Well that really is news! Image: jupiterimages.com “Premier Dalton McGuinty’s government is providing extra funding for the Ontario Arts Council over the next four years: $5 million a year, for a total of $20 million.
Vancouver’s Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design is to become a university. Going head-to-head with Toronto’s OCAD – also an art and design university – and VoCA wonders whether this is a good thing. Toronto artist – and OCAD dropout – Thrush Holmes’ studio. Image: lowegallery.com
…although we think this sculpture – below – looks more like ‘playing hockey’ than ‘watching Northern Lights’, and so is an appropriate homage to les Canadiens in the playoffs. Mattiusi Iyaituk, Watching Northern Lights. Image: spiritwrestler.com We think the time is right for First Nations art to attract renewed interest – there’s a lot of new and excellent sculpture and
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Winnipeg photographer (and VoCA favorite) Sarah Anne Johnson is the winner of the inaugural Grange Prize for Contemporary Photography. The annual $50,000 prize is the largest of its kind in Canada and the only prize entirely determined by the public. The AGO will present an exhibition of Johnson’s work in the spring of 2009. Sarah Anne Johnson, Clearing the Yard,
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1. How much will the Toronto International Art Fair improve now that Paul Morris is in charge? Morris, a co-founder of New York’s Armory Show, now oversees six fairs owned by the Chicago-based Merchandise Mart, including Art Chicago, Next: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art in Chicago (Where some of Canada’s best galleries, Birch Libralato, Edward Day, Goodwater, Greener Pastures,
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“Art originates out of a diversity of opinions. The gallery owners are biased. And that’s why they are bad witnesses from the start. Also the art collector is biased. Because he defends his own preferences. And thus he is a bad witness. Art is rather determined by neutral positions. From critics, from museums, from curators. These are the people that
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In honour of Earth Day 2008, the new curatorial agency No.9 in Toronto has mounted their inaugural installation, a witty environmental interviention by the super-hot Quebec artist collective BGL. Installing Project for the Don River. Image: All installation images courtesy of Catherine Dean. This installation is the most significant public work outside of Quebec for the collective, who speak mostly
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The artist A.A. Bronson, former member of collective General Idea and presently director of New York’s Printed Matter Inc. has been rejected by the University of Manitoba for the position of director of the School of Art. VoCA thinks that the shortsightedness of the University has resulted in an unfortunate missed opportunity. A real shame. A.A. Bronson. Image: artnet.com Following
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Between Quebec City and Montreal, La Belle Province’s cozy little art scene is where it’s happening. Here’s only a partial glimpse of what’s on: COLLECTIVE: BGL – They’re about to launch a project on the lower Don river in Toronto for No. 9 (Stay tuned for VoCA’s report early next week) Click HERE for their website. The installation of BGL’s
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Andrea Carson writes on contemporary art, architecture and design...