LE. TROIS

Check out the new show at LE gallery opening tonight. You can see current A.I.R., Katie Bond Pretti's work there and at TIAF as art fair season kicks off. The COMMONS is also pleased to present Dave Trautrimas as a future A.I.R., and he too is showing at LE.

Wow!

Cake, and eating it.

In the spirit of all the Marie Antoinette craziness, this is very appropriate. I may just purchase one for myself. Check out more at Hannah Zakari.

So good it takes the cake from those really narsty MA-themed fall ad campaigns (I'm looking at you, Juicy Couture).

Sound travels

Marla Hlady
Proposition for Tracing a Sound (the shadow of one sound over another - Iceland) #2, 2005

Oh my. While I am sometimes disillusioned by the state of art in Toronto, there are things that just pull me out of the rough. Was just at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects tonight for Marla Hlady's new show. This image does NOT do it justice! You must see this show.

After a residency in Iceland, we get to see the treats that Ms. Hlady has up her Scandanavian-tinged sleeve. See, this is what sound art should be and very often isn't. Yes! Sound art can be interesting and just as fun to experience as it is to make! More importantly, sound art can be drawings...and goshdarnnit, everyone loves drawings. I hope.

Beirut at the Horshoe

Hi, we were at the Beirut show on Wednesday and there's footage here already on youtube. Postcards from Italy! On Marty's list for fall.