Andrew Harwood's Top Fifteen 2006
1) Kent Monkman's, Salon Indien, installation at TIAF, sponsored by MOCCA, Kent stop it ~ your killing me ~ it was perfect!! I smell Ven-ass Biennale!!

2) Unholy Alliance: art + fashion meet again, curated by David Liss at MOCCA

3) Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne, curated by Bennet Simpson, The Power Plant, The most relaxed show I have ever seen at the PP.

4) Kim Adams: Bugs and Dragons, AGO/Little Miss Sunshine

5) Allyson Mitchell, Vagina Dentata in Late Capitalist Society, her farewell to the Gladstone room at TAAFI/ Drag Strip, Vaginal Creme Davis & Gartina @ TAAFI

6) Bruce La Bruce's Wedding to Antonio at Toronto City Hall, I am a crusty bitch & cried me eyes out!!

7) Fatwurms, Honky Town, Paul Petro Contemporary Art

8) Stephen Andrews, Lives of the Saints, Paul Petro

9) Lorna Mills Steve Irwin Memeorial Pumpkin, at RM Vaughan's Halloween Party

10) Toronto Island, Hanlans Point, Nude Beach, June, July, August 2006/ Venice Beach, Los Angeles w Allyson Mitchell and Keith Manship September 2006

11) Sandra Rechico's Art + Gossip, Anywhere any time!!

12) David Liss's Hair, Anywhere any time!!

13) Strip-O-Rama, Gallery TPW Fundraiser at The Gladstone Hotel, Props to Enza Supermodel!!

14) Patrick DeCoste's simultaneous nervous breakdown, come back and great painting show @ Spin Gallery and many, many other locations!! 50% real - 50% PR scary and beautiful!!

15) Finnbogi Pétursson, Sphere, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, OMG! Ravey and atmospheric all at once/Jubal Brown's all night Halloween party at the Brickworks - it was the best and worst party I have ever gone to - party kids were trading smokes for plastic grapes from my head-dress - it was pretty Mad Max once the water ran out at 6 am!! Don't do poppers & pot in fall-themed drag in unlit abandoned buildings ever!! Pic attached (below).

andrew harwood in headdress

- sally mckay 12-22-2006 2:09 am

Thank you, Andrew, for recognizing my disenchantment with the art world and it's current taste for faux naif jackolanterns.
- L.M. (guest) 12-22-2006 7:23 pm


I also agree with Andrew on Kent Monkman's work. I think all those gorgeous old CN hotels should replace their 30's style panoramic Cowboy and Indian murals with his stuff.

bess_1 Monk_1

- L.M. 12-31-2006 9:11 pm


That's a great idea! This painting of his is my favourite, sorry about the crappy image...

kent monkman artist and model

This one below (nabbed from Cybertribe) is titled Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

kent monkman pipe

- sally mckay 12-31-2006 9:49 pm


That one should go in the Chateau Frontenac.

front

- L.M. 12-31-2006 10:20 pm


mmmm-hm! Ceci n'est pas impérialiste.
- sally mckay 1-01-2007 1:03 am





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