There is a huge influx of dance events, manifested in myriad forms, at this year’s Nuit Blanche. I’ve already published my picks for Zone A, Zone B and Zone C, but if you’re a fan of dance — be it watching or participating — be sure to check out the programs highlighted below. (Images and [...]
Zone C (South/West) curator Makiko Haro has titled her zone, Urban Disaster/Catastrophe/Survival Actions. The three projects recommended below certainly make good on the theme by facilitating nebulous people-sculptures, mobile dwellings, and collective architecture. Zone A recommendations here. Zone B recommendations here. (Images and descriptions lifted from the Nuit Blanche website.) It all starts on October [...]
How do I pick just three for Zone B (Downtown South)? Curated by Jim Drobnick and Jennifer Fisher of DisplayCult, and accessible by the Yonge-University subway line (start at Union) this zone is packed–and I mean packed–with a ton of multimedia, performance, installation and sculpture by some of Canada’s (and the world’s) best known artists, [...]
It’s hard to believe that the 2009 incarnation of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche is just around the corner. Happening this Saturday, October 3rd from 6:55pm to sunrise, this year’s catalogue of art-related debauchery is looking pretty good. Zone A, in Downtown North — most of which is accessible by the Yonge-University subway line — features 53 [...]
Balint Zsako‘s Old Master Paintings are showing in Toronto at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects from September 18th to October 18th. You may recall I interviewed Zsako about this series when he was showing them in New York. Here’s an excerpt: Although your new collage work continues to express themes you’ve often worked with — [...]
During the school year, I’d often complain that required courses were scheduled on either Thursday or Friday evenings between 6:30 pm and 9:30 pm. It just didn’t make sense for a curatorial program to develop a schedule that conflicted so regularly with gallery openings in the city. Unfortunately, the predicament doesn’t end with the term. [...]
By Marissa
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Posted 26 05 2009
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Tagged art metropole, balint zsako, dan adler, daniel barrow, divya mehra, hanne darboven, lorna mills, mocca, peter morin, replyall, shaan syed
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Coming to Luminato this spring! I saw Robert Lepage’s The Image Mill last summer in Quebec City, and I can’t wait to make a day out of Lipsynch. Lepage does monumental like no other. From the Luminato press release: Robert Lepage’s nine-hour multimedia epic weaves together the stories of nine interconnected lives over the span [...]
The Images Festival, “Toronto’s 2nd oldest film festival and North America’s premiere integrated media arts festival,” has launched their 2009 website, and their extensive list of programming looks fantastic and daunting. Take a look at their calendar for a complete list of exhibitions, art talks, parties, satellite shows, tours and more. Images run from April [...]
The photography faculty at OCAD is hosting a silent auction in support of the Photography Department, where guests bid on disposable cameras used by prominent artists, curators, writers, musicians, directors and designers. While it may not be the most original silent auction idea, I still think it’s a very good one. It’s mysterious and filled [...]
Judy Chicago is being interviewed by Jian Ghomeshi on Q this morning about her work at the Textile Museum. If you miss it in the A.M., it re-airs at 10PM and there is also a podcast available.
