I went to The Power Plant's International Lecture Series featuring Berlin-based South African video artist Candice Breitz. I want to say that it changed my life, but that seems like a bit of an overstatement. Let's just say that it was mind-blowingly good.I knew...

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 did...

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...

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 . It is...

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 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 makes me...

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 really...

Today seems to be a watershed moment for quality, incisive arts criticism.Artfag issue #20 also found its way out into the cold, harsh, confused world of arts writing today, with characteristic biting wit and hilariously apt commentary.Witness:We wonder, ladies and...

The end of term is fast approaching, which means I have spent far too much time inside frantically working on papers and devouring hours and hours of The Wire (and occasionally drinking in a fashion similar to the characters on The Wire - this is not a good thing)....

Was it just me, or did anyone else find the Guerilla Girls lecture/performance at the Metro Convention Centre last Thursday a little uninspiring?As I write this, I have the vague sense that, as a woman in the arts world, I shouldn't even dare to say such a thing. I...

The City of Toronto announced the curators for Nuit Blanche 2008 today:The curators for the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2008 exhibitions are: Wayne Baerwaldt from Calgary, Gordon Hatt from Kitchener who will curate exhibitions in the city's downtown core, and Dave Dyment...

As promised, Vancouver-based art critic, curator at CSA Space and owner of my fave Van. book store, Pulp Fiction, Christopher Brayshaw weighs in with a named review of the Belkin gallery's Exponential Future show which caused so much broohaha a few weeks...