Jack Goldstein × 10,000

Jack Goldstein × 10,000

May 8th, 2013 | Canada, Film, Shows, Video Art

Jack Goldstein transformed, restaged, and remade films in such a way as to strip out specific details, context, and function. The first American retrospective of the Canadian-born artist brings to light his important legacy. This comprehensive exhibition frames Goldstein as a central figure of the… Read More

CONTINENTAL DRIFT – Conceptual Art in Canada: The 1960s and 70s

CONTINENTAL DRIFT – Conceptual Art in Canada: The 1960s and 70s

April 16th, 2013 | Canada, Conceptual Art

This exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation of Canadian conceptual art in Europe and is part of Badischer Kunstverein’s ongoing interest in histories of conceptual art, explored in exhibitions such as Why here is always somewhere else (2008) and Nancy Holt: Sightlines (2011). CONTINENTAL DRIFT… Read More

Douglas Coupland: Museum of the Rapture

Douglas Coupland: Museum of the Rapture

March 18th, 2013 | Canada, Music, Popculture, Videos

The Museum of the Rapture was a site-specific installation by Douglas Coupland interrogating life and death and things in between. It was installed in the underground parking garage at Toronto City Hall as part of the Museum For The End Of The World at the… Read More

The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto – Opening in 2014

The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto – Opening in 2014

January 21st, 2013 | Canada, Islam, Museums, News

The Aga Khan Museum, due to open in 2014 in Toronto, Canada, will be dedicated to the acquisition, preservation and display of artefacts – from various periods and geographies – relating to the intellectual, cultural, artistic and religious heritage of Islamic communities. It will also… Read More

405 Picassos donated to Saskatoon museum in Canada

405 Picassos donated to Saskatoon museum in Canada

September 26th, 2012 | Canada, News, Prints

The Frank and Ellen Remai Foundation has donated 405 Picasso prints worth $20 million to the Remai Art Gallery of Saskatchewan. The donation, called the largest of its kind in the province’s history, was announced Tuesday in Saskatoon. The new art gallery is being built… Read More

Guerrilla Art on Toronto’s Downtown Advertising Pillars

Guerrilla Art on Toronto’s Downtown Advertising Pillars

August 27th, 2012 | Canada, Public Art, Street Art

“This weekend, cARTographyTO replaced ads in Astral Media “Info” Pillars with art-maps created by Toronto residents and local artists. This site-specific art, donated by over 30 concerned citizens (and supported by many times more), offers new possibilities for these spaces, and information about the surrounding… Read More

Canadian Arts Groups Camp Out

Canadian Arts Groups Camp Out

August 21st, 2012 | Canada, Performances, Theatre

“Founded in a surge of national cultural enthusiasm that began in the 1950s and 1960s and peaked in the 1970s, Canadian performance groups are often housed in heritage buildings that were repurposed for their use in the 1970s and 1980s. Apart from new roofs, wheelchair… Read More

Fake Chinese art scam in Canada

Fake Chinese art scam in Canada

August 5th, 2012 | Canada, China, Forgery, News

“When a woman in British Columbia responded to an ad boasting great deals on art work in a Vancouver-based Chinese buy-and-sell publication, she wasn’t doing it to become an art aficionado. Instead, she was hoping to resell a work by a renowned Chinese contemporary artist… Read More

Julien Mier – Watercolour Sky

Julien Mier – Watercolour Sky

July 28th, 2012 | Canada, Music, Sculptures, Videos

Global Yodel contributor Stuart Langfield is responsible for this AMAZING official music video for Julien Mier‘s “Watercolour Sky,” from his upcoming EP, When Will You Wake Up. I will be out on King Deluxe, August 6th. Its a trippy, cinematic journey through the countryside where… Read More

Twenty artists delve into the relationship between humans and animals

Twenty artists delve into the relationship between humans and animals

July 5th, 2012 | Canada, Contemporary Art, Shows

Montreal – Some fifty works that are bound to spark a highly topical discussion of the human-animal relationship are in the spotlight in Zoo, the summer show at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, set to run until September 3. This group exhibition contains pieces… Read More