Art Condos Blog http://artcondos.ca/blog All the latest from West Queen West's ART Condos Development Tue, 21 May 2013 16:21:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Art We Love: Lynne Cohen http://artcondos.ca/blog/2013/05/21/art-we-love-lynne-cohen/ http://artcondos.ca/blog/2013/05/21/art-we-love-lynne-cohen/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 16:21:16 +0000 administrator http://artcondos.ca/blog/?p=2373
Montreal-based mega-photographer, Lynne Cohen, has built an international reputation making large-scale photographs of the frightening–though sometimes beautiful and inexplicably moving–emptiness and absences of the contemporary urban environment.  Here, in this recent work, her cunning use of mirroring compounds the

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]]> http://artcondos.ca/blog/2013/05/21/art-we-love-lynne-cohen/feed/ 0 Queen West Coffee – Rsquared http://artcondos.ca/blog/2013/05/15/queen-west-coffee-r2/ http://artcondos.ca/blog/2013/05/15/queen-west-coffee-r2/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 17:50:46 +0000 administrator http://artcondos.ca/blog/?p=2355 We used to enjoy having an early morning coffee at Quaff at 668 Queen Street West, but now we enjoy it even more at Rsquared–which, though it is at the same location, has been extensively redesigned and culinarily reorganized by…

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The new Art Condos building offers its condo-owners a beautiful and extremely…

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We were sauntering along Queen Street West a couple of days ago, enjoying the brand-new sunshine, when we noticed–in front of a store called Heel Boy, near Trinity-Bellwoods Park–this delighted little dog, munching happily at the bone-shaped biscuits and…

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These exquisite, custom-made, classical Venice chairs from Industrial Storm somehow manage to epitomize both modernist severity and economy of line with with a luxurious sense of timeless, old-world comfort. The chairs come in two models (one slightly larger than…

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Hovering somewhere between painting, drawing and sculpture—and between pure visual art and design—Chung-Im Kim’s wall-mounted, hand-stitched felt plaque (which has been silkscreened), is a crisply vibrant work that seems simultaneously static and yet full of spinning, torque-like…

]]> http://artcondos.ca/blog/2013/04/15/art-we-love-hweon-1-by-chung-im-kim/feed/ 0 MONDO CONDO: Jordan MacLachlan http://artcondos.ca/blog/2013/04/09/mondo-condo-jordan-maclachlan/ http://artcondos.ca/blog/2013/04/09/mondo-condo-jordan-maclachlan/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:14:54 +0000 administrator http://artcondos.ca/blog/?p=2302

CONDO LIVING
Jordan MacLachlan

April 11 – May 11, 2013
Opening reception: April 11, 5 – 8 pm
80 Spadina Ave. Suite 208

ArtBarrage is pleased to present Jordan MacLachlan’s Condo Living installation at the ArtBarrage…

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Designer Julie Jenkinson runs the micro-shop called Verso, tucked into the rear of Inabstracto on Queen Street
West.  Last year she spent three months in South America, thirty-six hours of which were spent in Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay.

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]]> http://artcondos.ca/blog/2013/04/04/art-we-love-julie-jenkinson-36-hours-in-uruguay/feed/ 0 Photos from Art Condos Parka Party http://artcondos.ca/blog/2013/03/22/photos-from-art-condos-parka-party/ http://artcondos.ca/blog/2013/03/22/photos-from-art-condos-parka-party/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:44:52 +0000 administrator http://artcondos.ca/blog/?p=2269 ART CONDOS’ Parka Party [in the afternoon of February 23] was the coolest and coldest party in the city. Hope you had a blast!
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