Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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3rd Annual Schomberg Village Street Gallery Juried Art Show and Sale
Saturday & Sunday, September 17 & 18 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day SCHOMBERG VILLAGE STREET GALLERY King Township has one of the highest per capita populations of artists in Ontario, and Schomberg is where they gather!
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Simon Fujiwara: Welcome to the Hotel Munber
September 24 – November 11, 2011 Opening: Friday, September 23rd, 8-11PM THE POWER PLANT CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY Simon Fujiwara’s narrative installation reveals a complex research into identity and cultural heritage as an open-ended process of investigation.
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The Plot
September 24 – November 6, 2011 Opening: Friday, September 23rd, 8-11PM THE POWER PLANT CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY The Plot explores film and video not only as a tract upon which scenes are enacted, broken and re-spatialized, but as a scenario, a deception and a scheme.
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Derek Sullivan: Albatross Omnibus
September 24 – November 20, 2011 Opening: Friday, September 23rd, 8-11PM THE POWER PLANT CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY The Power Plant’s 2011 commission Albatross Omnibus by Toronto-based artist Derek Sullivan involves new artist books, and a drawing and installation project.
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China: made in Canada by Harlan House
August 18 – September 25, 2011 Opening: on Saturday, September 10th, 2-5pm DAVID KAYE GALLERY Combining his first love of painting with his expertise in making fine porcelain ceramic objects, Harlan House tackles issues that address the insidious and widespread spread of ubiquitous fast-food products
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Nouvelle. New Members’ Exhibition
September 10 – October 5, 2011 Opening: Sept. 10, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm HELICONIAN CLUB Come savour a colourful edgy exhibit revealing a rich palette of talent by these five new members: Tatjana Hutinec, Tina Dadouch, Hyla Fox, Kate Hawkins and Liz Russ.
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Songs of the Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today
August 20, 2011 – April 29, 2012 ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario traces the history of Canada’s changing industrial landscape through the lens of some of the country’s most extraordinary photographers from the past 150 years. It includes more than 100 photographs by such artists as Alexander…
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BOBBIE BURGERS: A STORY TO BE TOLD
September 10-24, 2011 Opening: Saturday, September 10th, 2-4pm BAU-XI GALLERY Heavy rose and hydrangea bushes bow and sway under their own weight as Burgers generously applies paint with a revamped colour palette and new expression of freedom
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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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RICHARD BARNES: ‘ANIMAL LOGIC’
September 10 – 24, 2011 Opening: Saturday, September 10th, 2-4pm BAU-XI PHOTO In Animal Logic, Richard Barnes has photographed the museum in between installations, highlighting the artificial components in recreating the natural world
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