Executive Editor's Letter
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Lissy Elle Laricchia: Defying Gravity (2012). Image courtesy the artist.Given the Magenta Foundation’s mandate of promoting the work of emerging photographers from Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., it is about time that an issue of our magazine is...
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Christian Marclay: The Clock (2010): Single channel video, duration: 24 hours. Courtesy the artist, White Cube (London) and Paula Cooper Gallery (New York).Hello, readers! Thank you for checking out the Fall 2012 issue of Magenta, which officially...
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As I write this issue’s letter, Toronto is in the grip of a mini heat wave. It is the end of May, and the temperature has soared to over 30 degrees. This means that a patio and a cocktail is beckoning, so this issue’s letter is going to be ...
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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 FoundationSince 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...
