Steeling the Gaze: Portraits by Aboriginal Artists 31 OCTOBER 2008 – 22 MARCH 2009 Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa Kent Monkman, Emergence of a Legend, series of 5 portraits of Miss Chief in various performance personas. Image: pfoac.com (Click image above to enlarge) This group exhibition, drawn from the collections of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and the
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This book is devoted to Canadian women artists from the 19th to mid 20th centuries. It should be necessary reading for anyone who is interested in Canadian history, and/or Canadian art. Please don’t let the cover design dissuade you! Keep reading! Independent Sprit, by A.K. Prakash. Image: fireflybooks.com “It’s tempting to assume that Canadian women artists of the 19th and
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However you define fashion, there’s no denying that Montreal designer Renata Morales is an artist – and it’s certain that Canada has very few of whom one can say that. A look from Morales’ spectacular Spring 2009 show. Image: renatamorales.com Yoshitomo Nara, Guitar Girl, 2003. Image: tokyoartgallery.com
Rumour has it that the Venice Architecture Biennale is coming to Cambridge Ontario! Apparently, the Biennale Foundation has agreed to work with the University of Waterloo to create a ‘preview’ of sorts this coming summer. This show will become the basis for the next Architecture Biennale in 2010/2011.
The 80-year-old Vancouver painter, sculptor, installation and performance artist Gathie Falk has long been inspired by the elements of everyday life: fruit, eggs, men’s shoes, women’s clothing, garden flowers and reading a book, among other things. Her work appears to meld feminine and masculine elements in a unique, charming, serious way. The artist Gathie Falk in her studio, Vancouver, 1983.
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Nobody has systematically collected data on the women who historically contributed to Canadian art, architecture and craft. Until now. Self-Portrait, by Lilias Torrance Newton, 1929. Newton was the first Canadian painter to paint the portraits of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. Image: collectionscanada.gc.ca Several weeks ago in Montreal, Concordia’s Canadian Women Artists History Initiative (CWAHI) held a symposium called Connections,
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These are people who aren’t satisfied with how things are. They want change and they’ll risk criticism for it. Their reward? Injecting Toronto’s art scene with a sense of much needed vitality. We should all thank our lucky stars for these people, without whom Toronto would be a much more boring place. A work by Gilberto Zorio. Image: iiclosangeles.esteri.it 1.
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…Isn’t it? When art prices go stratospheric, many smart collectors turn to prints, ephemera, and…books. New York Art Book Fair at Phillips, de Pury and Co. October 24 – 26, 2008 New York City The cover of the One Cent Life portfolio, screenprint by Roy Lichtenstein, 1963. Image: artnet.com Collector and friend of VoCA Bill Clarke has been doing this
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“Things have been overpriced; they need to come down,” said Glenn Scott-Wright, director at London’s Victoria Miro gallery, who attended the sale. “If Christie’s had dropped the reserves by 20 percent, it would have done better.” Read the full story from Bloomberg HERE “Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio” by Lucio Fontana, an oil and glitter on canvas work executed
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Andrea Carson writes on contemporary art, architecture and design...