Re-enactment (the curatorial theme of the year)

I went to Montreal last weekend to visit my sister and my good friend/her boyfriend who was in town, visiting from Vancouver. It was beautiful and warm out and the Raptors were still in the playoffs for a while, so there was lots to do that wasn’t art, but we...

Interweb art debates

It looks like April is going to be a one or two post kind of month. Blame end of term and Costa Rica, where I just spent the past ten days reading novels on a porch or beach and searching for wild animals in the jungle (we saw massive sea turtles lay their eggs in the...

Everytime I See Your Picture I Cry

On Thursday, I am going to the first screening of the premiere of Daniel Barrow’s latest performance/manual animation, Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry.I have been excited about this/waiting for it with anticipation since I found out about it last September ....

Toronto Free Gallery

On Saturday, totally exhausted after a crazy week at school and the super intense Museums and Galleries debate, Cait and I dedicated the day to wandering around our neighbourhood and environs and basically put the kibosh on any weekend work. We did some vintage...

This is what it sounds like

This is not art, but I’m particularly prone to mathematical charts/mappings/versions of different pop culture references and this one is especially lovely. Somewhere between a science process map and a cultural organization or self-help flowchart.It sort of...

The Nortammag Archives at Magic Pony

My friend Leah has been telling me about this upcoming show at Magic Pony that’s opening next week. It features mainly oil paintings by Stephen Appleby-Barr, a member of the illustration collective Team Macho.The images just came out yesterday and they’re...