Lucienne and I visited the @romtoronto.bsky.social on its free third Tuesday night 🏛️ 🏺 💎 ✨

Terry Riley - 'The Dream' for justly tuned piano - Live in Rome 1999 YouTube video by MinimalEffort

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Matt Thomas at Hunt Gallery

#MattThomas

I was too late seeing Adam David Brown's show @mkg127.bsky.social to post before it closed on Sunday, but here are some belated details 🔢

#adamdavidbrown

I visited the Toronto Islands, but I was 12,000 years too late. You may know that the Davenport Hill was once the shoreline of Lake Iroquois, but did you know that the western section of St. Clair W. sits atop an ancient sandbar formed by sediments deposited at the mouth of the future Humber ? 🏝️ 🏙️ ⏳

a few details from Nice Touch, curated by Nadine Maher, the plumb : 1) Ke Zhang (foreground), 2) Corinne Carlson, 3, Vanessa B. Rieger, 3) Brandon Celi, 4) Maxwell Galley 📦 🧤 🖼️ 📏 ✨

details of the Edna Taçon (1905-1980) exhibition curated by Renée van der Avoird on view @agotoronto.bsky.social. I've been teaching Taçon, based on Zemans's groundbreaking work, from the first Canadian art survey I taught at in 2018, so it was great to finally see so many pieces together 🎶 🎨

some works at Gallery Gevik: 1) a stunning Daphne Odjig, 2) a timely, lunar-themed work on paper by Carl Beam, 3) a hard-edged abstraction by Ulysse Comtois (Rita Letendre’s partner early in life), and 4) a book-themed painting by David Garneau

#daphneodjig #carlbeam #ulyssecomtois #davidgarneau

a rare opportunity to view (1-2) a body of works by Canadian modernist Fritz Brandtner (1896-1969), with additional works by (3) Rita Letendre, and (4) Philip Surrey, among others at Canadian Fine Arts in Yorkville

#ritaletendre #philipsurrey

Brian Rideout at Towards Gallery

I finally saw Faye HeavyShield's show before it closed yesterday @agotoronto.bsky.social ✨

#fayeheavyshield

we caught On Time, curated by Amy Rogers and Melissa Fish Gallery 1065, before it closes today: 1) Adam David Brown, 2) Philip Leonard Ocampo, 3) Ginette Legaré, 4) Micah Lexier 🕰️ ✨

#ontime

Oddfellows' Hall, 441 Queen Street West, built 1886 🎭

Long Gradus (strings): Part I YouTube video by Sarah Davachi - Topic

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very pleased with the texts I wrote for Heffel's auctions in May; you can read my descriptions of Alex Colville's Cattle Show (1995) and A.J. Casson's Autumn on the York River (1959) at the links below, or look for them in hard copy 🖼️ 📖✨

www.heffel.com/Auction/A202...
www.heffel.com/Auction/A202...

I visited Joyce Wieland's former Corktown home and the nearby laneway newly christened in her honour 🚏

#joycewieland

Ludovic Boney's In Equilibrium (2024) on Cherry Street 🪞 🌾 🔵

another urban object lesson in metaphor for the kids, Napoleon Brousseau's installation "Ten Ants" (1984) on the exterior of The Cameron House, a witty representation of its tenants 🏨 🐜

#napoleonbrousseau #thecameronhouse #tenants #metaphor

1) Jack Shadbolt, 2) Hortense Gordon, and 3) Alexandra Luke at La Parete Gallery

#jackshadbolt #hortensegordon #alexandraluke

Poulenc: Piano Music YouTube video by Brilliant Classics

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some horizontal works by 1-2) Jay Isaac, and 3-4) Stephen Andrews at Paul Petro Contemporary Art

@jayisaac.bsky.social

1) Meghan Price, 2-3) Ed Pien, 4) Linda Rotua Sormin at United Contemporary 𓊁‍ 🪨 ✍️ ✂️

the latest iteration of Alize Zorlutuna's Reckoning: [Git gel with cedar], at Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art's SPACE Billboard Commission in 2025-26 🪧 𖡴 ✨️

I only caught at Gallery 44's Salon 44 Annual Fundraising Exhibition on its last day & was too late in posting before it closed, but here are a couple of pics from that show: 1) Nicole Beno "Mirage of the Sprawl", & 2) Rebecca Wood "One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see" 📸 🦋

Glenn Gould's former apartment on St. Clair West, located directly opposite the Imperial Plaza featuring the York Wilson mural I posted last week 🏢 🎹

#glenngould

hour by hour and day after day, we watch and listen as the province excavates countless loads of Ordovician bedrock from below our window; the removal of 450 million years of sedimentation has become our white noise, both day and night