Ten times more porters than soldiers died in Africa during the first world war. But they have never been properly commemorated. Now Tate Modern is putting this right – with William Kentrid…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMTest driving the semi-new apps from the ROM, AGO and MOCCA, and finding only one with wheels.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMWhat to do when summer’s worn out its welcome and it’s only mid-July? Taking refuge in the air-conditioned bliss of most art venues isn’t necessarily a welcome option, with the little …
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:09AMPorch View Dances turns Torontonians into performers in their own neighbourhoods
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:32AMMichael Snow, the eminence grise of Canadian art in general, who won the Gershon Iskowitz prize at the AGO this year. With it comes a solo exhibition.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMThe Power Plant's summer exhibition, "Tools for Conviviality," turns out to be the last for curator Melanie O'Brien, who quit shortly after it opened.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AM"Summer Special" is the name of an art exhibition infiltrating the iconic bargain warehouse Honest Ed's
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMWhen the Oakville Galleries decided to name their summer exhibition “Freedom of Assembly,” I don’t think they meant it literally. More likely it was a cheeky little pun, given the show…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMKitty Scott hired as the new curator of modern and contemporary at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 06:00AMHow long have I been harping about the dearth of substantial museum shows representing the dynamic hodgepodge of local artistic production? Long enough, it would appear, at least to judge by…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMTerrance Houle has portaged the concrete canyons of Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver, gone grocery shopping in full powwow regalia, and played board games in a skimpy buckskin breechcloth agai…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMMultimedia creator picked to “knock it out of the park” for Canada in critical Venice event.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 07:00PMThere are 200 identical, white canvas tents pitched in neat rows at Fort York this week, the snap-to living embodiment of a fluid conceptual project called “The Encampment,” mounted this…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMFive regional finalists for the annual $70,000 Sobey Art Prize are announced.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:34PMWhat to make of Valerie Blass? It’s a question the fast-rising Montreal-based sculptress seems to ask of herself time and again. The Art Gallery of Hamilton has just opened a half-size ver…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMThere are dystopic writers embroiled in the great unraveling of civil society through modernity’s often-brutal churn, and then there’s J.G. Ballard. Crash, his most famous book — or in…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 07:06AMWhen talking about the prodigious, almost 70-year output of Pablo Picasso, a slate of adjectives leap easily enough to mind: Innovative, iconoclastic, experimental, fearless. Just as easily,…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMAt MASS MoCA in Massachusetts, a packed house of Canadian art yields a welcome surprise
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMWell, this is different. While I have little doubt there will be no shortage of voices to take umbrage with Denise Markonish’s highly subjective survey of the art of Canada — it’s too …
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:34PMMass MOCA opens largest exhibition of Canadian contemporary art shown outside our borders, ever
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 01:50PMIt is what it says: “60 Painters,” an exhibition of squarely five-dozen Toronto (and at least tangentially Toronto-connected) artists beholden to the brush and canvas. And if that sounds…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMSuzy Lake, a towering influence on a generation of based artists, shows work new and old as a precursor to her retrospective at the AGO next year.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:29PMA painting by Jean-Paul Lemieux sold for $1.8 million at auction in Vancouver Thursday night, nearing the record set for the late Quebec artist’s work last year.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:35AMCanada's spring art auction season begins on Thursday with Heffel Brothers auction in Vancouver.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:24AMSince it started up 16 years ago, the Contact Photography Festival has been something of a moving target. From its early years as a grassroots free-for-all — got some photos and somewhere …
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMIn 1973, Arnaud Maggs had an epiphany. “I had never thought of being an artist — never considered it,” he says. “But then, one day, it hit me. I still don’t know why, but I was fil…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMDiane Borsato has united mycologists and astronomers, touched 1,000 people and learned to bee keep in Italian, all in pursuit of a personally-engaged art of the everyday
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMIn 1998, Zhang Huan stripped naked and had writers inscribe his bare flesh with proverbs and poetry from Chinese and Buddhist literature and history. He then picked up the bloody rib cage of…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMIn 1998, Zhang Huan stripped naked and had writers inscribe his flesh with proverbs and poetry from Chinese and Buddhist literature and history. He then picked up the bloody rib cage of a fr…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:38PMDiane Borsato has united mycologists and astronomers, touched 1,000 people and learned to bee keep in Italian, all in pursuit of a personally-engaged art of the everyday
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 04:56PMIn one of Jon Rafman’s pictures at Angell Gallery, a paunchy man in a blue T-shirt stands at the corner of an New York intersection, arms stretched to the heavens. What’s going on here, …
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