Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'thepowerplant'
June 4, 2008
It's officially summer! Beer-swillers laze about on patios, hipsters remove their keffiyehs (well almost), and the Power Plant begins its All Summer, All Free program. Launching concurrently is their summer exhibition Not Quite How I Remember It, which features Canadian artists Diane Borsato and Nestor Krüger, as well as international artists Sharon Hayes, Gerard Byrne, and Kelley Walker, among many others. The show aims to navigate the roles memory and history play in our society......
Continue Reading "An Affair To Remember"May 20, 2008
Hey there, arty partygoers. Where will you be this Thursday, May 22? At the Powerplant's annual fundraiser, Powerball 10: Decadence (231 Queens Quay West), or Gallery TPW's D-List Ball at the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West)? One party is for fashionable media yuppies and their wealthy aunties, the other is for Queen West art scenesters. One is for people who collect art to diversify their investment portfolios, the other is for people whose......
Continue Reading "Powerball vs. D-List Ball"March 18, 2008
If you're feeling like it's been a while since your last dose of post-punk, queer, feminist culture, then you'll be happy to hear that this Wednesday, The Power Plant (Toronto's leading contemporary art gallery) will have your fix. They'll be screening selections from the oeuvre of avant-garde, DIY filmmaker Sadie Benning. Benning, who was one of the founding members of the seminal band Le Tigre, made her first film at the tender age of fifteen,......
Continue Reading "Play Power"