Iris Häussler: Honest Threads January 22 – March 8, 2009 At Honest Ed’s 581 Bloor Street W, Toronto Toronto’s Honest Ed’s Bargain Warehouse. Image: mac.com VoCA loved Iris Häussler’s exhibition The Legacy of Joseph Wagenbach, in fact we wrote a feature story about it for Border Crossings magazine. See our post HERE.
Check out my reviews in the special Toronto section of the December 2008 issue of ARTnews. Image: artnewsonline.com Click each thumbnail twice: Click HERE to go to the ARTnews magazine website.
Notorious performance artist Istvan Kantor was arrested yesterday at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, for causing a ruckus at the Joseph Beuys exhibition Die Revolution Sind Wir (We are the revolution). Two images from Kantor’s performance with MACHINESEXACTIONGROUP at the Museum Of Contemporary Art, Toronto, 2004. Image: ccca.ca Kantor’s piece, a response to the title of the Beuys show, was
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New York art dealer Marian Goodman – one of VoCA’s art heroes and rep of Thomas Schutte, our favorite artist – speaks to Art + Auction: Art dealer extraordinare Marian Goodman. Image: artinfo.com Read the article HERE
Lawren Harris’s sketch of Nerke, Greenland sold for $1.8 million, far beyond its pre-sale estimate of $300,000 to $500,000, at the Sotheby’s Canada auction on Monday. Lawren Harris, Icebergs and Mountains, Greenland, 1932. (Not from the sale) Image: virtualmuseum.ca According to the Virtual Museum of Canada, “Lawren Harris strove to embody the spiritual essence of the universe through simplified, archetypal
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Founded in 1993, Mammalian Diving Reflex is a “research-art atelier dedicated to investigating the social sphere, always on the lookout for contradictions to whip into aesthetically scintillating experiences, producing one-off events, theatre-based performance, theoretical texts and community happenings.” According to their website , “It is our mission to bring people together, engage them, challenge them and get them talking, thinking
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We attended the auction preview last night at Ritchie’s, in association with Sotheby’s, as guests of Sotheby’s Real Estate. The auction preview rooms – the sale will take place on Monday at 10:30 am – were filled cheek by jowl with major Canadian names including several works by Jean-Paul Riopelle, many by the Group of Seven including a tiny, perfectly
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Soft Abs November 08 – December 06, 2008 Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston Ontario Sizzle Reel, Melanie Authier, 2008. Image: gibsongallery.com VoCA contributor Catherine Toews reports on a painting show in Kingston: The most surprising thing about Soft Abs, currently on display at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre is the lack of large abstract paintings on canvas in the main room
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So… “Late Friday afternoon Sotheby’s…reported that it had lost $28.2 million from guarantees at its contemporary art auctions last week. That brought its total losses to about $52 million this fall, all from guarantees. Executives at Christie’s…also admitted to having lost millions of dollars.” Francis Bacon, Study for Self-Portrait, 1964. This painting, up for sale at Christie’s with a pre-sale
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1. David Hoffos: Scenes From the House Dream October 04 – 30 November, 2008 The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge David Hoffos, Scenes from a House Dream. Image: saag.ca This exhibition, curated by Shirley Madill presents one of VoCA’s favorite Canadian artists, David Hoffos’ master work, Scenes from the House Dream. The House Dream project has formed the nexus of
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