by Hugh Alcock and Polyna Alexseev
Like all art fairs the viewer quickly drowns in a sea of images, mostly decorative paintings. Still I found much to admire
Art Toronto, Toronto’s International Art Fair
Up Close at Art Toronto
by Mikael Sandblom
Walking through the Art Toronto show it struck me how lucky we are to live in an age of artistic plurality.
ART TORONTO 2023
by Phil Anderson
Much to see in this 24th edition of Art Toronto and a wonderful variety of works – a feast for the eyes.
Renaissance des Refusés at RKG / A tour
RKG’s Salon des Refusés is about the visitor and art. Pieces with little chance to become part of institutions of the status-building kind, have taken over the gallery space.
40 x 40 at Gallery 1313
by Phil Anderson
Looking back 40 years is a little trippy for most of us, but for 49 former students of the Ontario College of Art it is great to get together to display old and new art works.
Rupen at Yumart Gallery
by Hugh Alcock
The principal aim of Rupen’s is to make the viewer do some work. Ironic given the works are rather spare, and ought to be easily digestible.
Mike Hansen: Spot-o-fi at Lonsdale Gallery
by Steve Rockwell
Classical music and contemporary jazz is wound tightly into every thread of the weave of Mike Hansen’s installation of watercolours, canvases, and plaster sculptures.
Sculptors Society of Canada is 95
by Emese Krunak-Hajagos
Congratulations to the Sculptors Society of Canada on their 95th anniversary and good luck to its members in their future careers.
The Parkdale Art Thing
by Phil Anderson and Polyna Alexseev
It attracted a good crowd to visit the forty+ booths set up and enjoy the performances
