Posts tagged “First Thursday”
Gallery Guides: “First Thursday” Performance Artists
It all began with an email from Gallery Guide Coordinator Melissa Smith, says Antonia Krajina, one of the AGO’s Saturday Gallery Guides. “She explained that performance artist Basil AlZeri needed five volunteers for a performance he was planning for the May First Thursday.” Antonia and four of her colleagues — Maya Kotlarenko, Amanda Riccio, Adam […]
P&D: an April date with Henry Moore
This month, the Marvin Gelber Print & Drawing Study Centre (P&D) takes visitors on a date with Henry Moore. Above: Projects for Relief Sculptures for London University, 1938 OPEN DOOR Every Wednesday from 1-8pm View original works of art from the Prints & Drawings Collection. This month, we will be featuring works from our Henry […]
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Literally! Industrial Cascade was installed on the east end of the Galleria Italia on Thursday, February 7 – and was dismantled and gone again by Friday afternoon. The piece had such a brief life because it had been commissioned for that evening’s First Thursday. Visitors to the event saw the finished version, but Thursday daytime […]