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Last night was Toronto’s second annual incarnation of Nuit blanche, an dusk-till-dawn art extravaganza taking place across the downtown core, modeled on a like event first tried in Paris. We didn’t check out its inaugural edition because the weather last year was nasty and cold, but it had a surprisingly high attendance despite our absence. ( Read more... )

Right now would be a perfect time to get to bed, but I’m in the middle of the freakiest darn crisis. I was about to put the Do Not Disturb sign on the door and turn in for the night only to discover that I couldn’t unhook the chain. I don’t know whether I somehow got the thing in backwards or what, but it’s just about a quarter of an inch shy of ( Read more... )

Today’s exploration begins with the Ateneum, the Finnish national art collection. With a handful of token exceptions, it focuses entirely on Finnish artists from the 1750s to 1960s. The building itself is a welcoming three-story affair ornamented in high Victorian style. As I expected based on an earlier visit to Denmark’s counterpart institution, ( Read more... )

The Art Gallery of Toronto hosts an exhibition of Catherine the Great’s art collection from Russia’s Hermitage Museum. We braved the thick crowds of art-perusers to check it out on Saturday ( Read more... )

Like I planned, I spent my Wednesday afternoon in Indy before GenCon at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Better than killing time in the hotel room or combing the city’s hotel lobbies in the vain hope of a random crony encounter. As we all know, online mapping services like Mapquest are good with straight-up directions but not so reliable with the ( Read more... )