Brandon Kaufman

Toronto

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filmmaker but write about art and movies too

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She’s one of the most important artists Canada has ever produced — the AGO pays tribute to Toronto’s Joyce Wieland

1 week ago | hamiltonnews.com | Brandon Kaufman

Starting next week, the Art Gallery of Ontario will pay tribute to one of Canada’s great visionaries, an artist who not only became the first living woman to receive a solo exhibition at the AGO but whose ashes are buried just steps from the museum in Grange Park. “Heart On” celebrates Joyce Wieland, who was born in Toronto in 1930, and worked and lived in the city for much of her life. She received her solo exhibition at the AGO in 1987 and died in 1998, just shy of her 68th birthday.
She’s one of the most important artists Canada has ever produced — the AGO pays tribute to Toronto’s Joyce Wieland

1 week ago | thespec.com | Brandon Kaufman

Starting next week, the Art Gallery of Ontario will pay tribute to one of Canada’s great visionaries, an artist who not only became the first living woman to receive a solo exhibition at the AGO but whose ashes are buried just steps from the museum in Grange Park. “Heart On” celebrates Joyce Wieland, who was born in Toronto in 1930, and worked and lived in the city for much of her life. She received her solo exhibition at the AGO in 1987 and died in 1998, just shy of her 68th birthday.
The garbage artist who will make you rethink trash

Mar 25, 2025 | cbc.ca | Brandon Kaufman

ArtsLearn to look closer with Georgia Dickie as the Toronto-based art maker shows off her materials and methods in a new video series for CBC Arts. Toronto’s Georgia Dickie shows off her materials and methods for a new CBC Arts video seriesBrandon Kaufman · CBC Arts · Posted: Mar 25, 2025 1:39 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes agoGeorgia Dickie, Stems, 2022.
Conical Intersect + Office Baroque

Mar 2, 2025 | screenslate.com | Brandon Kaufman

For his 1977 cutting piece Office Baroque, Gordon Matta-Clark took a chainsaw to a condemned office building in Antwerp, removing semi-circle and teardrop shapes from its roof and five floors to offer what he called “a stroll through panoramic arabesques.” Sunlight shifted and slanted as it shot through the previously sterile structure.
I expected Joni Mitchell’s Hollywood Bowl concert to be extraordinary. I wasn’t prepared for the depth of its emotional impact

Nov 2, 2024 | thespec.com | Brandon Kaufman

In late October, I went to Los Angeles to see Joni Mitchell play at the Hollywood Bowl. The collaborative show, branded as a “Joni Jam,” recreated sessions the singer has held at her home since recovering from an aneurysm in 2015. Brandi Carlile, the night’s MC, said that when Joni started the concerts, the musicians who joined her “used to just sing [Joni’s] songs to her, which is bloody terrifying.
I expected Joni Mitchell’s Hollywood Bowl concert to be extraordinary. I wasn’t prepared for the depth of its emotional impact

Nov 2, 2024 | thestar.com | Brandon Kaufman

In late October, I went to Los Angeles to see Joni Mitchell play at the Hollywood Bowl. The collaborative show, branded as a “Joni Jam,” recreated sessions the singer has held at her home since recovering from an aneurysm in 2015. Brandi Carlile, the night’s MC, said that when Joni started the concerts, the musicians who joined her “used to just sing [Joni’s] songs to her, which is bloody terrifying.
With his miniature people and animals — including pigs, lots of pigs — artist Kim Adams crafts the comic absurdity of daily existence

Oct 26, 2024 | thestar.com | Brandon Kaufman

For the last 10 years, the renowned Canadian artist Kim Adams has been working on a monumental sculpture called “Arrived (Formerly Known as Pig Mountain).” I saw a preview of it at Adams’ North York studio and was immediately struck by its size: the sculpture is an artificial mountain more than two metres high, two metres long and two-and-a-half metres wide. Adams constructed it from cork and fake rock, with powdered pigments of green layered atop the rough landscape.
These 35 ceramic pieces arranged in a grid have the power to provoke, unsettle, even move you. Inside two unmissable Toronto art shows

Oct 11, 2024 | thestar.com | Brandon Kaufman

Postminimalist art invites its audience to find meaning in what is left out, encouraging physical movement and engagement. Think of a string sculpture by Eva Hesse: as we get close to it, then step back, we become acutely aware of our relationship to the space around us. This tension is central to two new shows at Cooper Cole, one of Toronto’s most invigorating galleries since 2011, known for spotlighting both emerging and established voices.
These 25 ceramic pieces arranged in a grid have the power to provoke, unsettle, even move you. Inside two unmissable Toronto art shows

Oct 11, 2024 | thestar.com | Brandon Kaufman

Postminimalist art invites its audience to find meaning in what is left out, encouraging physical movement and engagement. Think of a string sculpture by Eva Hesse: as we get close to it, then step back, we become acutely aware of our relationship to the space around us. This tension is central to two new shows at Cooper Cole, one of Toronto’s most invigorating galleries since 2011, known for spotlighting both emerging and established voices.
His paintings of intimate family scenes are both joyful and astoundingly emotional. Don’t miss this new Toronto show from a Hamilton artist to watch

Sep 13, 2024 | thespec.com | Brandon Kaufman

Last week, Kareem-Anthony Ferreira was at his studio in Hamilton packing up paintings for his newest exhibition, “Back Home,” which is on now at the Toronto gallery Towards. He’s a painter of family scenes, so it was fitting that his mother, Cathy, and father, Roger, were there to help. Ferreira’s paintings are based on photographs from his family’s archives. Most were taken in Trinidad, where his parents were born and where many members of his extended family still live.

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Articles

She’s one of the most important artists Canada has ever produced — the AGO pays tribute to Toronto’s Joyce Wieland

She’s one of the most important artists Canada has ever produced — the AGO pays tribute to Toronto’s Joyce Wieland

The garbage artist who will make you rethink trash

Conical Intersect + Office Baroque

I expected Joni Mitchell’s Hollywood Bowl concert to be extraordinary. I wasn’t prepared for the depth of its emotional impact

I expected Joni Mitchell’s Hollywood Bowl concert to be extraordinary. I wasn’t prepared for the depth of its emotional impact

With his miniature people and animals — including pigs, lots of pigs — artist Kim Adams crafts the comic absurdity of daily existence

These 35 ceramic pieces arranged in a grid have the power to provoke, unsettle, even move you. Inside two unmissable Toronto art shows

These 25 ceramic pieces arranged in a grid have the power to provoke, unsettle, even move you. Inside two unmissable Toronto art shows

His paintings of intimate family scenes are both joyful and astoundingly emotional. Don’t miss this new Toronto show from a Hamilton artist to watch

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