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David LaChapelle, always very Hollywood and more and more bling! Really enjoyed these 3D photos printed on cardboard assembled in a four car pile-up diarama.
Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: David LaChapelle, Toni Sharfazi
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Thomas Von Lintel Gallery – Group Show More Than Words A wonderfull show at the Von Lintel Gallery, featuring young new artists along side established artists, thematically negotiating the idea of words and text.
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October 4, 2008 from 6.52 pm until sunriseScotiabank hosted Toronto’s annual Nuit Blanche all night celebration of contemporary art in the city.This waterfall spotted in Liberty Village in the West end of the city…. slightly reminiscent of another waterfall spotted in NYC this fall.
Categories: Festival • Tags: Nuit Blanche Toronto 2008, Scotiabank
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The Art Gallery of Ontario reopens Over a year of renovations the Art Gallery of Ontario reopens post Gehry facelift. The exhibitions feature all the favorites from the collection that we have missed dearly. Also a very interesting photo exhibition by Edward Burtynsky documenting the stages of the renovation process. Not to far away is the other recent monumental facelift, at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Categories: Toronto • Tags: Art Gallery of Ontario, Frank Gehry
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Casey Kaplan presents a solo show by Annika Von Hausswolf, titled ‘I Am the Runway of Your Thoughts’ I love the title of this exhibition. The dreamy romantic title is as alluring as the gorgeous photos of a model plane flying towards her open mouth. The fragmented scenes and the pairing of black and white and colour prints create a dynamic narrative.
Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Annika Von Hausswolf, Casey Kaplan
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Famed British grafitti artist Banksy lands in New York with an obscure exhibition at the West Village Pet Shop and Charcoal Grill. Some of the highlights were Chicken nuggets feeding off of sauce in chicken coups. Typical Banksy rats in the city began popping up all over as well.
Categories: Graffiti, New York - SOHO, Street Art • Tags: Art in New York City, Banksy, Pet Shop and Charcoal Grill
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Cecily Brown large abstracted paintings are an explosion of sensual vibrancy and movement. Yes, they are abstracted, yet there are elements of figures and body parts that seem to uncover themselves just below the surface.
Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Cecily Brown, Gagosian New York
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Public Art Fund, in collaboration with the City of New York commissioned Waterfalls, a major new work of public art by internationally acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson. The exhibition of four man-made waterfalls of monumental scale are on view until October 13 at four sites on the shores of the New York waterfront.
Categories: Public Art • Tags: Olafur Eliasson, Waterfalls
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Rashawn Griffin at Smith Stewart Gallery New York based artist Rashawn Griffin senstive poetic installation is comprised of collaged drawings and wall framings. He stretched denims and fabrics around entire portions of the walls in the gallery to frame the architecture as a component of this intimate work. The drawings are collaged and sketched, and the walls extend out in dialogue with the framed pieces.
Categories: New York - Lower East Side • Tags: Rashawn Griffin, Smith Stewart
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The PowerPlant summer show titled Not Quite How I Remembered It, was a humorous show with depth. Featuring various artists and media, from sculpture to video, the two I liked the most were Sharon Hayes and Dario Ribleto. Hayes slide projector on the wall flashing photos of her holding picket signs amidst great crowds of people. The slogans were not so much protesting, but rather ubiquitus statements. Ribelto hung from the ceiling a mobile of little airplanes made from candy […]
Categories: Toronto • Tags: Dario Ribleto, Power Plant Toronto, Sharon Hayes
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Damien Hirst’s Beautiful Inside My Head Forever Sotheby’s Auction in London garnered quite a buzz, since it is the first time an artist is selling work directly from his studio through an auction house. Of the 223 lots, the sale totalled £111,464,800.00 far beyond the $115million estimation.
