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Timeraiser Preview at Toronto For Everyone

March 3, 2017 by ArtJetSet

Timeraiser is a brilliant organization – a party for social good that supports emerging artists and nonprofit organizations across Canada. With the slogan “Bid Time. Do Good. Get Art” Timeraiser purchases artwork from local emerging artists, and then auctions that art at a massive fundraiser.  The twist, instead of bidding money participants bid volunteer hours to local charities and nonprofit organizations.  The idea is you support a local charity that needs your help and you’re incentivized for the good work by getting […]

Categories: Art and E-commerce, ArtJetSet, Benefit and Fundraiser, Festival • Tags: Callen Schaub, Ness Lee, Tessar Lo, TimeRaiser, Toronto For Everyone

Toronto For Everyone : Au Revoir to Honest Ed’s

February 23, 2017 by ArtJetSet

  Gentrification and new building developments are rampant in the city of Toronto, which has given way to a very exciting (while tragic) opportunity for art activations in these defunct and scheduled to be demolished sites.  This summer we saw the Luminato festival at the abandoned Hearn Generating Station, and now Toronto for Everyone – a 4 day arts festival hosted in the iconic Honest Ed’s department store. Toronto For Everyone, an initiative by the Centre for Social Innovation, invited artists to build out […]

Categories: Alternative Spaces, ArtJetSet, Benefit and Fundraiser, Graffiti, Installations • Tags: Honest Ed's, Toronto For Everyone

Come Up To My Room at the Gladstone

January 23, 2017 by ArtJetSet

Every year the Gladstone Hotel hosts Come Up To My Room, a design event where artists are invited to take over rooms and halls of the historic hotel with art installations. The Gladstone has a long history in supporting artists with this annual event, an artist in residency programs, and have unique rooms designed by artist. This year’s highlights I really enjoyed Patrick Li’s Fortune Room, where the artist saved discarded fortune cookie fortunes repurposed into wall art and a carpet of […]

Categories: ArtJetSet, Festival • Tags: Amanda Gresik, Come Up To My Room, CUTMR2017, Gladstone Hotel, Oasis Skate Factory, Patrick Li, Rey Midax

Toronto Design Offsite Festival

January 21, 2017 by ArtJetSet

While the Interior Design Show is happening at the convention centre, the Toronto Design Offsite Festival showcases over 100 events during the week including exhibitions, artists talks, and open studio visits, in a true celebration of the best of Canadian Design. For all the art I see, there is nothing I enjoy more than preliminary work and seeing the process behind all the magic. Highlights were seeing these architectural models by Polymétis team Michaela MacLeod and Nicholas Croft. Furniture presentation Founded by […]

Categories: Alternative Spaces, ArtJetSet, Festival • Tags: AFJD, Biography Design, Polymétis, Toronto Design Offsite Festival

Mitchell F. Chan

December 10, 2016 by ArtJetSet

Mitchell F. Chan‘s exhibition Art & Inactivism is a larger conversation about the voice in public political discourse, a very charged and timely topic in today’s political climate. Visually there is a ephemeral beauty of watching two vapour rings appear with dramatic accelerated force and then gently disappear in their collision.   The visual speed, velocity and impact in the softness of colliding clouds.

Categories: ArtJetSet • Tags: Mitchell F. Chan

Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest at The New Museum

December 6, 2016 by ArtJetSet

It was at the Musée des Beaux-Arts Montréal in the summer of 2000 went I first experienced the dreamlike surrealistic installations of Pipilotti Rist.   I remember how her work played with scale and sentimental childhood nostalgia.  The installation had massive chairs you could perch yourself up on, and sit in a vibrant room filled with sound and video projections.  Her current installation at the New Museum continues this concept, where visitors are invited to lay in beds and watch underwater videos projected on […]

Categories: ArtJetSet • Tags: New Museum New York, Pipilotti Rist, Sip My Ocean

The Broad : Los Angeles

November 27, 2016 by ArtJetSet

The Broad is an incredible art museum founded by wealthy philanthropist Eli Broad.  The building is spectacular, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.  Admission is free, so it is absolutely  necessary to reserve a ticket weeks in advance because the standby line moves very slowly (see for yourself on their StandbyLine Twitter feed). The collection is presented almost like an encyclopedic narration of the best works by the most relevant artists. Rooms are dedicated to great contemporary masters like Robert Rauschenberg, […]

