Bunny Gunner’s 3rd Anniversary – Sat. Night
On Saturday night Pomona Arts District stalwart Bunny Gunner , will be celebrating their 3rd anniversary with All Ice Cream themed art, an Ice Cream Truck, Paletas, Music and Beer. The opening will run from 6 to 11pm and I'm sure lots of the art world will be there.
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Bunny Gunner’s 3rd Anniversary – Sat. Night
The idea behind the exhibition New, Used, Borrowed , opening Saturday night at the Chapman University Guggenheim Gallery , is to show the role of the artist as more than “art maker” but also art collector and art admirer. Each artist has created a New work of art for this exhibition; each has included a work of art (or a grouping of artworks) they have purchased and Used in the context of their private life; and finally, each has Borrowed a work of art from an artist whose work they admire
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New, Used, Borrowed @ Chapman University Gallery – This Saturday
Many multiple things. If you can stand the heat, some notables include the entire — extended — strip of Tecumseth Street, from Diaz Contemporary way down south at Niagara all the way up to Susan Hobbs, almost at Queen. They've been sporadically timing their openings together for a while now, and I think it's genius, bringing a critical mass of people to the neighbourhood all at once
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Anybody who's been around even a short while will have come to appreciate Paul Petro' s enduring presence on the Toronto art scene, with a strong roster of artists and a commitment to fostering the local culture that's the equal of anyone.
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Toronto Art History 101 with Paul Petro (and Madame Zsa Zsa), tonight
Next door to Birch Libralato at the Susan Hobbs Gallery, Shirley Wiitasalo shows a suite of new paintings that seem conjured from a half-remembered dream; while obviously abstract, the mind wrestles quietly to extract form from the delicate wash that the eye delivers. Wiitasalo's technique is something obliquely referred to as “transfer,” which to me suggest a careful layering of material and colour to obscure, but not quite, the one that came before
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Things I’m glad to have not missed, part 2
It took some time, but several vitriolic responses to my take on the Ken Danby show at Odon Wagner have started arriving, and in force. Several of them were submitted in the comment section of this blog, but had not been approved for publication by our web staff; I'm assuming they wanted to run them by me first, but no need — everyone deserves their opinion to be heard, so long as it's thoughtful and considered (and in a few cases, ahem, Mr. Smits, even when not) so I've gone ahead to ensure the comments were published myself.
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Quickly, a note on Danby
The massive two-museum blast of Dynasty , an exhibition of 40 artists at the Palais de Tokyo and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris , is something of a moveable feast of contemporary French art – a collision of dust and Disney with a bit of dinnertime thrown in. The concept, launched by directors Marc-Olivier Wahler and Fabrice Hergott was to invite youngish artists working in France to exhibit two sets of works in each museum. (The two art spaces sit side-by-side looking out towards the Seine River).
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Letter From Paris: Dynasty. A Feast Of Disney, Dust & Dinner
TOHUBOHU! Extreme (and I might add IMPROV) Theater Ensemble invites OC's very own George Herms to participate with their monthly performance, as the first of a series of invitations to artists. I was lucky enough to catch the show Friday night (no pics allowed) and it was amazing.
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George Herms and the Rachel Rosenthal Theater Company
Just back from Pop Life at the National Gallery in Ottawa , which I'm writing about today for the Saturday paper. I went in the proper cynic, and came out, if not coverted, then a lot less so; the show is both huge, bombastic and shamelessly crowd-pleasing while managing at the same time to have depth, counter-point and meaning. As blockbusters go, with their cozying up to the greatest breadth of the ticket-buying public, this is almost as good as it gets; amid all the hype and prudish scandal — genitalia
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Pop Life: Pretty good
I heard from the AGO this morning that the museum will be shutting down early on Friday, June 25, and be closed entirely through the first weekend of the G20. Hard to blame them — right in the middle of the supposed hot zone, there could be pretty major disruptions along University Avenue, just a few blocks away. Nonetheless, visitor security is just one thign to worry about — the fancy new Frank Gehry facade has a lot of glass …
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AGO joins G20 jitters, shuts down for opening weekend
At first glance, one may well wonder how dry a book like this could be. But Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations by Liza Kirwin is the ultimate in trivial ephemera, and that can be…
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Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations by Liza Kirwin
Working on a story about the effort sparked by David Liss and Gregory Burke to bring a bonafide Toronto Biennial to fruition , I took the opportunity to drive down to Buffalo to visit the Albright Knox , which, it so happens, is the force beyond Western New York's own biennial event, ” Beyond/In WNY ,” which opens in September. It's comprised of about 30% Toronto artists, but nevermind that for the moment; part and parcel of my meeting with the Albright's director Louis Grachos and Hallwalls director John Massier was a lovely tour of the Albright
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Favourites: The Albright Knox
All good things come to an end, and today, one of the best in recent memory wraps up at the end of the day when Marina Abromovich takes her leave of her months-long performance piece, ” The Artist Is Present,” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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The artist will leave the building, finally: Marina Abromovich wraps up at MoMA
Post by Marianne Bernstein In his book The Empathic Civilization , economist Jeremy Rifkin, investigates the evolution of empathy. Recent scientific studies suggest that we are wired for collaboration. Our natural impulse is to get along with our native kin; which over time have evolved from our fellow cave men, to our state, country, or religion, to the planet at large.