Categories: Auction • Tags: Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, Damien Hirst, Sotheby’s Auction
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The Dia:Beacon is home to large scale works that dont move very easily, and are housed permantly on the gorgeous facility an hour up the Hudson River, north of Manhattan.The heat generated by the sun shining through the industrial windows, onto Richard Serra’s Torqued Ellipses, is a warmth like no other. You feel it as you spiral through the interior of these monumental sculptures.Sol Lewit’s massive geometric arthmetic wall drawings are mesmerizing. Though concieved by Lewit, the works are in […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Dia:Beacon, Richard Serra, Sol Lewit, Zoe Leonard
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In Paul McCarthy’s Central Symmetrical Rotation on realized as an installation at the Whitney, uses architecture to create perceptual disorientation in the viewer through spinning mirrors, rotating walls, projections, and altered space. In Bang Bang Room (1992), the space almost seems to come alive as the walls of a free-standing domestic room move slowly in and out, the doors in each wall wildly slamming open and shut. The violent thundering echo of the slamming doors harmonized by the disjunction of […]
Categories: New York • Tags: Bang Bang Room, Paul McCarthy, Spinning Room, Whitney
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ArtJetSet is in New York Their is lots to see on this side of the Atlantic. For some interactive web resources of finding your way through the hundreds of New York galleries….. http://www.nyartbeat.com/ – breaking it down, street by street, neighbourhood, theme, you name it artbeat has the way to get there. http://www.galleryguide.com/ – maps and details
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By far one of the most compelling artists works I saw in Montreal were the sound sculptures of Charles Stankievech at Galerie Donald Browne. Horror Vacui counterpoints the transparency of sight with the density of sound. Using Alvin Lucier’s compositional technique of reiterative recording, turn-of-the-century vacuum bell jars become the instruments to create micro-soundscapes. The lyrics of the Velvet Underground, in the bell jars haunting whisper “If you close the door, the night could last forever. Leave the sunshine out, […]
Categories: Montreal • Tags: Charles Stankievech, Galerie Donald Browne, sound sculpture
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The Gallerie UQAM (Gallery of the University of Quebec at Montreal) has held celebrated exhibitions of darling artists like Douglas Gordon, as well as Canadian art darlings Janet Cardiff with George Bures Miller, and David Altmejd. Current exhibition at UQAM highlighting work by Viennese artist Erwin Wurm entitled Désespéré/Desperate, that take a critical but playful look at our desire to fit into the world around us. Irreverent, openly incorrect and gifted with a cutting wit, this Viennese artist questions the […]
Categories: Montreal • Tags: Erwin Wurm, UQAM
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Clint Roenisch gallery shows great works inside, but exudes the Badass ArtStar trend of the moment from the exterior. Roenisch gives you handwritten, barred out and rescribbled, graffiti chic rock and roll. He was also known for using goldstar stickers for sold paintings, though I am not certain if that is still in practice.
Categories: Toronto • Tags: Clint Roenisch
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AirCanada is now showing short films by Canadian and Quebecois directors. In total contrast to the Hollywood films on the other chanel, the 17minute Greg Atkins film titled Teenage Girl followed me right off the plane, through the baggage claim, and half way through the Holland Tunnel. The first 4 minutes are beautifully aesthetically articulated.
Categories: Film • Tags: Canadian Short Film, Greg Atkins
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Mercer Union, A Centre for Contemporary Art is an artist-run centre dedicated to the existence of contemporary art. They provide a forum for the production and exhibition of Canadian and international conceptually and aesthetically engaging art and related cultural practices.
Categories: Alternative Spaces • Tags: Mercer Union
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The Toronto art scene is divided geographically into neighbourhoods. A little bit like the New York art scene, the older more prestigious galleries are grouped together uptown, where the edgey contemporary galleries can be found downtown.Here are a few maps to organize a convient art walk in Toronto. Yorkville is Toronto’s tres chic upscale neighbourhood. The neighbourhood hosts all the celebrities during the city’s prestigious Toronto International Film Festival. The galleries found there specialize in reputable, mid-career artists, as well […]
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Galerie Lilian Rodriguez Teach Me TonightA group exhibit revolving around the subjects of Night, Dreams, Love and Hope The night is the symbol of sleep and death, dreams and fears, love and tenderness, deceptions and conspiracies. It is full of the promise of new beginnings: “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof“(Matthew 6:34). However, it also provides the backdrop for nightmares […]
Categories: Montreal • Tags: Elena Willis et Jason Sanchez, Jannick Deslauriers, Lilian Rodriguez Gallery, Sylvie Moisan
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Skol’s mandate is to present the work of artists and theorists in the early stages of their careers, particularly those whose work is accompanied by critical thinking.Its goal is to privilege the promising practices of the future; to establish the conditions for facilitating the involvement of artists by creating a participatory space which contributes to the centre’s visibility; and to give greater space to spontaneous initiatives and to partnerships in order to better respond to the community’s needs. Skol has […]
Categories: Montreal • Tags: SKOL (Centre des arts Actuels) Montreal
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Parisian Laundry is a phenomenal Montreal gallery, featuring up and coming young Canadian talent like Alyssa Andrews, Alex Da Corte, Janet Werner, Jennifer Lefort, and the trio collective BGL.
