Curator and educator Toleen Touq has been appointed the curator of the twentieth edition of the Montreal-based MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain, which will take place in 2027. www.artforum.com/news/toleen-...

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John Smith: The Girl Chewing Gum 50th Anniversary. March 10th, 18 & 20h - Close-Up Cinema, London expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

“…the Venice Biennale’s current posture lays bare the cynicism of the art world… it now bends over backward to avoid offending Israel and the United States. In doing so, it becomes complicit in ongoing genocide… What remains is not resistance, but the aesthetic window-dressing of violence.”

1/10 Dear Artist and Curator Peers, Today I received an email about the upcoming ‘MOCA x AGO’ Symposium “Collective Views” and saw that you are participating. Would you share with me your reasons for taking part in this event? #moca #mocatoronto @agotoronto.bsky.social 🧵

Super helpful for me and my students. Thank you, @arunadsouza.bsky.social

“All aspects of documentary filmmaking involve choice and are therefore manipulative. But the ethical... aspect of it is that you have to... try to make [a film that] is true to the spirit of your sense of what was going on. …these films are biased, prejudiced, condensed, compressed but fair.” RIP.

Ewa Puszczyńska’s answer is irresponsible and incorrect. The members of this jury are not acting as independent artists at the Berlinale, they are acting as a “jury”—an assessment committee appointed by a festival that is state funded—their roles are inherently political. Face the music, assholes.

@juliedabrusin.bsky.social Will you put your legacy behind Bills C-2, C-8, and C-12 and curtail the rights of Canadians, undermine our digital sovereignty, and empower corporations via authoritarian decisions by government? What about current Liberal environmental policy? Cross the floor to the NDP.

@mark-carney.bsky.social @liberalca.bsky.social Will your meager GST rebates address this disparity? No. Perhaps breaking up corporate monopolies in groceries, communications and banking would allow for equitable stewardship of economic structures in Canada. Ie., maybe you could do your jobs.

Where is a Canadian investigation of X, @mark-carney.bsky.social? What will it take? Why are you and your MPs still posting on the platform, given its permission of CSAM and its data collection? Why is your AI minister enmeshed with various technologies companies that profit off suffering?

I once saw him in 2004 in a convertible BMV, flashing his face in the sun to passers-by at Spadina and Richmond. He sat with a mixture of hubris and self-conscious impotence. I was a fan of his and Carol’s on CBC Sunday, but this chance meeting told me: be aware of meager men with outsized ambition.

No.

@ombudsmanontario.bsky.social Commissioners, can you please address the concerns raised in this article regarding the actions of Art Gallery of Ontario Trustees in collections acquisitions? @agotoronto.bsky.social #ago #agotoronto

AGO trustee Judy Schulich must be removed and barred from philanthropic work in Canada involving legal charitable status and public funds. She can do what she wants with her private (extractivist) capital but she cannot mobilize public funds to personal ideology. #agotoronto @agotoronto.bsky.social

Solomon on behalf of the Canadian government making nice with Israel to access AI surveillance technology for border security is an interesting snapshot of the “values” Carney said we would export to the world. These “values” will be law under Bills C-2, C-8, C-12. Get Solomon out of Toronto Centre.

I believe in public institutions. I work for one. When I travel, I’m usually going to public museums and galleries. Some of the most visceral experiences in my life and work have been in these spaces. This is why I find the actions of the governing Board of Directors of the AGO so distressing.

Enough. This is a red line. The AGO Curatorial Team, Julian Cox, Caroline Shields, Adam Harris Levine, Julie Crooks, Georgiana Uhlyarik, Renée van der Avoird, Adam Welch, Debbie Johnsen, Sophie Hackett, Alexa Greist, and Jim Shedden: your silence is complicity. #agotoronto @agotoronto.bsky.social

Suspend all public funding to the AGO @agotoronto.bsky.social #ago #agotoronto #canadacouncil #ontarioartscouncil #torontoartscouncil @marcmillermp.bsky.social @maritstilesndp.bsky.social @sandyshaw.bsky.social @rob4ajax.bsky.social @charliewallandrews.bsky.social

Time to divest in U.S. Treasury bills, notes, and bonds. If they want to intrude on a deal between sovereign nations we can call in their debt, $360 billion; maybe China can too, $760B. It’ll be catastrophic all around, but hey, fuck them.. Japan ($1T), UK ($725B), Ireland ($340B) &tc., you in?

@marcmillermp.bsky.social What will it take to hold the AGO to account for the continued unethical actions of its boards (governors and acquisitions) and their continued abdication of the Canadian Charter values that Mark Carney spoke of in Davos? @agotoronto.bsky.social @mrstephanjost.bsky.social

Finally. This is what we expected. @mark-carney.bsky.social Now, to signal the values that you speak eloquently about: get rid of X Corp. on Canadian government funded platforms, publicly rid your personal stocks aligned with imperialist hegemony, and reaffirm your commitment to the environment.

