James Carl has two shows in Toronto right now, and both offer much to fascinate and frustrate.
BY David Balzer
“Kitsch” is rarely a neutral word. It began, arguably, as a pejorative, pioneered by certain avant-garde tastemakers near the middle of the last century (see Clement Greenberg’s 1939 essay ...
To begin with the dismal: Jeremy Hof has won the RBC Canadian Painting Competition, an award that once was a useful, even inspiring, barometre for the state of painting and its emerging to ...
There has already been a considerable degree of media attention given to street artists Dan Bergeron and Gabriel Reese’s, a.k.a. fauxreel and Specter’s, “A City Renewal Project,” and for good reason...
Karaoke is undoubtedly one of the most postmodern of pastimes, with its simulation of past and present pop ditties, its electronic and digital dependencies, ...
In Mexico, the Days of the Dead, which can stretch from the last days of October to the first days of November, are an opportunity for people to welcome the ...
Wanda Ewing’s work has been called any number of things: provocative, feminist, cheeky, self-deprecating.
Ten years is not a long time, a fact of which Katharine Mulherin seems well aware. To mark a decade of her “projects” — beginning with Bus Gallery back in ’98...
The World Press Photo of the Year for 2007 — now on display at Brookfield Place’s Allen Lambert Galleria with other prizewinners in various categories — is a ...
“Beaver Tales: Canadian Art and Design” aims to show, and to define, Canadian design through the historical and contemporary manifestations of what most ...