Clockwise from top left: John Wood and Paul Harrison, Bored Astronauts on the Moon (production still). Courtesy Carroll/Fletcher Gallery, London, UK; Carole Itter and Al Neil's cabin. Photo: Carole Itter; the Red River skating trail; the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Our editors’ weekly roundup of Canadian art news.
Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery and Ballet BC successfully raised $25,000 in association with the Art Basel Crowdfunding Initiative to produce a cross-disciplinary performance between artists John Wood and Paul Harrison and the Ballet BC dancers. The piece will premiere in Vancouver in 2016.
Artists Carole Itter and Al Neil, living in North Vancouver’s storied waterfront area Cates Park, are facing eviction by Port Metro Vancouver after Polygon Homes, owned by art collector Michael Audain, began a habitat restoration project in the area. Audain has committed to helping defray the costs of moving the cabin.
Painter Ted Harrison, known for his colourful paintings of the Yukon and, in particular, his illustration of the poem The Cremation of Sam McGee, died at home in Victoria at the age of 88 on January 16, 2015.
A pop-up gallery on Winnipeg’s Red River skating trail organized by local artists was vandalized, with several of its walls punctured and torn down, shortly before its scheduled opening date.
The Art Gallery of Ontario’s exhibition and collections division continues to shift. An internally circulated memo from director and CEO Matthew Teitelbaum names Christy Thompson, formerly interim director of the Power Plant, as the chief of exhibitions and collections.
