Results tagged “massivechange”

For five years now, a camera has been keeping close watch over the Art Gallery of Ontario's development on Dundas Street. And for a minute and a half, you can watch just some of what it caught flowing by in a spectacular high-resolution time-lapse video.

Actually they're nickels, giant nickels. Third year OCAD student Kevin Radigan's intervention outside the AGO pokes fun at Bruce Mau's blustery and sometimes pompous Massive Change exhibit which we've reviewed.

Bruce Mau's exhibit Massive Change, which takes over the AGO until May 29, scares me.

This week marks the countdown to next weekend’s opening of the much-anticipated and much-debated Massive Change exhibit at the AGO. Everyone has criticized Mau’s bizarrely utopian and woolly optimism. Mau’s 2001 book, Life Style, focused on shaping design’s role in individual lives, recognizing that ‘lifestyle’ in the post-war period had come to be defined solely in terms of consumptive patterns rather than class or occupation. The argument was loosely patched together by brilliant aesthetic design and soaring catchphrases, but when broken down, puzzlingly vacant - resembling an elaborately bound PowerPoint presentation with great photography.