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Jay Isaac - The Zone of No Ideas at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, 980 Queen St West Toronto,ON. Until March 27, 2010
Details from four different paintings by Jay Isaac, butted up against each other without any regard for the artist's intentions: ...
Recent Blingees commissioned by Kim Fullerton for Akimbo's Art Stars Banner
She found this one disturbing for some reason.
This one's so minimal, it's like the Donald Judd of Blingees.
Normally I couldn't be bothered with an art commission from the private sector, since my mediocre practice is heavily subsidized with government funding. (For the record, I only really need about $70,000.00 of my yearly Canada council grant for expenses, and the remaining $50,000.00 is spent on blow which I like to think keeps me from being complacent)
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Michael Caines and Goody-B Wiseman at Katharine Mulherin, 1082 + 1086 Queen St. w., Toronto. Until March 7, 2010
Michael Caines from Revelations of Dog
Goody-B Wiseman - America (detail) from Wild Child
An quick update on Excellence at the National Gallery of Canada:
We complained a lot in a recent thread about the apalling performance of Marc Mayer when questioned on CBC TV about a lack of diversity at the National Gallery of Canada. Now there is "a growing collective of cultural producers from Canada and abroad concerned with the outrageous and blatantly anachronistic policy of exclusion recently asserted by the Director of the National Gallery of Canada, Marc Mayer, during an interview aired as part of a segment on Diaspora Art on CBC’s 'The National' on February 2, 2010." Read the open letter, it's satisfyingly snarky. I signed on. Here's my favourite bit.
Well, we know “excellence” when we see it, and today we prefer to call it hegemony.
As the Director of a major art museum you might like to read up on this concept. You could start with Linda Nochlin’s seminal work "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" (1971), and then move on to more contemporary, fulsome texts, such as Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism (1993) and bell hooks’ Black Looks: Race and Representation (1992). At the very least you could try reading Fuse Magazine.