107 stories by "Murray Whyte"
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.
Toronto artists Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge epitomize generations of artist activism in Canada. This month, they get a much-deserved homecoming.
Review of a show by Douglas Coupland, who, yes, does art on top of all that other stuff.
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.
Israeli artist's provocative trilogy of films casts a critical eye on Jewish diaspora.
Combination bar and gallery dials down the formality in video art and offers a space to "just hang out."
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.
Episode III: Enjoy Poverty is a bombastic film by Dutch artist Renzo Martens that asks questions about foreign aid and gets some surprising answers.
Power Plant show looks at gay art made a generation after the AIDS crisis
A necessarily subjective list of the top 10 visual arts events of the year.
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, the cur…
Everything about Dorian FitzGerald screams for your attention, from his name " tempting though it may be to imagine it a new romantic pseudonym, it is in fact his real name, and his mother i…
Review of winter exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian art, provocatively called "Ineffable Plasticity: The Experience of Being Human."
Looking at Stan Douglas's new photographic work at the Power Plant, there's an easy temptation to glom on to the glossy surface of awkward nostalgia. In rich black-and-whites, the images com…
Toronto artists won the $50,000 Sobey Art Prize this year. But it could just be a prelude to what comes next.
Weary of the commercial grind of international art fairs and the lack of profile of Canadian artists at them, a Toronto couple opens their own museum.
NSCAD University is in big trouble. Is art education itself in the same boat?
Micah Lexier's new show is called Things Exist, calling attention to the beauty to be found in the everyday.
Gauri Gill is the 2011 winner of the Grange Photography Prize, the biggest photography prize in Canada.
Prize will be presented Tuesday at the AGO, with one of four photographers walking away $50,000 richer.
It's a sink-or-swim moment for a London gallery director and the Canadian canvases he's long coveted: a show that could well reframe Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven.
Groundbreaking London exhibition frees Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris and others from the yoke of Canadian nationalism, revealing them as the modernist innovators they were.
Eminent Canadian painter Tony Scherman takes on the Trudeau myth and legend with "Black October," a show revolving around the FLQ October crisis.
Artist Ken Nicol's lifelong project is to divine order from the chaos of everyday life " mostly his own.
It took almost a century, but London is finally giving the Group of Seven a heck of a reception.
