What's Happening Wednesdays | Laetitia Dandavino-Tardif
1. World Press Photo 2018 Exhibition
Date: October 2 to 23, 2018Location: Brookfield Place, Allen Lambert Galleria
Every year, the World Press Photo showcases the best visual journalism of the past year through an international exhibition, travelling to more than 100 cities and 45 countries. The contest celebrates the most striking, shocking and touching photographs showcasing compelling stories and insight into our world, while supporting the career of professional photojournalists.
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| Bev Koski's Ottawa #1 and Bearlin #1 (2014). Source. |
2. Beads, they're sewn so tight
Date: October 10, 2018 to May 26, 2019Location: Textile Museum of Canada
Curated by Lisa Myers, Beads, they're sewn so tight presents beaded works by contemporary artists Bev Koski, Katie Longboat, Jean Marshall and Olivia Whetung. Through innovative beading and threading techniques, these artists create new visual languages of pattern and surface design, while drawing attention to social and political issues.
3. Waterlicht
Date: October 12, 13 and 14, 2018, from 7-11PMLocation: The Bentway
After London, New York, Paris and Amsterdam, experience Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde's monumental public art installation Waterlich, for its Canadian premiere in Toronto. Through the use of LEDs, special software and lenses, Roosegaarde creates an imaginary landscape illustrating the universal power, poetry, and danger of water. The travelling exhibition is site-responsive. It will be located at The Bentway, underneath the Gardiner Expressway highlighting the Lake Ontario shoreline.
4. The Power Plant's Fall 2018 Exhibition Season
Date: Friday, October 19, 2018, starting at 8:00 PMLocation: The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
The Power Plant is hosting a free party for the launch of its Fall 2018 exhibition season, which includes the first solo exhibition of sculptor Karla Black, the first Canadian solo exhibition of Argentinian artist Vivian Suter and the ongoing exhibition of Abbas Akhavan's variation on a landscape. Be part of this seasonal opening party attracting large crowds from artists to museum professionals and art lovers!
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| A tea bowl from Sir William Van Hornes's collection. Source. |
5. Obsession: Sir William Van Horne’s Japanese Ceramics
Date: October 20, 2018 to January 22, 2019
Location: Gardiner MuseumOrganized in partnership with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Obsession brings together over 350 objects from Sir William Van Horne's exceptional Japanese pottery collection. The exhibition presents not only the fascination of one of the greatest Canadian collectors for Japanese objets d'art but also dives into the history of collecting in Canada at the end of the 19th century.
6. Art Toronto
Date: October 26 to 29, 2018
Location: Metro Toronto Convention CentreArt Toronto is an annual international contemporary and modern art fair showcasing leading Canadian and international galleries, such as from the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Israel and Belgium. The programming of the fair also includes PLATFORM, Art Toronto’s original speaker series with prominent art world professionals.
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| A room from the Museum of Illusions. Source. |
7. Opening of the Toronto Museum of Illusions
Date: Opens October 15, 2018Location: 132 Front Street East, Toronto
First opened in Zagreb, Croatia in 2015, the Museum of Illusions is soon to open in Toronto joining other cities around the world, such as Vienna, Belgrade, New York, Dubai, Berlin, and Kuala Lumpur. The interactive rooms in this “museum” showcase various optical illusions, which are definitively Instagram-worthy.
And see it before it ends...
Location: Royal Ontario Museum
Discover the extraordinary world of Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen at the ROM, as she pushes the boundaries of fashion and design through her use of new technologies such as 3D printing. The exhibition is presented alongside Canadian architect Philip Beesley’s interactive installations.
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| Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion at the Royal Ontario Museum. Source. |
8. Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion
Date: Ends October 8, 2018Location: Royal Ontario Museum
Discover the extraordinary world of Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen at the ROM, as she pushes the boundaries of fashion and design through her use of new technologies such as 3D printing. The exhibition is presented alongside Canadian architect Philip Beesley’s interactive installations.
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9. Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental
Date: Ends October 21, 2018
Location: Art Gallery of Ontario
Curated by Wanda Nanibush, this exhibition explores contemporary Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore's career. Belmore uses interdisciplinary artworks to respond to political issues such as Indigenous rights, land rights, violence towards Indigenous women, and the role of the artist in our contemporary society.
Location: Art Gallery of Ontario
Curated by Wanda Nanibush, this exhibition explores contemporary Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore's career. Belmore uses interdisciplinary artworks to respond to political issues such as Indigenous rights, land rights, violence towards Indigenous women, and the role of the artist in our contemporary society.
10. Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs
Date: Ends October 21, 2018Location: Royal Ontario Museum
This exhibition showcases the life, culture and people of India, from 1960s to 1990s, through Raghubir Singh's vivid color photographs. Don't forget to also visit #MeToo & the Arts, in the lobby of the ROM, which was created in response to the sexual harassment allegations against Singh and exposes the ongoing gender inequity within the art world.
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