TYPOLOGY

Author: Shani K Parsons

  • Marina Abramovic curates online exhibition for Paddle8


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    Paddle8 is an incredibly professional (verging on slick) platform for art exhibition and sales online. Beautifully designed, at times powerful, possibly groundbreaking presentation. With names like Marina Abramovic behind you, how can you fail — but a champagne bottle for scale… really? At any rate, it will be interesting to see how this platform evolves.

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  • Susan Hiller at Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art


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    Presented as a wall-sized video projection, Susan Hiller’s The Last Silent Movie is a beautifully simple and deeply moving testimony to the ongoing obliteration of linguistic and cultural diversity in the wake of accelerating industrialization and globalization. Featuring simple white text on a black field accompanying words and phrases being uttered by the last speakers of twenty-five endangered or extinct languages, the video surprises and delights with the remarkable and unfamiliar sounds of languages such as Manx, Jerrais, Livonian, Potowatomi, Yao Kimmien, and Ubykh.

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  • Homebase for graffiti art on Camden


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    One thing that surprised me when I first got to Toronto was how great the graffiti is. All those empty laneways must make Toronto a perfect breeding ground for innovative, immersive street art on a scale and level of consistency that doesn’t seem possible in New York.

    As typophiles, the above mural on Homebase’s wall is a particular favorite of ours. Homebase is a storefront on Camden Street carrying graffiti art supplies, clothing and accessories. Click below for images of the retail space, with its eye-candy spray paint display.

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  • Willem de Kooning in New York


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    What’s not to love about the net when you can hear Peter Schjeldahl talk in your ear about de Kooning in New York while drinking tea in Toronto?

    Hear about de Kooning’s Untitled (The Cow Jumps Over the Moon), pictured above, and other paintings selected by Schjeldahl on the New Yorker’s website. Link from there to his full review as well (paywall).

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  • Carly Waito at Narwhal


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    Saw this today – beautiful little paintings for the magpie in all of us. Visit the link below to see more paintings (although they are far better viewed in person) and information on the artist.

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  • Pippin Barr’s waiting game


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    The Artist is Present is a game in which anyone can pit themselves against a most formidable opponent—uncertainty—by participating in a virtual re-creation of Marina Abramovic’s 2010 performance at MoMA. I admit to losing the game almost immediately after starting it, but rather enjoyed game designer Pippin Barr’s own account of playing it, as well as his response to the avalanche of interest the game’s release brought his way.

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  • Thomas Jorion’s beautiful ruins


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    Loved these photos by Thomas Jorion, from his Silencio series. Gaping, airless, monumental… like something out of a Kubrick film.

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  • Ursus Wehrli’s new world order


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    Ursus Wehrli’s photographs propose an orderly, perhaps obsessive, way of looking at the world. Ranging in scale from the tiny (an inventory of pine needles) to the colossal (galaxies and stars ordered by size), they provide a vicariously pleasing, if transitory, sense of control over our environment.

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  • The mysterious Mr. W

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mTLO2F_ERY]
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    Enjoyed this.

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  • Dear Photograph


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    Fun social project at Dear Photograph, which invites viewers to submit images for display on their website. Some poignant, some silly, all fascinating trips through time.

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