Categories: ArtJetSet, Los Angeles • Tags: Infinity Room, Robert Therrien, The Broad

Doug Aitken at Geffen MOCA

November 26, 2016 by ArtJetSet

This exhaustive exhibition of Doug Aitken’s multichannel, audio, video, and sculptural works is a spectacular presentation of his unique immersive approach. Visitors are greeted into the exhibition by a large circular partition titled Song 1, originally created to be projected on to the rounded facade of Washington DC’s Hirschhorn Museum. The soundtrack is the 1930s song by The Flamingos ‘I Only Have Eyes For You’ and visually is a series of cinematic moments of people singing the song in different contexts.  Dreamy, smooth, […]

Categories: ArtJetSet, Los Angeles • Tags: Doug Aitken, Geffen MOCA

In / Future : Art Revitalization of Ontario Place

September 19, 2016 by ArtJetSet

In/Future is an arts experience festival showcasing sculpture, film, music and immersive installations held at the now defunct Ontario Place theme park. Having grown up in Toronto, I have vivid childhood memories of summers spent in the waterpark and running through the neon punching-bag obstacle course.  I didn’t know that the theme park had closed in 2012 and the entire site is being revitalized, and In/Future is an exciting expression of the revitalization effort. The silos, each pavilion and along the […]

Categories: ArtJetSet, Festival, Installations • Tags: Caroline Doherty, Daniel Griffin, Ed Pien, Gareth Lichty, Hazel Heyer, In/Future, Marcia Huyer, Robert Hengeveld, Vuk Dragojevic

Franz Erhard Walther at The Powerplant

September 5, 2016 by ArtJetSet

Franz Erhard Walther’s sculptural work at The Powerplant explores the relationship of the viewer, their body, space, and the intimacy of interactions between. The room is piled with 58 precisely folded packages of cotton fabric.  The sculptures only materialize once ‘activated’ by the viewers. There is a meditative quality to the unrolling / folding of the fabric.  Once activated and inside the material you feel enveloped in a strange sense of quiet and focus of the intimate space you are occupying.

Categories: ArtJetSet, Museum, Performance, Toronto • Tags: Franz Erhard Walther, Power Plant Toronto

Dia : Beacon – Permanent Collection

August 9, 2016 by ArtJetSet

The permanent collection is home to a trove of powerful works of art that engage you physically within this massive space in the presence of encompassing works.  Work by Louise Bourgeois, Sol Lewitt, Fred Sandback, On Kawara,  Robert Smithson, John Chamberlain, Michael Heizer and more.

Categories: ArtJetSet, Museum, New York • Tags: Dia:Beacon, Fred Sandbeck, Louis Bourgois, Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit : Born in Detroit & Mobile Homestead

May 28, 2016 by ArtJetSet

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is a remarkable space and it is such a pleasure to see curatorial dedication to local artists.   Just behind the museum is Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead, a replica of the home in the Detroit suburbs where Mike Kelley grew up.  Mobile Homestead hosts artists to interpret the interior in temporary installations and create a dialogue about community, private and public space, and the American dream.  Carlos Rolon created a hilariously fun, shag carpeted, macramé wall hanging […]

Categories: ArtJetSet, Museum • Tags: Carlos Rolon, Mike Kelley, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Nancy Mitchnick

Detroit Artists Market

May 26, 2016 by ArtJetSet

  Detroit has slowly been gaining notoriety as a hub for artists looking for community, and affordable cost of living.   Detroit Artist Market was founded in 1932 to foster and promote Detroit and Michigan’s emerging and established artists. The space is filled with a great range of art at every price point. Some of my favourites:

Categories: Alternative Spaces, ArtJetSet • Tags: Detroit Artists Market

Design Museum Holon: Jamie Hayon Funtastico

March 30, 2016 by ArtJetSet

The Design Museum of Holon is easily accessible and worth a visit, as it just a quick bus ride away from central Tel Aviv. Just  the experience of entering the hollow central courtyard then flowing up the ramp, and feeling the gentle warmth radiating off the building as you enter the main exhibition hall is really special, and slightly reminiscent of being in a Richard Serra sculpture. Jamie Hayon’s work filled both gallery spaces, bringing forward an exhaustive collection of his glassware, […]

