In case you haven’t seen it, my latest project is a series of short video clips called ARTLAND for Akimbo that showcase some inspiring people in the Toronto art world. Check out this latest video of art installer Angelo Pedari, HERE Talking to Angelo was fascinating – we got far too much material to use in just four minutes. As
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I only have time for some photos, but it should give you a sense of tonight’s preview of the Gladstone Hotel’s annual design exhibition, Come Up To My Room. Every year, the show (a significant part of Toronto Design Week, along with the TO DO Festival and IDS) showcases some of the city’s most innovative artists and designers. Toronto Design
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“I think the Toronto art scene is one of the most exciting in the world. I actually do believe that. After New York and London, it’s the size and diversity of the scene, in terms of commercial galleries, artist-run centres, artist collectives, institutions…The number of artists who are living and working here, it’s an amazing scene. I don’t think people appreciate
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One thought about Luminato Festival. Image: new.pentagram.com Founded by by Tony Gagliano and David Pecaut, the first festival took place in 2007 with a $15-million-dollar reserve fund. (I blogged about Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s piece that year.) Now, as this recent article in the Globe and Mail states: “the festival is without guaranteed long-term funding from the province and has a looming
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For Luminato this year, Toronto’s annual––incredible––arts festival, I took in two very different works of art. The first was Matthew Barney’s latest film, a grandiose, operatic 6 hour long endeavor titled River of Fundament. The second was the first Canadian solo show by New York based Chinese Canadian artist Terence Koh. Matthew Barney, from River of Fundament. Image: Artspace.com I’ve
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Flare Magazine, a Canadian fashion mag, has been increasing the art related content in its pages. Following the lead of other publications, under the watch of new editor Cameron Williamson, it has developed a monthly piece called ‘Art Star’, which profiles a ‘mover and shaker’ in the art world who also happens to have interesting personal style. I wrote the
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The second annual Grow Op, the Gladstone Hotel’s annual design exhibition that explores issues around landscape, is on this weekend. I’m a fan of the show (and a long time fan of Grow Op’s sister exhibition, Come Up to My Room) which I blogged about last year. Windfall, by Rebecca Houston. All images: VoCA There are some wonderful, must-see installations.
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I’ve been thinking about art & nature for a while now (see my previous post HERE.) Now that spring seems to have pretty much almost sprung in Ontario, I am even more aware of the importance of nature to our wellbeing and the need to protect it. An image from last year’s Grow Op exhibition, at the Gladstone Hotel. Image
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I’ve been thinking a lot about nature lately. Particularly since the activist fashion designer Vivienne Westwood started promoting a petition “to adopt legislation to prohibit, prevent and pre-empt ecocide – the extensive damage to, destruction of or loss of ecosystems,” in the EU. Susumu Shingu, Luminous River, 2009. Image: re-title.com/galerie Jeanne Bucher. I think we should start a similar petition
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As a freelancer & blogger, I’ve occasionally had the pleasure of writing about some of the many amazing young designers in Toronto. From a bespoke cobbler who apprenticed with a Florentine shoemaker to a group of custom guitar makers and an artist who works with neon, not to mention exciting cross disciplinary art/design hybrid collectives I can tell you that
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