C: International Contemporary Art articles from December 2008

C: International Contemporary Art archives from December 2008

No typical donor: declining government support means it's a daunting new world for small Canadian arts organizations forced to compete with bigger institutions for sponsorship dollars. And yet private art philanthropy in Canada is on the upswing.(VIEWS)
December 22, 2008... This year, the Power Ball, the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery's biggest annual fundraising event and one described by society pages and fashion media as the "official launch of the summer social season," added an Artist Ambassadors ticket...

To be seen and not just heard about: on a painting by Rae Johnson: Catherine MacTavish, who wrote about the Toronto artist Rae Johnson in the first issue of C, revisits her work 24 years later.(A 100TH ISSUE SPECIAL FEATURE)
December 22, 2008... Twenty-five years later, many of the artists featured in the inaugural issue of C Magazine have proven they have staying power. This group includes Rae Johnson, whose role as a founder of the ChromaZone collective (1) and exhibitions at the...

On Kristina Lee Podesva's colourschool: Michael Birchall looks at the Vancouver artist's ongoing experiment in art pedagogy--and puts it into the context of the wider trend.
December 22, 2008... When I first arrived in Vancouver at the beginning of 2008, I was quickly introduced to colourschool--a freethinking, alternative 'school' founded by local artist Kristina Lee Podesva to facilitate the speculative study of five colours: white,...

Exhibitionism: Gregory Elgstrand looks at the concept of the "learning exhibition".(project management of an art exhibition)(Report)
December 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Shortly after I joined YYZ in 2.004, I came across an old e-mail addressed to my predecessor. The correspondence was from Marc Neissen, co-director and co-curator of De Overslag, an artist-run centre in Eindhoven,...

Do curators need university curatorial programs? Gabrielle Moser on the professionalization of art curation in Canada today.
December 22, 2008... The hyperbole that seems to accompany many negative reactions to new curatorial studies programs is based on one contentious, heavily debated theory: you can't teach someone to curate. For critics, these degrees are like doing condensed med...

The state of art criticism and critical theory: Earl Miller investigates the "obscure subculture" of art writing, and speculates about the terms of its future relevance.(Essay)
December 22, 2008... Oscar Wilde's famous quip that "The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is unread" partially applies to art criticism. The problem with most art criticism is that it is both unreadable...

Convergence Center (Part of Democracy in America: The National Campaign).
December 22, 2008... Including work by Center for Tactical Magic, Luca Frei, Pia Lindman, Carlos Motta, Duke Riley, Chris Sollars, Allison Smith, Mark Tribe, United Victorian Workers Union, Organized by Creative Time; curated by Nato Thompson, Park Avenue Armory,...

It's Time, Man. It Feels Imminent.
December 22, 2008... Sarah Pierce, Nought to Sixty Programme, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London From May to October of this year, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London undertook an extended 60th anniversary program. Nought to Sixty operated...

Mushroom Studio.
December 22, 2008... Katie Bethune-Leamen, Toronto Sculpture Garden There's an inescapable whimsy inherent to the shape of spores and fungi. Equal parts amusing and sinister, they grow into limbless, fleshy creatures on the forest floor, complete with hats and...

Back in 5: Accessing The Back Story.
December 22, 2008... Corin Sworn, Blanket Contemporary Art, Vancouver Vancouver/Glasgow-based artist Corin Sworn's exhibition Back in 5: Accessing the Back Story, her first solo show at Blanket Contemporary Art, was both a continuation of her interest in...

Life on Mars.
December 22, 2008... The 55th Carnegie International Including work by Vija Clemins, Ryan Gander, Mike Kelley, Maria Lassnig and Thomas Hirschhorn, Curated by Douglas Fogle, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Life on Mars, a title borrowed from a 1971 David...

The Spectre and the Sphere.(Movie review)
December 22, 2008... Jesse Jones, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Toronto In the face of recent economic upheaval, the old adage that history repeats itself may seem trite. Perhaps history does more than repeat. What if it instead...

Desespere/Desperate.(Erwin Wurm's sculpture exhibition at the DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art)
December 22, 2008... Erwin Wurm, Curated by Patrice Duhamel, La Galerie de l'UQAM Over the last few years in Quebec, public galleries and artist-run centres seem to be the venues producing events by internationally renowned visual artists. For a long time, the...

Re: Eli Bornowsky's letter to the editor, C magazine issue #99.(Letter to the editor)
December 22, 2008... I would like to thank Eli Bornowsky, not only for taking the time to write a response to my interview, but also for citing me as evidence of an art discursive trend. It's always nice to know one is being read; it's doubly nice to be...