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An ambitious multi-media experience exploring the importance of water within an Indigenous context has become a cautionary tale about bureaucratic ineptitude, miscommunication and well-meaning but problematic efforts at reconciliation in Canada.The project in question was first initiated in 2016 as a collaboration between the British artist Amy Sharrocks (who just received a six-figure settlement from the Tate after she made claims of harassment and ...

“Over long expanses of time, the bottom-most layers of earth move slowly upward, continually revealing its past to us,” curators Tairone Bastien, Candice Hopkins, and Katie Lawson write in their statement for the second Toronto Biennial of Art. Titled “What Water Knows, the Land Remembers,” the exhibition was framed as a “move inland” from the shoreline, which served as an organizing idea for the ...

The Toronto Biennial of Art in Canada, which opened to the public over the weekend, has named the two artists who have won prizes for their contributions to this year’s exhibition. They are Camille Turner, who won the Artist Prize, and Aycoobo / Wilson Rodríguez, who won the Emerging Artist Prize. Each winner will receive CAD$10,000 ($8,000). In June, the Biennial will also award ...

Delayed six months by the pandemic, the long-awaited second edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art opens to the public on Saturday, March 26. As the exhibition’s founder and executive director Patrizia Libralato said during a press preview on March 23, “I’ve been saying we’re not a biennial until we’ve done it twice, so it’s official—we are now a biennial. Otherwise, we’d just be ...

There are hundreds of biennials in the world, and with each edition, a new curator is picked to take the reins. That makes the Toronto Biennial of Art, whose second edition opens on March 26, unlike its colleagues. For the second edition in a row, the same curatorial team has taken the helm, allowing some artists to create work over the course of four ...

The Toronto Biennial of Art in Canada has announced the 37 artists and collectives that will participate in its upcoming 2022 edition, scheduled to run March 26–June 5. The exhibition will include 23 new commissions. Organized by curators Tairone Bastien, Candice Hopkins, and Katie Lawson, along with former TBA curators Clare Butcher and Myung-Sun Kim, this edition was postponed from September 2021 because of ...

In 2016, a sculpture of a cow was placed in a the midst of a Canadian suburban development and residents hated it. One day, the citizens of Cathedraltown, a planned suburb of the city of Markham, Ontario, woke up to find a chromatic cow shimmering outside their windows. They hated the cow. The sculpture, Charity, and the ensuing effort by residents to remove the ...

Warren Scott KEEPING BUSY — Heath Thomas, 13, of Toronto, stopped to show his 3-year-old nephew, Alec Mitchell, the honey bees displayed by Buena Vista Honey Farm at the Toronto Art Festival Saturday. The farm, which sold assorted honey and other products, was among many vendors who lined North Third, Market and Main streets during the two-day event. TORONTO — Many ...

TORONTO — Over the years it’s been called the Toronto Festival of Arts or the Toronto Arts Festival, but each year it has offered a variety of arts and crafts, music and fun. Now in its 43rd year and dubbed the Toronto Art Festival, the event will return Saturday and Sunday following a pandemic-imposed hiatus. Julie Ault said she and other members of Focus ...

Critically acclaimed artist Jacquie Comrie just unveiled Renaissance of Mother Gaia in Toronto’s west end, turning a bland outdoor wall into a kaleidoscope of colour. Drawing from colour psychology, with a palette specifically selected to bring hope and healing to the community, the mural is ever more relevant right now with the year we’ve all had.b-sm = 300x250; sm > none;Spanning over 1,800 sq ft, this ...