highlights from an evening preview of Heffel’s Nov. 19 auctions: 1) Frederic Bell-Smith’s Lights of a City Street, 2) a jewel-like Morrice, 3) a stunning Cornelius Krieghoff that comes down through two of his closest friends, 4) a powerful A.Y. Jackson - I wrote about 1, 3 & 4 for the catalogue 🖼️🖼️🖼️✨

another venerable Queen West mural, Micah Lexier's conceptual vanitas at Euclid 🔠 ⏳ 💀

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my book, Out of School, and the collection I edited for @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social, Variable Conditions, at Type on Queen W 📚

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watching the new John Abrams mural take shape the Cameron House 🏩 🍻 🎞️ 🖌️

some views of "Edging the Unscratchable Digital Itch," curated by Lingxiang Wu, at InterAccess in Toronto: 1) Axl Le, 2) Sophia Oppel, 3) Iris QU Xiaoyu & Niles Fromm, & 4) David Yu 💻 📽️ 🌀

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some shots of Earthwork at Art Museum at University of Toronto, curated by Mikinaak Migwans: 1) land defenders at 1492 Land Back Lane, 2) Protect the Tract Collective, 3) Faye HeavyShield, 4) BUSH Gallery 🔥 read my review of Earthwork for @revue-esse.bsky.social's webzine: esse.ca/en/reviews/e...

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always beautifully produced, the catalogues for Heffel's Nov 19 auctions have arrived, with essays I wrote on 1-2) Frederick Bell-Smith's "Lights of a City Street," 3) Krieghoff's "Canadian Autumn" 4) & A.Y. Jackson's important "Souvenir of Kispayaks" -- auction preview this week in Toronto 🖼️ ✍️ 📖

👏 Congratulations to Tania Willard, winner of the $100,000 2025 Sobey Art Award, Canada’s most established contemporary visual arts prize. 👏 www.gallery.ca/for-professi... #SobeyArtAward #TaniaWillard

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some details of Rosalie Favell | Belonging (1982-2024) at Onsite Gallery @ocaduniversity.bsky.social 𖧶 ⚔️ 🛡 📸

thanks to Matthew Ryan Smith for a generous and thoughtful review in the current issue of espace of Laura Moore: Memories of the Future, which I guest curated last winter for McIntosh Gallery: it's also great to see Laura, who currently has a solo exhibition at Zalucky Contemporary, on the cover 🥳

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Micah Lexier, A Drawing and A Sculpture @mkg127.bsky.social ┈ •●⚫ ⋯― #micahlexier

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Jordan King at Art Metropole 🗄️ 🔳 🗂️

RIP Alison Knowles

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looking at this (perhaps) Halloween-adjacent acrylic on wood of a Snake Charmer by Mélanie Rocan hanging on our wall 🐍🎶🏺

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some recent birds

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last week I finally had the opportunity to visit the former Davenport address of the legendary Cornelia Lumsden Archives administered by the elusive R. Austen-Marshall 🗃️🗂️🗄️📦 #cornelialumsden #raustenmarshall #verafrenkel

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1) Michael Belmore (foreground), Jack Bush (left background), & Tariku Shiferaw (right background), 2) Michael Belmore, and 3) Jack Bush in "Standing in the room together" @thegoldfarbgallery.bsky.social 🪨🪨🔶✨

and now for some highlights from @art_toronto in vertical orientation: 1) Jason Lujan, 2) Jay Isaac, 3) Níall McClelland, 4) Dana Slijboom 🔥

more (horizontal) highlights from Art Toronto : 1) Maude Corriveau, 2) Janet Werner, 3) Mélanie Rocan, 4) Kazuo Nakamura - and special thanks to Alexandra Dumais and @revue-esse.bsky.social for bringing me to the fair 🙏 🔥

a few (horizontal) highlights from Art Toronto : 1) Kate O’Connor, 2) Natia Lemay, 3) Devon Pryce, 4) Jeremy Shaw 👏👏

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a few details of Joanne Tod's show at Caviar20 🖼 🏺 ✨

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Laura Moore at Zalucky Contemporary 🔥 #LauraMoore

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