Ihor Holubizky and Georgia Scherman bring three video works from New Zealand, Australia and Germany to Scherman’s new gallery space tucked away on the third floor of 300 Campbell. Dramatic …
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The Toronto International Film Festival is here, and for many film art fans, the stress of scrambling for tickets and managing overlapping schedules has begun in earnest. Yet there’s a …
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In the 50s and 60s, Hollywood began testing the boundaries of American cinema with gritty social themes and an unprecedented level of confrontational honesty. Auteur directors such as Mike Nichols, …
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A confession: I’m a plate-aholic, or, as described by one design magazine, a plate queen. So of course I got a charge out of Object Factory, a show of modern mass-produced ceramics and art …
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On the surface, a summer exhibition on the circus might seem as frivolous as a cultural outing can get. But just as a top trapeze artist makes complex acrobatics look delightfully easy, the …
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The art world is coming to realize that people still crave narrative. If, like me, you can’t help trying to piece together a story from the most obscure art videos, you’ll appreciate this …
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Art Reviews
Last week, national news outlets reported that a portrait of Karl Marx had been banned from a Winnipeg mural. Though Toronto painter Michael Lewis’s imagery is devoid of socialist icons, …
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In our media-saturated world where original ideas are harder and harder to come by, recycling and commenting on Modernism seems to be the main postmodern project.
It’s hard to pinpoint what’s so unnerving in Kelly Richardson’s video and photographic work at Birch Libralato. It could be the way the unnatural is continually made to appear …
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On the surface, a summer exhibition on the circus might seem as frivolous as a cultural outing can get. But just as a top trapeze artist makes complex acrobatics look delightfully easy, the …
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Is there anything more inspiring to an artist than a pristine rectangle of exquisite handmade paper?
The World Washi Summit celebrates these strong yet ethereal sheets, laboriously crafted from …
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Art Reviews
It turns out you can go home again. When Rodrigo Moreno’s parents fled Pinochet’s Chile for Toronto, they landed in Lawrence Heights, a notorious Toronto project commonly known as The Jungle.
After …
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