Trust No-one Under 30: Mercer Union’s birthday party
What seems like not that long ago, a scrappy breed of art space rose up in defiance to the staid institutional culture of its day. They were called a number of things — parallel galleries being the one that always made the most sense to me — but over time the label “artist-run centre” stuck, if only for purely pragmatic reasons: These were spaces — I hesitate to call them “institutions,” as would they, I think — free of the stodgy institutional politics that plagued the big museums, and unconcerned with market forces that dictated what kind of art should be made
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Trust No-one Under 30: Mercer Union’s birthday party
Filed under: Celebrity Fashion Mistakes Lady Gaga hides her “Poker Face” at a press conference in Malta. Photo: Rene Rossignaud, Pacific Coast News Sure Lady Gaga is known for her traffic-stopping wardrobe ( or lack thereof! ), but has the blonde taken her attention-grabbing antics too far
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Lady Gaga Wears Mask for Press Conference – Has She Gone Too Far?
Ynge Gamlin Tornrosa 1954 During the 1950s the Swedish textile company Nordiska Kompaniet, under the leadership of Astrid Sampe, took great strides in the process of opening up the world of textile design to the new ideas and influences of the post war culture that had spread rapidly since the end of the Second World war.
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Ynge Gamlin, Astrid Sampe and Abstract Expressionism
It is necessary to attempt to characterize whatever is new in the contemporary world and, in my opinion, what is new is a change of setting, a shift in references, w … See “Non-Places,” Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture, and the Everyday, ed…. Excerpt from: Marc Augé Interviewed: "Places and Non-places-a Conversation with Marc Augé"
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Marc Augé Interviewed: "Places and Non-places-a Conversation with Marc Augé"
It is the final weekend of the Institute of Contemporary Culture ‘s current exhibition Housepaint Phase 2: Shelter at the Royal Ontario Museum. Housepaint, Institute of Contemporary Culture Roloff Beny Gallery, 4th Floor Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON December 13, 2008 – Juy 5, 2009 Curated by Devon Ostrom Curated by Devon Ostrom this provocative and stunning exhibition deals with the difficult issue of poverty and homelessness bringing together some of Canada’s best street artists: Cant 4 / Amanda Marie , Case / Ryan Mackeen , Dixon / Juan Carols Noria , Dstrbo / Dan Butler , EGR / Erica Fosich Rose , Elicser Elliot , Evoke / Patrick Thompson , Fauxreel / Dan Bergeron , Gene Pendon / Gene Starship , Other / Derek Shamus Mehaffey , and Specter / Gabriel Reese
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Housepaint Phase 2: Shelter @ the Royal Ontario Museum
There are group of painters in china , had taken their dream canvas of the country, duty-bound to embark on a “gold-plated” tour. After a baptism, now they are with different “Western” to return to the motherland, or “celebration” or “defeat.” They are the “returnees” in the ranks of special groups, returned to their “journey” is even more curious.
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china painting painters ponder
Here's a cheery way to kick off your mid-week holiday: Check out the Power Plant's film series this evening. The first is the Andrei Ujica's Tarkovsky -worthy film (with a side of Woody Allen) Out of the Present — except, unlike Tarkovsky's existential sci-fi dreamworlds , this is real. Ujica's documentary, about Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev 's 10 month experience on the Mir space station in 1991, is the stuff of Allen's iconic 1973 movie Sleeper , in which Allen's character goes to the hospital with a headache and wakes up 200 years later to a bizarro future world.
