ArtStars*: bringing glam to the Toronto artworld

I know they have already been getting a lot of props and attention from the art blogosphere, but I want to go on record saying that I love ArtStars*, the new video blog/arts infotainment talkshow produced by Torontonian artists Jeremy Bailey and Ryan Edwards and...

No More Potlucks

One of the editors of this amazing online journal/magazine, published out of Montreal, just drew my attention to the existence of no more potlucks. The magazine “focuses on arts, activism and politics across Canada from coast to coast” with a decidedly...

Vancouver Art in the Sixties

Earlier this month, the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery and Grunt Gallery, both in Vancouver, launched a new website devoted to documenting, analyzing and critiquing art production in the city in the 1960s. “Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties”...

Reverse Pedagogy in Venice

Along with following Art Fag City’s Venice updates on Twitter and text message updates from a friend who is there for the Biennale, I’ve also been following the antics of the mischievous Canadian collective Reverse Pedagogy as they infiltrate the festival...

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...