Make The World Your Salon

By Mark Medley

Nine graduate students at Ryerson University and York University in the communications and culture program have banded together to create Make the World Your Salon: Modernist Salon Culture, an exhibit that resurrects the salon culture of the early twentieth century frequented by the bohemian artists of the day. The exhibit encompasses photography, artwork, and multi-media, and features graphic photography by New Yorker Carl Van Vechten; a reproduction of Marcel Duchamp’s With White Noise; and the screening of a documentary film about the Paris salon of Natalie Barney and her Sapphic circle.
Make the World Your Salon: Modernist Salon Culture opens with a reception tomorrow at 4 p.m. until 7p.m. The exhibition is located in the Modern Culture Multimedia Centre, on the third floor of 111 Gerrard Street East, and will be open weekdays from 9:00 a.m. until 1:30 pm. from December 1 until December 21, 2006. Admission is free.