Categories: Montreal • Tags: Alex Da Corte, Alyssa Andrews, BGL, Janet Werner, Jennifer Lefort, Parisian Laundry
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372, rue Ste-Catherine Ouest is a multi-tenant space home to many fantastic art galleries, as well as music dance and martial arts studios. If you want to see great contemporary art and take a belly dancing class to the soundtrack of an orientalist remix of Jay-Z’s Big Pimping… 372, rue Ste-Catherine Ouest is the place were it will happen!
Categories: Montreal • Tags: 372, Multi tenant art space, rue Ste-Catherine Ouest
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The Musee de l’Art Contemporaine held a superstar show of THE hottest Quebecois artists on the bloque!! Favorites were Michael Merrill whose small paintings about art and the places where they are exhibited. Working from photographs he has taken, Merrill creates small paintings after the works of great modern artists. He uses scale as an intimate form of understanding to construct a survey of personal meaningful events. Michel de Broin who creates in toying with paradox by inviting competing references […]
Categories: Montreal • Tags: Michael Merrill, Michel de Broin, Museum of Contemporary Art Montreal
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Yes, we loved Prenez Soin de Vous at the Venice Biennale, we loved it when it followed us to the Bibliotheque National in Paris, and we love it even more that its being exhibited at the DHC in Montreal. The DHC/ART Foundation is a contemporary art centre in a beautiful historic building in charming Old Montreal. The space is nice, the exhibitions are compelling, entrance is FREE, the only disaster is their website…. WARNING – the DHC website will cause […]
Categories: Montreal • Tags: DHC / ART foundation, Prenez Soin de Vous, Sophie Calle
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Since Richard Prince’s VERY successful collaboration with Louis Vuitton for their S/S 2008 collection, it only makes sense that his art works are exhibited not only in the Vuitton boutique windows but also in great art galleries like The Serpentine one in London.
Categories: London • Tags: Louis Vuitton, Richard Prince, Serpentine Gallery London
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The Corkin Gallery in Toronto’s Distillery district not only features remarkable photographers, but the exhibition space itself is an architectural delight. The structure in the historic distillery retains the exposed brick enhancing the effect of the high ceilings with frosted glass walls. The recent exhibition for Contact, featured Japanese photographer Ryoko Suzuki who as a feminist artist critiques the fetishized japanime doll heroine body with her own face. Remarkably skilled the juxtaposition is uncanny and well emphasizes the point of […]
Categories: Toronto • Tags: Corkin Gallery, Japanime, Ryoko Suzuki
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Mark Séguin is the hottest shocking Ottawa born painter of the moment. His works are provocative nostalgic and familiar. His reoccuring guy in a hoodie is every where out side, yet in his paintings cast an erie familiarity in the scenes that make you never want to go camping again. His works are a brilliant mix of folklore and contemporary media.
Categories: Toronto • Tags: Marc Séguin
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Toni Hafkenscheid’s exhibition titled Confabulation at Birch Libralato gallery is an absolute must see. Hafkenscheid creates these stunning bird’s eye photos that recall hazy childhood memories in an sublime idealism. The Birch Libralato is a powerhouse gallery representing star artists like Kelly richardsonPaul de Guzman, Michelle Gay, Kelly Richardson, Shaan Syed, Micah Lexier, Euan Macdonald, Steve Reinke and David Altmejd.
Categories: Toronto • Tags: Birch Libralato Gallery, Toni Hafkenscheid
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The Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art The acclaimed Brazilian artist Rosangela Renno invited photographers to capture landmarks using different cameras. The actual cameras are exhibited along side the photos, enriching the significance of the media, tactililty, and an art form advancing towards digitization. My favorite was the Holga and its image of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio.
Categories: Toronto • Tags: Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Rosangela Renno
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Yes… the YYZ gallery put on an increadable show with a horribly complicated name. I_wanna_see_YOU_ is a show created by 4 Dutch artists who came to Toronto and built an exhibition around their preceptions of Toronto and Torontonians. This piece was fantastic. Postcards from around the world, with TORONTO printed on each one in the direct center of the card. Perhaps a comment on our brilliant multiculturalism, perhaps a comment on our diverse landscape, its true, from the Danforth’s Greektown […]
Categories: Toronto • Tags: I_wanna_see_YOU_[Y.Y.Z.Ca_DE_overslag.nl], Robin van’t Haar, YYZ Gallery
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Redefining pictorial space in art and media, Yam Lau creates a 3D perception from a 2D animation of his bedroom, on view at Leo Kamen Gallery. It’s morning, I would guess a sunday morning. Yam Lau creates a spinning cube reflecting on each outer surface simultaneously like a mirror, the slow waking and rising from bed. The reconception and refiguration of space is the most astonishing part of this work.
