Check out the short videos that we produced for the Canadian Art Foundation:

Just click right HERE.

Woman with the Devil, Drawing by Annie Pootoogook.
Image: sitemedia.ca/Feheley Fine Arts

• Dealer Wil Kucey of Le Gallery talks about his hot young artists and his prescient interest in illustrative, grafitti and street art

• Dealer Pat Feheley discusses the new Inuit art. It’s not soapstone sculptures of bears anymore, since Annie Pootoogook’s drawings were included in the last Documenta in Kassel, Germany.

• Artist Kim Dorland welcomes us into his studio as he talks about his influences, his recent work and how he hopes the viewer responds to his paintings.

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Toronto writer Don Thompson’s book The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art subjects today’s global art world to an economic analysis.

Image: akademika.no

Thompson, an economist and professor of business who regularly lectures on art, attempts to de-mystify the value of contemporary art – why such exorbitant prices (nearing $150 million) are paid for works which are, ostensibly, nothing more than paint on canvas, dead animals, unmade beds and other flights of artistic fancy…

Click on the thumbnail to read my review in Quill & Quire:

Buy the book – in our opinion a must-read – right HERE.

Montreal photo-manipulator Nicolas Baier is one of the hottest names on the Quebec art scene. Check out my review of his recent exhibition at Jessica Bradley Art & Projects, in Toronto:

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For more info, visit the artist’s website HERE

Baier is represented in Toronto by Jessica Bradley. Click HERE.

Paulette Phillips is a conceptual artist worth watching. Her latest work, on view at Diaz Contemporary, presents sculpture, photographs and video based on the Modernist architecture and furniture design of the Irish architect Eileen Gray.

Paulette Phillips, Details of Touche (magnetized books),2007. Image: diazcontemporary.ca

Click HERE to read my full article, from today’s Globe and Mail or click below for the article:

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Patrick Faigenbaum, Pantijelew Family (1997). Image: oakvillegalleries.com

The table is a deeply symbolic object, both as a meeting place and an enabler of culture. From the ancient Chinese to the tables in 17th century Dutch vanitas paintings, the table has been associated with nobility, culture and privilege….

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The exhibition continues until June 6, 2008.

Click HERE for the gallery website.

Rodney Graham, a work from Wet on Wet: My late early styles, 2007.
Image: lissongallery.com

Read my review of Rodney Graham’s recent exhibition at London’s Lisson Gallery:

Greg Girard, Doorway, Wukang Lu, 2003. Image: monteclarkgallery.com

Vancouver photographer Greg Girard has been living in Shanghai for a number of years, documenting the changes to the city’s landscape.

Read my review of his recent exhibition at the Monte Clark Gallery:

In the Spring/Summer issue, out now.

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Oh, and don’t miss the artist’s court hearing, April 3rd, 2008 at 3 pm in Toronto.

There’s an important exhibition on at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and the Blackwood Galleries, Toronto on the relationship between art and war.

January 17 – March 2, 2008

Art and war may make strange bedfellows, but artists have long explored the emotions provoked by war and documented its realities…

Kristan Horton, Drawing of A History of the First World War (Disc 01), 2008.
Image: kristanhorton.com

Click on the thumbnail to read my full article in yesterday’s Globe and Mail:

For more information on the exhibition, please click HERE.

An excellent book has just come out by Elspeth Cameron about the lives of 20th century Canadian sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wyle:

Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. Image: lac-bac.ca

Read my review in Quill & Quire HERE