“Beaver Tales: Canadian Art and Design” aims to show, and to define, Canadian design through the historical and contemporary manifestations of what most people now see as thin, nationalist clichés.
BY David Balzer
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 longing, of desperation) but also one ...
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 of lost Paradises, but above all ...
Does reality become art by sheer virtue of it being recorded? In 2008 the question is stale yet persistent, especially in the visual arts, where video piece after video piece demands us look at ...
The finalists for the Sobey Art Award, a selection of whose work is now on display at the ROM (the winner will be announced Oct. 1), might be divided into two...
Those who admire Soulpepper’s impeccable taste in illustrators — and who, in general, lament the lost art of the graphically engaging playbill and poster — ...
Bob Willoughby’s film-set photography is, quite simply, its own form of cinema.
Until now, Dean Drever has, more or less, been a sculptor in the spirit of Jeff Koons. His ironic objects — chrome baseball bats and stainless-steel ... (1)
The topic is the changing face of suburbs in the GTA, focusing on ways in which development both reflects and fosters new ethno-religious populations.
A bright spot in Gallery 44’s annual “Proof” show of emerging photographic artists is Michael Love’s Self-Portrait With Rifle: