Magenta Magazine: A Journal of International Art
Volume 2, Number 4 — Fall 2011 (click for full table of contents)
Don Pyle: Trouble in the Camera Club: A Photographic Narrative of Toronto’s Punk History 1976-1980
In the summer of 1976, at the age of 14, a Toronto music fan by the name of Don Pyle started taking photographs of the city’s burgeoning punk rock scene...
Romas Astrauskas: Fate is a Fool
Astrauskas’ recent suite of paper-based works illustrates his interest in seriality, as well as his skilled use of simple approaches and low-budget materials...
Target Practice: Douglas Coupland takes aim at public art
Coupland's novels Generation X and Microserfs captured the slacker zeitgeist of the 1990s, but his first love has always been visual art...
Exhibitions across Canada
A selection of notable exhibitions across the country, from Halifax, NS, to Surrey, BC.
Toronto Exhibitions
An overview of current and upcoming exhibitions in Toronto.
New York Noise: Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo creates art that strikes a chord
Fans of alternative rock and experimental music probably need no introduction to Lee Ranaldo, who, as co-founder of the influential Sonic Youth, has been acknowledged as one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Ranaldo studied art at Binghamton University and has frequently produced sound, performance and visual art independently of the band...
Swinging Sounds: Gordon Monahan deconstructs the worlds of music and art
Gordon Monahan, an established Canadian composer and sound artist, deconstructs a range of instruments and acoustic devices from pianos to loudspeakers, and reconfigures them in a way that dramatically differs from their conventional performative use...
Rock Operas: Derek Liddington conflates arena rock and Regency England
When I first saw documentation from emerging Toronto-based artist Derek Liddington’s Coup de Grâce (2010) performance at the former Clark & Faria gallery, I was flabbergasted by it, and had no idea what I was looking at...
EuroVisions: the U.K.'s Graham Dolphin & Denmark's Rose Eken Remake Rock Music's Relics
Graham Dolphin works directly on ready-made objects, including vinyl records, album sleeves and other music industry ephemera, scratching tiny texts into their surfaces. Rose Eken works in a wide range of media, including sculpture, video and photography; what is most surprising about her work, however, is the feminine element she brings to the male-centric world of rock...
