Art Condos Blog http://artcondos.ca/blog All the latest from West Queen West's ART Condos Development Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:44:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/15/1219/ http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/15/1219/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:41:51 +0000 administrator http://artcondos.ca/blog/?p=1219 “I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuities. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver.

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]]> http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/15/1219/feed/ 0 Photos by Arthur Condo http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/15/photos-by-arthur-condo-6/ http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/15/photos-by-arthur-condo-6/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:00:13 +0000 administrator http://artcondos.ca/blog/?p=1246 Arthur Condo reminds us constantly that he is a quiet, meditative sort of guy, who likes things calm and peaceful.  We explain to him, sometimes, that it’s not really that kind of world anymore.  “Well,” he told us the other…

]]> http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/15/photos-by-arthur-condo-6/feed/ 0 Eating Hearty at Piola http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/13/eating-hearty-at-piola/ http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/13/eating-hearty-at-piola/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:25:19 +0000 administrator http://artcondos.ca/blog/?p=1272 The truth behind the age-old question of why good Italian cooking is so deeply, endlessly satisfying is an elusive one. One hungry afternoon, a few days ago, we dropped in to Piola, a new Italian Restaurant (it opened last December…

]]> http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/13/eating-hearty-at-piola/feed/ 0 Photos by Arthur Condo http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/13/1268/ http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/13/1268/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:28:20 +0000 administrator http://artcondos.ca/blog/?p=1268 “What’s this then?” we asked Arthur Condo when he came by yesterday to show us his latest photos of the Art Condos site.  “Coils of communication,” he told us.  “Transmission! Connectivity!”

]]> http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/13/1268/feed/ 0 http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/09/1261/ http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/09/1261/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:03:34 +0000 administrator http://artcondos.ca/blog/?p=1261 “You can design a car so that every time you get in it,
 it’s a relief–you have a little vacation for a while.”
                     

Automobile Designer Harley Earl

It ought to be the same with a condo.

]]> http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/09/1261/feed/ 0 Art We Love: Sacred and Profane Love (Self-Portrait II) by Harold Klunder http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/09/art-we-love-sacred-and-profane-love-self-portrait-ii-by-harold-klunder/ http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/09/art-we-love-sacred-and-profane-love-self-portrait-ii-by-harold-klunder/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:35:59 +0000 administrator http://artcondos.ca/blog/?p=1251 Harold Klunder is everywhere regarded as one of Canada’s most powerful painters.  His latest exhibition, Black Sun, now at the Clint Roenisch Gallery is a remarkable experience, both for the majestic trio of paintings making up the Black Sun…

]]> http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/09/art-we-love-sacred-and-profane-love-self-portrait-ii-by-harold-klunder/feed/ 0 Art We Love: Ominous Footpath by Susanna Heller http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/07/art-we-love-ominous-footpath-by-susanna-heller/ http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/07/art-we-love-ominous-footpath-by-susanna-heller/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:02:22 +0000 administrator http://artcondos.ca/blog/?p=1238 Veteran painter Susanna Heller–Canadian born, educated at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax and now living in New York City (where she has lived, in fact, for many years now)–is a maker of exceedingly vigorous, searching,…

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Michel Foucaul



]]> http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/03/1160/feed/ 0 Design We Love: Black Cat Lamp http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/01/design-we-love-cat-lamp/ http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/01/design-we-love-cat-lamp/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:19:41 +0000 administrator http://artcondos.ca/blog/?p=1205 We were both attracted and, at first, a bit put off by the funky directness of this little lamp. Its tasteful black shade is profoundly belied by the body of the map—which is a feral-looking black cat-made of fired clay!…

]]> http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/02/01/design-we-love-cat-lamp/feed/ 0 Design We Love: Buddha Machines http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/01/31/design-we-love-buddha-machines/ http://artcondos.ca/blog/2012/01/31/design-we-love-buddha-machines/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:26:38 +0000 administrator http://artcondos.ca/blog/?p=1212 Maybe there ought to be a column in this blog called Design That Simply Catches Our Fancy—a place to explore objects that, while they may not kick the history of design ahead by much, are, nevertheless, attractive and pleasing.

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