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10th Annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition **

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 mid-career practitioners in this country.

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fauxreel and Specter

BY David Balzer

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...

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Empty Orchestra

BY David Balzer

Karaoke is undoubtedly one of the most postmodern of pastimes, with its simulation of past and present pop ditties, its electronic and digital dependencies, its inherent deconstructionism (drawing ...

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Harvest of Memories: Mexican Days of the Dead

BY Rea McNamara

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 spirits of the dead into the daily life ...

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Wanda Ewing “The Ladies Room”

Wanda Ewing’s work has been called any number of things: provocative, feminist, cheeky, self-deprecating.

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DECADE — 10 Years of KM Projects

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...

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World Press Photo Exhibition

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 ...

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“Beaver Tales: Canadian Art and Design”

“Beaver Tales: Canadian Art and Design” aims to show, and to define, Canadian design through the historical and contemporary manifestations of what most ...

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Tara Cooper

Has the idea of the North in Canadian art ever reached its logical end point: i.e., becoming not only a space for existential contemplation (of loneliness, of...

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Peter Hoffer

In one of his “Notes” from 1986, Gerhard Richter writes, “Of course my landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion...

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