Liz London: Seeking Infinity Mercantile Coffee House January 26 through February 25, 2012 Opening reception with the artist is Thursday, January 26, 2012, from 6-7:30 p.m. As part of the McKinney Avenue Contemporary’s community outreach program, the MAC has teamed up with Mercantile Coffee House to extend its contemporary artistic vision and educational support to downtown Dallas. This partnership will promote and support emerging talent with monthly exhibitions throughout the [...]
Anyone who frequents downtown Toronto will soon have the chance to see a dramatically new, beautiful and challenging work by the Calgary-born artist Christian Eckart. This past August, his expansive Glass Hexagonal Perturbation – “Hive Brane” (2011) was installed in the east lobby of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital. The work commands and articulates space, stimulating us to reconceive both painting and sculpture—and, indeed, the place of art-making itself.
OBSOLESCENCE AND BEAUTY: THE OBSESSIONS OF ROBERT BEAN Artist and NSCAD University professor Robert Bean’s got a thing for the past. Just don’t call him nostalgic. Fascinated by the authentic, he recently curated of The Making of History and Artifacts (1888-1926), the photography of John Cooper Robinson from Meiji-Taishō Japan, an exhibition at Halifax’s Mary E. Black Gallery (October 7 – December 6) in conjunction with Photopolis: The Halifax Festival [...]
How far would you go, if you were utterly in love? Till death you do part? Kenneth MacMillan’s 1965 ballet Romeo and Juliet remains a magnet for audiences and for performers all playing that ritual game with their own feelings. Marianela Nuñez and Thiago Soares are a married couple, and brought to their single performance (unaccountably) in this new run of Covent Garden’s timeless attraction an infusion of pounding blood [...]
Gallery left painting theft unreported for 12 years The National Gallery of Victoria has defended its decision to not report a $200,000 painting as stolen for 12 years. Staff first noticed Low Tide at Boulogne by 19th century English landscape artist Richard Parkes Bonington was missing in 1999. Map: Melbourne