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Anyone in Edmonton?
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Paula Simons is asking folk to identify public art that they like there? Unfortunately my eyesight isn't that good.
Paula Simons is asking folk to identify public art that they like there? Unfortunately my eyesight isn't that good.
Lisa Hoffman and Natasha Rose Chenier Live at Zeke's Gallery Volume 264
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Lisa Hoffman and Natasha Rose Chenier played here last night. Natasha Rose Chenier played her three songs first (Letter from the Future, Heart and Thunder (version one) and Heart and Thunder (version two)) and then Lisa Hoffman played Losing Streak, More the Same, Friend of Mine, Came to Stay, Your Disease, Passing Through, The Real Slim Shady, and These Houses.
If you would like to hear it, click here [84.4 MB, 54:12 minutes] stream, flac, ogg vorbis.
Lisa Hoffman and Natasha Rose Chenier played here last night. Natasha Rose Chenier played her three songs first (Letter from the Future, Heart and Thunder (version one) and Heart and Thunder (version two)) and then Lisa Hoffman played Losing Streak, More the Same, Friend of Mine, Came to Stay, Your Disease, Passing Through, The Real Slim Shady, and These Houses.
If you would like to hear it, click here [84.4 MB, 54:12 minutes] stream, flac, ogg vorbis.
Stuff Seen - Under Construction
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Ungraded due to way too many conflicts of interest (I don't think I have enough fingers to count how many friends I have that work there).
Still playing catch up on the reviews, last February (jeez! was it that long ago) I made it out to Pointe Claire to see their group show called Under Construction. As you might expect, I was quite pleased and entertained by the show. It consisted of work by Thomas Corriveau, Martin Dèsilets, Guillaume Lachapelle and Sean Whalley, curated by Amanda Johnston and Alexandra Hofmaenner it was a smoothly done collection of some widely different art.
I'm not entirely certain if I am as much a fan of M. Dèsilets' work as I am of the other three artists, but they all fit in very nicely to the overall theme (which if you hadn't quite figured out was 'architecture'). And this might also have to do with my sense of the show being somewhat fragmented. While each of the artists did work that had strong "I'm building stuff" happening, I missed any real connections between them, beyond that. Similar to Hampstead, Hochelaga, Saint Leonard and Pointe Claire all being part of Montreal, yet also being very different neighborhoods.
Although now that I think about it, I might be giving M. Dèsilets short shrift, due to his stuff only being 2-D, while everyone else's was 3-D.
Ungraded due to way too many conflicts of interest (I don't think I have enough fingers to count how many friends I have that work there).
Still playing catch up on the reviews, last February (jeez! was it that long ago) I made it out to Pointe Claire to see their group show called Under Construction. As you might expect, I was quite pleased and entertained by the show. It consisted of work by Thomas Corriveau, Martin Dèsilets, Guillaume Lachapelle and Sean Whalley, curated by Amanda Johnston and Alexandra Hofmaenner it was a smoothly done collection of some widely different art.
I'm not entirely certain if I am as much a fan of M. Dèsilets' work as I am of the other three artists, but they all fit in very nicely to the overall theme (which if you hadn't quite figured out was 'architecture'). And this might also have to do with my sense of the show being somewhat fragmented. While each of the artists did work that had strong "I'm building stuff" happening, I missed any real connections between them, beyond that. Similar to Hampstead, Hochelaga, Saint Leonard and Pointe Claire all being part of Montreal, yet also being very different neighborhoods.
Although now that I think about it, I might be giving M. Dèsilets short shrift, due to his stuff only being 2-D, while everyone else's was 3-D.
Museums obviously can't do math
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There's all sorts of bafflegab and gobbledy-gook happening in this press release about yesterday's Montreal Museum's Day. Nowhere can I find any press release or other sort of factual documentation about attendance at the Journée des musées montréalais in 2006 which is sort of surprising since it was the 20th anniversary. But I scratch my head when last week they released something that ostensibly showed how 125,000 people participated in 2006, and then this year they state that they "maintained last year's attendance once again" but they only got 108,000 people. A 14% drop in attendance isn't maintaining anything.
This article by Cheryl Cornacchia in the Montreal Gazette does a better job of analyzing the results. Le Devoir on the other hand doesn't let the facts get in the way of a photo op.
There's all sorts of bafflegab and gobbledy-gook happening in this press release about yesterday's Montreal Museum's Day. Nowhere can I find any press release or other sort of factual documentation about attendance at the Journée des musées montréalais in 2006 which is sort of surprising since it was the 20th anniversary. But I scratch my head when last week they released something that ostensibly showed how 125,000 people participated in 2006, and then this year they state that they "maintained last year's attendance once again" but they only got 108,000 people. A 14% drop in attendance isn't maintaining anything.
