Art Basel 2008:

Art Basel, 2008. Image: gadmin.ch

Read the article from the International Herald Tribune HERE

1. How much will the Toronto International Art Fair improve now that Paul Morris is in charge?

Morris, a co-founder of New York’s Armory Show, now oversees six fairs owned by the Chicago-based Merchandise Mart, including Art Chicago, Next: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art in Chicago (Where some of Canada’s best galleries, Birch Libralato, Edward Day, Goodwater, Greener Pastures, Katherine Mulherine, Newzones, the Other Gallery, Pierre Francois Ouellette, Clint Roenisch and Skew are exhibiting this week), Volta fair in New York and Basel, the Armory Show and TIAF.

Armory Show founder Paul Morris. Image: newyorksocialdiary.com

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1. GUSTAV KLIMT AT THE NEUE GALERIE - We were really looking forward to seeing the Klimt painting - Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) - that Ronald Lauder bought for $135 million and that is prominently displayed as the centerpiece of the current exhibition of mostly prepatory drawings at the Neue Galerie.

Gustav Klimt: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907. Image: cosmopolis.ch

But with all the glitz and sparkle of today’s contemporary art – thanks, Chris Ofili – we were expecting something awesome, like a glittering, sparkling mosaic. By comparison the mannered work in oil on canvas with gold and silver plating and vaguely Egyptian detail was a beautiful work, but it was if the slick production values of much of today’s contemporary art had dulled our senses.

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MIAMI: “It’s like the running of the bulls in Pamplona”

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LONDON: Britian to invest 50 Million Pounds in creative art

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TORONTO artist Luis Jacob is a hit in Miami

Jacob’s work is represented by Birch Libralato Gallery, who is showing his pieces at Art Basel Miami Beach in the Art Supernova section. Is Mr. Jacob - whose work was recently shown at Documenta XI, in Kassel, Germany - Canada’s next art star?

Luis Jacob, Album, 2007, Image montage in plastic laminate. Image: artbaselmiamibeach.com

Luis Jacob, Album, 2007, Image montage in plastic laminate. Image: artbaselmiamibeach.com

Luis Jacob, Album, 2007, Image montage in plastic laminate. Image: artbaselmiamibeach.com

For more on Luis Jacob’s work, please click HERE.

Miami Beach Convention Center. Courtesy Art Basel Miami Beach. Image: shift.jp.org

The art world’s biggest party: Art Basel Miami Beach, December 6 – 9, 2007, is the fair that started it all.

Every year, there seem to be more fairs, more districts, more collections…Read the full Wall Street Journal article HERE

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You’ll find these Canadian galleries in Miami this year:

SCOPE ART FAIR:
Angell Gallery (Toronto)
Christopher Cutts Gallery (Toronto)
Trepanier-Baer Gallery (Calgary)
Birch Libralato (Toronto)
Greener Pastures (Toronto)

PULSE ART FAIR:
artcore gallery/Fabrice Marcoloni (Toronto)
Nichoals Metivier Gallery (Toronto)

PHOTO MIAMI:
Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain (Montreal)
Skew Gallery (Calgary)

ART BASEL MIAMI:
Catriona Jeffries Gallery (Vancouver)
Landau Fine Art (Montreal)
Birch Libralato (Toronto)

BRIDGE ART FAIR:
Awol Gallery (Toronto)
Newzones (Calgary)

ART MIAMI:
Jennifer Kostuik Gallery (Vancouver)

AQUA ART MIAMI:
Aqua Hotel
Katharine Mulherin (Toronto)

Aqua Wynwood
Tracey Lawrence (Vancouver)
pm Gallery (Toronto)
Jessica Bradley Art & Projects (Toronto)

ART FAIR NOW:
Galerie Simon Blais (Montreal)

ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY ART DEALERS (AIPAD):
Stephen Bulger Gallery (Toronto)

THE ARTIST PROJECT TORONTO

March 6 – 9, 2008

At the Liberty Grand, Toronto

We couldn’t help chuckle as we read that The Artist Project - Toronto’s newly announced Independent art fair - “will include…the “Orange Competition” where exhibiting artists will interpret their feelings about the colour Orange.”

Nonetheless, MMPI, one of the largest trade-show producers in the world, which has done Art Chicago, the Armory Show in New York and Toronto’s Interior Design Show, will bring The Artist Project Toronto to the city this coming March.

The Artist Project Chicago will run in April next year, concurrently with Art Chicago™, featuring independent artists undiscovered by the gallery community.

The Canadian version is billed as “a four day exhibition and sale of contemporary fine art, which will bring together for the first time a carefully juried selection of new and emerging artists under one roof. It will welcome over 100 juried independent artists selected to showcase their work to gallerists, collectors and art enthusiasts in an intimate environment. Approximately 85% of the artists will be from Canada.”

For more information, please click HERE.