C Magazine 118

C Magazine 118, Criticism
Softcover, 60 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 295 mm
Edition of 2200
ISSN 1480-5472
Published by C Magazine

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Issue 118 includes feature essays by Adam Lauder on “Sensitivity Information”, Charlene Lau on “Problems in the Evaluation of Contemporary Art”, Stephen Horne on the “Doing(s) of Art Criticism”, Ben Davis on “Surviving the Crisis”, and Peta Rake on “Private Acts: Note taking in the Margins of Art Criticism”, as well as Sky Goodden in conversation with Dave Hickey.

Artist Projects include Dave Dyment’s Old Man Deciphering a Briefcase, and Charmaine Wheatley’s The Painting is Better.

Also, in this issue, reviews from across Canada and around the globe: Rose Bouthillier on Julia Dault, Jessica Bradley Annex, Toronto; Heather White on Jimmy Limit: Show Room, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto; Shannon Anderson on Volume: Hear Here, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga; Kyla Brown on Peter Dykhuis: Inventories & Micro-mapping, Red Head Gallery, Toronto; Vanessa Parent: Invisible Violence, Artspeak, Vancouver; Gloria Hickey on Philippa Jones: MIRIAD, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s; Jane Affleck on Position As Desired, Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, Halifax; Daniella E. Sanader on Manuela Lalic: Activisme timide, Optica, Montreal; Jill Gleesing This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980’s, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Jen Hutton on Jordan Wolfson: Raspberry Poser, REDCAT, Los Angeles; and Michael Davidge on Robert Tombs: L’Occupation, ParisCONCRET, Paris.

C118 also includes book reviews of The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978, review by Leah Modigliani; West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977, review by Felicity Tayler; and Work Work Work: A Reader on Art and Labour, review by Amber Landgraff.

Adam Lauder, Amber Landgraff, Art, Artspeak, Ben Davis, C Magazine, Charlene Lau, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Culture, Daniella E. Sanader, Dave Dyment, Dave Hickey, Distribution, Felicity Tayler, Gloria Hickey, Heather White, Jane Affleck, Jen Hutton, Jill Gleesing, Jordan Wolfson, Julia Dault, Kyla Brown, Leah Modigliani, Manuela Lalic, Michael Davidge, Peta Rake, Peter Dykhuis, Philippa Jones, Robert Tombs, Rose Bouthillier, Shannon Anderson, Sky Goodden, Vanessa Parent

C Magazine 111

C Magazine 111, Libraries
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Issue 111 Libraries includes features by Adam Lauder on Performing the Library; Jen Hutton on Dexter Sinister; David Senior on the Whole Earth Catalogue; Randy Lee Cutler on Reading; Pandora Syperek on ILLUMINnations: the 54th Venice Biennale; Jenifer Papararo on Frances Stark: I’ve Had it and a Half at The Hammer Museum, and an artist project by Read-in. Issue 111 also includes reviews of: Rabih Mroué: The Inhabitants of Images at Prefix ICA; Song Dong: Waste Not at the Vancouver Art Gallery; Gina Badger: Mongrels at Issue Project Room; Adel Abdessemed: The Future of Décor at OCAD Professional Gallery; Chris Curreri: Something Something at University of Toronto Art Centre; The Birds and the Bees at Oakville Galleries; The Domestic Queens Project at FOFA Gallery, Concordia, and Wim Botha: All Around at Galerie Jette Rudolf. Also included is a review by the 2011 C New Critics Competition winner Kari Cwynar on Models for Taking Part at Presentation House Gallery.

Adam Lauder, Adel Abdessemed, Art, C Magazine, Chris Curreri, David Senior, Design, Dexter Sinister, Distribution, Frances Stark, Galerie Jette Rudolf, Gina Badger, Hammer Museum, Jen Hutton, Jenifer Papararo, Kari Cwynar, Libraries, Pandora Syperek, Rabih Mroué, Randy Lee Cutler, Read-in, Song Dong, Whole Earth Catalogue, Wim Botha

C Magazine 104

C Magazine 104, Contemporary Feminisms
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Edition of 2000
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Issue 104 includes a feature article by Jen Hutton on Lady Gaga and feminist camp, and essays by Helena Reckitt on female modernists and their influence on contemporary feminist art, and by Emily Roysdon on “Ecstatic Resistance”; Deborah Root covers the Istanbul Biennale and Miles Collyer reports from the New York Art Book Fair; with book and exhibition reviews from Los Angeles, Halifax, Montreal, and Toronto; noteworthy books, editions, multiples and projects; artist project by Onya Hogan-Finlay.

Art, C Magazine, Deborah Root, Distribution, Helena Reckitt, Jen Hutton, Miles Collyer, Onya Hogan-Finlay

C Magazine 103

C Magazine 103, Art Infrastructure
Softcover, 60 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 295 mm
Edition of 2000
ISSN 1480-5472
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Issue 103 includes feature essays by Joseph Banh on Nuit Blanche, Jesse Birch on Vancouver’s domestic interventions, Jen Hutton on democratizing exhibition spaces, and Deborah Root on Jamelie Hassan; with book and exhibition reviews from Paris, New York, Montreal and Toronto; artist projects by Kathleen and James B. Maxwell, and Kara Uzelman.

C Magazine publishes thought-provoking and innovative essays, reviews and projects by both new and established writers and artists. Providing contemporary perspectives on work from sculpture, painting and film, to performance art, digital media, social practice, site-specific art and installation, C is widely recognized as an essential platform for critical debate about contemporary art. Based in Toronto, with contributors around the world, C has provided critically engaged coverage of contemporary art practices in Canada and internationally for 25 years.

Amish Morrell, C Magazine, Deborah Root, Distribution, Jamelie Hassan, Jen Hutton, Jesse Birch, Joseph Banh, Kara Uzelman, Kate Monro, Nuit Blanche