Tonight is the premiere screening of the last program in the 2009 Curatorial Incubator - The Dark Arts: magic and intuition series at Vtape. Titled "Life on Venus," the program examines feminism and the uncanny through a series of videos by Canadian and international...

Carey Young, I am a Revolutionary (video still), 2001.Commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella, London.© Carey Young, Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New YorkLast night I went to the second lecture in the Urban Field Speakers Series, co-organized by the...

For Robert Lendrum's solo show "Living Documents: Dr. Frankenstein's Guide to Self-Portraiture" opening at the Ryerson Gallery Thursday, March 19th.Click on a page to enlarge.

For the 100th issue of C magazine on the topic of pedagogy in contemporary art.Huge thanks to Alissa Firth-Eagland, Barbara Fischer, Anna Hudson, Cait McKinney, Helena Reckitt, and Kim Simon for their help and guidance with this project, as well as to Rosemary...

My head is still spinning from a recent New York Times article I found thanks to Art Fag City's excellent "fresh links" feature about several renowned contemporary artists–including photographer Annie Leibovitz and painter-turned-film-director Julian Schnabel–who have...

Artist and curator Marissa Neave recently posted an interesting meditation on her undergraduate program at OCAD, Criticism and Curatorial Practice, and how curating education is perceived and practiced there.Biennals Map, Rafal Niemojewsk, from the Royal College of...

Another awesome art database referral, this time from Paddy Johnson at Art Fag City:"Grackle is an at-a-glance database of modern and contemporary art exhibitions available for tour."It's searchable by artist, organization, curator, floorplan or exhibition fee and...

Ryan Millar recently sent me a link to a website called smARThistory, an interactive website meant to replace or augment classic art history instruction. The blurb on the site claims that"smARThistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic...

Cait forwarded me an article that was published in this morning's Globe and Mail based on a report recently published by the Hamilton-based consultancy group Hill Strategies that aimed to create "a statistical profile of the country's artists."From...

Apparently you can take a girl out of Vancouver, but it's much much harder to take the Vancouver out of a UBC art history grad. Despite feeling pretty overstimulated by what Toronto and its environs offers in terms of art and cultural events, I still manage to keep an...

I am really excited about the upcoming exhibition at Red Bull 381 Projects, "What It Really Is". Curated by my friend Nick Brown, the show aims to survey recent sculptural production in Canada with a particular emphasis on artists who use everyday materials "as a...

I really love this image from the Fastwürms of Obama's inauguration (taken from Sally McKay and L.M.'s blog):It is almost as good as The Huffington Post's story about the rash of post-inauguration babies that were named after the president and his wife.