Art Toronto 2009, the tenth installment of the annual art fair, featured 100 galleries from a dozen countries presenting their wares at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre from October 22-26, 2009. In addition to educational seminars and talks led by seasoned collectors, gallery owners and curators, the fair also presented NEXT, a showcase of affordable artwork by emerging artists. Solo Spaces, interspersed throughout the booth map, offered seven artists a spotlight to share individual projects. The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, one of the fair's habitual exhibitors, celebrated the tenth anniversary with the publication of a limited edition print by Toronto-based artist Jason McLean. The 30 four-color silkscreen prints were sold on-site.
To celebrate its decade as the preeminent event in today's Canadian art scene, the 2009 fair paid a special tribute to Canada, highlighting both established and up-and-coming Canadian talents in a flagship exhibition entitled Heartland, curated by artist, educator and museum professional Jeffrey Spalding. The 20+ modern and contemporary works were exhibited thematically, around notions of wilderness, human nature and abstract worlds.
A custom edition Moleskine pocket notebook was used as an exclusive hand-out for participants in the fair's VIP program, as part of a package that included tours, access to special events and other privileges. The ruled notebook sports a custom belly-band; "Art Toronto 2009" is embossed on the cover, in red.
The MoMA retrospective honoring the art of acclaimed director Tim Burton explores the full range of his creative work, from early childhood artwork to his contemporary work in film. The gallery exhibition of more than seven hundred drawings, paintings, photographs, moving image works, storyboards, puppets and costumes is accompanied by screenings of Burton's features and shorts in the museum's theaters. Both run from November 22, 2009 through April 26, 2010. The exhibition reveals that Burton's dark, quirky, Pop-surrealist themes in film carry over to his rarely-seen drawings as well, all personal marks of the man's distinctive viewpoint.
0.00 Night 0.00 Night was born during one sleepless working night. Zeropuntozerozero was looking for an alternative way to publish a special series of Renato D'Agostin's color pictures. Images of a surreal and mysterious New York in the dark. A Moleskine notebook on the desk, the perfect support for a journey into the abyss of night. But something was missing. They were missing people, their observations, feelings, memories. So they decided to ask as many people as they knew personally the same question:
Regent Seven Seas Cruises offers luxury journeys to more than 300 ports on all seven continents, offering travel to Africa and India, Asia and Australia, Alaska, Bermuda and the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe and the Mediterranean, Russia and Scandinavia. For those looking to circle the globe, Regent's World Cruise offers a 119-night itinerary, sailing from San Diego to Australia and Asia, then through the Indian Ocean and up the western African coast, before crossing the Atlantic to find its way back to the United States. On board, the ships offer a wide array of enrichment activities, from lectures on art and photography to Cabaret and Opera performances, music performances and the best in fine dining.
Juniper Park is a young, dynamic ad agency based in Toronto. President and Chief Strategist Jill Nykoliation and Creative Directors Barry Quinn, Terry Drummond and Alan Madill bring their complementary expertise to create branding and design for new companies, as well as pointing other, established brands into new directions. Launched in April 2007, Juniper Park has already generated significant buzz in the business, working with clients like Starbucks Coffee, Lay's, Quaker, Virgin Mobile and the Red Cross, and growing from a team of 5 to nearly 60 in just two years.
The ever-growing collection of Moleskine notebooks created for the Museum of Modern Art now counts three new additions: a boxed set of pocket notebooks and cahiers inspired by the Bauhaus school, a trio of pocket ruled cahiers with the same Bauhaus imagery, and a MoMA New York City planner.
For the first time Moleskine notebook goes white: white cover, white elastic band.
Destination DC, known pre-2008 as the Washington, DC Convention & Tourism Corporation, manages and markets DC as a premier convention, tourism and special events destination with global appeal. By developing successful sales and marketing strategies, with a special emphasis on growing the arts, cultural and historical communities, Destination DC generates major economic development for the nation's capital. Visitor spending exceeded $5.5 billion in 2007, generating $620 million in new tax dollars. More than 1,000 businesses and organizations supporting the travel and tourism sector are Destination DC members.
Powered by the idea that art and museums can transform lives, SFMOMA is a nonprofit organization of over 350 individuals who believe in the challenges and experiences that stem from embracing the new and the unexpected.
The initiative starts with a question asked by Matteo Schubert of Alterstudio Partners, Milano: the hand of the architect, the sketch, is it still useful in a CAD era?
Featured in various travel publications as a literary and arts destination, Oxford, Mississippi, boasts several dozen historic buildings, in addition to excellent shopping, dining and entertainment. Several festivals attract hordes of visitors throughout the year, from April's Oxford Conference for the Book, to the Oxford Film Festival and Yoknapatawpha Summer Writers' Workshop in June. The Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference occurs in July, followed by a much-celebrated football season.
ArtPrize, based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, gives out the largest art prize in the world. Anyone can enter, and anyone can vote, keeping the number of competing artists and jury members constantly in flux. During the submission period, the Art Prize website connects participating artists with potential host venues. If the artist secures a venue to show work, he or she is entered into the competition. The public votes online, and by the end of the process, the top-ranked artist is awarded $250,000, with nine runners-up also going home with prizes.
The National Gallery is one of the most famous museums in the world. Founded in 1824 and located on London's Trafalgar Square, it has a collection that includes important works of art from a variety of periods.
Co-founded in 2002 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in order to revitalize the TriBeCa neighborhood after the September 11 attacks, the Tribeca Film Festival has since become a staple of springtime in New York City. Since its founding, the festival has screened over 1100 films from over 80 countries and generated well over $500 million in economic activity for the city.
The Armory Show, the largest American fine art fair, has grown to become an international institution devoted to the most important art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
