike , modified bicycle, 2005-2007
VoCA Recommends…The Reel Artists Film Festival, Toronto
February 21st, 2008 — Events/Talks, Toronto
The Reel Artists Film Festival, February 21 (today) - 24, 2008, Toronto.
Don’t miss this weekend of films on today’s hottest contemporary artists!
The world premieres of Jeff Wall: Retrospective (2007) by Michael Blackwood and Takashi Murakami (2008) by Marina Zenovich are two highlights of the festival, as are the Canadian premieres of Robert Wilson: Video Portraits (2007) by Marina Zenovich and Anish Kapoor (2007) by John Wyver.
Jeff Wall. Milk, 1984, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
image: artic.edu
VoCA Recommends…Performance at Pavilion Projects, Montreal and Holger Kalberg, Toronto
February 20th, 2008 — Artists, Events/Talks, Exhibitions, Montreal, Painting, Toronto
1. Justice Yeldham, Christof Migone, Just’Au Crâne and DJ Debbie Wayne at Pavilion Projects, Montreal
Tuesday February 26th 2008 at ZOOBIZARRE
Doors 8pm, Admission: $5 - $8
Nuit Blanche Montreal, March 1
February 19th, 2008 — Events/Talks, Montreal
The Montreal High Lights festival, February 21 – 2 March, 2008.
“Let’s spend the night together!”
Nuit Blanche Montreal kicks off on March 1 – Certainly the most extensive, if not the best, all-night celebration in Canada. It’s a fully-fledged cultural celebration – art, music, folies, theatre, poetry, dance, food…how do they fit it all in one night?
123 mostly free activities light up the 5th Montreal All-Nighter, Saturday, March 1 to Sunday, March 2, 2008
Free shuttle service — including an all-new express route.
Click on the festival website for all information RIGHT HERE
VoCA recommends a few not-to-be-missed art exhibits (in no particular order):
Digital Chile_Road Show at SAT:
Click HERE
Andrea Carson writes on contemporary art, architecture and design...