From the New York Times: As Pierre Théberge prepares to end his 11-year tenure as the director of the National Gallery, Canada’s wealthiest art institution is immersed in a controversy that has more in common with television comedies like “The Office” than debates about expenditures on paintings… David Franklin, the deputy director of the National Gallery of Canada. Image: nytimes.com
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The exhibition WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at the Vancouver Art Gallery presented quite an extensive survey of feminist art. According to the catalogue text, “in the space of a generation, feminism transformed social relations, personal identities, and institutional structures….the feminist revolution in art was no less radical and transformative than the social movement from which it drew strength.”
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1. Prime Minister Stephen Harper ignores the arts. Consequently, art becomes a political issue across the country as Quebec gives Harper the hairy eyeball. 2. The new AGO opens – Frank Gehry’s renovation of Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario is deemed an unqualified success, perhaps partly due to the budgetary constraints he was under. It’s simple in material, but opulent
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The economic downturn is having a welcome effect on the “poisonous cocktail of vanity and self-delusion” that has been contemporary architecture, particularly in New York City, says Nicolai Ourossoff in the New York Times: Read it HERE Karl Lagerfeld and architect Zaha Hadid in the Mobile Art container, built to exhibit 20 artists’ tributes to the 50th anniversary of Coco
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VoCA reports from Vancouver next week… Vancouver. Image: drumcafe.ca …Stay tuned!
We’ve been intrigued for a while now by the cuisine of Ferran Adria, the Spanish chef for whom food seems a material with which to create a kind of conceptual art experience. Adria’s peach paper ‘tramontana’, 2005. Yes, it’s edible. Image: elbulli.com In honour of all the food that surrounds the holidays, we’ve linked HERE back to art critic Jerry
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VoCA contributor Jenny McVean reports from London on Michael Snow’s exhibition at the British Film Institute: Legendary Canadian artist Michael Snow has worked in various media since the 1950s such as music, sound installations, sculpture, photo-works, holography and painting, but it is his film works that are highlighted in this exhibition at the BFI Southbank Gallery in London. Michael Snow,
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In truth great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all…– Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man. Image: success.co.il
Did you know that filmmaker David Lynch – besides being supremely handsome, in a vintage kind of way – is an excellent artist and musician? His work is haunting and filmic with a vaguely Miguel Barcelo air to it, with a dash of Arte Povera…but that’s being unfair. He’s an original. David Lynch. Image: donalforeman.com His exhibition last year at
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Andrea Carson writes on contemporary art, architecture and design...