Artists for Haitian relief at the Metivier gallery
I wanted to tell you about a great idea initiated by Malcolm Rains and followed though on by his dealer, Nicholas Metivier , but I'm happy to report that it's too late. That's a rare circumstance, but the thing is, yesterday I received a note from the Metivier Gallery that they were holdign a fundraising raffle of work by gallery artists for Haitian earthquake relief
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Artists for Haitian relief at the Metivier gallery
The other night, I went to a much-hyped performance by Vancouver-based artist Gareth Moore at the Power Plant. Moore's part of that priveleged cabal of next-generation Vancouver conceptualists represented almost exclusively, it seems, by Catriona Jeffries , whose stable includes international art stars like Brian Jungen and Geoffrey Farmer , among others
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Travels with a stranger: Gareth Moore at the Power Plant
“Do this one cheap (or free) and we’ll make it up on the next one.” “We never pay a cent until we see the final product.” “Do this for us and you’ll get great exposure! The jobs will just pour in!” On looking at sketches or concepts: “Well, we aren’t sure if we want to use you yet, but leave your material here so I can talk to my partner/investor/wife/clergy.” “Well, the job isn’t CANCELLED, just delayed. Keep the account open and we’ll continue in a month or two.” “Contract
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Top Ten Lies Told To Beginning Artists, Designers, & Illustrators
This is the first published interview with incoming MOCA director and current Deitch Projects gallery-owner Jeffrey Deitch. It was conducted via phone with Deitch in Los Angeles earlier tonight. (MOCA communications director Lyn Winter was on the call with Deitch, but did not participate in the Q&A.) [ Image
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Q&A with incoming MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch, part one
This is the third post of MAN’s three-part Q&A with incoming MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch: Plans for the future. Part one, in which Deitch and I discuss his move from commercial dealer to non-profit executive, is here. Part two, in which Deitch and I discuss some of the ethical questions created by his new position, is here.
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Q&A with incoming MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch, part three
In a Friday post about Byron Kim’s Synecdoche (1991-present), I noted the work’s intellectual roots in America’s 1980s and 1990s debates about multiculturalism. The United States wasn’t the only country to have a national conversation about multiculturalism in those years and it wasn’t just Kim who used tried-and-true art strategies to engage with that discourse: Great Britain had its own debate about multiculturalism and what it meant for the British
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Art and the multi-cultural 1990s: From Kim to Shonibare
Well, it's about that time, when everything non-retail discount related rolls up its front steps, bars the door, and waits for the inevitable necessity of a new year to re-engage with the world. Over the next couple of weeks, very little will be happening in the art scene, for this very reason; most galleries will shut down until at least the first week of January
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Silent nights: Fernand Leduc at Olga Korper
Orange County's own Backhausdance is raising funds to fly 11 dancers and a small staff to New York City to perform two full nights of repertory at Joyce SoHo. They've been invited to perform as part of an amazing dance series. I've (Chris) have seen them perform locally several times and they are group OC should be proud of and should support
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Help OC’s Backhausdance Get To New York
A couple weekend events of note, namely Art Metropole's annual Gifts by Artists extravaganza , which continues up 'til Xmas eve. You can buy a grab-bag (or box, actually) of multiples by Stephen Andrews, James Carl, Andy Fabo, Derek Sullivan and Seth Scriver, among others, for $100. Today at AM is one of the associated events where Cecilia Berkovic will be holding a special artists' gift-wrapping station alongside local dematerialization troupe the CN Tower Liquidation Crew.
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Attention Xmas shoppers: Gifts by Artists at Art Metropole; Bargain hunting at Hunter + Cook
First of all, please let me introduce myself: I'm the blogger who dropped off the face of the earth for a couple of weeks there (again). Busy times in the pages of ye olde dinosaur, the newspaper, where I finally finished a two-part series on China and reviews of winter shows at the Oakville Galleries and the Power Plant (the first part, anyway, on “Nothing to Declare,” the fun and engaging Canadian sculpture show; part two, on Michael Snow, will be this weekend.) Keeping ever busy, I endured a white-knuckle drive up to Owen Sound yesterday to the Tom Thomson Gallery, where I saw Steven White's very good sculpture show, The Combine Project.
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Illustration: Mariska Undi Hunting for the Wonderdeer Mariska Undi is perhaps better known as a Hungarian artist and one of the key members of the Godollo Arts & Crafts community. However, she was also a campaigner and champion of the applied arts medium and was personally involved in a number of projects that had textiles at their heart. Throughout her career she had a particular and constant interest in the folk art traditions of her native Hungary.
