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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Three Le Devoir articles

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Musées en quête d'espace
St-Pierre promet plus d'argent au CALQ
Les collections d'entreprises: acheter localement

l'exposition Le Sentier du bonheur au parc du Mont-Royal

Groupe CNW

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):

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.

globeandmail.com: Canadian art sale raises record $22.8-million

Last Chance to Play the Sobey Art Award Game

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Play the Sobey Art Award Game

and if you would like information about any of the semi-finalists, click here. Voting shuts down Friday at noon.

Contemporary Art Auctions May 2007 - Chelsea Art Galleries

Biennale de Montréal 2007 and Murray Guy, tight like that.

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In keeping tabs on where things fit together, I discovered this morning that Luis Jacob is exhibiting simultaneously at the fancy-ass and very prestigious Biennale de Montréal 2007 and at the Murray Guy Gallery in a show called Street Scene. It must mean that the Murray Guy Gallery is as fancy-ass and very prestigious as the biennale, right?

And according to this article in ArtCal Lee Plested, the curator of Street Scene, is Canadian as well. Cool, eh?

Bruce Nauman at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal by Alexander Wenderoff

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Mr. Wenderoff is interning here at the gallery, this is what he wrote about the Bruce Nauman show

There is one image from the Bruce Nauman exhibit at the Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal that really stayed with me. It was not the One Hundred Fish Fountain, nor was it Nauman’s famed The True Artist helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths. It wasn’t really even of a work of at. I was exploring a back passage which eventually lead me to Anthro/Socio (Rinde Spinning) room, where I saw a security guard trying to make sense of the situation. He looked absolutely baffled. After he noticed I was there too, and that I was part of the group of people that claim to understand it, he left me to experience the videos myself. I left about thirty seconds afterwards as I can only handle videos of screaming, spinning, upside down heads for so long. I don’t know if I have ever seen anyone as confused as that security guard, at least not in a real long time. The poor guy was just trying to figure out what the hell was going on in that room, and I’d assume also why anyone who would appreciate such things. If he had asked me, I wouldn’t have been able to tell him. I myself have no clue what the hell was going on in that room. The same can be said for the other rooms with videos, Clown Torture, Office Edit II and Square Dance.

The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign), 1967, Neon tubing with clear glass tubing suspension frame, 59 x 55 x 5 inches; Ed. 2/3, Collection Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands, ©Bruce Nauman / SODRAC (2007)

Well that’ not entirely true. I was, to an extent, able to comprehend what was occurring, the issue I had more trouble resolving was why it was occurring. If I have the choice, which I usually do, I would rather not watch a video of a clown sitting on a toilet while other videos of said clown screaming “No No No No!” engulf me in noise. I worked one office job in my life, and it sucked, and when I left the office I left for good, so why would I want to watch a video of an office at night, as I could in Office Edit II? I’m sure it’s a social commentary of some sort in Nauman’s mind. Whatever.

The videos, needless to say, did not do it for me. On the other hand, Nauman’s neon work in the Elusive Signs part of the exhibit is great. There are tons of wires needed for this part of the exhibit, and while they are quite visible, do not interfere. Flashing lights on some works do not distract the spectator when viewing a nearby piece. I have a soft spot for word games, so maybe I’m a bit biased when it comes to discussion of such pieces as None Sing Neon Sign, which is simply the words none, sing, neon, and sign, none sing being an anagram of neon sign. Maybe I'm just easily impressed, but I think that’s pretty cool.

Run from Fear, Fun from Rear, 1972, Neon tubing with clear glass tubing suspension frame, two parts, 8 x 24 x 2 ½ inches each; Ed. 4/6, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Gerald S. Elliott Collection, ©Bruce Nauman / SODRAC (2007)

There is also an installation piece called Helman Gallery Parallelogram where one walks through a tiny space in a narrow wall into a room lit with neon green, then out another tiny passageway. It hurt my eyes and made me feel a little claustrophobic. Probably should have read the sign that warns that spectators may feel confined in the installation before I went in there.

