Longtime Montreal blogger, Zeke, interviewed our man in Montreal, Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin about the scene up there. There’s a podcast at Zeke’s blog…plus artblog gets a huge shout-out at the beginning!!! We remember Zeke when he was organizing bloggers around the world back in 2004 or 2005 for a Canada confab.
Check out Stefan’s last post [...]
Every two years, Montreal hosts Mois de la Photo, a citywide festival organized by a guest curator that showcases photographers from around the world. This year the exhibitions revolve around the theme of The Spaces of the Image, a topic articulated by this year’s guest curator, the French art historian and freelance curator Gaëlle Morel. [...]
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Part art exhibit, part cocktail hour, part full-on party – that was the recipe for Art & Design Montreal. The event, organized by a group of young design-world connoisseurs, aimed to promote creative Montrealers working in design who also create artistically compelling work. This inaugural one-night-only event for Art & Design Montreal attracted a young, [...]
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I first encountered Robert Polidori’s photography in a small exhibit of his Versailles work at the Art45 Gallery. The images were rich, sensuous, highly detailed and intelligent. The New York-based photographer produces large-scale highly realistic chromogenic prints that bring the viewer into the scene. In the intimate setting, the effect was evocative and enthralling. The [...]
Kent Monkman’s video installation Dance to the Berdashe begins in darkness. Four projection screens decorated with tassels and shaped like bear hides surround a central screen. A gloved hand appears drawing simple icons of different natives on the surrounding screens. The larger-than-life drawings become animated dancers and then come to life by overlay of human [...]
Steve, Stella and me on the Essex-Charlotte Ferry crossing Lake Champlain from New York state to Vermont.
We’d been talking about going to Montreal for over a year and it was either going to happen this summer or maybe never. So Stella, Steve and I set out on the 466 mile drive girding our loins [...]
Steve, Stella and I are off to Montreal today for a short visit. This will be my first trip to Canada if you can believe that. Among other things we’ll be going to the Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal to see the Quebec Triennial, a show of 38 emerging artists from the region. [...]
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