107 stories by "Murray Whyte"
The Art Gallery of Ontario's fall blockbuster hopeful is called "Marc Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde," and like any such splashy import show, it's doing its best to trade on whatever ma…
Daniel Young and Christian Giroux, a Toronto-Guelph art duo, have won the 2011 award.
Five artists, working in everything from sculpture to video and photography, are in running for $70,000 prize.
David Hockney sets aside his painterly brushes to create works with an iPad sketch app ... aptly called “Brushes.”
What’s the best of the annual art feast? Depends what you bring to it.
The AGO's brand-new learning centre rehabilitates a dark, subterranean bunker into an inspiring creative space
The National Gallery of Canada and the Dulwich Picture Gallery present the Group's largest U.K. show.
The 1979 Honda Civic, in its modest way, helped revolutionize a car industry drunk on oil. Jed Lind honours its impact with an exploration of its overlooked, elegant form
In his first act as the Art Gallery of Ontario's first artist in residence, Paul Butler communes with the spirit of late, great artist Greg Curnoe to bring the outside in.
No-one could ever accuse Thrush Homes of being modest. But five years after dropping like a bomb on the Queen West art scene, the enfant terrible is smartening up and quieting down.
Vanessa Nicholas and Caroline Macfarlane had the idea to beautify the city with brightly painted bikes before Rob Ford saddled up.
A preview of exceptional art coming to galleries this fall
Exhibit pulls back veil of iconhood on Tom Thomson.
Bugs and toy miniatures meet in entomological mélange
On the 60th anniversary of Ruth Orkin's iconic photo, its Toronto subject, now 84, reflects
Buffalo's Albright-Knox hardwires itself to the video generation with "Videosphere," an uneven survey of the form
Brazilian duo rummages through the back alleys of Chinatown enroute to eco-informed public art
A stunning AGO retrospective demonstrates why and how a collective trio from Toronto turned the art world on its stuffy head
A mixed show of aboriginal artists alternately challenges and is subsumed by the dominant culture
Sasha Foster and Felix Kamelson build shrines out of discarded materials to honour forgotten corners of our urban experience
Luanne Martineau churns and reconstitutes recent art history with glee
An Oakville show of the young Ontario candidates presents a worthy roster
Summer show looks at new growth from the rubble
A lost genius of Toronto's art history, re-discovered
David Merritt and David Urban, two eminent Canadian artists, open new shows.