One Hundred Fish Fountain, 2005, 97 poissons en bronze de 7 formes différentes, suspendus avec du fil en acier, inoxydable sur un treillis métallique. Dimensions approximatives du bassin : 7,6 m x 8,5 m x 20,3 cm, Avec l’aimable permission de la Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, ©Bruce Nauman / SODRAC (2007) Photo : Richard-Max Tremblay

The highlight of the exhibit is the One Hundred Fish Fountain (which actually only contains 97 fish), located at the back of the exhibit. The sound of the water flowing overwhelms the neighbouring room, and draws you in to behold the fountain. That’s fine, there were some more videos in the neighbouring room, so not missing a whole lot by zooming through there towards the sound. It really does feel as though the fish are swimming in the flowing water, even though the fish are actually suspended above the stagnant pool of water. All in all it’s a solid exhibit, showing a fascinating artist who works with various media and definitely worth checking out. I just can’t help but feel the security guards working there think we must be crazy.

SODRAC is toothless and useless organization

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Yesterday I was at the press preview for the Bruce Nauman exhibit that is opening at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal tomorrow. As has become a very bad standard operating practice, in the press package there was a notice from SODRAC that stated in unequivocal terms that the pictures couldn't be cropped, and that there must be a copyright notice.

Well, if you notice this is the current front page of the museum's website.

Mean Clown Welcome, 1985, Tubes au néon montés sur monolithe de métal, Collection Udo and Anette Brandhorst Collection, Cologne, Avec l'aimable permission de la Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, ©Bruce Nauman / SODRAC (2007)

It appears to be the exact same one as on the front page of the museum's website, only not cropped. What gives? Why isn't SODRAC enforcing its policy with the museum? Or is there something I don't know?

Then just so I don't have to spend any more time in court ('cuz it really ain't fun) the fine print Mean Clown Welcome, 1985, Tubes au néon montés sur monolithe de métal, Collection Udo and Anette Brandhorst Collection, Cologne, Avec l'aimable permission de la Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, ©Bruce Nauman / SODRAC (2007)

[update 5:04 pm: And can anyone find "©Bruce Nauman / SODRAC (2007)" anywhere near or around this article in La Presse? Or this photo in La Presse?]

[update 5:50 pm: Does anyone know if there is a "©Bruce Nauman / SODRAC (2007)" anywhere near or around this advertisement?

Or what negotiations were required in order to allow the picture to be modified and used for commercial purposes? - Thanks a gazillion and a half times to Michael Boyle for taking the picture of the ad and for letting me post it here.]

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More Art & Crime Stories

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The FBI makes a mistake and Hasan Elahi (an artist) responds. The backstory if I am being too oblique.

The Biennale de Montréal Grades

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I have now seen all the visual art at the Biennale de Montréal 2007. I would like to go back to see the stuff at the Ecole Bourget one more time, so I can write something long and involved (or potentially long and boring) but I do not know if I will be able to do so, I have a very serious backlog of shows I need to write about and a bunch of other work that needs to be done as well.

So in case I don't get to see the show again, without further ado the grades for the various art shown at the Biennale this year:

2boys.tv - C+
Scoli Acosta - B-
David Altmejd - A-
Stephen Andrews - C+
Michael Awad & Evan Penny - A+
BGL - B-
Eleanor Bond - B
Boris Chukhovich - C-
Dana Claxton - B-
Lynne Cohen - C
Comic Craze - D- Previously reviewed
Chris Cran - C
Christine Davis - A
Beth Derbyshire - B+
Iran do Espirito Santo - B+
Julie Doucet - C+
Geoffrey Farmer - C-
Jeff Funnell - B
Noam Gonick & Luis Jacob - B
David Hoffos - A+
Ignacio Iturria - B+
Sarah Anne Johnson - B
Brian Jungen - C
Jesper Just - C
Janice Kerbel - C
Will Kwan - C-
Virgil Marti - C+
Luanne Martineau - B-
Scott McFarland - C+
Kent Monkman - C
Montreal Comic City - Not graded because I haven't seen it, and there are friends of mine who made it and curated it.
My Barbarian - Not graded because I haven't seen it.
Numa - A
Paul P. - C+
Graeme Patterson - A+
Peaches - C+
Annie Pootoogook - B
Theo Sims - A
Ryan Sluggett - B
Bill Smith - A+
Scott Treleaven - B-
Susan Turcot - B-
Paulo Whitaker - B

Claude Gosselin, Wayne Baerwaldt and the Biennale de Montréal 2007 not doing so well.

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Yesterday Sarah Milroy reviewed the Biennale de Montréal 2007, and in it she wrote "But - as the crowds that poured into Montreal for the opening can attest..."

