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Rebecca Belmore :“Facing the Monumental”

Rebecca Belmore’s retrospective Facing the Monumental 1 feels like a cultural landslide to me, sweeping histories aside and acknowledging the presence of Indigenous narratives within the neocolonial present. The spirits within objects and the land are made manifest through her performances, videos,…
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“BELIEVE” in MOCA Toronto

(Texte) Ashley Johnson
The new executive director and CEO is Torontonian Heidi Reitmaier, who has been drawn away from the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The staff complement has swelled to around seventeen, compared to the six in the museum’s previous incarnation, MoCCA. David Liss, who stays on as curator, has…
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Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Mirrors

(Texte) Ashley Johnson
Billions of stars burst through the night sky, leaving trails of tantalizing reveries for us to imagine, who we are and where we might come from. Yayoi Kusama, an extraordinary and venerated Japanese artist, is celebrated in this traveling exhibition, Infinity Mirrors, in which the Infinity Rooms,…
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The Symbiotic Revolution

(Texte) Ashley Johnson
Value in art and culture is controlled by Capitalistic interests of ownership alongside Universities that validate for socialistic studies within their aegis. How do we assert an environmentalist platform that can compete against these dual exclusionary domains and give voice to a culture for…
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Conjuring the Chimera

(Texte) Ashley Johnson
Identity is based on difference, extrapolated into separations of race, gender, class and species. In art it leads to stylistic differentials and exclusions. By definition we lose something. Given that we face major environmental challenges, we need to rethink our assumptions. Religious and social…
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Ydessa Hendeles
The Milliner’s Daughter

(Texte) Ashley Johnson
Art and life are intertwined in paradoxical ways. A picture has to find aesthetic stasis for completion, in other words it becomes still when balanced. It is the equivalent of death. The fascinating aspect is that art continues to reflect life. Ydessa Hendeles dances with a multitude of mute…
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Georgia O’Keeffe
Questing for the Ineffable

(Texte) Ashley Johnson
The name “Georgia O’Keeffe” is legendary, conjuring up images of skulls in deserts and flowers evocative of intimate femininity. An enigmatic figure that straddled early American Modernism, she became iconic for feminism and continues to inspire artists. The AGO and the Tate Modern have partnered…
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Kent Monkman “Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience”

(Texte) Ashley Johnson
This is a time of reckoning; when the medicine bears exact retribution and the air is smudged with smoke of sweetgrass, sage, tobacco and cedar to purify the spirit. Kent Monkman’s extraordinary traveling exhibition, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, opened at the Art Museum to…
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Gary Michael Dault
Burning Bright

(Texte) Ashley Johnson
Gary Michael Dault is like a Colossus striding across the cultural landscape in Toronto, active most notably as an art critic but also as a writer, photographer and painter. Many visual artists owe him an enormous debt of gratitude for making their work visible via reviews in the Globe and Mail…
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The Art of Digital Art Education

Ashley Johnson – What is your background and current role? David Hlynsky – I initially worked at Coachhouse Press, learnt Photoshop, spending time in a darkroom as a photographer. I also have a degree in painting. I taught Photoshop at OCAD and Sheridan before University of Toronto where I teach…
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