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PANELS + FORUMS
FALL 2010
OCTOBER 2010
POWER TALKS
29–31 October
Room 204, Metro Toronto Convention Centre
(entrance off Front Street West)
For the fifth year running, Power Talks presents influential art-world figures discussing their projects and ideas in the context of the Art Toronto 2010 fair.
THEA WESTREICH
Breaking from the Pack: Collecting with Individuality and Distinction
Friday, 29 October | 6 PM
$8 Members, $12 Non-Members (at the door)
Free admission with Art Toronto admission
Thea Westreich is the founder of Thea
Westreich Art Advisory Services, a private
consultancy to individuals building fine
art collections. Since 1982, Westreich has
advised private collectors throughout
the U.S., working with clients to build collections
focused variously on Impressionism,
American, Modern, and Contemporary Art.
Westreich has curated private collections
in specific media such as video and film,
vintage photography and works on paper
in addition to the more traditional genres of
painting and sculpture. Westreich and her
husband and business partner, Ethan Wagner,
have produced book and edition projects
with artists such as Sophie Calle, Mike Kelley
and Martin Kippenberger.
IAN WALLACE
The Financial District: The Economy of the Picture
Saturday, 30 October | 4 PM
$8 Members, $12 Non-Members (at the door)
Free admission with Art Toronto admission
Ian Wallace has been exhibiting since the late 1960s and is one of Canada’s most respected
senior artists. A teacher at the Emily Carr
Institute of Art + Design from 1972 to 1998,
Wallace has contributed to the development
of contemporary Canadian art for over forty
years. In 2004 he received the Governor
General’s Award in Visual Arts and in 2009
he received the Molson Prize, both from
the Canada Council for the Arts. He has had
numerous exhibitions in Canada and the
U.S., where his works are in such collections
as the Museum of Modern Art, New York,
and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
A three-part survey of his work was held at
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen
in Düsseldorf, Witte de With in Rotterdam
and Kunsthalle Zurich in 2008.
THOMAS CROW
Warhol in the Advertising World
Sunday, 31 October | 4 PM
$8 Members, $12 Non-Members (at the door)
Free admission with Art Toronto admission
Thomas Crow is the Rosalie Solow Professor
of Modern Art and Associate Provost for the
Arts at New York University. He has authored
two influential studies of eighteenth-century
French painting: Painters and Public Life in
Eighteenth-Century Paris (1985) and Emulation:
David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art
of Revolutionary France (2006). Subsequent
publications, including The Rise of the Sixties:
American and European Art in the Era
of Dissent and the essay collection Modern
Art in the Common Culture (both 1996),
examine the later twentieth century, while
The Intelligence of Art (1999) analyzes specific
moments in the history of art. Crow’s most
recent texts focus on single artists including
Gordon Matta-Clark (2003), Robert Smithson
(2004), Robert Rauschenberg (2005),
Ed Ruscha (2008), and Roy Lichtenstein
and Damien Hirst (both 2010).
Free admission to Power Talks is included with daily Art Toronto admission. Power Talks tickets can also be purchased in advance from the Harbourfront Centre Box Office (416.973.4000) or at the door: $8 Members of The Power Plant, $12 Non-Members, per event. Doors open 15 minutes before the start of each lecture and seating is limited. Art Toronto ticket holders will receive free access to The Power Plant during the fair.
