1. LE SALON: CELEBRATING 35 YEARS OF THE FIRESTONE COLLECTION OF CANADIAN ART The Ottawa Art Gallery 2 August to 9 November 2008 Jean-Paul Riopelle, Perspectives, 1956. Image: tate.org.uk The Firestone Collection of Canadian Art is a significant art collection that spans the modern period (1900-1980). Originally established by collectors O. J. and Isobel Firestone in the early 1950s, the
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So…is art a wise investment or not? Commercial galleries and auction houses would certainly have you believe so – and they have the skyrocketing sales to prove it. The much-ballyhooed ‘crash’ has so far failed to materialize. Kim Dorland, Yellow Dress, 2007. Image: kimdorland.com – A wise investment? And yet as far as many wealth managers are concerned, “The conventional
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1. Dean Drever: Bear Minimum Michael Klien Gallery, Toronto August 2 – 30, 2008 Dean Drever, She Loves Me She Loves Me Not (Bullets). Image: douglasudellgallery.com Dean Drever continues his examination of power and violence in this show, which takes as a theme the Kodiak bear. Drever is a member of the Haida Nation and Haida culture acknowledges the bear
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Zone B at this year’s Nuit Blanche Toronto extends from Queen Street down to the Lakeshore, from Simcoe Street in the West end and Church Street in the East. Wayne Baerwaldt, director and curator at the Illingsworth Kerr Gallery at the Alberta College of Art and Design, will curate the zone and he has proposed a series of performative events
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“Art advisory is almost like a concierge service for big collectors: sourcing works of art and suggesting what to buy and then, when to sell; bidding at auction on their behalf; advice on framing and restoration; helping clients who have agreed to loan items to a museum or gallery and completing all the paperwork that goes with that,” says Helen
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Wavelengths is a curated presentation of the best in recent international avant-garde film and video at the Toronto International Film Festival (September 4 – 13, 2008.) This year’s Wavelengths features 26 films and videos by renowned and emerging artists, including James Benning, Olaf Nicolai, Pat O’Neill, Nathaniel Dorsky, Jennifer Reeves, Ben Russell and Jean-Marie Straub. This year’s lineup reflects the
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Are you in Toronto? ‘Cause the hippest artist-run centre in town…Mercer Union…is moving from Queen West – which it helped establish as art Toronto’s art hood – up to greener pastures at Bloor and Lansdowne (1286 Bloor Street West). They’re celebrating the end of one era and the start of a new one with one of their legendary summer parties!
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1. SAMUEL ROY-BOIS: Let us, then, be up and doing; With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, Still pursuing; Learn to labor and to wait Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver June 13 – August 24, 2008 Samuel Roy-Bois, J’ai entendu un bruit, je me suis sauvé/I heard a noise and I ran, 2003. Image: samuelroybois.com ARTIST TALK: Thursday, July 24th
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Gehry’s 2008 Serpentine pavilion. Image: artdaily.org/Iwan Baan London’s Serpentine Gallery, whose program of internationally renowned architect-designed summer pavilions has seen constructions by Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Oscar Niemeyer and Toyo Ito, among others, grace its front garden, opens the latest pavilion, designed by Frank Gehry.
The Art Gallery of Ontario is set to re-open in November with a brand new renovation by architect Frank Gehry, a new curatorial strategy and a new logo. VoCA likes the Warhol-esque new logo. We read it as the white letters sitting on top of a colourful background of (art) history. It seems appropriate. The logo. Image: artmatters.ca Not everyone
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Andrea Carson writes on contemporary art, architecture and design...