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Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2013
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2013 – October 5 in Toronto Scotiabank Nuit Blanche is Toronto’s annual all-night celebration of contemporary art, produced by the City of Toronto in collaboration with Toronto’s arts community. The eighth edition of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche will take place Saturday, October 5 from 6:51 p.m. until sunrise. This year’s lineup includes 112 […]
Yoko Ono at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Travel to the edges of any major European city, and you reach placid suburban hell. This is true even for ultra-civilized Copenhagen. The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in the suburb of Humlebæk is reachable in under an hour by train, from which you see the city ebb, flow, and dissipate. Tucked inside an otherwise […]
Eric Baudart at Galerie Valentin
Eric Baudart’s new exhibition More at Galerie Valentin is his fourth at the space and presents a comprehensive view of the artist’s ability to skillfully move between materials and forms with calculated whimsy and aplomb. Each work offers another glimpse into his very personal world, where readymades confront photographic images, where each of the artist’s […]
Post Mortem Document: Sara MacKillop’s Ex Library Book
Sara MacKillop’s Ex Library Book tells the story of a place of words without using many. Published with Pork Salad Press, this work seems at first to be a random photo collection of stamps and insignificant slips found in any public library book, building up a detailed picture of the public library by showcasing every element […]
David Michael Bowers
Most people create a mask of respectability that other members of society see. These masks might fool the outside viewers and may even fool the individuals who create them. If you rip off the masks, the primal passions that control humans emerge from the deep recesses of our psyche… My paintings reflect my observations of […]
ARTCRANK BRINGS “THE POSTER PARTY FOR BIKE PEOPLE” BACK TO NYC.
2013 has been the year of the bicycle in New York City, with the city rolling out the country’s largest bike share program and more than 50 miles of new bike lanes. With cycling on the rise in the city, ARTCRANK rolls into town primed to top a 2012 NYC debut that saw a crowd […]
Michael Brown: Schematics and Silhouettes at Mike Weiss Gallery
Artist Michael Brown presents a discourse about the machine, history, and nostalgia in his first solo exhibition at Mike Weiss Gallery. Employing both sculpture and drawing, Schematics and Silhouettes reexamines the relationship between the infinite and the self-contained, with a clear rhetoric pulled from America’s westward expansion, our industrial past, and the conceptual work of […]
Bjorn Copeland at Jack Hanley Gallery
Combing the commercial landscape for product detritus and two-dimensional media, Copeland guts and recombines found materials into psychotropic Pop assemblages. His material gestures range from slight and clever manipulations of image or lettering to jarring repetition of pattern and hyper-saturated color. Leaving the skeletal remains of the commodity form, Copeland reclaims the “potential” of the […]
An Homage to Berlin By Erwin Olaf
Berlin: a city between the worlds, a city between east and west, a city that is only what its people believe it to be. Dutch artist and photographer, Erwin Olaf, attempts to approach himself with personal definition with his series about the city, “A Homage to Berlin.” I tried to understand his artistic vision during […]
