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Cedric Bomford: Scaling the Heights of Creative Critique

Cedric Bomford: Scaling the Heights of Creative Critique

Many cast a skeptical eye at Toronto’s corporate-sponsored Red Bull 381 Projects when it opened. But Gabrielle Moser finds Cedric Bomford’s tower installation there actually reinvigorates the critical potential of artists vis-à-vis their exhibitors.

Making Worlds: 53rd Venice Biennale

Making Worlds: 53rd Venice Biennale

Contemporary art all but takes over La Serenissima during the Venice Biennale, spilling out of the Giardini and the Arsenale, the official exhibition sites, to dot the city with additional national exhibitions and special events, disturbing her serenity with art-world buzz.

Reece Terris: Houses Beautiful

Reece Terris: Houses Beautiful

For his artwork Ought Apartment, Reece Terris constructed a 60-foot tower containing six full-scale apartments stacked vertically. As Heidi May observes, the work invites us to consider consumerism’s impact on public and private space.

Piero Manzoni

Piero Manzoni

Piero Manzoni, the puckish, baby-faced Italian, has long been beloved by art students everywhere for his Merda d’artista (1961), 90 small cans of what was purportedly his own shit, sold at the time for the price of their weight in gold.

Nicolas Baier

Nicolas Baier

Human beings have an uncanny ability to seek out images where none exist. That’s why we can while away hours finding shapes in the clouds and can all see a man in the moon. It’s this notion that informs this exhibition of recent work by the Montreal-based artist Nicolas Baier.

Anthony Hernandez

Anthony Hernandez

The Anthony Hernandez show at the Vancouver Art Gallery has been unexpected in a number of ways.

Douglas Walker

Douglas Walker

The magic of Douglas Walker’s paintings lies in their stunning resemblance to blue-and-white Delftware, their surface effects and, of course, the force of their imagery.

Nomads

Nomads

In their post-structural opus A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, the French theorists Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari characterized nomadic movement as “maintaining the possibility of springing up at any point.”

Terrance Houle

Terrance Houle

Terrance Houle has always been a performer. Growing up on the Canadian Prairies while his father served in the armed forces, the Calgary-based artist, who is of Blackfoot and Ojibway descent, regularly danced at powwows while attending military-base and public schools.

Jeanie Riddle

Jeanie Riddle

This year, Montreal has seen a surfeit of shows focusing on the connections between art, music and clubbing. In a solo exhibition at Centre d’exposition Circa, Jeanie Riddle brought a very different tone to the party with a work of silent grandeur called California.