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All posts under ‘Art’
By Elli Stuhler | July 30th, 2010 | 3:00 pm
Attention all readers in la Belle Province. Montreal’s own Tanuki Project will be bringing their distinct live show, which blends their electro-dance beats with artful image projections, to the stage at Montreal’s Festival Mode et Design. Check them out on August 4th at 10 p.m., just a day after their debut album Playground for Everyone is released.
By Elli Stuhler | July 19th, 2010 | 4:00 pm
Putting stickers on your laptop is never a good idea. They inevitably begin to peel off and then the employees at the Mac Store Genius Bar always raise an eyebrow at the grey sticky residue polluting the shell of your Macbook when all you really wanted was a functioning track pad.
In a series of partnerships, the folks over at Dell have teamed up with the likes of OPI and Product (Red) to add a little bit of pep to their laptops, making further bedazzlement unnecessary. In their most recent collabo, they’ve joined forces with Threadless (threadless.com), a global graphic design community with over 80,000 members, to bring 11 new laptop lids featuring work from Threadless’s user-submitted portfolio. The designs add US$85 to the purchase of one of Dell’s Studio 15 laptops, but they make for a fine bit of embellishment. And tell us those two lovebirds perched on the deer’s back isn’t the cutest thing you’ve ever seen.
By Elli Stuhler | July 9th, 2010 | 10:58 am
Images from Caitlin Cronenberg's new book, Poser
Recently listed on the Toronto Star’s 30 best dressed in Toronto list, it’s almost a surprise that photographer Caitlin Cronenberg’s (yes, daughter of film auteur David) debut book is strictly limited to people wearing nothing (or almost nothing) at all. The 134 photographs of Poser ($45, caitlincronenberg.com/poser) explore the connection between the lens and the nude model–and don’t let the word “model” throw you off, the book boasts a menagerie of figures, from full-figured to mini, from transsexuals to women with C-section scars or fake breasts. Daddy must be proud.
By Jennifer Campbell | June 16th, 2010 | 10:30 am
Though the installation has been in place since Friday, last night was the official opening party for Mark Fast‘s “The Ascension of Beauty” piece for Toronto’s Luminato arts festival. Fast uses Brookfield Place as a giant knitting machine, looping white ropes through the soaring Allen Lambert Galleria, culminating in a tiered knit dress inspired by the rose (his sponsor Lancôme’s symbol). We sent our video cameras to capture the installation and to talk to Fast about the experience.
You can see “The Ascension of Beauty” at Brookfield Place until June 20.
EARLIER: Mark Fast unveils his knit sculpture today at Luminato
By Bernadette Morra | June 11th, 2010 | 11:00 am
Photography: Top right by Bernadette Morra. All others via Knot PR Twitter
Mark Fast is sitting in a chair looking up….way up…at the magnificent white arches of the Allen Lambert Galleria in Toronto’s Brookfield Place. A team of men in hard hats is uncoiling 2 km of thick white rope. Two off-duty window washers are scampering across the lofty beams, rigging the rope according to drawings that are being studied on the ground below. When they are finished, a series of intersecting loops will descend to a human-sized knit dress, creating the effect of a garment crafted by a six-storey high knitting machine.
“When I first walked into this building I thought, ‘this looks like a very large knitting machine,’ ” Fast explained of the soaring atrium, conceived by Spanish designer Santiago Calatrava. “It made me feel very small. I wanted to recreate that emotion.” Read more »
By Ashleigh Dempster & Amanda Blakley | June 3rd, 2010 | 3:00 pm
Noel Vasquez/WireImage/Getty Images
Collecting art can seem daunting, unapproachable and, in many cases, simply out of our reach. Yet, when you ask seasoned collectors how they started, many of them say that they bought their first piece in their 20s or 30s. So how to begin when you are young, working hard and have only a small amount of disposable income?
We asked a dear friend and avid art collector this question over a cup of coffee in Toronto. He provided us with the handy list below (and trust us when we say this is coming from a real expert): Read more »
By Sarah Nicole Prickett | May 25th, 2010 | 3:14 pm
image from Sonja Ahler's book The Selves
Everything ’90s is new again, and zines aren’t breaking the rule. To wit: they’re back. There’s a zine-ness to Toronto’s own Worn Journal, the indie fashion magazine favoured by Tavi. There’s the new, must-order First Kiss zine, by New York writers Marisa Meltzer and Elizabeth Spiridakis (aka White Lightning). And tonight, there’s an interactive zine workshop at Magic Pony in Toronto, headed by the arguably over-talented Sonja Ahlers. Read more »
By Rebecca Tay | February 19th, 2010 | 5:45 pm
With Robson Street completely pedestrianized between Bute and Beatty streets and Georgia Street now home to one of the city’s largest public squares, it’s inevitable that visitors will come across the Vancouver Art Gallery (vanartgallery.bc.ca). I love artist Michael Lin’s enormous mural of colourful Taiwanese fabric covering the entire Georgia Street façade, but with all the world’s attention on athletes and their bodies, two exhibitions inside are also worth a visit. Visceral Bodies is a collection of multi-media art inspired by advances in science and medicine, while Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Man features 16th century drawings of the genius’ discoveries about the human body, hundreds of years before they were confirmed by, well, scientists. I took my two interns to their first press conference ever, where we got a preview and tour of the latter by its British curator, Martin Clayton of the Royal Collection. Our conclusion? If you’re in need of a mid-Olympics break (or perhaps just some well-deserved quiet time), we suggest checking out these exhibitions.
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