AGO extends crowdfunding appeal for its own Kusama mirror room


READ MORE

The Art Gallery of Ontario is hoping a few more fans of Yayoi Kusama’s wildly popular infinity mirror rooms will chip in to help the Toronto art museum buy its own. 


The gallery said Friday it is extending its current fundraising campaign to buy the Japanese artist’s piece LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER through this coming weekend.”


The campaign to raise $1.3 million, which approached $568,000 as of midday Friday, will continue through Dec. 4. It had originally been set to end Friday.



The artwork itself costs $2 million, with $1 million of that price tag paid for by the Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation. 


Close to 4,000 people so far have contributed to the AGO’s purchase of the brand new Kusama installation, which features mirrored orbs scattered through and suspended in an LED-lit, mirrored room that also includes a mirrored column — said to create the feeling of being in an infinity room inside of an infinity room. 


LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER, which would arrive in Toronto in spring 2019, will be able to fit four people at a time.


Donors will receive early access to see the installation, ahead of its opening to the public.


The AGO’s retrospective of Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, seen in Tokyo in 2017, drew more than 169,000 visitors and much social media attention to the Toronto gallery earlier this year. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)


The gallery has a deal to buy the room, regardless of the outcome of the fundraising campaign, AGO communications chief Lisa Clements told the Canadian Press. 


According to gallery figures, more than 169,000 visitors checked out the AGO’s Infinity Mirrors exhibit earlier this year.


The boffo show featured a host of mirrored rooms created by the Japanese artist alongside other examples of her art from over the years, including sculptures, paintings and photos.




Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/house-of-cards-real-politics-drama-1.4133554?cmp=rss


Best Wordpress Plugin development company in India     Best Web development company in India

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Canadian expected to be aboard Russia's 1st manned space mission since rocket failure

READ MORE The first manned mission to the International Space Station since a Russian rocket failed to launch successfully earlier this month may take off on Dec. 3, space agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday. And the crew is expected to include Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques, Agence France-Press reported. A Russian cosmonaut and U.S. astronaut were forced to abort their mission on Oct. 11 and perform an emergency landing after a launch accident that Roscomos said was caused by a faulty sensor. The accident was the first serious launch problem experienced by a manned Soyuz space mission since 1983, when a crew narrowly escaped before a launch pad explosion. Sergei Krikalyov, a senior Roscosmos official, was quoted by state news agency Tass as saying the next manned launch had been planned for mid-December, but that Russia was trying to bring the date forward so that the ISS is not briefly left without a crew. “The industry is making significant efforts to move the launch t...
Read more

Getting the dope on pot stocks is becoming easier as media groups invest in content: Don Pittis

Image
READ MORE “What’s the buzz? Tell me what’s happening,” goes the ’70s rock anthem. Part of the catchiness of the lyric — from the rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar  — was that in that era the term “buzz” had developed a second spicy meaning. It described the high that people got from smoking cannabis. In the 1970s, the magazine High Times was a brand new title keeping an eye on the illegal but growing business of marijuana pricing and sales. It ran centrefolds of glistening pot plants and of an apartment filled to the windows with what the magazine insisted was an entire ton of cannabis. Now some of Canada’s most staid media voices are looking for ways to go toe to toe with High Times and its U.S. competitors, hoping to profit from Canada’s global head start in legal recreational cannabis. But when it comes to making a killing from spreading the buzz on the cannabis biz, to q...
Read more

Toronto man denies conspiring with Marvel CEO in alleged hate mail scheme

Image
READ MORE A Toronto man accused of conspiring with the head of Marvel Entertainment in a bizarre hate mail campaign against his wealthy former employer has denied any role in the alleged scheme. David Smith, along with Marvel CEO Isaac (Ike) Perlmutter, is the target of a slander lawsuit launched earlier this year by Canadian businessman Harold Peerenboom. Now Smith — a former employee of Peerenboom’s Toronto-based executive search firm, Mandrake Management — has filed a motion to dismiss the U.S. civil suit. It’s the latest development in the years-long legal battle between Peerenboom and Perlmutter, a notoriously reclusive American billionaire and personal friend of U.S. President Donald Trump. The hate mail campaign, which ran   between 2012 to 2015, saw anonymous letters falsely accusing Peerenboom of being a child molester, murderer and anti-Semite...
Read more