Categories: Toronto • Tags: Leo Kamen Gallery, Yam Lau
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The MOCCA‘s Contact exhibition titled From the Epic to the Everyday is a panoramic dialogue that stretchs accross the world, through different periods, themes, and cultures, discussing their unique identity through image. From Robert Burley’s documentary photos of the destruction of Kodak Park, Nan Goldin’s hauntingly intimate portraits, Luc Delahaye’s disaster scapes. A phenominal contrast between the redundantly ironic Martin Parr who exhibits middle class England at its worst to Bert Teunissen who photographed elderly couples in their homes, granting […]
Categories: Toronto, Uncategorized • Tags: Bert Teunissen, Luc Delahaye, Martin Parr, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Nan Goldin, Robert Burley
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Contact is Toronto’s annual photography festival, where galleries (both public and private), restaurants, clothing stores, shops and offices of all kinds exhibit photographs and photo works. The festival last the entire of the month of May. Between Memory and History is the theme of this 12th annual Contact Photography Festival. One of the first shows I saw was a stunning exhibition at Paul Petro by photographer Henry Vehovec. Titled Tibet: Rights and Rings, Vehovec’s works harmonize the notion of the […]
Categories: Art Fairs • Tags: Contact Toronto Photography Festival, Henry Vehovec
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Montreal’s Galerie SAS featuring artists like Karine Giboulo who creates sculptures of ironic miniature interiors. Calgary’s Skew Gallery featuring artists like Matt Crookshank who does stunning abstract works, and Terrance Houle dynamic contemporary Aboriginal artist. Toronto’s Greener Pastures featuring André Ethier, an increadible artist, paintings are erie and striking. Toronto’s LE Gallery next big thing artist Katie Pretti, Nicholas Di Genova, and Dalek. Vancouver’s Tracey Lawrence Gallery, feature photographer-performance artist Tim Lee, iconic Jason McLean who’s freeform photo drawings are […]
Categories: Toronto • Tags: Galerie SAS, Greener Pastures, LE Gallery, Skew Gallery, Tracey Lawrence Gallery
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The brilliant and funny Yasumasa Morimura exhibition titled Requiem for the XX Century at Thaddeus Ropac. Morimura transforms himself into heroic and iconic portraits. This portrait of himself as Che was hung facing a small video screen previewing the live recording of the character.Morimura’s work has used icons from Western Art historical traditions, for this exhibition as a reference he used very iconic cultural historic figures.
Categories: Paris • Tags: Thaddeaus Ropac, Yasumasa Morimura
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The Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery has two locations, one at 76 rue de Turenne and the other just down the street at 10 impasse Saint Claude. Xavier Veilhan’s feature exhibition titled Furtivo, which means movement, was an akward juxtaposition of works. Singularly you can see how each piece is negoting the theme of movement, yet the exhibition lacked unity. At rue de Turenne, a shark, then legs underwater of galloping horses, then these automatic self-functioning air hockey tables. Mechanical, cold, yes […]
Categories: Paris • Tags: Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Xavier Veilhan
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ORLAN, she is her own canvas. Since the begining of her career she has used (by photographic documentation) her surgical and medical interventions as her artform. All the works are in ORLAN’s exhibition at Galerie Michel Rein are titled Refiguration Self-hybridation, indian-american series. The use of lightboxes was interesting. Very selfobessed in an Orlan way.
Categories: Paris • Tags: Galerie Michel Rein, Orlan
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Barney Kulok is a great contemporary photographer who’s work comments on surveillance, and the cracks between the spaces around us… looking objectively at common places. The lower level of the Galerie Hussenot, is a great big open white space. The prints are massive, yet you still manage to feel really small in the big void of empty space. In the context of this particular show of Barney Kulok, it worked. The gallery space echoed what we feel in Kulok’s photos.The […]
Categories: Paris • Tags: Barney Kulok, Contemporary Photography, Galerie Hussenot
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