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The recent work of Montreal artist Freda Guttman

April 29, 2019My Blog

The recent work of Montreal artist Freda Guttman is called Cassandra: An Opera in Four Acts and unlike her earlier work that had a more didactic approach to her activist concerns, this installation is notably more lyrical and introspective — […]

Robert Therrien

April 27, 2019My Blog

Born in 1947, Robert Therrien belongs to a generation of artists whose imaginations were galvanized by Minimalism and its sources in the work of Brancusi, Duchamp and Mondrian but also by Pop Art and its irreverence. In the mid/late 1960s […]

Marcia Tucker, A Labor of Love, New York

April 24, 2019My Blog

The companion volume to a recent exhibition at The New Museum in New York City, A Labor of Love chronicles the debates surrounding the production of arts and crafts over the last century. Discussing hierarchical categorizations of high and low, […]

June Redfern

October 15, 2015February 29, 2020My Blog

When June Redfern was at art school she was nicknamed ‘the slasher’ for her forceful application of paint on ‘man-sized’ canvases. She liked the larger scale for the freedom it gave her to move around in the picture, repeating marks, […]

The decorative and the poetic in Rimpa art

June 9, 2015Uncategorized

This paper examines the treatment of flowers and other natural elements in the paintings of the Rimpa style against the background history of style’s description as “decorative”. Since this style was one of the first to be admired, collected and […]

Gwen John

December 24, 2014Uncategorized

THIS IS surely the definitive work on Gwen John and is essential for anyone interested in women artists or art of the 20th century. Gwen John (1876-1939), ten years ago virtually unknown, today is considered worthy of a place in […]

An Accent on the Antique

September 30, 2014September 23, 2014Uncategorized

The increasing demand for the higher quality products has caused the interest in antique Oriental carpets to surge. Designers and their clients who want something very special–a work of art for the floor–are finding these indigenous expressions of distant and […]

Slipping through the eye of a needle

September 29, 2014Uncategorized

Sewing is sweatshop labour. Rows of machinists with hair tucked in. Blindness from Ayrshire white-work, back rooms and back pain. Low wages and exploitation. Sewing is tapestry kits, cheval sets, crinoline ladies with laisy-daisy gardens, pull-string shoe bags made at […]

Focus lighting

September 23, 2014September 23, 2014Uncategorized

Objects d’art, plants and display cases are the jewels of the office complex where lighting is concerned. They provide the designer witht he ultimate opportunity to add glitter and focus to the environment and make it come alive. Without key […]

Prominent Designers–On the Carpet

September 23, 2014Uncategorized

The architecture of today’s exemplary interiors displays a plethora of pattern, color and texture. In this supplement we have selected numerous interiors that illustrate innovative treatments of rooms with hand made carpets. The floor plane has, once again, become an […]

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