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		<title>Artist Inquisitions!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this new section, Akrylic asks artists, dealers, consultants, curators and other creative types all sorts of random questions with the intent of shedding light on the way cool people think. Though some of the questions will deal with the art practice+work of these smart people, most of these questions are totally random and cover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viet Art Forum interviews Randy Gladman, 2009</title>
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The important Contemporary Art blog &#8220;Viet Art Forum&#8221;, based in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam, recently interviewed me via email.  Viet Art Forum seeks to educate Vietnamese artists on how to promote their careers internationally.   www.vietartforum.com   A Vietnamese version of this article is available too!  It was a lot of fun being on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sign Language:  A Brief Explanation of the Work of Ryan McGinness</title>
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Exhibition Essay by Randy Gladman.  Displayed as wall text as part of &#8220;Ryan McGinness: Aesthetic Comfort,&#8221; Artcore Gallery, Toronto, September 23 - November 15, 2008.
Popular understanding of human history is often given chronological shape by dividing the time we have spent on this planet into various eras defined by our most significant technological innovations. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ryan McGinness - Aesthetic Comfort</title>
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Ryan McGinness
Aesthetic Comfort
Curated by Randy Gladman
September 27, 2008 – November 15, 2008
For Immediate Release
Artcore / Fabrice Marcolini is pleased to announce Ryan McGinness&#8217;s first solo exhibition in Canada. Aesthetic Comfort presents a major painting and sculpture installation by this internationally recognized, New York City-based artist.
Ryan McGinness makes work that occupies the stylish space where art [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Contemporary Art Galleries in Toronto</title>
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By Randy Gladman.  Originally published on BlogTO.com, July 23, 2008
When it comes to the topic of Contemporary Art, it often seems there are only two kinds of Torontonians. There are the culture-junky downtowners who try to visit the galleries at least a couple times a year, in an effort to find unique gems for their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Text Art</title>
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By Randy Gladman. Originally published in Contemporary, Text Art Special, vol.21, Issue 13, 2008
We interact with technology hundreds of times a day. We dial telephone numbers, scan our food through supermarket check-out lasers, change the television channel and move our mouse to surf to another web page. We click, slide, dial, push, swipe, turn and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kristine Moran: Dissolution Plan at Angell Gallery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Randy Gladman.  Originally published in Canadian Art Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 3, Fall 2005

In her second solo exhibition, Kristine Moran sharpens the focus in her sci-fi paintings, zeroing in on the ideas of utopian theorists from the 20th century—Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses, Constant Nieuwenhuys and Buckminster Fuller—to present inner-city landscapes from an imagined alternative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ryan McGinness; Art and Entertainment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Relying heavily on a dose of influence from his Pop art predecessors but injecting it with sensibilities based in hip-hop hype, skater style and graffiti guerilla warfare, Ryan McGinness has pioneered a new territory in the realm of high art.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.akrylic.com/ryan-mcginness-art-and-entertainment/</link>
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		<title>Nicholas di Genova at Le. Gallery</title>
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By Randy Gladman.  Originally published in Canadian Art Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 4, Winter 2004
‘Street Art’ exists in heavily urbanized environments from Tokyo to Toronto. Much of it is ‘graffiti’, that pestilence of territorial pissing by visually impaired half-wits who have little creative output beyond barely-literate scratches of their own names. However, an informed eye [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Altmejd: 21st Century Werewolf Aesthetics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I caught up with Altmejd for breakfast on the roof of the Armada Hotel in the old Sultanahmet sector of Istanbul the day after the opening of the Biennial. In the shadow of the Blue Mosque with a panorama view of the Bosphorus we spoke about energy generating werewolf heads, studio visits with Matthew Barney, the relationship between art and commerce, and what it means to be a French Canadian artist working in New York City. ]]></description>
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