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Last October, I published some pictures of obscure war memorials in Montreal. I came across a really nice one in Terrebonne earlier this year.
It will be interesting to see what memorials get built to honor the men and women of the Canadian Forces who died this century. (Iraq Afghanistan – Afghanistan)
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It’s been a while, but I have a new and updated restaurant list. Bratwurst Colbeh and the Noodle Factory make the move from the “To Try” side to the “Done and Worth Going Back Side.” There are also numerous format changes and some other additions and subtractions. If you would like, download the Zeke’s Montreal Restaurant List by clicking on the link.
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I recently needed to walk across the Jacques Cartier bridge. Fortunately I had my camera with me, and I snapped some pictures because I realized that for the most part it is a view of Montreal that is not often seen.
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Shame on them… The Banque Nationale du Canada has one of the better corporate art collections in the City/Province/Country (take your pick). Apparently it comprises more than 7,000 pieces, from 1895 to now and was worthy of a press release when they loaned a piece of art to the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal earlier this year. The curator of the collection appears to know what she is doing.
So why did they reduce the size of the exhibition space in their building? Back in June this was the total extent of what was viewable
Where they used to have approximately 100 linear feet of exhibition space in the lobby of their head office, they now have what appears to be 40 linear feet of exhibition space buried in the branch outlet in the basement (and beside the food court) in their head office. Can you say “being set up to fail?” Like the once mighty Alcan collection or the Les Femmeuses exhibits that Pratt & Whitney used to organize before deciding to stop, it appears that the Banque Nationale du Canada’s art collection is not long for this world.
Pity.
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Why is it that “An illustration of Spider-Man that ran on the cover of one of the wall-crawler’s comic book adventures from 1990” sells for roughly the same price as Jean Paul Lemieux’s Ti Gus?
And then come to think of it shouldn’t Todd McFarlane be considered a Canadian Artist (with a capital C and a capital A)?
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Over at the irrepressible and always entertaining View on Canadian Art Andrea Carson writes a thoughtful and interesting article about Ms. Pootoogook.
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On Monday Eloi Desjardins from Un show de mot’arts and I got together to discuss the controversy surrounding Andre Desjardins attempt to donate a sculpture to the La Régie des installations olympiques here in Montreal.
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The articles Eloi compiled:
I also accidentally called Francyne Lord, the head of Bureau d’art public in Montreal Helene. I don’t know what came over me, apologies and mea culpa.
(And if you missed them, episode 1 is here and Episode 2 is here.)
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I’m in the midst of trying to write about half-a-dozen large articles, so there isn’t too too much small easy stuff to report on. But I recently got mail from Maskull Lasserre responding to what I had written on his piece Coriolis and Mirana Zuger’s exhibit, Vrtlar at the McClure Gallery. I’ve appended it to to both articles if you care to read it (A and B).
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In our ongoing series of old dead French painters in front of a film camera about a hundred years ago, we get to Claude Monet.
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