107 stories by "Murray Whyte"
In 1973, Arnaud Maggs had an epiphany. "I had never thought of being an artist " never considered it," he says. "But then, one day, it hit me. I still don't know why, but I was filled with e…
Diane Borsato has united mycologists and astronomers, touched 1,000 people and learned to bee keep in Italian, all in pursuit of a personally-engaged art of the everyday
In 1998, Zhang Huan stripped naked and had writers inscribe his bare flesh with proverbs and poetry from Chinese and Buddhist literature and history. He then picked up the bloody rib cage of…
In 1998, Zhang Huan stripped naked and had writers inscribe his flesh with proverbs and poetry from Chinese and Buddhist literature and history. He then picked up the bloody rib cage of a fr…
Diane Borsato has united mycologists and astronomers, touched 1,000 people and learned to bee keep in Italian, all in pursuit of a personally-engaged art of the everyday
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, Rafm…
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, ever…
Contact's 16th installment opens this weekend. A preview.
Amanda Nedham is a young Toronto artist having a moment, with a dazzling new show and a commission from British fashion designer All Saints.
Across the street from a scrap yard, Arsenale Toronto is bringing the Montreal art world to the city in a unique setting.
Mansion that has hosted Oakville Galleries exhibits in Gairloch Gardens may be sold off.
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…
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…
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…
The slickly deceptive cinematic world of Kerry Tribe, the headliner of the Power Plant's spring offerings. A review.
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?
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 splayed acro…
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…
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.…
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 command…
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
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…
Review of Tasman Richardson's immersive, panic-inducing multimedia installation, Necroplois, that's taken over the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
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 …
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.
