A few newsy bits:
Tonight the winner of the $50,000 Grange Prize in Photography was announced tonight at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Mexico City's Marco Antonio Cruz was the winner as decided by popular online vote. Photos by all four finalists will be displayed at the AGO to June 26.
Today, Luminato, Toronto's best-funded arts fest, sent out a release admitting that Reena Katz's scheduled fest event, each hand as they are called, "has been postponed indefinitely and will no longer be part of Luminato 2009." The cause? Multiple project partners pulling out of the project over Katz's views on Palestine. More info from the artist here: eachhand.com
Kudos to the Globe's Sarah Milroy for bringing some info on this year's Montreal Biennial controversy back to us anglos. Still, I was a bit wondering why Milroy didn't mention the alternate biennial "OFF BNL MTL" organized by artists as disappointed in the official version as she.
Image by Marco Antonio Cruz from the Art Gallery of Ontario
I was also surprised at this oversight. When I was in Montreal a couple of weeks ago the OFF BNL was all anyone was talking about (certainly the main event was already an afterthought). A missed opportunity to say the least.
ReplyDeleteYeah, maybe the article just wasn't long enough for it. I was there this weekend, though, and I can see why she wanted to make space to mention the "Imagine" show -- it is surprisingly awesome.
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