Tag: art
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Helsinki Travel Guide 2023 (Design & Architecture)
his is the ultimate guide for art, design and architecture lovers who are visiting the Finnish Capital.
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Arting at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
My behind the scenes tour at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
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Interior Design Show 2022 – Review
My review of the 2022 Interior Design Show, Canada’s premier event for Canadian Design
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DesignTO 2022: Libations for Liberated Living at Plumb Gallery
My review of DesignTO 2022 exhibition Libations for Liberated Living at Plumb Gallery Toronto
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DesignTO 2022: Must-See Exhibitions
This year I decided to do check out the North end of the city for DesignTO. This year I really wanted to experience in-person exhibitions. I’ve done the window display thing, and in this cold weather, I prefer to be inside, taking my time, then outside rushing. Here is my list of sites to see…
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5 Tips for Tackling DesignTO 2022
DesignTO 2022 and these are my top 5 tips to tackling the festival this year.
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Top 10 Biennales and Triennales to visit in 2022
With the world opening up again, it’s time to travel to visit some of the top art and architecture biennales and triennales. Here are my top 10 to visit this year in 2022.
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Imposter Cities – Canadian Pavilion – Venice Architecture Biennale 2021
An exclusive interview with curator David Theodore, Thomas Balaban and Jennifer Thorogood of TBA about the Venice Architecture Biennale and Canada’s Pavilion – Imposter Cities
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Top 5 Biennales to visit the summer
Here are the top 5 architecture, design and art events to visit this summer
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Future of Travel Calendar 2021
The future of leisure travel seen through the lens of a series of calendars.
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Daan Roosengaarde: Grow is a dreamscape that shows the beauty of light and sustainability
Daan Roosegaarde’s latest artwork GROW is an homage to the beauty of agriculture. In the world film premiere GROW appears as a 20,000m2 luminous dreamscape of red and blue waves of light over an enormous field. GROW is inspired by scientific light recipes which improve plants’ growth and resilience.
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Interview with Deborah Wang, Artistic Director of DesignTO
‘Exchange Piece’ explores collaboration as an act of care through an exchange between 10 early career and senior artists and designers working in pairs to explore how care in the creative process affects the way we relate and position ourselves to what we create.
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ARTECHOUSE presents Celestial – an exploration of 2020 Pantone Color of the Year: Classic Blue
ARTECHOUSE NYC extends Celestial, its Acclaimed Exploration of 2020 Pantone Color of the Year: Classic Blue, due to Popular Demand
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Interview with Architect Philip Beesley: Meander – Tapestry Hall, Cambridge
An exclusive interview with world renowned architect Philip Beesley about his latest installation Meander, on show at Tapestry Hall in Cambridge.
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Interview with Cool Objects: Dinner with Diaspora, DesignTO
My interview with the artists and curators of Cool Objects who will be taking me through their exhibition Dinner with Diaspora, online at DesignTO.
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Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Class exhibition at the ROM during COVID
Before the lockdown, the first one, I was able to see the exhibition Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic at the ROM created by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. If you grew up on Disney, as I did, my favourite character was Winnie-the-Pooh. I had almost everything you could have as it relates to the…
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Don’t Waste a Good Crisis
The pandemic has made it possible for art media which would traditionally be seen in the context of a gallery or museum to be streamed online from the comfort of your home. It allows the viewer the freedom and flexibility to search and find content that resonates with them. And for someone like myself that…
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Toronto Art Biennial: The Shoreline Dilemma
As Ontario and many other provinces call for a state of emergency in an attempt to slow the COVID-19 pandemic, it is leaving its citizens cooped up in self-isolation subject to hours of binge-watching on Netflix. As an avid lover of the arts, and a board member to a local media arts centre, I too…
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Guinness Storehouse Tour
One of the must-see things to do when you are in Dublin is visiting the Guinness Museum. It was one of the best museum experiences I have ever done. Unlike most traditional museums which present a collection of artifacts, the Storehouse takes you through the brewing process of how this famous beer is made. The…
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V&A Dundee by Kengo Kuma
When I was thinking of traveling to Scotland, Edinburgh and Glasgow were at the top of my list. But when I heard of the opening of a new V&A museum in Dundee, designed by Kengo Kuma really solidified my decision to go there. It’s quite a distance from Edinburgh, a couple of hours at least. On…
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Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA)
You gotta love a museum with a sense of humour. In the front of the entrance stands an equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington sculpted by Carlo Marochetti. The statue has a traffic cone on its head. The cone has come to represent the city’s light-hearted attitude to authority in most tourist books.
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Highlights from CUTMR 2019
The 16th installment of Come Up To My Room (#CUTMR) is an alternative design exhibition that provides a platform for experimentation outside the norms of art and design, at the edges between intention and interpretation. Freed from the constraints of traditional practice, CUTMR encourages spatial exploration that engages our senses, our memories and our perceptions of…
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Toronto’s Nuit Blanche 2018
“I can do that, all I need is an iPhone and a couple of lights,” this is what my friend says as we go through an interactive experience that flips our image as we walk through. This is one of the many lack lustered experiences we were hunting down because it was Nuit Blanche and…
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Science and art: creating new immersive environments
What happens when art meets technology? Meet two companies using their specialties in photography and virtual reality to bring viewers inside the works of Damien Hirst and Zaha Hadid.
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Sacred Spaces by Meredith Jay
Meredith Jay is a multidisciplinary artist who received a BFA in studio art from Concordia University. Located in Toronto, she makes sculptural installations that merge the digital and physical, as well as, sound, drawing, video and film. Through ritual and devotion Jay invokes and questions human behaviour and the collective memory.
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Derek Jenkins: E6 Process
Derek Jenkins is a multidisciplinary artist based in Hamilton, ON. His practice is handmade, personal, and documentary, with an interest in labour and the domestic. In his current exhibition the E6 Process, he showcases the invisible labour beneath moving images. It is a work about work: the unseen beneath the seen, the heard beneath the unheard. It is subterranean.
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Guggenheim: Art, Design and Architecture
Several months ago, I finally got to experience the Guggenheim in New York City. It was definitely on my bucket lists of architectural structures. After studying its architecture and interior design in school and seeing this epic building in person, all the small details and stories about came rushing back to me. What really surprised…
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On Partial View by Laura Owen
On my recent trip to New York, I visited the newly designed Whitney Museum. Not really knowing how the collections were organized, I went to the top and decided to work my way down. There was a family in the elevator with me and they also had the same plan. I told them, I was…
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There’s no one refugee experience
Located on the second floor of the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Abedar Kamgari gathers an intimate crowd to give us a behind the scenes tour of her exhibition Journey West. We learn that this specific space is set up so a connection between the AGH’s collection and contemporary artists can emerge.
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