Absolutely not. Palestine is not an asset to be governed by a board. This isn’t Brookfield. But, I’m sure the stocks in Carney’s blind trust portfolio, like X Corp. and Lockheed Martin will benefit from his seat. This PM is a colossal asshole who needs to be shown the door. @mark-carney.bsky.social

“enshittification slop”

“Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”

Ah. I get it @mark-carney.bsky.social your BAM stock options are tied to both X and Lockheed Martin… and, I bet, both stocks just went up. So it’s open season for Grok’s CSAM in Canada while you make a profit. I get it now. Are you also in the Epstein files?

@mark-carney.bsky.social @liberalca.bsky.social You’re not invited to the cottage. #heatedrivalry

I mean, isn’t this covered by The Charter? Can’t we ask the Supreme Court for a ruling? Any form of government, any government funded organization (universities, artist-run centers, museums, etc.) should be told to deplatform from any networked social media that promotes CSAM—or risk their funding.

Note to @mayoroliviachow.ca maybe in 2026 you and your negligent PR team could communicate some meaningful change in Toronto (or better communicate why the province stands in the way of progress) with a platform that meets our basic needs like working transit, rental costs, and public services.

@nytimes.com These are your photo-editors? I’ve never seen people more out-of-touch. These three people underscore everything wrong with the divisions of wealth in American culture writ large. A celebratory photo of Mary Boone, Schnabel, et al., as a significant representation of the year? Assholes.

In Canada I’m watching the 60 Minutes CECOT piece CBS shelved. It’s a short item and at its core is an investigation of a Berkeley forensic study of already widely available material, specifically influencer videos of the prison (yes, that’s right).

Lovely. She’s a force. Nice to see it recognized with this award.

Unfortunately, agree: and correct to point to the curation and not the art, some of which could done its thing if not assaulted by a lack of perspective and a deadening flow of space. Missing a plot, flummoxed, and flat; but the Freddy Villalobos work did emerge amidst the surfacing.

Bari Weiss CBS journalism, CBS News 24/7 this evening… anchor Dana Jacobson: “You may know Gustav Klimt as the artist who put a banana on a wall. Well, he’s at it again. This time selling a work for $240 million dollars.” Yup, no DEI, but all AI.

@armineyalnizyan.bsky.social In your Considerations for Preparing the Next Federal Budget of Canada, you wrote: “At 13.7% of GDP… health & social assistance and education are the biggest drivers of the Canadian economy”. What is your reaction to these reductions? Can you outline the logic? Thanks!

@vgasparro.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

@vgasparro.bsky.social Is your next step against free speech and Charter Rights to start lawsuits against the press, intimidation of the judiciary, and silencing by military threat? @mark-carney.bsky.social Remove him from caucus now. Your elbows are slipping.

Everyone hates the mini-Slam schedule between Wimbledon and US Open: they’re too long and dangerous to athlete health. ATP and WTA won’t change. Here’s an idea: cancel #nationalbankopen, which helps fund #tenniscanada. Let’s boycott after TC’s decision to host a genocidal regime in the #daviscup.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Forbidden Colors, 1988. Installation shot from ‘The Workspace: Felix Gonzalez-Torres.’ The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. 16 September–20 November 1988.

Canada, France, Britain, and others offer Palestinians the same poisoned chalice they have offered for decades: recognition without sovereignty, statehood without power, liberation without freedom, writes Ahmad Ibsais. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

This poisoning of fair use (fair dealing) by AI companies will rot artistic oppositional critique for years. Either side evoking proprietary ownership is a paralyzing weight on satire, parody, quotation, interpolation, appropriation, sampling, remix, and criticality in representational discourse.

Dara Birnbaum shaped the material we know as the moving image forever; indebted (thanks, @stuartcomer.bsky.social)

Listening to the 2025 remaster/reissue of Belly’s sublime “King”this morning. @tanyadonelly.bsky.social Any chance of a Toronto date on the tour? Trade off: I’ll make Belly’s next video, if you want…

Dear curators, if your exhibition title has a colon, it's the wrong title. Writers, especially academic writers, same goes for you. I mean, take the leap, take a risk, embrace the potential of meaning. Artists, if your artwork's title has a colon, I'm sorry, there is no help for you or your treason.

I won’t be going to America for a bit. It’s too expensive for Canadians. I also fear that the things that drew me will may be withheld or disappear. It’s sad. I hope to see El Greco’s paintings at the Art Institute, or Cadmus’ “The Bath” at the Whitney, or Ligon’s “To Disembark” at DIA again soon.

“Comeuppance… is an Americanism that first appeared in Harper’s Magazine in 1859… derives from the phrasal verb “come up”, as a case for judgment at a trial, and the common suffix “-ance”, which forms nouns from verbs, such as acceptance from accept, or appearance from appear.”