Executive Editor's Letter
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It might be a bit late to offer up a Favourite Things from 2011 list, but I’m going to do it anyway! So, in no particular order, here are some things that delighted me last year…1. General Idea: Haute Culture at the Art Gallery of OntarioMy...
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CONFRONTATION: A screen grab of Sun News’ interview about arts funding with contemporary dancer Margie Gillis; interviewer Krista Erickson (left) and Gillis. Last June, the online Sun News network (aka, the Fox News of Canada) aired what was...
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Flash Forward Festival Boston: Photo by the Magenta Foundation Since the first issue of the revamped online version of Magenta Magazine back in September 2009, we’ve tried to follow a mandate of placing the Canadian art scene in an international...
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Louise Despont at Art Los Angeles Contemporary: Courtesy Nichelle Beauchene Gallery, New York. Photo: Magenta. This past January, I visited Los Angeles for the first time. The city was much greener and prettier than I thought it would be, with all...
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We do it because we love it. That was a refrain heard over and over again during two big art-publishing events this fall: the Magenta Foundation’s first Flash Forward Festival and the New York Art Book Fair. Alec Soth and Darius Himes presenting at...
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Summer lovin’… had me a blast. Summer lovin’… it happens so fast! Which is why this issue’s letter contains a few brief ruminations on art-related things that romanced and entranced me over this particularly lazy, hazy and crazy Toronto summer....
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The first week of March in New York is both an art lover’s dream and nightmare as The Armory Show, and the satellite fairs that orbit around it, turn the city into a bustling one-stop art-shopping-and-viewing destination. Add to this the 2010...
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Here, in Toronto, the art critics are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore. Feeling underappreciated and underpaid, people who write about art seem to be at the bottom of the food chain, with far fewer opportunities to share their...
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Photograph: Chris Shepherd; Solair chair courtesy Inabstracto, TorontoIt is my pleasure to welcome you to the first issue of Magenta Magazine Online (or, as we have taken to calling it, ‘MagMag’). Earlier this year, the Magenta Foundation approached...
