october 28, 2011
Michael Audain ranks among the country’s most important visual-arts philanthropists, not just because he has a lot of money and he gives it away, but because behind those gifts is a deep understanding and passion for visual art. The collection he and his wife, Yoshiko Karasawa, have amassed, is astonishing: several
october 27, 2011
The last major exhibition devoted to William Kurelek, the troubled and troubling Prairie-born painter who died in 1977, was organized by the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in 1982 and toured to 14 galleries across Canada.
I saw it at the Mendel Gallery in Saskatoon halfway through that tour, and judged him to be a minor
october 27, 2011
ALEXANDRIA. Since revolution swept through Egypt earlier this year, street art has appeared across the Arab country. As part of a graffiti project initiated by the Goethe Institute, German street art collective Ma'Claim has been invited to paint several murals in Alexandria,
october 20, 2011
It happened by accident, as so much creative work does. “I usually paint outside,” Viktor Mitic says of the origin of his “rain paintings,” which have their first Canadian showing at Toronto’s Gallery Moos on Thursday, in conjunction with the release of a related book and short film.
october 20, 2011
ash prizes totalling more than $40,000 were handed out Thursday afternoon at the 2011 Toronto Arts Foundation awards ceremony, held as part of the sixth annual Mayor’s Arts Awards lunch.
Mayor Rob Ford was a no-show at what would have been his first Mayor’s Arts Awards. Presenting greetings on behalf of
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Invitees to a private viewing at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London of the new exhibition "Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven" on Monday
october 17, 2011
october 17, 2011
A new Vincent van Gogh biography is causing waves in the art community for its claim that the famed Dutch artist was accidentally shot by drinking companions, rather than a suicide.
In their book Van Gogh: The Life, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith challenge the long-held explanation for the
In this file photo of Sept. 8, 1966, Marc Chagall poses by his mural "Le Triumphe de la Musique," The Triumph of Music, during the unveiling ceremonies in the lobby of the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, New York.
october 17, 2011
Being called “beloved
october 13, 2011
The Acquavella Galleries’ splendid Georges Braque exhibition is a 42-gun salute to this pioneering French Modernist. The first large Braque survey to be staged in New York in more than 20 years, it musters a vigorous if compressed account of more than five decades of art making, with 42 paintings and collages, almost all
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