the Beauty of Tragedy at Conseil des Arts de Montréal
If you’re going to be in Montréal May 17 (this Friday) you should seriously consider checking out the Beauty of Tragedy at Conseil des Arts de Montréal at 1210 Rue Sherbrooke Est, at the corner or Montcalm & Sherbrooke. It’s worth…
Peter Ferguson at Roq la Rue
The charming and talented Montreal artist Peter Ferguson will be in Seattle this Friday for the opening of his solo show, “Black Jubilee” at Roq la Rue. I’ve mentioned Peter Ferguson before but just as a refresher, he is a wonderfully talented…
Maskull Lasserre
I first saw Maskull Lassere‘s sculptures in 2011 at an art gallery in the Belgo Building in downtown Montreal. To tell the truth I saw a photo of one of his pieces on Colossal and got so excited I rushed straight…
New Work from FAILE
So I was checking out Arrested Motion today and it would seem that FAILE are continuing to be as productive as ever. Apparently they are doing some kind of collaborative work with the New York City Ballet (?!) NYCB Art Series commissions…
Artwork Preservation and Restoration in the News
Although I usually write about art from the perspective of an artist or a viewer, there is a lot to be learned from looking at art from the perspective of an archivist. While looking through the “news roundup” feature on…
FAILE in Mongolia
FAILE is an artist collective operating out of Brooklyn, and are one of my favourite voices in street art. They’ve been around for a little more than a decade, and started out as a street art crew but have been…
Kevin Peterson, Painter
I was checking out the Juxtapoz website (as I often do) and they had a feature on a pretty cool artist named Kevin Peterson who, judging by the thumbnails, took photos of people in front of graffiti in urban settings….
Google Art Project (update)
Back in September I mentioned Google Art Project… I don’t know about you, but I often fantasize about winning a hefty lottery and spending the rest of my life travelling the world, visiting art museums. Google has come up with something…
Nazi Buddhist Iron Man from Space is Fake
I know it sounds like something from Indiana Jones, but it’s true. Last month, the headlines looked like this – Priceless Tibetan Buddha statue looted by Nazis was carved from meteorite Relic taken by SS in 1930s analysed by researchers…
Gerhard Richter – Abstraktes Bild (809-4)
The biggest art market news from last week was the sale of a Gerhard Richter painting by Sotheby’s that has broken the record for the amount paid for the work of any living artist. I’m a big fan of Richter,…
