About a decade before Lady Gaga donned a meat dress at the 2010 Video Music Awards, a similar fleshy ensemble was attracting controversy at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
Jana Sterbak’s Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic featured 50 pounds of raw flank steaks stitched together. A city councillor called it a “decadent and perverse waste of taxpayers’ money.”
Q&A: David Hockney on canvassing for new ideas
For 50 years, British artist David Hockney has crafted vibrant, influential pictures out of everything from Polaroid photographs to Xerox photocopies. Now, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto is showcasing Hockney’s latest technical foray: sketches on the iPhone and iPad. With only a few weeks left to go before the groundbreaking exhibition leaves Toronto, the 74-year-old tells Leah Sandals what those shiny new technologies can (and can’t) do for art.
Scottish artist Boyce wins 2011 Turner Prize
Scottish artist Martin Boyce, whose works include a modernist reworking of a library table and artificial trees won Britain’s Turner Prize Monday at a ceremony in Gateshead, northeast England.
On picking up the US$39,100 award at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, 43-year old Boyce paid tribute to his parents and highlighted the importance of teachers in light of the government’s spending cuts.
Photo Gallery: PhotoSensitive’s Fuel of Life exhibit
For more than two decades, PhotoSensitive has covered critical social issues through stark, black-and-white photography. With the new Toronto exhibit The Fuel of Life, the national collective turns its lens to the theme of energy. The project, which runs at Brookfield Place Nov. 28-Dec. 10, features more than 100 photographers covering everything from energy production and distribution to consumption and innovation.
