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Lynn Donoghue

It is too easy, now, to look at Lynn Donoghue’s portraiture, currently on view at David Mirvish books (appropriately, since she has been repeatedly touted by Mirvish and the once-director of his 1970s gallery, Alkis Klonaridis), as conservative.

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Patrick Howlett: “the higher you get the higher you get” **

BY David Balzer

Two disparate shows are on at Susan Hobbs Gallery to the end of January: one by Patrick Howlett, a finalist in the RBC Painting Competition, and one (a very small one) by Althea Thauberger.

Andrew Morrow

BY David Balzer

Andrew Morrow’s new show at Edward Day Gallery isn’t perfect, and in many respects isn’t intended to be.

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Bill Jones and Suzy Lake

BY David Balzer

A Suzy Lake renaissance is in full swing. Coming off prominent inclusion in Santa Monica Museum’s “Identity Theft” group show last year, Lake currently has work at the Vancouver Art Gallery, where...

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James Carl

James Carl has two shows in Toronto right now, and both offer much to fascinate and frustrate.

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Janet Werner

“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...

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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.

fauxreel and Specter

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...

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Empty Orchestra

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

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Harvest of Memories: Mexican Days of the Dead

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...

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