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DAILY NEWS, VIEWS, REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS
CRITICS' PICKS, OPENINGS, YOUR VIDEOS, YOUR BLOGS
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MICHAL ROVNER AT DHC/ART FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, MONTREAL
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'Particles of Reality' is the title of the first solo exhibition in Canada by New York City-based Israeli artist Michal Rovner. The show includes work made over the last 7 years evoking historical documentation, archaeology, science and choreography to activate states of probing reverie in the viewer.
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KAI ALTHOFF AT VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, VANCOUVER
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This exhibition focuses on Kai Althoff 's most recent artistic production, including new resin and iron sculptures, several collaborative projects and a re-envisioned environment from the 4th Berlin Biennale, along with a selection of celebrated earlier works. 
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SOPHIE CALLE AT DHC/ART FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, MONTREAL
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Sophie Calle's critically acclaimed exhibition, 'Prenez soin de vous (Take care of yourself)', first show at the Venice Biennale in 2007, will be on view at the DHC/ART Foundation this July. At the heart of the exhibition is a break-up e-mail that the artist received from a lover, which ended with the line "Take Care of Yourself". "I received an email telling me it was over. I didn't know how to respond. It was almost as if it hadn't been meant for me. I asked 107 women (including two made from wood and one with feathers), chosen for their profession or skills, to interpret this letter. To analyze it, comment on it, dance it, sing it. Dissect it. Exhaust it. Understand it for me. Answer for me. It was a way of taking the time to break up. A way of taking care of myself." 
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STEPHEN SHEARER AT THE POWERPLANT, TORONTO
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The Canadian artist Steven Shearer makes sculptures, prints, collages, paintings, murals and drawings which explore issues of class, gender, and alienation with a particular focus on the cultures of, and links between, youth, Heavy Metal and the avant-garde. His first major survey show in Canada presents both recent works and key pieces from the past decade. 
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MARC QUINN AT DHC/ART FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, MONTREAL
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Montreal's new centre for contemporary art opens today with an exhibition of 40 works by British conceptual artist Marc Quinn. This is the largest ever exhibition by the artist mounted in North America and also Quinn's first solo show in Canada. Quinn's work is principally concerned with the body's mutability in time, its physical presence in space and its anxiety within culture. His work also poignantly explores mortality, beauty, kinship and the interplay of art and science. 
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'REPLAYING NARRATIVE', LE MOIS DE LA PHOTO A MONTREAL
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There's still time to catch some of the special events planned around Montreal's Month of Photography - over thirty solo shows exploring the new narrative potential of photography and video, the opening of a public work by Rebecca Belmore and a celebration of the festival's special prizes, including the people's choice award (pic: Eve K. Tremblay).
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BRUCE NAUMAN AT MUSEE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN, MONTREAL
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Celebrated as one of the greatest living artists by ArtNews magazine, and as one of the world's 100 most significant personalities by Esquire and Time magazines, Bruce Nauman has had a major influence on succeeding generations of artists for more than 40 years. This exhibition presents 15 neon light works including 'Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain', a title which sums up the range of existential issues Nauman explores in his work. 
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ZIDANE: A 21ST-CENTURY PORTRAIT, CINEMA IMPERIAL, MONTREAL
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Zidane: a 21st-century Portrait, by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, is being screened in Montreal on Thursday night at a free event organised by the newly established DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, whose exhibition programme kicks off this September. 
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ROBIN PACIFIC AT RED HEAD GALLERY, TORONTO
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Many feel the need to hold on to the things that most define them: memorable photographs, letters from loved ones, or any collection of things acquired over the course of time. But Robin Pacific in her work 'Shelf Portait: A Disappearing Archive' has instead created an artistic giveaway out of her precious library of 1,670 books, collected for over thirty years. Natasha Bissonauth reports. 
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VICTOR BURGIN AT THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE, MONTREAL
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In an ongoing series of exhibitions in which the CCA invites contemporary artists to interact with the its photography collection, the British conceptual artist Victor Burgin has created new works - black and white photographs and an evocative video - which engage with the timeless beauty and lasting resonance of Carlo Fratacci's photograph of Pompeii.
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THE TORONTO ART HUB: QUEEN STREET WEST
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The Canadian city's art-dominated neighbourhood is distinctive for its vast network of collective activity that has functioned thus far without reliance on the support of blue chip galleries and establishment aesthetics. Will the inevitable gentrification and 'starbuckification' of the area rub the edge off of the work produced by its artists? Angela Marisol Roberts reports. 
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