Ten times more porters than soldiers died in Africa during the first world war. But they have never been properly commemorated. Now Tate Modern is putting this right " with William Kentridge…
Test driving the semi-new apps from the ROM, AGO and MOCCA, and finding only one with wheels.
What to do when summer's worn out its welcome and it's only mid-July? Taking refuge in the air-conditioned bliss of most art venues isn't necessarily a welcome option, with the little ones t…
Porch View Dances turns Torontonians into performers in their own neighbourhoods
Michael Snow, the eminence grise of Canadian art in general, who won the Gershon Iskowitz prize at the AGO this year. With it comes a solo exhibition.
The Power Plant's summer exhibition, "Tools for Conviviality," turns out to be the last for curator Melanie O'Brien, who quit shortly after it opened.
"Summer Special" is the name of an art exhibition infiltrating the iconic bargain warehouse Honest Ed's
When the Oakville Galleries decided to name their summer exhibition "Freedom of Assembly," I don't think they meant it literally. More likely it was a cheeky little pun, given the show's clu…
Kitty Scott hired as the new curator of modern and contemporary at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
How long have I been harping about the dearth of substantial museum shows representing the dynamic hodgepodge of local artistic production? Long enough, it would appear, at least to judge by…
Terrance Houle has portaged the concrete canyons of Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver, gone grocery shopping in full powwow regalia, and played board games in a skimpy buckskin breechcloth agai…
Multimedia creator picked to "knock it out of the park" for Canada in critical Venice event.
There are 200 identical, white canvas tents pitched in neat rows at Fort York this week, the snap-to living embodiment of a fluid conceptual project called "The Encampment," mounted this mon…
Five regional finalists for the annual $70,000 Sobey Art Prize are announced.
What to make of Valerie Blass? It's a question the fast-rising Montreal-based sculptress seems to ask of herself time and again. The Art Gallery of Hamilton has just opened a half-size versi…
There are dystopic writers embroiled in the great unraveling of civil society through modernity's often-brutal churn, and then there's J.G. Ballard. Crash, his most famous book " or infamous…
When talking about the prodigious, almost 70-year output of Pablo Picasso, a slate of adjectives leap easily enough to mind: Innovative, iconoclastic, experimental, fearless. Just as easily,…
At MASS MoCA in Massachusetts, a packed house of Canadian art yields a welcome surprise
Well, this is different. While I have little doubt there will be no shortage of voices to take umbrage with Denise Markonish's highly subjective survey of the art of Canada " it's too stuffe…
Mass MOCA opens largest exhibition of Canadian contemporary art shown outside our borders, ever
It is what it says: "60 Painters," an exhibition of squarely five-dozen Toronto (and at least tangentially Toronto-connected) artists beholden to the brush and canvas. And if that sounds lik…
Suzy Lake, a towering influence on a generation of based artists, shows work new and old as a precursor to her retrospective at the AGO next year.
A painting by Jean-Paul Lemieux sold for $1.8 million at auction in Vancouver Thursday night, nearing the record set for the late Quebec artist's work last year.
Canada's spring art auction season begins on Thursday with Heffel Brothers auction in Vancouver.
Since it started up 16 years ago, the Contact Photography Festival has been something of a moving target. From its early years as a grassroots free-for-all " got some photos and somewhere to…