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The Show: Four Legs Good/ The Dog Show curated by Elke Town at The Art Gallery at Harbourfront. Artists: John McEwen, John Massey, Rene Santos, William Wegman, General Idea

Did I Hear Bark, or, was I just imagining (for James Thurber)

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Feminist critique of the Picasso exhibition organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from June 21 to November 10th. Artists: Picasso

Problems With Picasso : Fe-male and the Phallus

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Discussion of the mood of alienation in Hopper’s work, in images that often represent the ego. Artists: Edward Hopper

The Religion of the Ego

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Introduction to the catalogue “La France a la Biennale” for the 1985 Sao paulo Biennial.

Liberty

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Anatomy as a means of understanding learning. Artists: Rembrandt van Rijn, Michaelangelo

The Anatomy Lesson

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Photograph of cocktails on a table and a package of “Marlboro” cigarettes prominately displayed. There is also a pearl necklace drapped on the table and in the background is a night view of the cityscape. The word “Distress” is in pink type in large letters and is written upside down. Version of the catalogue essay for The Public Art Show curated by the author for the Nexus Contemporary Arts Center and the Southern Arts Federation in Atlanta, Georgia. Artists: Mitchell Syrop, Jenny Holzer, Ken Lum

Distress

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Criticism

Discussion of the problems of using critical theory within art criticism and practice. Artists: Victor Burgin, Mary Kelly, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen

Concerning the Question of the Post-Cultural

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Cartoon images with what might be potatoe heads on a miniature set. Text in crayon: “Novelitis and Windscreen Get Co-opted into the Weather and Noise Law by Osmosis.

GREEN VALLEY, CHAPTER 14

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Watercolour of the french windows of a house from the outside. There are trees and shrubs partly obscuring the house. There is gold overlay in blotches highlighting parts of the painting.

LOST LAKES

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Exhibition at XYZ Gallery, Toronto, September 3-21.Series of Memorials. Artists: Ron Benner

Absent Celebration

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“Blame God” exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, England September 6-October 6.Billboard Projects. Artists: Les Levine

The "Troubles"

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Review of the work of three painters: Michael Merrill at Garnet Press in Toronto on Ocober 26- November 16, Ed Radford at The Isaac’s Gallery in Toronto on October 26-November 15, and Robert Youds at the Grunwald Gallery in Toronto on September 14-October 2\. Artists: Michael Merrill, Ed Radford, Robert Youds

Necro-Romanticism

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Review of “About Men” at Xavier Fourcade Inc., New York, September 19-October 12.Sculptures, installation. Magdalena Abakanowicz

Amputated Ambiguity

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Review of exhibition at Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto October 5-31\. Artists: Robin Collyer

Runing on Empty

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Review of Jana Sterbak at Ydessa Gallery, Toronto on October 19-November 16 and Lorraine Leeson and Peter Dunn’s “Docklands Community Poster Project” at A Space, TorontoOctober 27-November 9\. Artists: Jana Sterbak, Lorraine Leeson and Peter Dunn

Inhabiting Persona Subsuming Personality

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Review of exhibition at Mercer Union, Toronto, September 17-October 12.Installation. Artists: Bernie Miller

Hard Lessons

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Review of “Exquisite Positions” at A Space, Toronto, July 27-August 17.Multi-media works. Artists: Christine Davis

The Body of Knowledge

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Review of “Waterdamstrukurten”, Galerie Apart, Montreal, September 15- October 6.Painting/ Installation. Alain Paiement

A Somatic Continuum

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Review of Davey’s ehxibition at Mercer Union in Toronto, on September 17-October 12.Installation of sculpture. Artists: Michael Davey

Imperial Technologies

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Review of Leshyk’s show at The Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Aygust 15-September 8.Graphite on paper. Artists: Tonie Leshyk

No Peacer, No Shelter

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Review of Marshall’s work at Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, October 19-November 2.Paintings : Oil on canvas. Artists: Vicky Marshall

Sentinence

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Review of “Photo Synthesis” at Nickle Arts Museum in CAlgary, September 6-November 3.Work in light-sensitive media ranging in size from 8″ × 10″ prints to 8″ × 10″ murals. Artists: Gar Smith

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