Thursday, May 3, 2012
In one of Jon Rafman’s pictures at Angell Gallery, a paunchy man in a blue T-shirt stands at the corner of an New York intersection, arms stretched to the heavens. What’s going on here, …
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMSaturday, April 28, 2012
Think you know Picasso? Think again. On Tuesday, the Art Gallery of Ontario opens a mammoth display of the modern master’s work — at 147 works, it’s the biggest this continent has seen…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMThursday, April 26, 2012
Contact's 16th installment opens this weekend. A preview.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMSaturday, April 21, 2012
Amanda Nedham is a young Toronto artist having a moment, with a dazzling new show and a commission from British fashion designer All Saints.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMThursday, April 19, 2012
Across the street from a scrap yard, Arsenale Toronto is bringing the Montreal art world to the city in a unique setting.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 05:39PMSunday, April 8, 2012
Mansion that has hosted Oakville Galleries exhibits in Gairloch Gardens may be sold off.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMSaturday, April 7, 2012
Ayala Zacks almost single-handedly introduced Toronto to Modern art, capping years of weekly salons with a gift of more than 400 works to the AGO in 1970. This week, the gallery opens a trib…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMThursday, April 5, 2012
Toronto photographer Deborah Samuels made an industry of herself with her portraits of dogs, spawning posters, calendars and an IKEA collection. At the ROM, she turns her lens to the uncuddl…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMSaturday, March 31, 2012
Michael Dumontier was recently at the Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art in his hometown of Winnipeg to talk about his good-sized career survey showing there. To the surprise of few, Dumo…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMThursday, March 29, 2012
The slickly deceptive cinematic world of Kerry Tribe, the headliner of the Power Plant's spring offerings. A review.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMSaturday, March 24, 2012
Gaetane Verna takes over as director of the Power Plant on the eve of its 25th anniversary, after almost a year with no-one in her chair. Can she right the ship?
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMThursday, March 22, 2012
Margaux Williamson is the Art Gallery of Ontario’s current artist-in-residence, and it’s a position she’s taken literally, given the tangle of unmade bed sheets and sleeping bag splaye…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMWednesday, March 21, 2012
In the opening moments of Crisis in the Credit System, a bitingly funny, deliberately flummoxing miniseries of sorts by the young Canadian, London-based artist Melanie Gilligan, a kindly you…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMSaturday, March 10, 2012
In 2003, Charles Pachter painted a vibrant, poppy-red double image of a barn, as seen after the springtime thaw had turned the fields near his rural studio into sodden slicks of melted snow.…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PMTuesday, March 6, 2012
Toronto’s war on graffiti opens a new front on Thursday when Spud, one of the city’s most visible graffiti writers, takes his art indoors for a show of new works centred on the war’s c…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PMSaturday, March 3, 2012
The long-awaited 50-year survey of the wildly inventive Iain Baxter&, whose seminal works from the late 50s forward inspired many of the best-known artists working today
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:08AMFriday, March 2, 2012
Something old, something new: reviews of Jack Tworkov, one of the seminal gang of Abstract Expressionists who rejected their commercialized fame, at Barbara Edwards Contemporary; and the asc…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PMWednesday, February 29, 2012
Review of Tasman Richardson's immersive, panic-inducing multimedia installation, Necroplois, that's taken over the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PMWednesday, February 22, 2012
Toronto director and photographer Bruce LaBruce has provoked a minor outrage in Madrid with an exhibition of his photographs that depict various Catholic icons in racy, often overtly sexual …
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:35PMTuesday, February 21, 2012
In 2010, artist Marina Abramovic spent 700 hours in a chair at MoMA, staring into patrons' eyes. A film of her experience makes its Canadian premiere in Toronto Wednesday.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PMWednesday, February 15, 2012
Let’s get something straight, Shary Boyle says. “I hate the term ‘whimsical,’” she scowls, warming her hands around a big white mug of coffee in her Toronto kitchen recently.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PMFriday, February 3, 2012
Toronto artists Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge epitomize generations of artist activism in Canada. This month, they get a much-deserved homecoming.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PMFriday, January 27, 2012
Review of a show by Douglas Coupland, who, yes, does art on top of all that other stuff.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:59PMThursday, January 26, 2012
The title of Yael Bartana’s arresting, provocative trilogy of films that opened this week at the Art Gallery of Ontario is And Europe Will Be Stunned, but let’s start with Toronto.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PMTuesday, January 24, 2012
Israeli artist’s provocative trilogy of films casts a critical eye on Jewish diaspora.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PMTuesday, January 17, 2012
Combination bar and gallery dials down the formality in video art and offers a space to “just hang out.”
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:49PMFriday, January 13, 2012
Geoffrey Pugen and Tibi Tibi Neuspiel created the most memorable moment at last year’s Nuit Blanche with The Tie Break. This week, they bring it from the cold.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PMSunday, January 8, 2012
Episode III: Enjoy Poverty is a bombastic film by Dutch artist Renzo Martens that asks questions about foreign aid and gets some surprising answers.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:33PMTuesday, January 3, 2012
Power Plant show looks at gay art made a generation after the AIDS crisis
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PMTuesday, December 27, 2011
A necessarily subjective list of the top 10 visual arts events of the year.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PMWednesday, December 21, 2011
Oakville Gallery’s Hyper Spaces conjures up the strange things that occur when real and virtual space collide“We have entered the future,” or so says the intro blurb to Hyper Spaces, t…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PM 
