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 galleries...
Dieter Roelstraete’s “After the Historiographic Turn: Current Findings”
The end of term at school has finally been tamed, my thesis has been handed in and all that stands between me and a summer break free from school is a big pile of final essays for the class I TA. Things are looking up and I am definitely looking forward to catching up...
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 envelopes to...
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 Toronto's AGO....
Cory Arcangel and Hanne Mugaas’s “Art Since 1960 (According to the Internet)”
One last piece of Images festival blogging detritus as this year's edition comes to a close:L.M. and Sally McKay have written an interesting review/critique of one of the last Live events of the festival, a co-presentation with Pleasure Dome of a 'collaborative'...
Sung Hwan Kim’s “In the Room” at Gallery TPW
I sometimes worry that my love of Gallery TPW's programming is verging on boosterism. Either that, or curator Kim Simon and I share a brain or an ESP link or something. But, as I've been doing double-duty this week at the Images Festival as their blogger, I've had a...
South-South: Interruptions and Encounters at Justina M Barnicke Gallery
My posts on this blog will be scarcer than usual over the next week as I'll be writing for the Images Festival blog here. Artist and critic Sholem Krishtalka and I will be doing previews of screenings and live performances as well as interviews with artists and...
AGYU releases Waging Culture Report
Yesterday, the AGYU (Art Gallery of York University) released their long-awaited Waging Culture Report, which surveys visual artists living in Canada (who voluntarily took the survey) for demographic and statistical data. The aim of the report was to offer data to...
The After School Special at Xpace
I can't make it to this event, but "The After School Special: A Panel Discussion on Pedagogy" happening at Xpace this Saturday afternoon sounds like it will be amazing.Curated by Stephanie Rosinski with Casey Wong and moderated by the one and only Jennifer Cherniack,...
“Gakona” at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Roman Signer, Parapluies, 2009 Courtesy Galerie Art:Concept, Paris, Photo: André MorinI recently wrote a review of the Palais de Tokyo's group show "Gakona," an exhibition featuring Ceal Floyer, Roman Signer, Laurent Grasso and Micol Assaël inspired by the secretive...
Or Gallery and Talonbooks launch the second edition of Vancouver Anthology
Not only is today the first day of spring (check out Eric Carle's interpretation of the Google home page, by the way), but tonight is the pre-launch of the second edition of the landmark volume Vancouver Anthology, originally published in 1991 and edited by Stan...
Robert Lendrum’s “Living Documents”
This is partly shameless self-promotion since I wrote the exhibition text being handed out at the gallery for this show, but I highly recommend checking out Toronto-based artist Robert Lendrum's solo exhibition, "Living Documents: Dr. Frankenstein's Guide to...