Apparently, director Todd Haynes, of Far From Heaven and I'm Not There fame, made a reenactment documentary of the life of Karen Carpenter shortly after his graduation from Brown University with a degree in art and semiotics (not surprising). Called "Superstar," the...

The Cinema Studies Insitute at U of T recently organized four nights of lectures by art historian and critic Kaja Silverman on photography, film and (to a certain extent) affect. I only made it to the first lecture, called "The Miracle of Analogy," but it filled the...

It probably comes as no surprise (given the number of times I've posted about their shows on here) that I am a big fan of Gallery TPW and their programming. I am also a big fan of Jean-Paul Kelly, so I've had the opening of his solo show at the gallery marked down in...

If you could spend 10 days on a ship adrift in the Arctic with Martha Wainwright, Feist, and Sophie Calle, would you go?Martha Wainwright, KT Tunstall, Jarvis Cocker, Feist and Vanessa Carltonin the Arctic with Cape Farewell on the 2008 Disko BayExpedition. Photo:...

For those of you who, like me, missed Kelly Mark's Horroridor project at Nuit Blanche, she's posted some stills and a few youtube videos on her site that document the project (warning: the videos are loud with a lot screaming, as I'm sure is no surprise).It looks like...

Today the reports have been pouring in both verbally and online about what was great, what was so-so and what was a little underwhelming at this year's Nuit Blanche. I didn't get to see everything that was on my list, but got all over town on my bike and took in a...

Okay, I'll admit it - I've never actually been to Nuit Blanche before. I think this is sort of akin to movie buffs admitting they've never made it through Citizen Kane. But, really, it wasn't my fault: the first year, I was working until late into the night and had to...

Last week I went to the opening of Gallery TPW's newest exhibition, "Life Stories," curated by Chen Tamir. Focusing on "confessional video portraits documenting the stories of unusual individuals," the show is very video heavy (which is fine with me, but be...

A while back, Cait ordered me a copy of Blocks Recording Club's Projected Lights DVD, a compilation of projection performances, mostly set to music, by Toronto-based artists like Steph Comilang, Shary Boyle, Zeesy Powers and Jamie Shannon. It took a really long time...

During my mini vacation in Montreal to visit my sister and Dylan, we went down to the DHC/ART Foundation to see Sophie Calle's monumental installation Prenez soin de vous/Take care of yourself. Originally presented at the 2007 Venice Biennale, the piece is a...

On the way back from our mini-break to Montreal, we listened to a bunch of podcasts that Cait found on iTunes. The most intensely academic one was from a lecture Judith Butler gave on "Torture, Sexual Politics and the Ethics of Photography" at Stanford last October....

I thought of one more thing that's been floating around in my brain lately, especially in light of the recent government cuts to the arts (which are apparently in order to pay for the gong show that will be the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games. At least these guys seem...