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THE GREAT UPHEAVAL: ART PICTURING EARTHQUAKES
Over the past few years, there have been several exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario which excitingly provided close-ups of a plunge into a massive, disturbing and thrilling change in orientation from that of a longstanding mainstream rationality. Efforts … Continue reading
NERI AND HU, JOINING WHO’S WHO!
Architects and industrial designers, Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, have managed, ever so quietly (in a field not known for its diffidence), to provide us with a fascinating new slant on design’s speaking to questions of innovative cogency. Having been … Continue reading
“GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR TOM” THE DAVID BOWIE SHOW
The Art Gallery of Ontario, deftly following up on its Surreal Things show, has tapped into London’s Victoria and Albert Museum’s rampage of a show, a wild and wonderful bundle of entities, pertaining to singer/songwriter PLUS, David Bowie (b. 1947). … Continue reading
A BUTTERFLY STORY!
We found, in a Noel 1933 issue of L’Illustration, a lithographically illustrated article concerning a fabulous German collection of butterflies from around the world. The writer was an expert at Paris’ Museum of Natural History, ensconced in the unforgettable Jardin … Continue reading
HERMES, BEING TOUCHED BY HEAVEN!
For a full week, the Design Exchange was graced by artisans in action and in interaction, from that Centre of the Sublime, Hermes.
SHEILA AND NICHOLAS PYE: SLEEPLESS NIGHTS AND THEN SOME
Sheila and Nicholas Pye are an art partnership like none other. Married to each other, until a few years ago, they continue to produce videos and photographs that depict difficulties of love. But here we should drop all vestiges of … Continue reading
THE LABEQUES: CLASSICAL MUSIC AND A CHANGING WORLD
Katia and Marielle Labeque, sisters, duo pianist virtuosos and celebrities, turned many heads in the classical music orbit of the 1980′s and 1990′s with their vivacious musicality coming out of a strong commitment to the music of George Gershwin. At … Continue reading
JAMES TURRELL: AN ARTIST SPANNING THE BIG AND THE SMALL
James Turrell is a California artist who brings to us the generally unsuspected sophistication of the wherewithal of the West Coast. His work is about the play of light, including sunlight, a commodity he would have been richly imbued with … Continue reading
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PARTIAL ECLIPSE AND THE ARTIST’S HEART
Two recent musical events bring front and center the disconcerting and provoking reality of remarkable creative powers attracting minuscule attention. Now, we’re all well-versed in the cliche that every contribution along these lines can be “personally” rewarding. But that truism … Continue reading
THE ARCHITECTURE OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT—DARING TO BE DIFFERENT!
In the late nineteenth century, Chicago was a vigorous urban centre with many fortunes in the making. But, notwithstanding pockets of audacity in matters of taste, it was, in many ways, still a Prairie town with a critical mass of … Continue reading