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The beginning, and The End, at the Power Plant tonight
Kaufman, Brooks, Graham, Bruno — A dream team. Reading a piece in the New York Times on Dan Graham's much-deserved career survey that opened recently at the Whitney, I was reminded of something that Graham himself told me when I spoke to him a couple of years ago
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But is it art? What Dan Graham, Mel Brooks, Sol Lewitt, Andy Kaufman and Bruno have in common
As one of the 212 participating galleries, I have been curious to see just what Dax Morrison was going to do with the small sample of the Behr Polar Bear white paint he picked up from me at the gallery about a month ago. Dax Morrison’s The Willing & Able , a site-specific installation opened at YYZ Artists’ Outlet Friday night. Dax Morrison, The Willing & Able , 2009 List of Galleries YYZ Artists’ Outlet Morrison’s work documents Toronto galleries at a specific moment in time
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Dax Morrison, Marman & Borins, and Ulysses Castellanos at YYZ Artists’ Outlet
Forty years ago this weekend (June 27 – 29, 1969) the Stonewall Riots at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York City marked the turning point of the modern gay liberation movement. The first Pride celebration in Toronto occurred in the late 1970′s and by 1981 Pride Toronto became an annual event
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Lausberg Contemporary & Pentimento Gallery Celebrate Pride Toronto
After entering the new century, including the visual arts including oil painting faces new environment – on the one hand, high-tech technology and the popularity of digital imaging, into our “image flooding” of the times, life-like images at your fingertips; On the other hand, Drawing on the traditional concept of national reunification, constraints and reducing the teaching of Chinese oil painting in painting and painting value and status. However, practice in the arts, oil painting is still considered a teaching and mastering the process of painting techniques and the basic means necessary, most artists are still painting and artistic creation as an integral part. It is obvious that today’s “Painting” is not the past, “Sketches”, either outside or indoor painting light painting, whether it is inherited Hao, Huang Quan of the painting, or the study of painting impressionist painter, painting purpose, significance and specific methods have undergone profound transformation
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So I went to the Martin Prosperity Institute this morning to meet with Richard Florida , who (not surprisingly) had a great deal of thoughtful, nuanced responses to the polemic critiques of which he's been the subject, not only here, but for much of his very public career. This isn't the place to explore them, but the casting of Florida as the great neo-liberal Satan, according to him, seems to be a problem of interpretation and application
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Florida on Florida, in the office and soon, on the street
Chinese oil paintings in the new century, the first face today is the prominent problems brought about by globalization and cultural convergence trend. As a result of the powerful countries in the material and spiritual and cultural products of Western culture caused extensive expansion across the globe, making the country vulnerable after a long history of practice in the formation of culture and cultural patterns and digestion by the exclusion, character and spirit of the pursuit of cultural erosion and assimilation , culture and vitality of living space is gradually lost
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Chinese oil painting of innovation
Useing points and line of the screen as a screen artworks, the characters and scenes with a simple sketch of a general approach to give the audience a sense of time flow. The metaphor of the screen so that the surface calm, due to a sudden event, and become very strange and a sense of suspense, fully demonstrated his oil painting is photography, television, film and other media re-extension is revealed by the media and photo images of real deprivation, while maintaining a unique aesthetic painting charm
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Luc Tuymans – modern abstract art Psyche
The LA Times Art Blog has a story about the Tim Burton retrospective that MoMA will be hosting beginning in November. What the post failed to mention is that one of the pieces in the show will be fabricated at CSU Fullerton by Fullerton students, and it's my understanding that after the piece finishes it's run in NYC it will find it's way back to CSU Fullerton and will be displayed as a public art piece on campus. Way to go CSU Fullerton!
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The Tim Burton/CSU Fullerton Connection
My Mom has always been an avid gardener and tried her best to instill a love of gardening in each of her four kids. While my modest downtown Toronto garden, does not compare to her lush, expansive and beautiful landscaped garden in North Vancouver, I love working in and on my garden and if I can just find enough time to combine my love of art with my love of gardening – life would be just about perfect. My husband and I are constantly on the search for interesting garden art.
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Gardens and Art
Inspired by my encounter with Christos Pantieras’ Luminato Box installation yesterday I was excited to see what Toronto artist, Jason Baerg had planned for the space. I arrived at Brookfield Place shortly after 8 am and was greeted by Jason who apologetically explained that they were experiencing some technical difficulties and were not quite ready
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Luminato – Red Balls & Manifestos
Ikea unveiled their new PS line at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York in May. This new line is hailed as a launch pad for some of Ikea’s most experimental pieces as well as functioning as a co-branding initiative with high-profile designers. Cliff Kuang’s post on the Fast Company Blog illustrates 17 of the 71 new products that will begin hitting Ikea stores in August
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IKEA: A love – hate relationship
Ties that Bind an exhibition featuring sculptural work by gallery artist Svava Thordis Juliusson together with drawings by Erin Glover and Robert Malinowski opens Sunday, May 31, 2009 at A.K. Collings Gallery in Port Hope, ON with a reception from 2 – 4 PM. Juliusson’s drawings and sculptures were featured in a solo exhibition Sko! everything happens all at once at Brayham Contemporary Art, February 13 – April 27, 2009.
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Svava Juliusson @ A.K. Collings Gallery May 31, 2009
I t is the last official weekend for the Toronto Photography Festival: CONTACT ’09. With over 200 exhibitions happening in and around Toronto, it has been exciting and interesting month for anyone interested in photo-based media. While Mind | Place | Spirit focuses on the Susan Moldenhauer’s most recent investigations of the Wyoming landscape.
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CONTACT ’09 – Susan Moldenhauer & Steven James Brown