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Sunday Devotionals - Link Wray (the greatest guitar player ever) (for Tanya Read, on her birthday)
Rumble
Streets of Chicago
Rawhide in web 2.0
Carlo Cesta - Security Measure at Convenience, 58 Lansdowne Avenue, Toronto ON. until Dec 27, 2008
Security Measure 2008 sparkle vinyl on vertical blinds.
Game On! with Brett Kashmere, Jim Munroe and Shelley Niro at the MacLarenArtCentre, Barrie, ON. Dec 4th 2008 to Feb. 22, 2009.
Curated by Sarah Beveridge
Opening Reception: Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008, 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Screen shots from My Trip To Liberty City by Jim Munroe, Canadiantourist.jpg designed by Patricio Davila, skin by Marc Ngui
Who should we nominate? (to get their brains squished in the escalator)
CASH IS KING, BUT YOUR LOVE RULES: ART METROPOLE AUCTION 2008
TODAY, Tuesday November 25 2008
Special Artists’ and Collectors’ Reception 7 pm – 9 pm
Auction 9 pm sharp
admission $10 (includes reception and auction)
Edward Day Gallery
952 Queen Street West, Toronto
CASH IS KING BUT YOUR LOVE RULES comprises an amazing array of contemporary art by established legendary artists and newly emerging legends affiliated with Art Metropole, for your bidding pleasure. We are holding a Special Artists’ and Collectors’ Reception 7 – 9 pm on November 25, in advance of the Auction which will be an opportunity to meet some of our favourite artists and collectors from the Toronto art world and beyond. The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art will be open during this evening, so that auction goers will have the chance to see Art Metropole: The Top 100. Don’t miss out on one of the best auctions of contemporary Canadian and international art of the fall season, celebrating and supporting Art Metropole!
Some of the fabulous art available at auction include works by:
John Abrams, Dave Allen, Stephen Andrews, Barbara Astman, Cecilia Berkovic, Katie Bethune-Leamen, Blue Republic, AA Bronson, Krista Buecking, Bill Burns, Paul Butler, James Carl, Ian Carr-Harris, Rob Clarke, Miles Collyer, Tom Dean, Patrick DeCoste, Judith Doyle, Maura Doyle, Stephen Ellwood, Gary Evans, FASTWURMS, Robert Fones, Eldon Garnet, General Idea, Ron Giii, Hart Goetze, Sadko Hadzihasanovic, Anitra Hamilton, Andrew Harwood, Joel Herman, Matthias Herrmann, Marla Hlady, Derrick Hodgson, Patrick Howlett, Instant Coffee, Vid Ingelevics, Jay Isaac, Luis Jacob, Garry Neill Kennedy, Wanda Koop, Bruce LaBruce, Yvonne Lammerich, JJ Lee, Micah Lexier & Kelly Mark, Pamila Matharu, Kelly McCray, Allyson Mitchell, Jonathan Monk, Will Munro, Jennifer Murphy, Daniel Olson, Luke Painter, Andrew Paterson, Sandra Rechico, Kerri Reid, Steve Reinke, Mitch Robertson, Jade Rude, Rupin, Lyla Rye, David Salazar, Cheryl Sourkes, Chrysanne Stathacos, Derek Sullivan, Althea Thauberger, Josh Thorpe, Joanne Tod, Ron Tran, Scott Treleaven, Adrienne Trent, Richard Vaughan, Daryl Vocat, Julie Voyce, Kaitlin Wilson, Tonik Wojtyra ...
Art Metropole sincerely thanks the generosity of our sponsors: Akau, Akimbo, Edward Day Gallery, Grolsch, Jaime Kennedy Kitchens, Mass Art Guide, Now Magazine, Sotheby’s, Superframe
Video: Tsuxiit by Nicholas Thorburn
I was snooping around the other day looking for artworks about whales and I came across this video by Nicholas Thorburn who is a musician with The Islands. It's footage of Tsux'iit, otherwise known as Luna, that Thorburn shot with his father, accompanied by music from Thorburn's band. It's some of the prettiest online video I've seen, making great use of crunchy glittery digital compression. Thorburn writes a pretty good story about Tsux'iit/Luna, although I also suggest click here for a more nuanced view on the relationship between the Mowachaht / Muchalaht First Nations people and the whale.