One problem, there are no crowds. I asked when I was there last Friday, and was told that the first weekend had been good and that they had received about 150 visitors at the Ecole Bourget. However last Thursday they had only received 36 visitors, and I was visitor 24 on Friday at about 3:30 pm.

Then today I decided to return once again before writing anything, and they were closed. On the main entrance there was nothing except a sign saying "Open Everyday : 12:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m." Just like they say on the website.

Over on the door to the annex, not the main entrance they have a small sign in French only that states that due to the Bus and Metro strike they had to change hours to Thursday to Sunday noon to 7 pm. Which is about as much balderdash as us getting snow in July. Because of the strike there is no service on the weekends, so I would understand if they closed on Saturday and Sundays - but they are open. Because of the strike there is public transportation during the morning rush hour and the evening rush hour, so I would understand if instead of "Everyday : 12:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m." like they write on their website, they opened everyday but at 9 AM and then closed at 6 PM.

But to blame they strike and the inability of their employees to get into work is flat out wrong and incorrect. Plus I would imagine that most if not all of their staff were students who had been depending on that summer job. And that most of the money to pay them was from some government program. If I am correct, then what I want to know is where is the money going that they saved? All the art has been paid for, all the rent has been paid for, the transport has been paid for, so they decided that due to bad marketing and promotion they were going to lay off (or reduce the hours) of some students?

I don't like it one bit.

[update 4:20 pm: Well we will be able to see if I am right or if it truly is because of the strike at the STM that they changed hours. Next Tuesday right after my court appearance I will be at the Ecole Bourget. The strike is only going to be lasting another 48 hours before the governement legislates everyone back to work.]

Streamlined Mama by Buddy Jones at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

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Finally something went my way! if you've seen American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts you will know that there is a wicked cool record player there. And that David A. Hanks, the curator was witty enough to have decided to include a 78 rpm record of the song Streamlined Mama by Buddy Jones on it. As you're at the museum, it is mighty tough to hear the song (it ain't like you can go up and ask one of the guards to play it for you) - but if you would like to hear what you're missing, click on this (stream, ogg vorbis) [2.9 MB, 2:26 minutes]

or

Extra Special Props and Thanks (along with some shouts outs and high fives in gratitude) to Zinhoff the best blogger in Croatia for helping me immensely with this post.

Sauvons the Musée de cire!!

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Or if you can't save the Musée de cire, you might want to consider making an offer for one of their statues (including but limited to Roch Voisine, Michel Courtemanche, Phil Latulippe, Cornelius Kriegoff, Émile Nelligan, Guy Lafleur, Samuel Champlain, René Lévesque, Jacques Parizeau, Jean Lesage and Myriam Bédard.)

Galerie Concorde is hiring again

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If as they state in this advertisement that they pay $125,000 (which is I assume per year) I do not understand why they have such difficulty in retaining employees. The previous job advertisements that I've seen are from May 2006, February 16, 2007 and February 25, 2007. Or maybe they are thinking of selling art on cruise ships like Park West Galleries and need to hire more staff because of that.

Montreal Artist in a Wired Blog

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But unfortunately in this post about Rafael Lozano-Hemmer representing Mexico at the Venice Biennale, the words Montreal, Quebec and Canada do not appear anywhere. Toronto gets lip service because Mr. Lozano-Hemmer is going to be exhibiting at the Luminato Festival there.

And while I'm at it, since this is going to be the first time Mexico will be participating in the Venice Biennale, does anyone know if this will also be the first time that one of the tertiary countries has had two representatives?

Sobey Art Award Semi-finalists

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Bumped back to the top for one final push...
If you would like to play the Sobey Art Award game, click here and fill out your answers.

You can't tell the players without a scorecard.

From the Atlantic provinces Robin Metcalfe has to choose between

Jean-Denis Boudreau
Alexandra Flood
Vanessa Paschakarnis
Mathew Reichertz
and Mitchell Wiebe.

From Quebec Bernard Lamarche has to choose between

David Altmejd
Michel De Broin
Raphaelle de Groot
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
and Yannick Pouliot.

From Ontario Melanie Townsend has to choose between

Michael Belmore
Shary Boyle
Frank Shebageget
Andrew Wright
and Kevin Yates.

From the Prairies and the North Dan Ring has to choose between

Robin Arseneault
Daniel Barrow
Sarah Anne Johnson
Rachelle Viader Knowles
and Graeme Patterson.