Categories: ArtJetSet, Museum • Tags: Design Museum Holon, Jamie Hayon, Ron Arad

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

March 28, 2016 by ArtJetSet

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is an expansive compound comprised of three buildings. The Herta and Paul Amir building is a modern angular building designed by architect Preston Scott Cohen.  Once inside the stairways and halls give way to multiple levels of light filled gallery spaces. The museum programming supports a perfect balance of Israeli artists as well as internationally renowned arts.  The portrait show on view gave an interesting variety of traditional portraiture like Pinchas Litvinosky from early 1920s, to more […]

Categories: ArtJetSet, Museum • Tags: Guy Zagursky, Nevet Yitzhak, Raffi Lavie, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

At the Hub : The Hirschorn

February 11, 2016 by ArtJetSet

I have dreamed of visiting The Hirschorn for many many years, and when I finally arrived with great pleasure to see this work by Shana Lutker. At The Hub of Things brought together the best work from the Hirschorn permanent collection, marvellously curated the donut shaped building.

Categories: ArtJetSet, Museum • Tags: Barbara Kruger, Hirschorn, Shana Lutker

Wonder at the Renwick Gallery

February 10, 2016 by ArtJetSet

Wonder is a perfect titled for this stellar exhibition which brought together contemporary artists working in large scale installation with unique materials like reclaimed wood, glass marbles, and plastic bugs.  Vibrant, colourful, and engaging. The Renwick is the contemporary arm of the Smithsonian.

Categories: ArtJetSet • Tags: Gabriel Dawe, Jennifer Angus, John Grade, Leo Villareal, Renwick Gallery, Tara Donovan, Washington DC

Anri Sala : Answer Me at New Museum

February 3, 2016 by ArtJetSet

On of the best video artists, Anri Sala produces extensive multichannel audio and video installations, filling the gallery space with music that eludes to the history and memories of his native country.

Categories: ArtJetSet, New York • Tags: Anri Sala, New Museum New York

Judd Foundation Soho

January 28, 2016 by ArtJetSet

A must see for art lovers is the Judd Foundation at 101 Spring St in New York.   Donald Judd lived, worked, and raised his family in this space.  Every object, spoon, chair, and art work is purposefully posed and placed to articulate Judd’s creative aesthetic. Known for his minimalist sculptural pieces, Judd was also a brilliant furniture designer, and the dining room table is a gorgeous example of his prototypes as each chair is unique and exhibits the clean lines […]

Categories: ArtJetSet, Private Collection • Tags: Donald Judd, Judd Foundation

Martin Creed at Gavin Brown

December 18, 2015 by ArtJetSet

Martin Creed’s ‘Half the air in a given space’ aka ‘a room filled with massive red balloons’ at Gavin Brown was the hot ticket show this winter.

Categories: ArtJetSet, New York - Lower East Side • Tags: Gavin Brown Enterprise, Martin Creed

MOVE! Artists paired with fashion designers at Bookfield Place

October 14, 2015 by ArtJetSet

MOVE! is a 3 day interactive art experience hosted at Brookfield Place – where fashion and fine art come together and put the viewer in the center of the work. I attended the previous MOVE! held at PS1 back in 2010 and was great to see this year’s iteration more family friendly with loads of children engaging with art and having a blast. My favorite collaboration from both years was Cynthia Rowley & Olaf Breuning. They designed an artwork and installed cups […]

Categories: ArtJetSet • Tags: Cynthia Rowley, New York, Olaf Breuning

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at Palais de Tokyo

October 8, 2015 by ArtJetSet

Gallery was transformed into a dark water filled lake, listen for the soft music playing and the splashing of oars as visitors paddled their way through the space.

Categories: ArtJetSet, Paris • Tags: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Palais de Tokyo

Palais de Tokyo Korakrit Arunandondchai and Tianzhuo Chen

October 6, 2015 by ArtJetSet

The exhibition is a colourful, twisted, pop, neon, trashy commentary on contemporary global youth culture.