(found)
Sunday Devotionals - Ennio Morricone
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Harmonica/ Man With A Harmonica/ Death Rattle
A Fistful of Dollars
The Ecstasy of Gold (I've posted this one before, but she's so awesome that we have to watch again)
Bill Jones + Suzy Lake at Paul Petro Contemporary Art 980 Queen St West Toronto, Nov.21 - Dec. 20, 2008
Bill Jones Suzy Lake as Patty Hearst 1976 - 2008
Bill Jones Suzy Lake as Patty Hearst 1976 - 2008
Ed Pien: Luminous at Birch Libralato Gallery 129 Tecumseth Street, Toronto Nov.22 - Dec. 20, 2008
Opening: Saturday, Nov. 22, 2pm - 5pm
Hamburg Train Station 2008 3M reflector film laminated on Shoji paper, 25" x 18"
Hamburg train station at Night 2008 ink on 3M reflector film laminated on Shoji paper, 25" x 18"
James Carl: do you know what at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery Hart House, University of Toronto Nov.22, 2008 - Jan. 25, 2009
Opening: Saturday, Nov. 22, 3pm - 6pm
James Carl - thing's end 2008 polymer clay, dimensions variable
James Carl: jalousie at Diaz Contemporary 100 Niagara Street (at Tecumseth) Toronto Nov.22, 2008 - Jan. 17, 2009
Opening: Saturday 22 November from 5 to 8
Brendan Flanagan - Black Bay at LE Gallery 1183 Dundas St. W., Toronto ON Nov. 19th to Dec. 21st, 2008
Opening: Nov. 21st, from 7-10pm
Black Bay 2008 Acrylic enamel on board. 108” x 72”
Bog 2008 Acrylic enamel on board. 36” x 28”
Mountain tops 2008 Acrylic enamel on board. 60” x 42”
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Sunday Devotionals - Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormet singing Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun
An unexpected and brilliant cover. (thanks GVB)
Adventures at the Petting Zoo
(we really really liked the new Art Gallery of Ontario)
-Lorna Mills & Sally McKay
U OF T Art Centre: Art With Insight presents a gallery talk by Yam Lau on Thursday Nov. 13 at 7 pm.
University of Toronto Art Centre, North Wing of University College (enter from Hoskin Avenue) 15 King's College Circle, Toronto
Laura Paolini's Crocodile Tears
This heartbreaking cyborg companion species video is best viewed on Laura Paolini's website. Unfortunately I couldn't make a direct link to the video cause the site is in flash. But it's pretty and pink and definitely worth a look. Laura will be mounting the entire installation at XPACE in a show opening January 9 called Mis[place]d: Animals Lost and Found.
November 11
Captain Jack B. Ashmore with two Doctors from the French Foreign Legion WWII: Burma
First, second & third graves of Jack B. Ashmore who was among 31 patients, nine orderlies and four Doctors killed on Feb 7th, 1944 in a Japanese raid on the Arakan Field Hospital in Burma.
Thanks to Myfanwy Ashmore for these photos of her grandfather.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission .
Derek Sullivan
#1,
gouache and coloured pencil on paper 50 x 38 1/2 inches
#2,
gouache and coloured pencil on paper 50 x 38 1/2 inches
#3,
gouache and coloured pencil on paper 50 x 38 1/2 inches
We May Be Standing on the Shoulder of Giants But Some Of Us Are Looking At The Stars 2007 laser-cut fabric variable edition of 3 (+ 1 AP)
Sunday Devotional - John Waters
Thanks Bill
(found)
In Ontario news, I have been spotty with posts at times because I am insanely busy with a multi game contract and I have been teaching a course in web based art at the University of Guelph this term. My lessons page can be found here, or just check the archive and look at the lessons from day 1 to see how I am incrementally destroying art and art education.
If you aren't reading prolonged hacking and gnawing by the brilliant John Massier, curator of Hallwalls in Buffalo, check out his eloquent comments on the U.S. election results.
Janis Demkiw - Box 2008 mixed media
As Is: a new project space opening with the work of June Pak and Janis Demkiw. at 347 Montrose Ave, Toronto, ON. Open Saturdays 12-5 Nov. 8, 15 & 22 or by appointment.
Reception: Friday, Nov. 7th from 7-9PM
As Is is an new artist led project space in a house located in downtown Toronto. Artists are invited to read the room and exhibit their work amongst the everyday objects in the home. The space is run by Michelle Johnson, who lives in the house.
Excerpt from Pit Schultz' "The Producer as Power User" (2006)
At the forefront of the still ongoing cybernetic modernization, the power user serves as an unpaid research and development unit, as a mediator to popular media culture, and a sensitive prototype of sociotechnical exploration. In many cases the power user is self-trained, almost making a living out of her skills, beyond productivity in an industrial sense, without being responsible for a specific product or task. She is primarily dedicated to her own individualization, the customization of the extended self in relation to other power users, in the form of an ongoing system configuration. Usually not too much involved as a developer, the power user actively contributes to the deployment of software tools by finding new uses for them, or documenting errors, and therefore inscribing herself into the collective process. She lives on the back end and insides of cybernetic circuitry, and constantly configures and expands it as essential parts of the household.
I will no longer have to wrap tinfoil around my head during U.S. news reports.
Best of luck in the future, my American friends.
Hello my American friends,
We'll just have to find ways to amuse ourselves on this very long day.
Yay! Christmas is finally here!
I wonder what happens to everyone in the cottage.
Sunday Devotional - William M Gaines
art is similar to:
a stereo speaker, a carousel (amusement ride), a drum kit, a piano, a train, a merry-go-round, a Macintosh computer, an airplane, a clock, a robot, a table lamp, a subway car.
How did I find out? Go to 20Q (tip: play "Classic 20Q first, it's the most fun)
At The Abbey bar, 989 College St. Toronto.
Saturday, Nov. 1st, from 10pm.