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BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: FIRST FRIDAY By Big Red Friday, July 11th, 2008 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at SoWa First Fridays.
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman I love eavesdropping at the gym. There must be something about the testosterone or the endorphins at the gym that acts like truth serum. Suddenly, when pushed to a point of exhaustion, people give-up on social restraint and start saying what they really feel. Interrogators don’t need to torture anyone; they just need to put people on the treadmill for an hour. I once heard the most macho guy at the gym blurt out that he really liked Miley Cyrus’s latest album while he…
KATIE BETHUNE-LEAMEN @ TORONTO’S SCULPTURE GARDEN By Jennifer McMackon In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went, “One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.” “One side of what? The other side of what?” thought Alice to herself. “Of the mushroom,” said the Caterpillar, just as if she had asked it aloud;…
ANISH KAPOOR @ THE ICA By Megan Driscoll Anish Kapoor is an internationally acclaimed sculptor with a unique philosophical agenda. Currently, the Institute of Contemporary Art is featuring an exhibition highlighting the artist’s work entitled Past, Present, Future. Kapoor is best known in the US for his large-scale public art sculptures such as Sky Mirror, a thirty-five foot wide dish made of gleaming, polished steel that was exhibited at Rockefeller Center in New York City, and Cloud Gate, in Chicago’s Millennium Park. Although his sculptures are sophisticated and stunning to look at, Kapoor…
By JAMES NADEAU Back in April I had the chance to interview Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin. He was in town for the Independent Film Festival of Boston to screen his new film My Winnipeg. Guy Maddin has been making experimental films since the early eighties and is often referred to as the “Canadian David Lynch.” He was the youngest recipient of the Lifetime achievement Award at the Telluride Film Festival way back in 1995. He currently teaches film at the University of Winnipeg. My Winnipeg won the award for Best Canadian Feature…
PAWN BROKERS FOR THE ART WORLD Daniel Grant In the course of a week, Yossi Dina talks to a lot of art dealers and art collectors, movie moguls and real estate investors, all of whom want him to give them a loan, using their art as collateral. “Almost every day, people want to know what their art is worth, what kind of loan I give them,” he said. Not everybody is so nice. “A lot of people try to scam me. They think I don’t know anything about art or what something…
“THE WHITE CUBE” By Thomas Marquet #36: Some of us buy Snickers bars in the checkout line of the grocery store… Thomas Marquet is a cartoonist, sculptor, and critic, based in Brooklyn, New York, which is an admittedly unoriginal place to be pursuing any of these things.Get The White Cube every day at Tom’s blog.
YOAV HORESH @ STONE CROP GALLERY By Jason Landry You can taste the salt-water of the Atlantic in the air. The weather was at least twenty degrees cooler near the coast. The tides are moving in and out down by the harbor, people are swimming in the ocean, dogs are kicking up sand as they chase Frisbees and novels are being read. Summer is upon us. New England happens to be a very popular vacation destination this time of year, and with the value of the Euro far exceeding the US Dollar, the…