Categories: ArtJetSet, Paris • Tags: Korakrit Arunandondchai, Palais de Tokyo, Tianzhuo Chen

Linda Bengalis: Water Sources at Storm King

October 3, 2015 by ArtJetSet

Storm King is my favorite end of summer get away.  Convenient 1.5 hour drive up the Hudson, the 500 acre property is filled with massive sculptures. This year’s featured artist is Linda Bengalis, who created a series of towering textured fountains. My favorite piece, Hills and Clouds, made of phosphorescent polyurethane that almost mirrored the iridescent glow of the setting sun against hills in the distance. Maya Lin’s Wavefield is not to be missed, 15 foot waves built and swell […]

Categories: ArtJetSet • Tags: Earth Art, linda Bengalis, stormking

Tree of Codes: When Contemporary Dance, Art, Music Intersect

September 18, 2015 by ArtJetSet

Tree of Codes creative roots were inspired by Jonathan Safran Foer’s book by the same name, which is considered more a work of art in its own right than a work of pure literature. Music composition by Jamie XX, visual conception by Olafur Eliasson, and choreography by Wayne McGregor – every aspect of this performance was transporting and beautifully mesmerizing. Layering was the key transgressive feature of the performance – the layering of the sound, the layering in the depths of […]

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Doel, Belgium’s Graffiti Ghost town

September 13, 2015 by ArtJetSet

Doel is a small village just outside of Antwerp – once a thriving town where the inhabitants serviced the local powerplant, now has become an massive graffiti haven. In 2008 Doel supposed to be demolished to make room for the expansion of the Port of Antwerp.  With some 200 inhabitants refusing to leave, and the eventual economic crisis in 2008, the plans were stalled and Doel became an erie ghost town. The empty, boarded up houses became the perfect canvas […]

Categories: ArtJetSet, Belgium, Graffiti • Tags: 5 Pointz

Bozar Brussels, Les Belges, Unexpected Fashion Story

September 12, 2015 by ArtJetSet

In recent years, museums have begun hosting fashion-centric exhibitions as hot ticket events to engage younger audience. Bozar Contemporary Museum in Brussels exhibition Unexpected Fashion Story, aka Belge et la Bête showcased the most talented fashion designers to come out of Belgium. Not only is the clothing elaborate works of fine art, design, and artisanal craftsmanship, but what I found the most captivating was the exhibition design. The placement of the wall text narratives on giant framed slabs of plywood, the shop […]

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Rudolf Stingel at the Palazzo Grassi

August 29, 2015 by ArtJetSet

The Palazzo Grassi houses exhibitions of the personal collection of François Pinault. For this exhibition Rudolf Stingel carpeted the entire 5000 sq meter, multi level palace in this rich warm oriental rug textile. Hung on these carpeted walls were large scale black and white paintings, and massive oil paintings that almost look like burnished metal. This reflected painted technique we saw a few years ago at the Stingel exhibition at the Whitney.

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Up Up Up and Away…

August 29, 2015 by ArtJetSet

After a very long hiatus, ArtJetSet is back and ready for new heights.

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Foundation Louis Vuitton Paris

July 31, 2015 by ArtJetSet

Categories: ArtJetSet, Paris • Tags: Andy Warhol, Isa Genzken, Louis Vuitton, Olafur Eliasson, Philippe Parreno, Richard Prince

Philippe Parreno – H {N)Y P N(Y} OSIS

July 24, 2015 by ArtJetSet

Sounds, lights, noise and film, Philippe Parreno fills the Park Avenue Armory with a visceral experience. At different stages the lights would dim, certain sculptures would flash, others would chime.  The piano keys would magically move and dance on their own with no music to accompany the phantom performer.

