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Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas
While we read memoirs voraciously, our enjoyment of the literary form is always tempered by a sense that we’re only getting part of the story. Too often authors excessively focus inwards and fail to...
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Cannes Film Festival Picks
A Touch of Sin Simply known as “Cannes”, the film festival that epitomizes both red carpet glamour and rarified auteurist taste had an uncharacteristically stratified year between its dual...
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Brian Jungen & Duane Linklater: Modest Livelihood
Modest Livelihood, currently on view at Catriona Jeffries Gallery in Vancouver, is a collaborative exhibition, which marks Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater’s first foray into film. Three short films,...
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Building Seagram
I never would have guessed that the catalyst that set New York’s architectural monument, the Seagram Building, into motion were the candid and outraged ‘NO NO NO NO NO’S’ of a scolding letter from...
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Khan Lee: Hearts and Arrows
Khan Lee, hearts and arrows, 2013Watercolour on paper, 22 x 29 ½”Image courtesy of the artist Centre A has left its former cavernous space at the corner of Hastings and Carrall street and relocated to...
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Hauser & Wirth: 20 Years
While convention dictates that the art museum is the appropriate context in which to mount important and critical exhibitions that contextualize both contemporary and historical art, over the past few...
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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013
Located in the lush environs of Hyde Park, the Serpentine Gallery is one of the world’s more interesting venues for showcasing contemporary art. Since the year 2000, the Serpentine has commissioned a...
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The Cy Twombly Gallery: The Menil Collection, Houston
We have yet to visit the Menil Collection in Houston but it is very high on our “must do list”. The Menil has an extraordinary reputation as an unparalleled art viewing experience, near religious in...
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Fall Arts Preview
Several of the shows we’ve recommended this past year are on tour and definitely worth catching as they travel the globe: we caught Roy Lichtenstein’s massive solo survey at the Tate and it’s currently...
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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Michael Pollan is not a newcomer to the food writing arena. With critically acclaimed books like In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto and An Omnivore’s Dilemma, he has helped North Americans...
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