september 16, 2011
The last time we mentioned Joel Richardson's work was when his mural under the rail overpass near Dupont and Lansdowne was unceremoniously buffed by the City of Toronto. Although the artist had been commissioned to complete the work
september 19, 2011
Please. Someone, everyone, do something to save the American Folk Art Museum from dissolution and dispersal. Or at least slow down the process, so that all options can be thoroughly considered. New York’s contemporary artists, and New York as a whole, need the creative energy of this stubborn, single-minded little
september 19, 2011
“I don’t want to see this,” said the woman beside me. “Disgusting! Terrible! Kitsch!”
She could have been referring to the clothes on display, or those worn by the people jockeying for a closer look at the couture of Jean Paul Gaultier at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. It
september 20, 2011
In his monumental painting “The Way [Procession] to Cavalry” (1564, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna), Pieter Bruegel the Elder lodged a protest against the Holy Roman Empire’s annexing of the Spanish Netherlands by
September 19, 2011
Facebook has repeatedly disabled users’ accounts for posting
september 16, 2011
september 15, 2011
Jim Fleck, veteran Toronto philanthropist and chair of Business for the Arts, describes the issue in terms financial analysts can understand. By investing less than $20 million in culture, the City of Toronto leverages $99 million in private funding.
That’s a five-to-one
september 15, 2011
The Museum of Modern Art has never known quite what to do with Willem de Kooning. You can package Jackson Pollock as drips and Barnett Newman as zips, but de Kooning, who painted both opulent abstractions
In Conversation with Kirstine Stewart, Executive Vice-President of CBC English Television
M.F. Husain’s “Sprinkling Horses” sold for $1.14 million at an auction on Tuesday, one of the highest prices ever paid for a work of the late master and a positive sign for the Indian art market.
“Sprinkling
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