From the West Coast Helga Pakasaar has to choose between

Scott McFarland
Luanne Martineau
Damian Moppett
Steven Shearer
and Ron Terada.

[update May 17: My bad, I was informed that the individual curators were the people who suggested the regional semi-finalists, and the short list will be a group decision made by all five curators. And the Kevin Yates link has been corrected]

More stuff about Streamlined

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Richard Ten Eyck
Rolph Scarlett

Internet news on the Biennale

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Submitted without comment

Sarah Milroy's review in the Globe & Mail
Nathalie Guimond of Voir reviews the David Altmejd exhibit
René Viau of Le Devoir reviews the David Altmejd exhibit
Rupert Bottenberg of the Mirror on the Music
Christine Redfern of the Mirror on the art and the music
Susannah Wesley of the Hour on David Altmejd
Stéphane Martel of Voir on Peaches
Mario Cloutier of La Presse on the art
Louise Dussault of 24 heures on the music
Denis-Daniel Boullé of Fuges on the art
Marilou Séguin of the Journal de Montreal on the music and the art
Radio-Canada on the art
Press release about the STM press release about Beth Derbyshire
Stillepost (the indie hipster bulletin board) thread about the biennale
Andrea Carson of the View on Canadian Art Blog about the art
Rene Viau's review in Le Devoir
Denis of Midnight Poutine on Iran Do Espirito Santo
Le Devoir on Comic Craze
La Voix Populaire on the biennale
A reprint of a press release on ArtDaily.com
A brief mention in the Brainylady blog
A brief mention on the CultureTV blog
Fred da Cat's LiveJournal entry

As I come across more I will update this list. If there are any significant changes I will bump it to the top again - and for those of you who like to read between the lines, I do have one question - what's up with Nicholas Mavrikakis? ~~He should have been all over this in Voir - but there ain't nothing, not a single word this week~~ Why did he write his preview/review in the issue of May 3?

[update May 21: I bumped this to the top again, due to the addition over the week of about half a dozen items, most specifically the review in the Globe & Mail.]

[Update May 26: Nicholas Mavrikakis and Voir review the biennale. I do not see much difference between the preview he wrote three weeks ago, and the review he wrote this week.]

Props and Shout Outs to Lisa Hunter

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She is the subject of a very nice article in today's Montreal Gazette. It also comes with a large and flattering photo.

And as a web exclusive the Gazette has a resource section on art in Montreal - which somehow missed mentioning the Biennale de Montreal.

If you're interested in reading The Intrepid Art Collector, Ms. Hunter's blog click on the appropriate link. Or if you want to buy Ms. Hunter's book try either of these links:

or

And then if you want to read my review of it before you buy, click here. And someplace - why not here - I should mention that Ms. Hunter is a friend of mine, just so you don't think I'm being all objective or anything.

The Courts are very busy these days

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A) There's my impending case.
B) Nima Mazhari vs. Ghitta Caiserman-Roth
C) Therese Dion Lillian Rodriguez and co.
and now I find out that Bernard Desroches has been accused of theft, fraud and all sorts of other nastiness.

Stuff Seen - Out of Space: La photographie et l'imaginaire sculptural

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B-

Once again, playing catch up. It seems like a lifetime ago, but it was only a couple of months. Dazibao had a not half bad exhibit featuring the work of John Duncan, Nestor Kruger, Erwin Wurm, Daniel von Sturmer, and Amon Yariv. Now that time has settled in I can only honestly remember the work of John Duncan, and Daniel von Sturmer.

Mr. Duncan's was photographs of a bunch of shipping palates arranged in the Irish countryside. Nice simple one joke sorta stuff, see 'em, smile, and move on. Mr. von Sturmer's work was what made the show memorable. Two videos synchronized and then rotated 90 degrees so that the objects in the video appeared to be sliding along the floor, when in fact they were in a box being tilted. Bright and colorful standard household objects, against a plain white background it was a simple and effective way of disconnecting what you were seeing with your standard issue ideas of gravity and how it works.

Although now that I look into hos work it appears that we got a crippled version of screen test, as on Mr. von Sturmer's website it states "4 Screen video installation and Kinetic object" and I only saw a two-channel video at Dazibao. I wonder how Susan Edelstein's article in Prefix Photo dealt with that.