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The Textile Work of Mariska Undi
I can imagine that few experiences could be as simultaneously flattering and unnerving as having your portrait done. For one thing, it's a complete surrender of agency as to how you're represented to the artist, but at the same time, it's ego-stroking to be considered important, interesting or visually compelling enough to have it done in the first place.
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Shot through the heart: Viktor Mitic’s "Dealers" opens tonight
at the Cisneros Foundation brunch This was the fifth time I’d gone to ABMB ( Art Basel Miami Beach ) and the multi-ring circus that includes the peripheral art fairs, local museums, collectors who run private museum spaces, temporary public projects and various lectures, performances, film showings and parties. I decided to take it easy and be guided by the interests of several friends who were also in Miami for the events, spending two days with tv news producer, Jake Haselkorn, who’s spent the past 20 years covering Asia and my good friend, Berta Sichel , Director of the Film Department at the Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid, as well as meeting up with Artblog’s Roberta and Libby for a day. The following are random snapshots rather than any attempt at a synthesis
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Art Basel Miami Beach and Associated Art in Miami
This last last Saturday the Social Justice Collaborative of Pepperdine University presented a panel in conjunction with the Hidden Wounds/Paper Bullets exhibition at the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, Ca. Part of the the panel was a one act performance piece by artists Soraya Fallah & Cklara Moradian.It's a powerful 9 minute piece:
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Performance Piece: Soraya Fallah & Cklara Moradian @ GCAC
Despite apparent industry subterfuge and a last-minute effort by councillor Norm Kelly to yank out most of its teeth, the billboard tax levy bylaw passed virtually intact today. The end result is it'll generate an additional $10.4 million annually; communtiy groups had hoped it would be officially directed mostly to community art initiatives, but as it stands, it just enters the general revenue stream. Allotment will get more specific in the 2010 Budget Committe, but hey, it's a start.
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Well, well
It was almost exactly eight years ago that I decided to move back to Canada as I had just accepted the position as the Director of the Canadian Craft & Design Museum in Vancouver. The museum was hidden in a courtyard at the corner of Georgia and Hornby across the street from the Vancouver Art Gallery . I was aware of some of the problems the institution had experienced over the years, and was not unaware that there were probably deeper issues than they were willing to divulge, as they were unable to cover the costs for me to fly to Vancouver for my interview
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What is it about Craft? The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery Faces an Uncertain Future
A couple of days ago I mentioned that the controversial billboard tax was going before city council to either be rejected or enacted into bylaw; the upshot, if passed, would be some $11 million being directed towards community art initiatives and general city beautification. That might still happen, but the Beautiful City Alliance has offered an update, which is that councillor Norm Kelly put a motion in the floor to cut the tax more or less in half, as well as allow LED and active screen billboards virtually everywhere (not just in over-illuminated zones like Yonge/Dundas Square). It's my understanding that this is the revised motion being voted on today, which strikes me as a shame, particularly given deceptive behaviour by the industry and a broad-based public desire to reduce the prominence of outdoor advertising in our lives, not make it greater .
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Billboard art levy de-fanged; vote today
I have been thinking about King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs at the Art Gallery of Ontario quite a bit lately. Actually I have not been just thinking about it, I have been troubled by it. As a former museum director / curator I have to admit that I have a huge issue with Blockbuster exhibitions
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Toronto Art Critics Talk Art: David Balzer, Otino Corsano, Rosemary Heather, Charlene Lau, Leah Sandals, Nadja Sayej and Murray Whyte
I clearly remember the first time I heard about Lauri Lynnxe Murphy and her work. It was 1997 and at the time I was the Director / Curator of OneWest Art Center (now the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art ). I would typically head to Denver on Saturday morning to spend the day checking out what was happening at the various galleries, museums, and art centres in the city
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Lauri Lynnxe Murphy: Strange Fruit on Kickstarter & Tenticular @ Plastic Chapel
So last night while my wife went to watch some vampire movie with a cute boy, Courtney Conlon and I grabbed our bikes and ran up to the FOCA space in Chinatown to participate in Brian Boyer's Not Los Angeles – Taco Ride which was part of his current exhibit New Atlas at the FOCA space. Many art world aficionado's were there like curator/artist Marshall Astor , Artist Jeff Foye , Painter Devon Tsuno , FS instigator Ed Giardina, artist Macha Suzuki and of course MOCA's lovely Andrea Stang . As usual I had a blast.
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Not Los Angeles – Taco Ride