This summer, VoCA set off to find a hidden sculpture by the great American sculptor Richard Serra, which was installed almost 40 years ago in a field near King City, outside of Toronto. Read our earlier post about the piece HERE. Shift, in wintertime. Image: slowpainting.com Image: mcgill.ca Now, according to the Globe and Mail, “an important and controversial vote
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Bruno Billio, Samba Mochet, 2002. Image courtesy the artist. We love this sculpture by Toronto artist Bruno Billio. It’s made from a carpet and 2 pairs of old Adidas Samba trainers. It’s very suggestive, it’s funny, it’s sculptural and it’s simple. We love how Billio is always re-thinking the most common materials. Only an Italian would have made it.
This just in from the Department of Culture, a community of artists and arts professionals who organized themselves in the wake of the Harper Government’s brutal cuts to the arts in the past year, in order to ensure “the social and cultural health and prosperity of our nation in the face of a Federal Government that is aggressively undermining the
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Takao Tanabe was born in British Columbia in 1926 and was interned with other Japanese-Canadians in BC during World War II. He studied in Winnipeg, London and Toyko, and in New York at the Brooklyn Museum Art School where he was taught by the famous German-born American abstract expressionist painter Hans Hoffman. The artist Takao Tanabe. Image: gov.bc.ca Takao Tanabe
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Edward Dolman, Christie’s International chief executive talks to the Financial Times on art world recovery, the shift eastwards and whether art is still reliable as an asset class: Click HERE to watch the short videos. It’s also interesting to note the relationship between the Rolex ads preceding each clip and the (Rolex?) watch that sits prominently on Dolman’s wrist.
There’s an interesting exhibition on up at the Glenhyrst Art Gallery in Brantford, Ontario from 29 November 2009 – 22 January 2010. It’s only about an hour’s drive from Toronto and VIA Rail goes there, too. Bonnie Devine, Reclamation Project, 1995. Image: ccca.ca The show, organized in collaboration with Toronto’s SAVAC, brings together work by First Nations artists with work
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Presentation House Gallery Vancouver, British Columbia The Malcolmson Collection October 1, 2009 to December 20, 2009 Gustave Le Gray, The Great Wave, Sete, 1857. Image: canadianart.ca Do not miss seeing these extraordinary vintage photographs from the collection of friends-of-VoCA Harry and Ann Malcolmson. Over the past twenty-five years, the Malcolmsons have assembled a rare collection of vintage and historic photographs
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Artist and friend-of-VoCA AA Bronson with Governor General Michaelle Jean. Congratulations, AA. Very well deserved. For more on AA Bronson, please click HERE
Apparently, the art market has returned. Andy Warhol’s 200 One Dollar Bills. Image: nyt.com After a year of caution on the part of collectors, recent sales in New York and London have shown a dramatic return. The other day, Sotheby’s New York sold Andy Warhol’s huge 1962 canvas 200 One Dollar Bills for $43.7 million (U.S.) – more than triple
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Andrea Carson writes on contemporary art, architecture and design...