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Photographic detritus or archival document? The exhibition of photos selected from the London-based Archive of Modern Conflict suggests that one person’s discarded photograph is another’s visual document of history. “Collected Shadows,” on display at...
If curating is the discriminatory process of selecting some, but not all, works for the sake of a cohering thematic, aesthetic, or sensibility, the Fonderie Darling’s mid-career survey of the Serbian-Canadian artist Milutin Gubash has done away with it. “...
Derek Mainella and Elizabeth Eamer have curated a tantalizing look at the UK art scene for the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. Provocatively titled “Are You Alright? New Art from Britain,” the exhibition brings together a dream team of British...
When Hong Kong born, Vancouver-based artist Howie Tsui was growing up, his mother told frightening stories to attempt to instill good behavior in him. Tsui’s exhibition “Horror Fables,” at LE Gallery (April 12 - May 5), not only recounts these...
In 1955, Québec artists Fernand Toupin, Louis Belzile, and Jean-Paul Jérôme signed a creed written by Jauran (pen name of critic Rodolphe de Repentigny) and called themselves Les Plasticiens. In their “Manifeste des plasticiens,” the group...
A recent exhibition of Cory Arcangel at the Carnegie Museum of Art, titled “Masters,” should have further embossed a common conception of his work: that it’s noise. Intelligible and smart noise, but noise all the same. Indeed, “Masters” carried all the...
Inside Mercer Union’s large dark room sits a lone film projector, noisily humming along as it flashes what appear to be pieces of aged wood of different sizes and colours onto a wall.What we see is not necessarily what it seems in LA-based artist Paul...
The New Museum’s “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and More Star” conjures the strongest and most uncomfortable feelings of nostalgia I’ve felt in years – which is the whole point. The star-packed, vintage hodgepodge of political...
Not since the Musée d’Orsay’s 2010 “Crime and Punishment” has Paris received a show with as much darkness and density as the museum’s new exhibition, “The Angel of the Odd: Dark Romanticism from Goya to Max Ernst” (on view through June 9). With over 200 works...
The Guggenheim's newly opened “No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia” is a rapaciously forward-thinking show — it represents “a new curatorial model” (according to the museum's deputy director Nancy Spector) and “proposes a...
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