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UNHINGED - Hallwalls' Artists & Models Affair Saturday, May 31, 9pm-2am.
Central Terminal on Paderewski Drive, Buffalo NY.
Lewis Colburn - War Room 2008 mixed media
The catastrophic and on-going CRISIS IN ART CRITICISM has thrown the curators in a total tizzy
and as a result a modified - kitteh has no eyes - version of myShape Shifting Kitteh (thanks for the title mark) will be shown as a video projection.
Gordon Hicks will also be installing his lovely Light Rain Tonight, a work that we've previously featured on this blog.
[...update...]
Hallwalls' director, John Massier, (who is probably the most bewildered of the above mentioned curators) just sent me an installation test image of the kittehs in Buffalo.
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Anthony Easton of pink moose is in Toronto and he's got an opening tomorrow night at 7:00 at Type Books, 883 Queen St. West. Rumour has it there will be a lot of very nice photographs at nice affordable prices.
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Katie Bethune-Leaman at the Toronto Sculpture Garden, 115 King Street E., Toronto ON
May 28 '08 - Apr 15 '09
Opening: Wed 28 May, 4:30-6:30pm
Mushroom Studio 2008 laser cut steel, steel wire, polyurethane foam, paint
I'm in agreement with what Terence Dick wrote on akimblog
"Katie Bethune-Leaman’s work is also funny, but in a macabre way. As is her wont, she twists pop culture references in unexpected directions. Here she posits the corpse of slain rapper Tupac Shakur as a farm bed for mushrooms. A series of delicate drawings and an accompanying sculptural assemblage brings her musings on hip-hop fungi to light."(please note it is much more fun to disagree with Terence Dick)
We finally watched The Golden Compass. I don't understand why people seem to hate it so much. I loved the books, and thought the movie was perfectly entertaining: non-stop action with no draggy bits, groovy dirigibles, suitably cute daemons animated just fine, better-than competent and charismatic child acting, creepy Nicole Kidman, faithful to the dark scary stuff in the books, faithful to the kid-like P.O.V. of Lyra/Pan. The only complaint I had was that Ian McKellen was mis-cast as the Gandalf voice for Iorek Byrnison. That bear shoulda been less of a sage and more of a roust-a-bout. Otherwise, it was fun and I wish they were going to make the rest of the trilogy. Also, the website has a quiz you can fill out to get a daemon assigned (click on "daemons"). Mine is an osprey. If I was 8 again I would be in heaven.