Tonight: Shauna Born at Katherine Mulherin
Hot summer nights and un-air conditioned galleries can make for sweaty openings, and I expect nothing less tonight at Katherine Mulherin's August exhibition of Shauna Born's portraits. Soft-focus and ethereally oblique, Born's portraits use delicate colours and imprecise brush strokes, that give the paintings, which are less than 12″ tall, typically, a mysterious, not-quite-there quality (intentionally, I'm sure; the titles are equally indirect, like This Charming Man, for a bearded hipster in a cowboy shirt, or Steel Town, for a simmering young woman, glaring out in quiet contempt). There's a roughness to these pictures that makes them seem kind of urban folksy, and I can't quite tell if it's intentional, or the product of still-developing skill.
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Tonight: Shauna Born at Katherine Mulherin
Michael Klein breaks the summer-show trap of dusting off whatever's in storage, just to keep the walls covered, with the curious curatorial conceit of going back to his roots for School of Art, which opened on Saturday. Klein, who went to art school in Winnipeg, convenes here a selection of works from his various teachers, some of whom continue to teach at his alma mater, the University of Manitoba's School of Art.
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Going home again: School of Art @ MKG127
The title and theme for the 53rd La Biennale di Venezia is Fare Mondi : Making Worlds . Since its inception in 1895, the Biennale has always had an international focus presenting a forum where artists and curators can celebrate their shared and divergent voices and nations can promote their cultural strength. Much like the World Fairs that served as somewhat of an inspiration and model for the original Biennale, the Giardini became focused around 30 national pavilions.
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Making Worlds: Transnationalism, Nation States, and Representation at the 53rd La Biennale di Venezia
For those (like me) who missed the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition this year (not on purpose; I love the event, but it always falls in mid-July, exactly when I want to be as far from the city as possible), the Propeller Centre has kindly put together the After-Show, a culling of the gallery's favourite outdoorsers, brought inside (though, given Propeller's lack of air conditioning, it maintains a brutal mugginess, for that authentic, Toronto-summer feel). Anyway, not to digress
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TOAE post-partum, intolerable humidity and all, at Propeller
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Miquel Barcelo @ the Spanish Pavillion – 53rd La Biennale di VeneziaWhile I started my curatorial career creating mostly thematic group shows, I have always been most interested in solo or one-person exhibitions. I strongly believe that it takes more than one or two examples of an artists work to really understand the work and get a grasp of what the artist is doing or trying to say. A well curated or developed solo show can provide the viewer with a detailed or comprehensive look at a specific body of work, or of a survey of a longer period of artistic production
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Miquel Barcelo @ the Spanish Pavillion – 53rd La Biennale di Venezia
Getting an Invitation to A Small World The second most asked question I get is “can you give me an invitation to A Small World” (the first is how do you make the money to Live a Jet Set Life – that question will be answered soon with the our Jet Set Business Academy). Rob: There’s a funny video with our encounter with David Schwimmer (Ross from friends) last week in Los Angeles, at the end of this post. The second most asked question I get is “can you give me an invitation to A Small World” (the first is how do you make the money to Live a Jet Set Life – that question will be answered soon with our Jet Set Business Academy )
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Getting an Invitation to A Small World
We have been back in Toronto for just over 72 hours now. As I stated in an earlier post this was my first trip to Venice and to the La Biennale di Venezia . I have to admit that I fell in love with Venice, and had moments where I contemplated phoning my parents and asking them to send us Pookie (our adorable little toy poodle) as I wanted to stay in this somewhat unreal environment of art, architecture, perfect weather and no cars! Pookie in Gallery Window Brayham Contemporary Art Toronto, ON Of course the reality is that we don’t speak Italian, Phil has teaching and research commitments at the University of Waterloo, I have the gallery and am in the midst of my PhD
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Navigating Venice and the 53rd La Biennale di Venezia without an expense account
I’m not sure how legal this fake Damien Hirst blog is, but it’s funny. Im surprised Mr Hirst hasn’t shut them down. This fake Damien Hirst work of 44 peanut M&Ms is called “The fear of becoming fat expressed in the joy of being colorful” Other works include Thoughts on eternal life by someone living a mundane life in a tiny flat, The price of being a virgin in the world dominated by people who’s virginity could never be proven, and Snow White and the seven dwarfs without the seven dwarfs actually being the seven dwarfs
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Fake Damien Hirst Blog
Propped against the wall throughout the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in the Giardini of the 53rd La Biennale di Venezia were Andre Cadere’s Barres de bois rond . These colourful wooden bars seemed purposefully out of place. They had no apparent relationship to the work they were exhibited with, and they were scattered around throughout the exhibition pavillion placed adjacent to other artists’ work, or almost tucked away in forgotten spaces.
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Andre Cadere & Art Interventions at the 53rd La Biennale Di Venezia
A buyer-seller meet to promote the handloom and silk industry in the state of Bihar is being jointly organised by the Government of Bihar and Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Cluster Development Initiative Ltd. This meet will be held during August 8-10 at Hotel Maurya in Patna and will be inaugurated by the Minister of Industries, Govt of Bihar and will be presided by Principal Secretary, Department of Industries, Bihar in presence of Additional Commisioner (Handlooms), Government of India. A pool of buyers from countries like Canada, UAE and Bangladesh along with about ten buyers from India will be participating in this meet.
