What's Happening Wednesdays | Laetitia Dandavino-Tardif
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| Visitors taking pictures in one of Happy Place's immersive room. Source. |
1. Happy Place Toronto
Date: November 1, 2018 to January 1, 2019Location: Harbourfront Centre (245 Queens Quay West, Toronto)
After Los Angeles and Chicago, Happy Place, an immersive and interactive exhibition around the theme of happiness, is coming to Toronto. Through larger-than-life art installations and multi-sensory rooms, the goal of the exhibition is clear: make visitors smile (and I would add, provide ideal content for your Instagram)! Experience it for yourself by buying your ticket online.
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| An archival photograph of Toronto's past displayed in Discounted Histories. Source. |
2. Discounted Histories
Date: November 1 to 30, 2018Multiple locations: Toronto Media Arts Centre, Canadian Automotive Museum, Markham Museum and Bradley Museum
This multi-site exhibition, organized by Myseum of Toronto, explores the city's retail scene through the movement of goods, services, and ideas, from artisanal creations to mass production and online shopping. Discover Toronto’s history by visiting the exhibits Dressing Toronto, Discounted Histories and Junk In Your Trunk. Discounted Histories’ programming also include talks such as Beyond The Rack: Discussing Toronto’s Garment Industry, In Conversation: Comrags + Warren Steven Scott + Jeremy Laing and Tkarón:To & Turtle Island: The Remarkable Indigenous Trade Networks and a workshop: It's Sew Easy. The opening reception will be held on November 1 from 6:30PM to 9PM at Toronto Media Arts Centre.
3. Power and Possession: The Ethics of Collecting
Date: November 7, 2018 from 6:30PM to 8PMLocation: Gardiner Museum (111 Queens Park, Toronto)
As part of the programming of Obsession: Sir William Van Horne’s Japanese Ceramics exhibition, this panel, hosted by AGO’s Director of Public Programs & Cultural Partnerships Sean O’Neill, with artist Adrian Stimson, curator Candice Hopkins and ROM’s Deputy Director of Collections & Research Dr. Mark Engstrom, discusses the topic of private collections and the issues of appropriation and repatriation. Buy your ticket online to attend the panel.
4. Watercolour Bookmarks Workshop
Date: November 14, 2018 between 4PM and 6PMLocation: Bissell Building, Room 417 (140 St George St, Toronto)
The Museum Studies Student Association (MUSSA), in collaboration with Hart House's Get Crafty team, is hosting a Watercolor Bookmarks Workshop at the Faculty of Information. This event is a great way to take a break from your studies, de-stress, mingle with other Museum Studies students, and explore your creative side!
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| Kent Monkman, The Scoop (2018). Acrylic on canvas. 84" x 126". Source. |
5. Kent Monkman Lecture: Decolonizing Art History
Location: Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres (189 Yonge St, Toronto)
Organized by Ontario Heritage Trust, internationally renowned Cree-artist Kent Monkman, pulling examples from his Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience exhibition, will discuss about how his curatorial practice decolonizes art history within the museum milieu. Make sure to reserve a ticket online to attend this lecture.
6. Facing the Monumental: Rebecca Belmore and Wanda Nanibush in conversation
Date: November 15, 2018 from 6:30PM to 8PM
Location: John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, Main Hall (1 Spadina Crescent, Toronto)
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| One of Harper's ceramic piece as part of the Zodiac installation. Source. |
7. David R. Harper: Zodiac
Location: Gardiner Museum (111 Queens Park, Toronto)
Toronto-born artist David R. Harper created an a ceramic installation inspired by the twelve signs of the zodiac which can be seen throughout the Gardiner Museum. The installation was commissioned as part of the New + Now Gala, an annual celebration of emerging artists and contemporary ceramics, nationally and internationally.
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| Mickalene Thomas, Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe: Les trois femmes noires, 2010. Rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel on wood panel, 304.8 x 731.5 cm. Source. |
8. Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires
Date: November 29, 2018 to March 24, 2019Location: Art Gallery of Ontario (317 Dundas St W, Toronto)
Organized in partnership with the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans, Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires is the first large-scale solo exhibition by the African-American contemporary artist in Canada. Mickalene Thomas' politically-charged paintings, photographs, collages and site-specific installations challenge the familiar and monolithic representation of black women today. The show aims to engage in timely conversations about race, politics, black celebrity culture and sexuality. Don’t miss the opening reception and artist talk on November 28 from 6PM to 9PM.
And see it before it ends...
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| Photograph in Bike City. Source. |
9. Bike City: How industry, advocacy and infrastructure shaped Toronto's cycling culture
Location: The Market Gallery, second floor of the St. Lawrence Market (95 Front St E, Toronto)
The Market Gallery, dedicated to Toronto’s history, art and culture, presents a retrospective exhibition of the history of bicycles and its impact on Toronto’s past, present and future. Through the showcase of locally-made bicycles, dating from the 1890s, archival photographs, advertising and artifacts, you will learn about the development of Toronto's bike industry and the various ways citizens used bicycles throughout the decades.
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| Bjarke Ingels Group's Unzipped in Toronto. Source. |
10. Unzipped
Date: Ends November 30, 2018Location: 533 King Street West, Toronto
Real Estate development company, Westbank, in collaboration with Danish architecture firm, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), recreated the 2016’s Serpentine Pavilion (London, UK) in an empty parking lot along King Street. In this temporary art installation, an exhibition showcases BIG’s latest private and urban development projects. Make sure to reserve a free ticket on Eventbrite before visiting the site.
I hope you will make many cultural discoveries during the month of November!
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