happy Mother's Day 💐

congratulations to @revue-esse.bsky.social on being nominated for 3 National Magazine Awards, including for Best Issue | Esse 114 - Abstractions; you can read my feature from 114 "Errant Abstraction" at the link below or I recently came across a hard copy at Swipe Design 📖 🥳 esse.ca/en/errant-ab...

Pearl Van Geest at Red Head Gallery

from tonight's opening of The Aesthetics of Disappearance at Gagné Contemporary, 1) John Nobrega, 2 & 4) Jubal Brown, and 3) Schem Bader #theaestheticsofdisappearance

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it was great to see such strong work by so many current and former students at @ocaduniversity.bsky.social's GradEx, including: 1) Matt Trinh, 2) Hayeon Song, 3) Callum Donovan-Grujicich, and 4) Chimemelie Okafor 🔥 👏👏 #GradEx111

Emily Carr skies over #Toronto last night

happy to receive hard copies of Heffel's catalogues for its upcoming live auctions in May; you can read my descriptions of Alex Colville's "Cattle Show" (1995) and A.J. Casson's "Autumn on the York River" (1959) at the links in comment, or look for them in print 🖼️ 📖 ✨ #alexcolville #ajcasson

happy to share my review of Natia Lemay's What the Edge Knows at CIBC Square in the latest edition of @revue-esse.bsky.social (no. 117): "register" to read it online at the link below, or look for it in hardcopy (soon) 📖 esse.ca/en/reviews/n... #natialemay

Lan “Florence” Yee, We prefer the moon over the sun because we can stare at it, at YYZ Artists' Outlet

a few details of Smoke Signals x Reflections, curated by Jesse King at 401 Richmond, combining belongings from City of Toronto’s Collection with contemporary art by (among others): 2) Megan Feheley, 3) a replica of Ceremonial Tomahawk Pike gifted to Kahkewaquonaby, 4) Alexis Nanibush-Pamajewong 🔥

some details of Luke Vanny's show at The Drey's new Chinatown Centre location #lukevanny #thedrey

"Of all chamber music works that Gould recorded none is more controversial than the Schumann Quartet for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello in E-flat major, op.47 recorded in New York on May 9 & 10/1968" 🎹 🎻

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dramatic skies in #toronto 🌇

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Ranbir Sidhu @agotoronto.bsky.social #rabirsidhu

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Ernest Hemingway's former apartment on Bathurst #ernesthemingway

Transit of Haumea

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reading about arcades in my favourite local "arcade"

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works by Mehdi Dandi at Stephen Bulger Gallery reworking photographs of a (very) familiar Toronto intersection #mehdidandi #stephenbulgergallery

happy Earth Day 🌎 🗓️

Lucienne and I visited the @romtoronto.bsky.social on its free third Tuesday night 🏛️ 🏺 💎 ✨

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Matt Thomas at Hunt Gallery #MattThomas

I was too late seeing Adam David Brown's show @mkg127.bsky.social to post before it closed on Sunday, but here are some belated details 🔢 #adamdavidbrown

I visited the Toronto Islands, but I was 12,000 years too late. You may know that the Davenport Hill was once the shoreline of Lake Iroquois, but did you know that the western section of St. Clair W. sits atop an ancient sandbar formed by sediments deposited at the mouth of the future Humber ? 🏝️ 🏙️ ⏳

a few details from Nice Touch, curated by Nadine Maher, the plumb : 1) Ke Zhang (foreground), 2) Corinne Carlson, 3, Vanessa B. Rieger, 3) Brandon Celi, 4) Maxwell Galley 📦 🧤 🖼️ 📏 ✨

details of the Edna Taçon (1905-1980) exhibition curated by Renée van der Avoird on view @agotoronto.bsky.social. I've been teaching Taçon, based on Zemans's groundbreaking work, from the first Canadian art survey I taught at in 2018, so it was great to finally see so many pieces together 🎶 🎨

some works at Gallery Gevik: 1) a stunning Daphne Odjig, 2) a timely, lunar-themed work on paper by Carl Beam, 3) a hard-edged abstraction by Ulysse Comtois (Rita Letendre’s partner early in life), and 4) a book-themed painting by David Garneau #daphneodjig #carlbeam #ulyssecomtois #davidgarneau

a rare opportunity to view (1-2) a body of works by Canadian modernist Fritz Brandtner (1896-1969), with additional works by (3) Rita Letendre, and (4) Philip Surrey, among others at Canadian Fine Arts in Yorkville #ritaletendre #philipsurrey

Brian Rideout at Towards Gallery

I finally saw Faye HeavyShield's show before it closed yesterday @agotoronto.bsky.social ✨ #fayeheavyshield

we caught On Time, curated by Amy Rogers and Melissa Fish Gallery 1065, before it closes today: 1) Adam David Brown, 2) Philip Leonard Ocampo, 3) Ginette Legaré, 4) Micah Lexier 🕰️ ✨ #ontime

Oddfellows' Hall, 441 Queen Street West, built 1886 🎭

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very pleased with the texts I wrote for Heffel's auctions in May; you can read my descriptions of Alex Colville's Cattle Show (1995) and A.J. Casson's Autumn on the York River (1959) at the links below, or look for them in hard copy 🖼️ 📖✨ www.heffel.com/Auction/A202... www.heffel.com/Auction/A202...

I visited Joyce Wieland's former Corktown home and the nearby laneway newly christened in her honour 🚏 #joycewieland

Ludovic Boney's In Equilibrium (2024) on Cherry Street 🪞 🌾 🔵