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Art for a Century, Kim Adams & Tyler Tekatch at the Art Gallery of Hamilton
An Edward Burtynsky photograph of a rusting steel scrap heap hangs alongside Tom Thomson’s The Birch Grove, Autumn; Suzy Lake smashes a wall while a saint rips open his ribcage in meticulously explicit...
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The Governor General's Awards at the National Gallery in Ottawa
The 2014 Governor General’s Laureates in the Visual and Media Arts are being celebrated at the National Gallery of Canada. At a ceremony at Rideau Hall on March 26, David Johnston continued a tradition...
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Brett Kashmere & Jennifer Chan at the Images Festival
The contradiction at the heart of late 20th Century capital-A art – art as in high art, art rock, contemporary art, and so on – is that a creative endeavor so resolute in challenging its own...
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Jim Verburg at Galerie Nicolas Robert
I must admit that I always somewhat dread touring the Belgo Building (aka the "art-mall") with its stiflingly hot corridors lined with dozens of commercial galleries and artist run centres, many of...
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Kevin Schmidt at the Contemporary Art Gallery
Staging the spectacle in sublime and remote locations, Kevin Schmidt's EDM House and High Altitude Balloon Harmless Amateur Radio Equipment present a query into the myth of displaced image making....
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Rowena Dykins at the Visual Art Centre of Clarington in Bowmanville
Good thing I don't believe in the non-representational, 'cause when you come right down to it, Durham-based painter Rowena Dykins is really having none of it anyway. Oh, I know she's long been...
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Susanna Heller at Olga Korper | Amanda Clyne at p|m Gallery
There are times when all I want to see is a painting, something self-contained and complete unto itself, something that doesn't require external support in the form of explanations or context (not that...
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Russell Leng at Avalanche!
The day of the opening of the 2014 Whitney Biennial, art critic Matt Gleason identified an outsider aesthetic amongst arts insiders that acts "as an alias for downright sloppiness." While it's hard to...
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Paul Butler at Division Gallery | Communicating Vessels at Blackwood Gallery
It's not surprising that Paul Butler is now a curator– in addition to being an artist and a former gallerist– because so much, if not all, of his work is about selection and framing. The foundation for...
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Robyn Moody at Hamilton Artists Inc.
I couldn't hide my bookworm proclivities even if I tried, nor my equally nerdy enjoyment of robots and automata, so I was already inclined to adore Robyn Moody's current installation at Hamilton...
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susan pui san lok at Montreal, arts interculturels
Olympic performance, celebration, media coverage, construction, and nationally/communally driven physical endeavors – these are just some of the subjects brought together in susan pui san lok's...
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Stan Douglas at the Ryerson Image Centre | Nadia Belerique at Daniel Faria...
If you consider the kingpins of Vancouver Photoconceptualism, Jeff Wall is engaged with art history and Rodney Graham dabbles in historical marginalia, whereas Stan Douglas is concerned with history...
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Myfanwy MacLeod at the Vancouver Art Gallery
As both featured artist and guest curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Myfanwy MacLeod has organized two exhibitions dovetailing into one that present her audience with a bold and brave cynicism that...
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Reshelving Initiative Six at Eyelevel Gallery
Katie Belcher, Director of Eyelevel Gallery, has been on the road for a month, visiting artist-run centres and galleries throughout the Atlantic provinces. Packed in the back of her bright red rental...
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Shirley Wiitasalo at Susan Hobbs Gallery | Kelly Wallace at Georgia Scherman...
The weighty tome that is the Contact Photography Festival's catalogue is a testament to how many of the city's walls are occupied with photographs this month. Suffice to say, it's almost every one....
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Material Self & In Character at MOCCA | Monica Tap at MKG127
As the flagship exhibition in the 2014 Contact Photography Festival, Material Self: Performing the Other Within at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art combines two recent (as in the last half...
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Lina Selander at La Mirage
Diana Kaur and Turner Prize nominee Tris Vonna-Michell of the Stockholm-based curatorial/multi-platform initiative Mount Analogue are currently located in Montreal as Vonna-Michell completes a...
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Gordon Parks at BAND Gallery | Mike Kelley at Pleasure Dome
This week's visit to a Contact Photography Festival exhibition found me to the foot of Lansdowne and up the stairs of an old bank building where the offices had been stripped to make way for the BAND...
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Mary Rothlisberger at The New Gallery
On an imaginary web diagram of all the modern art movements, I could see "contemporary craft" and "relational aesthetics" linked by the shared characteristic of "good vibes." Both craft as activism (or...
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Jen Aitken at Erin Stump Projects | Wil Murray at p|m Gallery
My entry point into art criticism was never a love of pictures so much as a fascination with ideas. I studied philosophy at university, not art history, and the moment I get most excited in a gallery...
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