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Handloom products buyer-seller meet in Patna from Aug 8
SOVEC is an investment fund set up by Dutch entrepreneurs, to invest in small and medium sized companies (SMEs) in Africa. SOVEC’s main objective is to alleviate poverty in developing countries. They strongly believe that this objective is most successfully achieved by stimulating socio-economic development, in particular through the support of SMEs
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SOVEC Social Venture Capital
Photo by Adam Scheuermann I’ve been spending a few days reflecting on last month’s No Spending Challenge and thinking about how to carry some of those new habits forward. (Because why would I save money all month and then toss it at the end?) This was our third year to try this family challenge, and each year was definitely easier than the one before. The first year we learned the hard way that even something as small as $15 on dinner out made it difficult to meet a $40 weekly food budget.
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The Takeaway: What I Learned from Our No Spend Month
As I try to write about Naomi Cleary , so that I can introduce you to her, so that you want to read the interview that follows, I am holding one of her pots in my hand. I am holding it in my hand and I am turning it around horizontal and flipping it vertical, I am running my fingers over it’s smooth surface, I am trying to explain to you why I like it so much. The Naomi Cleary I have uses a bunch of yellows and blues and greens, there is some grey, the patterning is definitely floral in nature.
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A conversation with Naomi Cleary
“If love be courtesy refined, And you be civil in profusion, That you will to my hopes prove kind, Is but a natural conclusion.” – Antonio’s Song, Don Quixote pt I, chapter XI Joe Boruchow, Be Courteous! Joe Boruchow occasionally sends out images from his cut paper series of posters related to political topics in the air. The artist, who is as passionate about art and music as he is about the world around him, focuses in this new poster on the Henry Lewis Gates/Cambridge police brouhaha.
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Image from Joe Boruchow, words from Cervantes
SwaddleDesigns the trend-setting, Seattle-based company, continues its growth by developing useful and fashionable products that help new parents care for and comfort their babies. Lynette Damir, RN, Founder, CEO and Creative Director, was inspired to design the Ultimate Swaddling Blanket when visiting families with new babies. In 2003, Lynette designed the award-winning Ultimate Receiving Blanket which includes a how to swaddle illustration called the 123 Swaddle tag sewn to the edge of the blanket
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SwaddleDesigns to create giggle exclusives
Filed under: Celebrities with Style Rihanna knows a thing or two about risk-taking fashion (just check out her mohawk !). The singer flexed her savvy once again at the London premiere of ” Inglorious Basterds ” last night (July 23). Sweeping her mohawk into a impressive pompadour, Rihanna looked more like a walking magazine editorial than a casual movie-goer
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Rihanna Layers on the Pearls For the Red Carpet
Jump to the full entry & travel map Barbados, Barbados After a long year of school, the children got out at 12noon, we went home and changed and headed straight for the Grantly Adams Airport on the south coast. We checked in for our fight on British Airways and boarded the plane for an on time departure.. yeah!!!! This was my first flight on BA (and the kids, but not Elvis’s). We had good seats, but the flight was full so no extra’s unfortunately.
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Last day of school, and we head to the airport – Barbados, Barbados
Jump to the full entry & travel map Huaraz, Peru No trip would be an adventure if it was easy. If everything went according to plan in this country, it just wouldn´t be Peru. After spending a few days in Lima we had to get out of that place. Which way, we didnt know. But most stops we wanted to make in any direction involved a 20hour bus ride and we just couldn´t hack that, not right away. So we opted for the 8hr overnight bus to Huaraz. I could get really detailed into all the insanity of what´s possible in this country in 1 week but I think i´ll try to be quick and to the point. In our taxi on the way to the bus we were told our paper money was fake and the driver wouldnt take it. Then he tried to tell me my coins were fake. I told him he was a fake and we were able to take our ^^fake^^ money around the corner and get him a ^^real^^ bill. The buses out here are plush. We were actually able to sleep pretty well and recline almost horizontal. If only our driver wasn´t speeding around hairpin turns at 80mph in the middle of the night and hitting potholes I probably wouldn´t have woken up at all. Caroline had her pillow stolen on the bus and was asked to pay for it upon leaving! Huaraz is great, like any high altitude mountain town, the air is cleaner, the people friendly, and the views from anywhere are gorgeous.
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From: Tops of Mtns To: the Depths of Pure Insanity – Huaraz, Peru
Jump to the full entry & travel map Alicante, Valencian Country, Spain and Canary Islands Hallo Leute! Uff, ich habe viel zu lernen! Ich bin im Anfangskurs 2 gelandet. Jeden Tag lernen wir tonnenweise Verben und konjugieren wie die… Als Abwechslung kann ich ja mit Andrea und uebrigens auch mit jedem einzelnen von unserer Gruppe deutsch reden-wir sind 3 Oesterreicher
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Ein gewoehnlicher Tag in Alicante – Alicante, Valencian Country, Spain and Canary Islands