Categories: Alternative Spaces, ArtJetSet, New York, Performance • Tags: Park Avenue Armory, Philippe Parreno

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Denmark : Peter Doig

June 26, 2015 by ArtJetSet

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is a stunning art destination which I highly recommend, just a quick hour by train north of Copenhagen. Peter Doig is one of my favorite painters, so it was a great pleasure to see this encompassing exhibition featuring more than thirty of his large scale paintings. The show was hung beautifully, in a way that allowed each painting to stand alone. Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh, but spent some time in his teenage years […]

Categories: ArtJetSet • Tags: Alexander Calder, Giacometti, Louisiana Denmark, Peter Doig, Yayoi Kusama

Reykjavik Art Museum

May 22, 2015 by ArtJetSet

While in Reykjavik I managed to visit the Listasafn art museum as well as the sister institute that houses the contemporary collection called Kjarvalsstadir. The main art museum is a small retro building, I especially liked the bronze writing on the wall by Hulda Hakon. At the contemporary gallery housing an interesting variety of very self referential pop infused art.  Like this lego sculpture of Reykjavik’s famous Hallgrimskirkja church, with little icons of Lisa and Snowball from the Simpsons. The nightmarish […]

Categories: ArtJetSet • Tags: Hulda Hakon, Iceland Art Museum, Kathy Clark

Rogue Locomotives at Actual Size Gallery Los Angeles

December 29, 2013 by ArtJetSet

Actual Size is a small space with a compelling program tucked away in Los Angeles’ Chinatown. The show Rogue Locomotives paired sculptor Benjamin Reiss with abstract paintings by Conor Thompson.  An articulate maze of cartoon like elements at once imbedded while simultaneously moving through the sculpture’s cogs.  A contemporary nod to the Futurists mechanics with vibrant colours.

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Six Things: Sagmeister & Walsh at Jewish Museum

August 4, 2013 by ArtJetSet

Six Things at the Jewish Museum brings together video and sculptural works by the design team Sagmeister and Walsh known for their identity branding work, and especially their unique and dynamic typography. The duo use everyday materials like cups of coffee, sugar cubes, and cream to create these engaging narratives of everyday mantras to increase daily happiness. The six things are : If I Don’t Ask I Won’t Get Keeping a Diary Supports Personal Development Be More Flexible It Is Pretty Much […]

Categories: ArtJetSet, New York • Tags: Jewish Museum, Sagmeister & Walsh

Ann Hamilton at Park Avenue Armory

December 10, 2012 by ArtJetSet

The Park Avenue Armory full of swings and draping curtains billowing with movement and velocity.

Categories: Alternative Spaces, ArtJetSet, New York • Tags: Ann Hamilton, Park Avenue Armory

Free Ai Weiwei – Glasses

June 8, 2011 by ArtJetSet

Famed activist Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been reportedly detained by the Chinese government since April 3, 2011, which has subsequently sparked a global outcry and a massive Free Ai Weiwei campaign. Weiwei is a renowned artist,  photographer, and sculptor well known for his collaboration in the design of the Birdnest Beijing National Stadium for the Olympics as well a vast body of subtle yet politically charged artworks. There is a massive amount of information available at Free Ai Weiwei  […]

Categories: ArtJetSet • Tags: Ai Weiwei, Free Ai Weiwei glasses, Study in Perspective

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Bonjour! Bienvenu chez ArtJetSet

February 3, 2011 by ArtJetSet

Welcome to ArtJetSet’s new platform.

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Whitney Biennial 2010

March 28, 2010 by ArtJetSet

This year is the 75th edition of the Whitney Biennials. This year the show is simply titled 2010 – as opposed to traditional thematics based on cultural issues or politics, this year’s theme is centered around contemporary art production. An undercurrent seemingly – images procured from the internet or youtube, bizzare incongruent performative video, and surprisingly modest and thoughtly beautiful pen and ink drawings. Highlights of works that I really enjoyed: Storm Tharp builds his strange and beautiful characters by […]

Categories: ArtJetSet • Tags: Bruce High Quality Foundation, Charles Ray, James Casebere, Pae White, Storm Tharp, whitney biennal

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ArtJetSetters

March 8, 2010 by ArtJetSet

ArtJetSet would like to collaborate with Sameer on developing an app that tracks him through the best art openings in the city. I seem to have bumped into Sameer at nearly every art event I’ve been to in the past few months…. it’s foursquare without the GPS. Here at the Artforum Independent Party in front of the giant inflatable union workers rat, I promised a dedicated post to a dedicated vernissage connoisseur.

Categories: ArtJetSet, Events • Tags: Artforum Party, Independent Art Fair

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