Archive for the 'art scene' Category

Not really a new argument for those aware of how museums work, but the article is interesting nonetheless. Check it out here.

For all of you lucky people living in New York you can traverse the Whitney Biennial. For the rest of us stuck in other areas we can live vicariously through the Biennial’s website and recently launched Flickr page.

There is an interesting post over at the Pause, to Begin Blog which deals with access and the [...]

Peter Failmezger of Eli Klein Fine Art got in touch with me here at We Can’t Paint to let everyone know of an exhibition called Captive Visions: Contemporary Canadian Art, a showcase of Canadian art. The exhibition features great artists such as Marcel Dzama, Talia Shipman, Max Streicher, Christopher Ross, Cathy Daley, Tony Scherman and [...]

It’s that time of the year again. Nominations for the Sobey Art Award are now open. The award is similar to the UK’s Turner Prize, usually highlighting Canadian talent that is unknown to the international community. The award is given annually to a Canadian artist under 40 who has exhibited in a public or commercial [...]

The Flog!

Left image: self portrait as a happy prerafaelite girl, 2007 © Flavia Da Rin
Right image: me now as me 26 years earlier, 2007 © Tim Sullivan
I didn’t even realize I forgot to add The Flog to my blogroll untill I recieved a nudge from Fette that fette’s gallery is having an exhibition [...]

For its winter 2007 issue Canadian Art has dedicated most of its focus to Toronto, or as other Canadian’s like to call it: “T’ranna”. The feature I found the most interesting was “Cross-Country: Art professionals offer thoughts about Canada’s largest city and art scene”, an article which showcases opinions from gallery directors, curators, artists, and [...]