VoCA’s fasination with British artist Damien Hirst continues with a review of Toronto author Don Thompson’s book, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art. Check it out HERE. Look for our review in an upcoming issue of Quill and Quire – we’ll post it on VoCA, too.
London-based film artist and VoCA favorite Mark Lewis will represent Canada at the 2009 Venice Biennale! Mark Lewis, Isoceles, 2007. Image: marklewisstudio.com Click HERE for the full article.
Iain Baxter& Landscape with Sea Boats, 1999, (from the series Television Works). Image: corkingallery.com Over the years, we’ve loved the AGO (the Yoko Ono exhibition in 2002, the acquisition of David Almejd’s 2007 Venice pavilion installation, the Henry Moore sculpture gallery with the Julian Opie pole dancers, Swing Space) and we’ve loathed them (Nuit Blanche 2006, their lack of innovative
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Tom Thomson, Byng Inlet – Georgian Bay But we’ll be back next week with: -What’s upcoming at the new, improved AGO -More on Nuit Blanche Toronto -Canada’s representative at the 2009 Venice Biennale -Are auction houses set to take over from galleries? -VoCA speaks at the Power Plant’s summer exhibition on Sunday, July 20 at 2 pm in Toronto …and
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We now know what this year’s 4 curators have planned for this year’s Nuit Blanche Toronto, which will take place on the night of OCTOBER 4, 2008. Click HERE for the full list Here are the first of VoCA picks for the night. Stay tuned for more over the coming weeks. ZONE A: Curated by Gordon Hatt. 1. Without Persons,
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Here are the final five of all fifteen semi-finalists in Canada’s RBC Painting Competition. Who do you think should win? Let VoCA know! (Post comment below) Martin Golland, Prism Burn, 2008. Image: rbc.com
Over the next three days, VoCA will be featuring work by all fifteen semi-finalists in Canada’s RBC Painting Competition. In the meantime, here is the second group of finalists, continued from below (in alphabetical order.) Who do you think should win? Let VoCA know! (Post comment below) Emmy Skensved, Mirror, 2008. Image: rbc.com
VoCA features work by all fifteen semi-finalists in Canada’s RBC Painting Competition – see below. Amanda Reeves, Untitled 03 2008. Image: rbc.com Here is the first group of finalists, (in – almost – alphabetical order.) The second and third groups of finalists will come in the next few days…winner to be announced by Governor General Michaelle Jean in September 2008
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1. Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller 31 July – 28 September 2008 The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, The Killing Machine, 2007. Image: e-flux.com
Andrea Carson writes on contemporary art, architecture and design...