Category: News Archive
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The Grange Prize 2011
The shortlist for 2011: Gauri Gill and Nandini Valli from India; Elaine Stocki and Athea Thauberger from Canada The Grange Prize ($50 000) recognizes that contemporary photography includes a broad range of diverse practices and places no limitations on approach, subject matter, technology, or presentation.
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Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde
October 18, 2011 – January 15, 2012 Art Gallery of Ontario Drawn from the collection of the Centre Pompidou, the exhibition examines how Chagall’s Russian heritage influenced and informed his artistic practice, illustrating how he at turns embraced and rejected broader movements in art history as he developed his widely beloved style
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David Hockney’s Fresh Flowers: Drawings on iPhones and iPads
October 8, 2011 – January 1, 2012 ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Hockney began working with the iPhone in 2008. Since then, he has created hundreds of finger-drawn images, ranging in subject matter from flowers and self-portraits to landscapes and still life. More than 20 Hockney drawings in the exhibition will feature playback animations, allowing viewers insight…
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Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris
April 28 – August 26, 2012 ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO The collection of the Musée National Picasso, Paris comprises more than 5,000 works that Picasso kept for himself and his family over the course of his career, ranging from informal sketchbooks to iconic masterpieces. Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris features is touring…
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Junction Arts Festival 2011
Junction Arts Festival 2011 Sadly, the Junction Arts Festival will not be happening this year due to difficult challenges and obstacles created by the certain unworkable situations and Associations.We feel that the community deserves the best festival possible, but the roadblocks have left us with little time to plan the festival that we want to…
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Michael Snow Wins the 2011 Iskowitz Prize at the AGO
(TORONTO – June 6, 2011) Michael Snow, one of Canada’s most internationally celebrated artists, is the winner of the 2011 Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO for his remarkable contribution to the visual arts in Canada. The AGO and the Gershon Iskowitz Foundation will commemorate the award at a reception on June 10, and next…