http://www.livewithculture.ca A Guide to Toronto Culture Scene Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:42:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.livewithculture.ca/dance/black-history-in-focus/ http://www.livewithculture.ca/dance/black-history-in-focus/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:07:18 +0000 Christopher Jones http://www.livewithculture.ca/?p=10420 February is Black History Month and to get the party started TD Bank hosted a launch event at the Royal York Hotel's Imperial Room Monday evening to unveil this year's BHM poster by photographer Michael Chambers. It also so happens that Chambers has curated an exhibition of posters celebrating Black dance in Canada, which opens today at BAND Gallery (823A Bloor Street West), which is where I met up with him yesterday.]]> http://www.livewithculture.ca/dance/black-history-in-focus/feed/ 0 http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/the-mayor-of-photo-city/ http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/the-mayor-of-photo-city/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:26:40 +0000 Christopher Jones http://www.livewithculture.ca/?p=10312 If Toronto isn't the world capital of photo blogging, it's certainly near the top of the heap. In last week's Photoblog Awards -- handed out each year by CoolPhotoblogs.com – Toronto photographers captured four of the top 12 spots in the Best American Blog category. Sam Javanrouh, the shooter behind daily dose of imagery, was a finalist in three categories (Most Popular Photoblog, Best American Photoblog and Best Street Photography) and beat all comers to take the Most Popular crown.]]> http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/the-mayor-of-photo-city/feed/ 1 http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/snow-storms-new-york/ http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/snow-storms-new-york/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:38:19 +0000 William Huffman http://www.livewithculture.ca/?p=10316 Last weekend, New Yorkers enjoyed a unique meteorological phenomenon! As temperatures rose on Saturday (January 7) to a balmy 16 degrees Celsius, the city was none-the-less hit by some serious snow, artist Michael Snow, that is! The Canadian icon (in plaid) -- a prolific visual artist, filmmaker and musician -- opened his latest solo exhibition, entitled In the Way, at the venerable Jack Shainman Gallery. ]]> http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/snow-storms-new-york/feed/ 0 http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/creating-memory-with-public-art/ http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/creating-memory-with-public-art/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:37:00 +0000 Christopher Jones http://www.livewithculture.ca/?p=10244 Several years ago, retired York University Professor John Warkentin found himself in Paris with a few days to kill so he set about leisurely walking the city and enjoying the abundance of public sculpture, which he discovered told the story and history of the City of Light. Warkentin, a life-long geographer, wondered whether a similar chronicle could be made of his adopted home of Toronto and so he began compiling Creating Memory, an "incidental" dossier of more than 600 public sculptures, artworks and memorials that enliven the city.]]> http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/creating-memory-with-public-art/feed/ 0 http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/toronto-art-in-your-inbox/ http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/toronto-art-in-your-inbox/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:25:31 +0000 Christopher Jones http://www.livewithculture.ca/?p=10189 After a couple of false starts and some good media buzz, Toronto's ArtBomb is now dropping into electronic in-boxes near and far. Launched by artrepreneurs Carrie Shibinksy, Jim Shedden (both AGO alums) and View on Canadian Art's Andrea Carson Barker, ArtBomb is a daily art auction featuring work by local artists. Today's offering is Jen Mann's "For Eyes" (2010, oil on canvas, 24" x 30"), which carries an opening bid of $400. Each weekday morning a new work is offered to ArtBomb subscribers who can bid on the piece from 6 am until 11 pm; the winning bidder is notified the following day with free delivery of the work in the Toronto area.]]> http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/toronto-art-in-your-inbox/feed/ 0 http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/caution-affordable-art-ahead/ http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/caution-affordable-art-ahead/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:01:41 +0000 Christopher Jones http://www.livewithculture.ca/?p=10132 Two of Toronto's leading visual arts establishments are having fundraising sales this week, 401 Richmond's Open Studio (pictured) and Gallery TPW, which celebrates its 25th annual Photorama affordable art fundraiser beginning December 2.]]> http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/caution-affordable-art-ahead/feed/ 0 http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/pop-art-poetry/ http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/pop-art-poetry/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:04:06 +0000 Christopher Jones http://www.livewithculture.ca/?p=10062 No one is more surprised to see Jeff Campagna doing his first gallery show than Jeff Campagna. He's a writer primarily – fiction, non-fiction, movies, a blog – but he refuses to restrict his creative activity in any way. By his own admission he can't draw or paint "worth a damn" but he knows his way around Adobe Photoshop and decided to apply himself to creating visual treatments for a handful of his poems. The resulting work is on show now at gallerywest with an opening reception slated for Thursday (November 24, 7 – 10 pm).]]> http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/pop-art-poetry/feed/ 2 http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/powerful-plasticity-at-mocca/ http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/powerful-plasticity-at-mocca/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:51:07 +0000 Christopher Jones http://www.livewithculture.ca/?p=10023 Toronto's Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art lit a rocket under curator Camilla Singh's latest exhibition Friday night with a lively opening reception that gave the city's art set plenty to chew on. Titled Ineffible Plasticity, the show features an all-Toronto slate of artists whose works consider "the experience of being human." The title is intentionally poetic and ambiguous Singh explains as she leads me through the show: "It invites you to put your own take on it rather than being a really descriptive thing that nails it down."]]> http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/powerful-plasticity-at-mocca/feed/ 0 http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/workshop-gallery-goes-public/ http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/workshop-gallery-goes-public/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:34:43 +0000 Christopher Jones http://www.livewithculture.ca/?p=9693 It's just about the strangest location for a gallery you're likely to come across -- tucked into the Bay Street subway station and not accessible from ground level, WORKshop is an experimental design centre, work and exhibition space. The easy-to-miss gallery has been open since February 2010 but the newly mounted STITCHES: Suzhou Fast Forward is the first public exhibition to be held in the space.]]> http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/workshop-gallery-goes-public/feed/ 0 http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/marc-chagall-reins-at-ago/ http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/marc-chagall-reins-at-ago/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:59:20 +0000 Christopher Jones http://www.livewithculture.ca/?p=9537 AGO CEO Matthew Teitelbaum does an interview in front of Marc Chagall's "Blue Circus", one of the highlight works in Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, opening at the AGO October 18 (running thru January 15). Featuring 118 works including masterpieces by Wassily Kandinsky, the exhibition "tells a very compelling story about how artistic genius develops," noted Teitelbaum at yesterday's press preview.]]> http://www.livewithculture.ca/art/marc-chagall-reins-at-ago/feed/ 0