Cafe for Contemporary art: WE LOVE YOU COMRADE NAVIN 140 E Esplanade, Vancouver North Vancouver’s newest contemporary art space is a cafe and art gallery. It’s a clean space punched up with bright colours, great coffee and a ‘children’s corner’, which is presumably where you’ll find the artists. The Navin Party Bollywood poster. Images: artnet.com From March 23 to 24
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Moscow-born, California-raised Daria Zhukova, 27-year-old daughter of an oil magnate and girlfriend of billionaire Roman Abramovich is the director of Russia’s newest contemporary art space, the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture. In this article, she speaks with the FT’s Peter Aspden: “I liked (art), I liked going to Tate Modern in London and then other galleries but I was never
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This just in: An email from Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty and Aileen Carroll, Ontario Minister of Culture announcing their brand new initiative: NOTE: VoCA has made a (very rare) mistake. We were so appalled by the possibility, that we neglected to notice that although the email we received appeared to have been sent by the Ontario government, it was in
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Andrew Rucklidge: The Fringes April 3 – 25, 2009 Michael Gibson Gallery, London Ontario Andrew Rucklidge, Accumulation Zone – Surging Glacier, 2008. Image: gibsongallery.com There’s something about Andrew Rucklidge’s paintings…it’s their grand, otherworldly energy, the way they refer to something greater and the way you could keep looking at them for hours. They just feel incredibly modern and more importantly,
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How do you define art? Well, the old definition, which many still adhere to, is that art is either a painting, drawing or sculpture exhibited inside an art gallery. Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917. Image: toutfait.com Others might expand the definition to include video, or anything exhibited inside an art gallery. After all, Marcel Duchamp made the point with Fountain, the
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From the Guardian: Revered as the baroque master of lifelike portraits and light and shadow, the 16th-century painter Caravaggio is now being touted as the first master of photographic technique, two centuries before the formal invention of the camera… Caravaggio, Amor Vincit Omnia, c. 1601-02. Image: artchive.com The Italian artist has long been suspected of turning his studio into a
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Photographers Marco Antonio Cruz from Mexico City, Lynne Cohen from Montreal, Federico Gama from Mexico City and Jin-me Yoon from Vancouver are the four finalists for the AGO’s $50,000 annual Grange Prize this year. Lynne Cohen, Untitled, 1980′s. Image: fototapeta.art.pl Lynne Cohen is represented by Olga Korper Gallery. For more info on Lynne Cohen, please click HERE. Federico Gama was
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Stephen Rife: here lies Léola Le Blanc: Désoreille March 23 – April 4th, 2009 Anna Leonowens Gallery at NSCAD Artist Stephen Rife. Image: mnartists.org STEPHEN RIFE Pyrotechnic artist Stephen Rife opens at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design’s Anna Leonowens Gallery tomorrow, as one of several thesis exhibitors. Rife has long been experimenting with fire and the moving
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Four top art advisors hold a round table discussion to flesh out exactly how the recession is changing today’s art landscape: Art + Auction’s roundtable discussion. Image: artinfo.com ON ART ADVISORS: “Most people who do this are gatekeepers. They know rich people, they have some access to art, and they provide people who may be interested in collecting art with
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Check out my article on the Art Expo, Toronto’s “kinder, gentler art fair for tough times” in today’s Globe and Mail – click thumbnail after the jump. It’s a good place to discover work by artists who may not have gallery representation. Many are from abroad – expect to see work from India, Japan, Israel, Germany and Korea. A mixed-media
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Andrea Carson writes on contemporary art, architecture and design...