Light Art by United Visual Artists
March 21st, 2013 | by Taymaz Valley
Roy Ascott writes in Gesantdantenwerk “One can no longer be at the window, looking in on a scene composed by
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Human Error at the VAV Gallery
March 14th, 2013 | by Taymaz Valley
Last week I attended an exhibition at The VAV Gallery a student organized exhibition space located in the Visual Arts building at
The Ardabil Carpet – Not Quite Islamic
March 7th, 2013 | by Taymaz Valley
Tim Stanley, the senior curator of Islamic Arts at V&A, tried to simplify the term Islamic Art as the art
The Wonders of Chinese Art
February 21st, 2013 | by Taymaz Valley
Chinese art that really matters today is born out of boundaries and not heartache. It is profoundly political and uncompromising. It is the new generation questioning the value system of the old, and ironically finding their way back to history
Is Photography the Art of our Times?
January 31st, 2013 | by Taymaz Valley
The question is an old one, and also been asked throughout history by various critics and artists from all over
The Doomed Christmas Party
December 20th, 2012 | by Taymaz Valley
For this special Christmas piece Taymaz Valley tells a tale of the worst festive dinner with the most unbecoming, loathsome, and abhorrent artists as guests. So welcome to my fantasy Christmas, bah, humbug!
Winter Wonderland
December 13th, 2012 | by Taymaz Valley
The winter season is upon us, and snow has already started to fall from the sky, however not surprisingly it has again been milder than last year and not much ice has formed on the grounds yet.A warmer winter means bad news for our ever so considerate and uniquely well-mannered taxi drivers as people are more inclined to walk their way to various locations, while it means good news for dog owners like me who do not have to worry about winter shoes for our pets
Louvre-Lens: a journey of discovery
December 6th, 2012 | by Taymaz Valley
Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France is the new destination for art and architecture fans. You might not have heard of the town
Amy-Blue: No More Idols
November 29th, 2012 | by Taymaz Valley
A painting of the late singer Amy Winehouse done by the South African born artist Marlene Dumas has been acquired by UK’s National Portrait Gallery which is the second most important Art gallery in Britain. The price paid for the work is undisclosed, however judging by Dumas’s price tags I would estimate it for around $3 million. She has been described as the most successful artist of our time, which goes to show how far the art world has drifted away from the shores of sanity and taste
Art Talk with Barry MacPherson
November 15th, 2012 | by Taymaz Valley
Barry MacPherson is an outstanding artist currently working in Montreal. His work takes you on an emotional journey so compelling that one cannot help feeling the awe inspiring admiration which I would usually associate with Abstract Expressionism. However, Barry’s pieces are far from abstract, they are figurative in all aspects, and yet they are not mere copies of nature and real life, they bring with them such ferocious force of feeling that you cannot look away
Obama and the Audacity of Hope
November 8th, 2012 | by Taymaz Valley
Obama won, hooray! Four more years of the same. No seriously. Nothing in American political structure changed this week. The Senate stayed with the Democrats; Republicans kept the House of Representatives and Obama stayed at the top of the food chain presiding over an unfriendly, uncooperative system thanks to the conservatives who have vowed to stop every single bill he puts forward.
The Lowbrow Theory Vernissage
November 5th, 2012 | by Stephanie Laughlin
For all those Plateau folks out there who so obnoxiously declare that nothing cool ever happens outside of their neighbourhood, I say
Hurricane Sandy and Horrors of Politics
November 1st, 2012 | by Taymaz Valley
This week saw the devastation of American East Coast by hurricane Sandy which tore through houses and buildings, leaving debris and wreckage behind. Many people lost their lives, and New Yorkers couldn’t hep being reminded of the shattering events of 9/11. The reports place the Hurricane as the most catastrophic natural disaster ever recorded in American history.
The Impressionists Are Here
October 25th, 2012 | by Taymaz Valley
Well not really, because the new exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts labelled ONCE UPON A TIME... IMPRESSIONNISM contrary to the title is not just another well-known impressionist hullabaloo designed to attract large crowds looking for pretty pictures of Paris and Parisians, there are a few academic and modern pieces in there also
A Montrealer in Iran
October 11th, 2012 | by Taymaz Valley
The Montreal based artist and filmmaker Payam Mofidi is having a solo exhibition in Tehran’s trendy Assar Art Gallery. The exhibition has been titled “Destroyed Memories” which evokes a feeling of imminent nostalgia for the audiences, and indeed that is the intent of the artist
Desire Caught by the Tail at Guggenheim
October 4th, 2012 | by Taymaz Valley
At Guggenheim New York next week there will be a reading of the infamous Picasso’s surrealistic play Le Désir attrapé par la queue to
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