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1 month ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Sep 1, 2024 | 
maharlikanews.com | Brandon Kaufman
The AGO’s retrospective of Pacita Abad — a standout show of the fall art season in Toronto — is the first major retrospective dedicated to the Filipino-American artist’s singular 32-year career. Abad, who died in 2004 at age 58, had a practice that spanned a variety of media. She’s best known for “trapunto paintings,” named for a 14th-century Italian quilting technique. She explained her innovative method in a 1991 interview: “I paint, using either oil or acrylic, on canvas and then collage.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
thestar.com | Brandon Kaufman
The independent art gallery Joys is housed in a garage off Dundas West. Danica Pinteric, the founder, has hosted exhibitions, readings and conversations in the garage, though the location occasionally presents unique challenges. “There are plenty of practical factors that are hostile to deal with,” said Pinteric, citing the weather, a lack of water access and limited electricity.
