A patron enjoy a jazz afternoon at the Rex.
A Night At The Rex Hotel
"Where jazz musicians come to hear jazz."From humble beginnings, The Rex Hotel Jazz & Blues Bar has grown into a musical mecca presenting 19 shows per week.
AGO_ Joey & Toby Tanenbaum Sculpture Atrium.
The Atrium have wrapped up the installation piece from the re-opening date, and boxed them.
Henry Moore Sculpture In AGO
Three Piece Reclaiming Figure No. 2, 1963 Plaster Cast.Many of us may be familiar with Moore’s large plasters from the 1950s and 60s on view in the Henry Moore Sculpture Centre. They’ve been on display there since the 1970s — reclining female figures, nourishing, life-fulfilling.
The AGO’s new exhibition from London’s Tate Britain shows a whole other side to Moore’s work - anxious, sinister, deformed, nightmarish, surreal. Moore’s sculptures from the 1930s are full of the anxieties of his age — his own horrific experiences in World War I and disturbing new discoveries about sexuality and the unconscious.
http://www.ago.net/henry-moore
Asian Legend On Dundas Street West
The bubble graphic panels with calligraphic collage of oriental images filled the backwall.Toronto Life:
The room, just up the steps from the bustle and grime of Dundas and Spadina, is so un-Chinatown: Nelson bubble lamps run the length of one wall above spotless tables, fresh dahlia buds float in water near the entryway and the private rooms in the basement could almost have been torn from the pages of a sino edition of Dwell magazine.
http://www.torontolife.com/guide/restaurants/chinese/asian-legend/
American Artist Barbara Kruger to Appropriate AGO Façade - II
Public installations of Kruger’s instantly recognizable work have punctuated galleries, museums, municipal buildings, train stations, parks, buses, and billboards around the world. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the MoMA, the Guggenheim, Tate Modern, the Whitney, and the AGO, among other institutions.“Barbara Kruger’s graphic works—declarative texts juxtaposed with found images—point to photography’s complicity in reinforcing ideologies of power and control, in maintaining gender stereotypes, and in stimulating consumer desire,” says AGO assistant curator of photography Sophie Hackett. “In light of CONTACT’s 2010 theme, and as the boundaries between advertising, journalism, and entertainment shift and blur, it feels like the right time to consider Kruger’s potent messages.”
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Kruger trained at Syracuse University and the Parsons School of Design in New York in the mid-1960s before pursuing a successful career as a graphic designer and art director for such magazines as Mademoiselle and House and Garden. By the 1980s, she had transmuted that training into her artworks, developing an unmistakable — and unforgettable — style. Kruger continues to exhibit her work internationally. She lives and works in New York and Los Angeles, and is represented by the Mary Boone Gallery, New York.
http://www.ago.net/american-artist-barbara-kruger-to-appropriate-ago-facade
Barbara Kruger To Create A Large-Scale Public Installation-I
American Artist Barbara Kruger to Appropriate AGO Façade.
The installation will respond to CONTACT’s theme for 2010, “Pervasive Influence,” which considers how photography informs and transforms human behavior, especially via the medium’s connections to mass media, advertising, consumerism, and propaganda. Kruger’s installation, on view from May 1 through October 3, marks the first time the AGO has exhibited artwork on the exterior of its newly transformed Frank Gehry–designed building.
http://www.ago.net/american-artist-barbara-kruger-to-appropriate-ago-facade
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