Minding the museums

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I don't normally read Walrus magazine, mostly because way too much of it is money-walled. But I came across an article written by Adam Gopnik about (ostensibly) the current state of affairs in the museum biz.

In a nutshell, he uses alliteration to try to show how museums have moved from being mausoleums, to machines, to maybe malls but mostly mindful. Mr. Gopnik, can I introduce you to Paul Werner?

One of the major problems with Mr. Gopnik's thesis, is that he does not even acknowledge the explosion of museums here, there and everywhere. In New Zealand there is approximately one museum for every 8,000 residents. In Canada there are more than 2,500 museums. Mr Gopnik probably would think that the Groupe Bizot is too large, and really should be reduced to only including museums in New York, Paris and London.

The idea all museums are in lock step, thinking and moving to the same beat in the same direction is about as preposterous as a mustache on the Mona Lisa.

Then, when he writes "One of the central comedies of manners in our society is that that art, which none of us quite understands, is taken out of the aesthetic context in which it's made and brought to institutions." I really get annoyed. That he furthers the cliche that contemporary art is incomprehensible is just flat out stupid. Try that sentence this way: One of the central comedies of manners in our society is that that literature, which none of us quite understands, is taken out of the aesthetic context in which it's made and brought to institutions. or if you prefer One of the central comedies of manners in our society is that that film, which none of us quite understands, is taken out of the aesthetic context in which it's made and brought to institutions.

Film is understandable, as is literature. When either, or both get tossed into an institution (say a university) it is the duty of the institution to elevate whatever is being brought in. One easy way to elevate something is through use of three syllable words, or academic language if you prefer. When and where did museums become like universities? I think it is much more helpful to consider museums like concert halls for music. Or libraries for books.

Given that there are two museums here in town that regularly schedule concerts (one, two), I would venture a guess that the current state of the museum world is mindful of the need to sometimes be a concert hall.

Tagging and being tagged

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Last week I was tagged by my friend Edith Rey of doreyme. Unfortunately I was a little busy to deal with it at the time. But here goes:

Seven Blogs I find interesting:

Slashdot
PaidContent
Joystiq
Blog Maverick
Jonathan Schwartz
This is aaronland
Improbable reasearch

Seven little known things about me

I know how to tie a bowtie
I drink wine
I cherish my cooking knives
I used to have a subscription to Sassy
The first piece of art I bought was by Tony Albano
I'm learning to speak Italian
It has been almost 10 years since I flew in an airplane

View on Canadian Art: The eight most influential people in Canadian art today?

A Fair(y) Use Tale

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This is phenomenal.

Although Canadian Copyright law is different from that in the United States. - Thanks to Lynn Bethke for pointing it out.

Biennale de Montréal 2007 and PPOW, tight like that.

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In keeping tabs on where things fit together, I discovered this morning that Bill Smith is exhibiting simultaneously at the fancy-ass and very prestigious Biennale de Montréal 2007 and at the PPOW Gallery in New York. It must mean that the PPOW is as fancy-ass and very prestigious as the biennale, right?

And according to his CV Bill Smith is also going to be exhibiting at the Alfedena Gallery, in November as well. He must be a busy man.

If you'd like to read the review in yesterday's New York Times, last week's Village Voice, or the mention about his work in last week's New Yorker, click on the appropriate links. If you'd like to see pictures, check out Megan and Murray McMillan's post from his show last year in Saint Louis.

[Update May 20: And while we're at it, some should introduce Mr. Smith to Theo Jansen, or at least his Animaris Rhinoceros Transport.]

Staying on top of Nima Mazhari vs. Ghitta Caiserman-Roth

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The CBC report from Friday drops a bombshell that goes a longt way towards explaining things.
Jessica Nadeau writes similar stuff for Le Journal de Montreal, but in French.
The La Presse article from Friday has even more details.

And for the latest news about the case click here.

Biennale de Montréal 2007 and Columbus Museum of Art, tight like that.

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In keeping tabs on where things fit together, I discovered this morning that Evan Penny is exhibiting simultaneously at the fancy-ass and very prestigious Biennale de Montréal 2007 and at the Columbus Museum of Art in a show called Currents. It must mean that the Columbus Museum of Art is as fancy-ass and very prestigious as the biennale, right?

And according to this review in the Globe and Mail Evan Penny is also exhibiting at the Birch Libralato Gallery, as well. He must be a busy man.

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