Posts Tagged ‘Sky Goodden’
May 9, 2013, 9:36 am
The Canadian collector and national arts philanthropist Michael Audain has revealed architectural plans for a museum that will exhibit his impressive holdings of British Columbia artists and feature temporary exhibitions. The L-shaped structure, designed by Patkau Architects (who were also recently tapped to design Vancouver’s new Presentation House Gallery) will host both permanent collection and temporary exhibition galleries. The price is set at $30 million, and will be wholly covered by the Audain Foundation. (more…)
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April 3, 2013, 8:17 am
The Audain Prize honored two veteran West Coast artists on Friday, bestowing the $30,000 award on Gathie Falk and Takao Tanabe. The award, sponsored by Vancouver art collector and philanthropist Michael Audain (who recently made history with a $5 million donation to Emily Carr University, and is building a self-named museum in Whistler), is given very year to an artist from British Columbia in recognition of their lifetime achievement. The prize, which is in its tenth year, has previously gone to artists such as Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham, E.J. Hughes, and Marian Penner Bancroft. (more…)
Tags: Audain Prize, Elizabeth McIntosh, Gathie Falk, Michael Audain, News, Prizes, Sky Goodden, Takao Tanabe
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March 27, 2013, 4:49 pm
In the throes of a strategic “repositioning process,” the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal announced today that its director, Paulette Gagnon, is resigning from her post as of June 1. Gagnon served as chief curator from 1992 to 2009, and as director for the past four years. “I have put my passion for contemporary art at the service of the museum, and I leave with a feeling of having fulfilled my duty to that institution,” she said in a press release issued by the museum today. (more…)
Tags: Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal, News, Paulette Gagnon, Sky Goodden
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March 13, 2013, 7:42 am
Collector and philanthropist Michael Audain made history last week with his donation of $5 million to the Emily Carr University of Art and Design (ECUAD). A chairman for both the Vancouver Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada, and a significant collector of Emily Carr paintings and the Vancouver School photoconceptualists, Audain announced that he will be donating the largest individual gift ever received by the university, which will in turn create the Audain School of Visual Arts. (more…)
Tags: Art school, ARTINFO Canada, Donations, Emily Carr University, Michael Audain, News, Sky Goodden
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March 12, 2013, 3:43 pm
The Canada Council announced the winners of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts in Montreal on Tuesday morning, with recipients including Ontario-born, Berlin-based composer and sound artist, Gordon Monahan; infamous and iconic performance artist, Rebecca Belmore, the first Aboriginal woman to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale; 87-year-old Automatiste painter and sculptor, Marcel Barbeau; Montreal- and Paris-based art critic and curator and founder of contemporary art magazine Parachute, Chantal Pontbriand; and trail-blazing Atlantic filmmaker and producer, William D. MacGillivray. Each laureate will receive $25,000 and a medal. (more…)
Tags: ARTINFO Canada, Chantal Pontbriand, Gordon Monahan, Governor General's Awards, Marcel Barbeau, News, Prizes, Rebecca Belmore, Sky Goodden, William D. MacGillivray
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March 7, 2013, 9:48 am
The largest photography prize in Canada announced its three finalists, on Tuesday, with the Scotiabank Photography Award that much closer to selecting its third recipient of the $50,000 prize. They are Stan Douglas (Vancouver), and Montrealers, Angela Grauerholz and Robert Walker. With last year’s recipient, the late and beloved Arnaud Maggs, heavy on our minds, this year’s honoree will bear a heavy crown, though one that brings a measure of “arrival” for an established Canadian photographer. (more…)
Tags: Angela Grauerholz, ARTINFO Canada, Edward Burtynsky, Prizes, Robert Walker, Scotiabank Photography Award, Sky Goodden, Stan Douglas
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February 28, 2013, 1:15 pm
Just six months after taking the helm, and only six months before the 2013 Montreal Biennial (BNL MTL) opens its doors, director Nicole Gingras has resigned. The Centre international d’art contemporain de Montreal (CWC), which has led the BNL MTL since its inception in 1998, published the news of Gingras’s departure on its website. (more…)
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February 21, 2013, 10:29 am
Canada’s presence at the 2013 Venice Biennale will be exceptionally varied and broad, this year. In addition to the country’s official representative, Shary Boyle, and the unofficial but highly anticipated performances and “processes” of recent Sobey Art Award winner and Quebecois artist Raphaëlle de Groot, two more artists were added to the fold yesterday. For the first time, two Newfoundland artists have been invited to participate in the biennial.Will Gill (of St. John’s) and Peter Wilkins (of Clarke’s Beach) have been accepted to join the legions of juried artists on the canals. (more…)
Tags: News, Peter Wilkins, Raphaëlle de Groot, Shary Boyle, Sky Goodden, Terra Nova Art Foundation, Venice Biennale 2013, Will Gill
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February 19, 2013, 1:09 pm
Montreal’s Galerie de l’UQAM and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) announced this week that Quebec artist and recent recipient of Canada’s top contemporary art prize the Sobey Art Award winner, Raphaëlle de Groot, will be presenting her work at the 2013 edition of the Venice Biennale in the form of an original performance, titled “Venetian Exercises,” which will be staged during the biennial’s opening in May. Though Quebec doesn’t have a pavilion at the biannual exhibition — making De Groot’s “representation” of the French-speaking region strictly unofficial — the sometimes-separatist province’s artists have commanded the Canadian pavilion in 1990, 2003, and 2007. (more…)
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February 8, 2013, 4:56 pm
The Mendel Art Gallery, and the future Remai Art Gallery of Saskatchewan, announced today the appointment of Gregory Burke as executive director and chief executive officer. The news breaks nearly two years after Burke left his director post at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. He has been working independently since then. (more…)
Tags: Appointments, Gregory Burke, Mendel Art Gallery, News, Remai Art Gallery of Saskatchewan, Sky Goodden
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