This article by Cheryl Cornacchia in the Montreal Gazette does a better job of analyzing the results. Le Devoir on the other hand doesn't let the facts get in the way of a photo op.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer vs. David Altmejd. The Montrealers at Venice
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I just set up a Google News Alert to track who gets more internet press in English, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer or David Altmejd. Right now there are nine for Altmejd and five for Lozano-Hemmer. For comparison purposes Felix Gonzalez-Torres (the dead American artist at Venice this year) has 13.
I just set up a Google News Alert to track who gets more internet press in English, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer or David Altmejd. Right now there are nine for Altmejd and five for Lozano-Hemmer. For comparison purposes Felix Gonzalez-Torres (the dead American artist at Venice this year) has 13.
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Artefact Montréal needs a conflict of interest policy (as does Voir)
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In the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal most recent magazine they announced who the artists in Artefact Montreal 2007 are going to be. 53% of them have been written about in Voir by Nicholas Mavrikakis over the past 18 months.
M. Mavrikakis gets paid to write about them, then M. Mavrikakis gets paid by all three levels of government to curate a show with the same artists that he wrote about. The readers of Voir are not informed that he is using his job as a reviewer to curate at the same time, and while the audience for Artefact Montreal 2007 are informed that he is a reviewer the extent of his double dipping is not revealed.
The artists chosen (and the article where applicable):
In the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal most recent magazine they announced who the artists in Artefact Montreal 2007 are going to be. 53% of them have been written about in Voir by Nicholas Mavrikakis over the past 18 months.
M. Mavrikakis gets paid to write about them, then M. Mavrikakis gets paid by all three levels of government to curate a show with the same artists that he wrote about. The readers of Voir are not informed that he is using his job as a reviewer to curate at the same time, and while the audience for Artefact Montreal 2007 are informed that he is a reviewer the extent of his double dipping is not revealed.
The artists chosen (and the article where applicable):
Mathieu Beauséjour, BGL, Jacques Bilodeau, Catherine Bolduc, Diane Borsato, Marie-Claude Bouthillier, Alexandre David, Robbin Deyo, Aganetha Dyck, Marion Galut, Trevor Gould, Peter Hasdell & Patrick Harrop, Caroline Hayeur, Mireille Lavoie, Mathieu Lefèvre, Samuel Roy-Bois, Henri Sagna, Stephen Schofield, and Chih–Chien Wang.I fail to see why it is so difficult for Voir to either inform its readers that one of its writers is also curating a show with the artists he is writing about, or ask him not to write about artists whom he is working with.
The Sobey Art Award Results
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I'd like to thank everyone who participated in the Sobey Art Award Game. In total there were 79 people who checked it out, and 29 people who answered any the questions. But without further ado the results:
The Atlantic region
Jean-Denis Boudreau 16%
Alexandra Flood 20%
Vanessa Paschakarnis 28%
Mathew Reichertz 16%
Mitchell Wiebe 20%
Quebec
David Altmejd 32%
Michel De Broin 9%
Raphaelle de Groot 27%
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer 18%
Yannick Pouliot 14%
Ontario
Michael Belmore 0%
Shary Boyle 45%
Frank Shebageget 18%
Andrew Wright 27%
Kevin Yates 9%
Praries and the North
Robin Arseneault 14%
Daniel Barrow 14%
Sarah Anne Johnson 23%
Rachelle Viader Knowles 32%
Graeme Patterson 18%
West Coast
Scott McFarland 13%
Luanne Martineau 30%
Damian Moppett 35%
Steven Shearer 9%
Ron Terada 13%
I'd like to thank everyone who participated, and when they announce the short list, we'll see how well we did.
I'd like to thank everyone who participated in the Sobey Art Award Game. In total there were 79 people who checked it out, and 29 people who answered any the questions. But without further ado the results:
The Atlantic region
Jean-Denis Boudreau 16%
Alexandra Flood 20%
Vanessa Paschakarnis 28%
Mathew Reichertz 16%
Mitchell Wiebe 20%
Quebec
David Altmejd 32%
Michel De Broin 9%
Raphaelle de Groot 27%
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer 18%
Yannick Pouliot 14%
Ontario
Michael Belmore 0%
Shary Boyle 45%
Frank Shebageget 18%
Andrew Wright 27%
Kevin Yates 9%
Praries and the North
Robin Arseneault 14%
Daniel Barrow 14%
Sarah Anne Johnson 23%
Rachelle Viader Knowles 32%
Graeme Patterson 18%
West Coast
Scott McFarland 13%
Luanne Martineau 30%
Damian Moppett 35%
Steven Shearer 9%
Ron Terada 13%
I'd like to thank everyone who participated, and when they announce the short list, we'll see how well we did.
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