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Tripping across the pond – No Soul for Sale at the Tate Modern
It's a reasonably quiet weekend in the city as most of the Contact shows come off the walls in prep for whatever's next, but one event I'm hoping to make is the launch of Luis Jacob 's book “Album IV” at Art Metropole. Jacob, a Toronto artist with a burgeoning international reputation (“Album III” showed at Documenta in 2007, to raves) recently had the honour of “Album IV” being acquired by the Guggenheim in New York following its inclusion in its show “Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance” (the book was published by Art Met in an edition of 1000 after it was chosen for the exhibition, which runs to September of this year). In any case, it's a de-personlaized scrapbook comprised of found images from books, magazines and wherever else that cobbles together a surprisingly coherent record of a life lived, from birth through infancy and childhood and on to adolescence and adulthood, all underlied with a quiet suggestion of norms, structures and social codes
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Weekend notes: Luis Jacob’s "Album IV" launch at Art Metropole
One of the things that drives me a little nuts about Contact is its tendency to overshadow the fact that there is, in fact, art to be seen all over the city that has nothing to do with the festival. That doesn't mean I don't go see it; it just means it takes me a while to get around to writing about it, which was the case with Dave Dyment's now-closed show at MKG127, 'Between the Click of the Light and the Start of the Dream.” For those who know him, Dyment's clever, playful, pop-culture inflected conceptualism can be like Marshall McLuhan's proverbial warm bath — an art experience that challenges the mind while warming that place in the heart where unbridled teen angst, buried under years of cynicism, still lives in full force. Dyment's favourite tropes, like popular music, were fully evident here, in several pieces that embraced
Weekly Update – Queer as voicesQueer Voice at ICA is a clear sign of how comfortable we’ve become with people, places and things that are queer, a word primarily defined by Merriam-Webster as characterizing things that are “differing in some odd way from what is usual or normal,” but which has come to have a second meaning encompassing nearly everything and everyone deviating from gender and sexual norms. Kalup Linzy, from Conversations wit de Churen The show provides both a healthy dose of both genderqueer and queer in the Merchant-Ivory “How odd!” sense. With more than three hours of rollicking, weird, obscure, hectoring and seductive video and audio material, the show’s a sushi sampler with a cupcake chaser
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Weekly Update – Queer as voices
For the first time in recent memory, artists that have strong Orange County roots will be participating in the 2010 California Biennial at OCMA. Finishing School has a long Orange County history and Carlee Fernandez is an alum of CSU Fullerton. (and both are in the Hoff collection!) Congrats to both the FS crew and Carlee.
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Orange County Museum of Art announces artists in the 2010 California Biennial
It’s the first time that National Geographic has shown vintage prints from its vast collection in Canada, and some of these are truly remarkable: Ranging from 1880 through the 1940s, there are 60 pictures, including Herbert Ponting’s shots of Robert Falcon Scott’s disastrous 1910 South Pole expedition, and Alexander Graham Bell’s own photos of his experiments with flight. Stephen Bulger Gallery , 1026 Queen Street West
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Contact 2010 Photo-a-Day: The Pervasive View, Stephen Bulger Gallery
In the wake of a decision by Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli to cover up the bare-breasted woman on the Virginia state seal, officials at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond are concerned that Cuccinelli will next turn his attention to the museum and its collection. Cuccinelli’s interest in the state’s seal was first reported by Norfolk’s Virginian-Pilot newspaper. Cuccinelli is a right-wing Republican best known for questioning President Obama’s citizenship and for ending protections for gays and lesbians at Virginia universities.
