Joni Murphy on Althea Thauberger’s “Carrall Street”

For almost a year now, Vancouver’s artist-run centre Artspeak has been focusing on off-site, publication and performance activities rather than (and sometimes alongside) traditional art exhibitions. Cynics have implied that Artspeak’s decision may be one...

A survey of exasperating Canadian art gallery websites

Art Fag City’s very clever Paddy Johnson is currently visiting Toronto and seeing a bunch of art (you can follow her twitter updates, if you do such things, here). She recently posted on the exasperating results of trying to do internet research on these...

Allison Hrabluik artist talk at York University

Lois Klassen’s version of the PENELOPE! project, from loiszing.blogs.comI love (and am envious of the recipients of) Calgary-born, Vancouver-based artist Allison Hrabluik’s recent PENELOPE! project. On March 17th of this year, Hrabluik mailed out 435...

Timeline of Museums and the Recession

The website ARTINFO.com (via Art Fag City) has started a timeline of how North American museums have been affected by, or responded to, the recent economic recession. It’s a thorough play-by-play of developments at several major institutions, including...