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The SAQ is getting all jiggy because they have 24 of the top 100 wines from Wine Spectator on sale. I would like to know where I have to go to get the other 76?
And some dissenting opinions about those 24 as well.
Category Archives: Art
Lots and lots of stolen Molinari paintings
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I (unfortunately) have another stolen art alert, again without an awful lot of details. I’ve emailed some people asking for details, but I’m not holding my breath. At some time, somebody or people stole eight paintings by Guido Molinari. I do not know if they were all stolen at the same time and from the same place or even if they were stolen by the same person (or people). Nor do I know when they were stolen, and I can’t even venture a guess as to what their value is.
All are by Guido Molinari and as per normal, if you have any information about their whereabouts, call 911. Or email art.alert@surete.qc.ca.
Some potentially good things to see in Montreal this weekend
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Popular Unrest, by Melanie Gilligan at Vox until August 11.
Normand Hudon at the Centre culturel de Verdun until August 31.
Christine Sioui-Wawanoloath at the Canadian Guild of Crafts until August 11.
Mark you calendars now
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On August 16, slightly less than a month from today there is going to be a round table discussion with Simon Rivest, Laurent Vernet, Gilles Daigneault and Nicolas Mavrikakis at the Maison de la culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal at 5:30 in the afternoon on Public Art in Montreal. More details here.
See you there.
Everything you need to know about donating a sculpture to the city
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Everything you need to know about donating art to the city can now conveniently be found in one place.
How they came about to make it can be found here.
And I am particulalry interested in knowing who was on the committee that decided to accept André Desjardins and the Academy of Fine Art Foundation‘s donation last week. Or because it’s on provincial land, do the rules not apply?
[EDIT: It seems that there is a tempest in a teapot brewing over the Desjardins Scuplture. In today’s Le Devoir, there is both an article and an open letter to Christine St-Pierre, the minister of Culture about the “donation.”]
Les enjeux by Michel Goulet
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More Michel Goulet sculptures. On Saint Denis in front of the Theatre d’Aujourd’hui.
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Visit Leon Trotsky and Natalia Sedova in Mexico, 1938
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More old and grainy black and white film footage of long dead painters.
This one apparently is from about two years before Trotsky was assassinated.
Place des Royaux
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Back in May I published some photos of the Jackie Robinson Statue by Jules Lasalle at the Olympic Stadium. Well this is where it was originally, on the corner of de Lorimier and Ontario streets.
The statue of Jackie Robinson and the children were where the gaudy thigh high plaque that isn’t even close to being the correct dimensions of home plate is now. While they weren’t exactly where home plate would have been at Delorimier Downs, they were close enough. Now it’s just a joke, and a bad one at that.
Since the Expos have been gone for longer the Royals have (the second time that the disappeared) isn’t it about time that Jackie Robinson gets returned to his rightful place? Especially considering that M. Lasalle designed the whole thing, the statues and the miniature baseball diamond to be a tribute not only to Jackie Robinson, but baseball in Montreal.
I’m not certain why there are access ramps, but isn’t it nice to think at some point Montreal was forward thinking with regards to its public art.
peristylenomade.org
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I’ve been hanging around Ontario street down in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve recently (it must be something in the water…) and I came across this street art. Great idea and concept, some of them could have been executed slightly better. If you want to click on the link that adds no more information try this or peristylenomade.org.
Between the apartment building, the McDonald’s, the Metro and the concrete, it pretty much is.
The EZ Montreal Art Podcast episode 2
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Last week Eloi Desjardins from Un show de mot’arts and I got together again to talk about the summertime art in Montreal. We’re calling it episode 2 of the EZ Montreal Art Podcast – get it?
The EZ Montreal Art Podcast episode 2
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The topics we covered were:
- Eloi’s first summer in Montreal
- Are summer exhibits different?
- The 2 for 1 discount at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
- Our opinions on the exhibit Zoo at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal
- The Google Art Project
- Enumerating our favorite and not so favorite pieces in Zoo
- Our opinions on the exhibit Tom Wesselmann, Beyond Pop at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
- And then a comparison of the differences between the two museums
And then we finish up with some shows that we think might be worthwhile seeing
- Jacques Hurtubise at the Musée d’art de Joliette.
- David Moore at Stewart Hall.
- Craving for Design: Kitchen design from the 18th century to tomorrow at the Musée Stewart.
- Ryoji Ikeda at DHC.
- Inuit Modern at the McCord Museum.
- Gare aux gorilles at the Maison de la culture de Côte-des-Neiges.
(And if you missed episode 1, it’s here.)