You searched for:

National Gallery of Canada

ONLINE PREMIERE: “Ways of Something – Episode 3”

by Paddy Johnson on January 30, 2017
Thumbnail image for ONLINE PREMIERE: “Ways of Something – Episode 3”

With John Berger’s death this month, the online premiere of Lorna Mills’ “Ways of Something, 3” feels particularly poignant. While Mills’s “Ways of Something” wasn’t conceived strictly as an update, as 117 person re-interpretation it effectively functions as such. To complete this piece, Mills invited over 100 artists to remake all four parts of Berger’s 1972 BBC series “Ways of Seeing”, minute by minute. Each artist was given 60 seconds of video—doled out on a first come first serve basis—with the sole condition that they would need to retain the text used in captioning. What they did to the captioning font, the visuals, the sound, was entirely up to them.

The result is almost certainly the largest video exquisite corpse in existence. Similar to the first Surrealist conceived exquisite corpse drawings, where each half is made blind of the other, each artist creates a minute without knowing what will come before or after it.

Read the full article →

Artists Use Yelp to Shame Plagiarizing Restaurant

by Rea McNamara on January 26, 2016
Thumbnail image for Artists Use Yelp to Shame Plagiarizing Restaurant

Turns out Yelp isn’t only useful as a go-to website for dining destination consensus. For Kelly Mark, it’s an effective way to pressure a restaurant to remove its unauthorized copy of an artwork.

Last August, the Canadian artist served notice to the owners of Old School, a Toronto restaurant, demanding the immediate removal and destruction of a neon sign that bears a striking resemblance to her 2006 work, “I Called Shotgun Infinity When I Was Twelve”. The neon copy is exactly the same in text, layout, and color. Only the font and size of the piece differs.

Read the full article →

Who’s Running the Show? On MoCCA’s Shifting Creative Vision

by Rea McNamara on January 13, 2016
Thumbnail image for Who’s Running the Show? On MoCCA’s Shifting Creative Vision

If the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MoCCA) were a book, it’s cover would be looking pretty good right now. The 17 year old institution dedicated to showcasing contemporary artists is in the midst of moving into Toronto’s historic Tower Automotive Building. Expected to occupy 25,000 square feet of the industrial heritage building now being restored by developer Castlepoint Numa, MoCCA’s new permanent home will be the so-called anchor tenant of a new mixed-used community in the Lower Junction neighbourhood. On top of that, the organization hired its first-ever CEO Chantal Pontbriand to bring an international outlook and shake things up. With so many hurdles cleared, MoCCA appears on the verge of becoming one of Toronto’s few international institutional players.

Read the full article →

AA Bronson Speaks To CBC About The Smithsonian Fiasco

by Art Fag City on December 23, 2010
Thumbnail image for AA Bronson Speaks To CBC About The Smithsonian Fiasco

I’d like to see a bit more forest through these trees regarding The Smithsonian fiasco. The institute made a mistake both morally and strategically when they removed David Wojnarowicz’s “Fire in My Belly” a video sparking the wrath of The Catholic League and incoming House Majority leader Eric Cantor (et al), and even the show’s curators David Ward and Jonathon Kurtz agree on this. Their position isn’t the same though when AA Bronson, a participating artist, told them they needed to re-install the work, or send his own piece back, “Felix”.

Read the full article →

Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on July 21, 2008

David Franklin Goes to Court Against National Gallery of Canada – CultureGrrl David Franklin deputy director went on leave July 2 from his post at the National gallery and is taking the museum and its director to court for what the Ottawa Citizen describes as “fears Théberge (the director) was unfairly trying to fire him […]

Read the full article →