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Leah Metzler in Flickr documentation of Marina...

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:03:01 -0500

Leah Metzler in Flickr documentation of “The Artist is Present,” Day 39, Portrait 12

Leah Metzler in Flickr documentation of “The Artist is Present,” Day 43, Portrait 15.

Leah Metzler in Flickr documentation of Marina Abromović’s The Artist is Present, 2010.

Leah Metzler is currently performing Joan Jonas’ Mirror Check at CAMH every other Saturday. You can read more about the artist, her work, and recent experiences in Glasstire’s interview with her.

Read it Here.

Su-en Wong, Colonial Cream (detail), 2005. Acrylic and color...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:48:32 -0500

Su-en Wong, Colonial Cream (detail), 2005. Acrylic and color pencil on wood panel, 94 x 68 inches each panel.

Su-en Wong, Little Piggey, 2004. Acrylic paint and colored...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:12:35 -0500

Su-en Wong, Little Piggey, 2004. Acrylic paint and colored pencil on panel. 32 x 40 inches.

If you didn’t notice, yesterday we featured works from...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:37:02 -0500

If you didn’t notice, yesterday we featured works from artist Bill Viola’s exhibition at CAMH. Today we’ll be showing Su-en Wong’s work from her show Perspectives 148: Su-en Wong at CAMH in 2005!

Su-en Wong, Blue Pride, Midnight Affair, Golden Nugget, 2005. Colored pencil and acrylic on panel, 66 x 162 inches.

Bill Viola, The Reflecting Pool, 1977-79. Color, Mono Sound,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:01:55 -0500

Bill Viola, The Reflecting Pool, 1977-79. Color, Mono Sound, 7:00 minutes.

“the piece concerns the emergence of the individual into the natural world — a kind of baptism.”

Bill Viola, Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House, 1983...

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:36:25 -0500

Bill Viola, Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House, 1983 (videotape). Black and white, stereo sound, 19:11 minutes. Production association with WNET?Thirteen Television Laboratory, New York.

Bill Viola, Ancient of Days, 1979-81. Color, stereo sound, 12:21...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:12:28 -0500

Bill Viola, Ancient of Days, 1979-81. Color, stereo sound, 12:21 minutes.

See it on YouTube here.

Bill Viola, The Theater of Memory, 1985. Video/sound...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:48:25 -0500

Bill Viola, The Theater of Memory, 1985. Video/sound installation.

One hundred thousand followers on Tumblr! Thank you to all of...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:31:11 -0500

One hundred thousand followers on Tumblr! Thank you to all of followers for making this blog great!

Bill Viola, Hatsu Yume (First Dream),1981 (videotape). “I...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:24:25 -0500

Bill Viola, Hatsu Yume (First Dream),1981 (videotape).

“I was thinking about light and its relation to water and to life, and also its opposite — darkness or the night and death. Video treats light like water — it becomes fluid on the video tube. Water supports the fish like light supports man. Land is the death of the fish — darkness is the death of man.”

Stills from Bill Viola, Chot El-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:31:06 -0500

Stills from Bill Viola, Chot El-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat), 1979. Video Tape, 28:00 minutes.

Bill Viola, Anthem, 1983. 11:30 minutes. As seen in Bill Viola:...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:23:42 -0500

Bill Viola, Anthem, 1983. 11:30 minutes.

As seen in Bill Viola: Survey of a Decade in 2003 at CAMH.

Elisabeth Lebovici has posted an essay on her blog detailing our...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:36:13 -0500

Elisabeth Lebovici has posted an essay on her blog detailing our current exhibition Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas and Gina Pane. Check it out here. Also, look forward to her essay in the upcoming catalogue for the exhibition!

Check out this beautiful image of CAMH’s front entrance by...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:33:00 -0500

Check out this beautiful image of CAMH’s front entrance by @ericdouglass we found on Instagram!

Join us tomorrow at 6:30PM (5/16), see a screening of Ross...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:01:31 -0500

Join us tomorrow at 6:30PM (5/16), see a screening of Ross Birrell’s film Duet at CAMH. Following the screening, Film maker Ross Birrell will discuss his work in a panel discussion between Curator Dean Daderko, CAMH Director Bill Arning, and Associate Professor of English at Rice University Alexander Regier.

Paris-based critic Elisabeth Lebovici led a conversational tour...

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:07:29 -0500

Paris-based critic Elisabeth Lebovici led a conversational tour with Curator Dean Daderko of Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane this past weekend, highlighting the simmilarities between the two artists featured in the exhibition.

Yoko Ono, AMAZE, 1971 Installation View, “This Is Not...

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:25:00 -0500

Yoko Ono, AMAZE, 1971 Installation View, “This Is Not Here” Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, 1971 Photo by Iain Macmillan © Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono’s exhibition Yes toured CAMH in 2001 after showing at Walker Art Center.

blackcontemporaryart: Girl (Simone Leigh and Chitra Ganesh) My...

Sat, 11 May 2013 10:01:32 -0500

blackcontemporaryart:

Girl (Simone Leigh and Chitra Ganesh)

My dreams, my works must wait till after hell…

2011

Featured in Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art.

Check out Black Contemporary Art’s Tumblr! They feature a lot of great artists who were featured in the exhibition!

Above: A photo from CAMH Director Bill Arning’s Instagram feed....

Fri, 10 May 2013 20:52:37 -0500

Above: A photo from CAMH Director Bill Arning’s Instagram feed. Paul McCarthy at Hauser and Wirth.

Don’t miss tomorrow’s performance of Joan...

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:01:37 -0500

Don’t miss tomorrow’s performance of Joan Jonas’ Mirror Check. Following the performance, Curator Dean Daderko and Paris-based critic Elisabeth Lebovici will lead a conversational tour of Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane.

Learn more about Lebovici and RSVP to the event on Facebook.