MASS MoCA’s curator Denise Markonish spent the last three years crisscrossing Canada to view hundreds of exhibitions in museums and galleries, visiting over 400 artists’ studios, and making connections with a full range of artists working in Canada today.

The exhibition will be mounted in the 14,000 sf comprising MASS MoCA’s first floor galleries, as well as additional indoor and outdoor spaces.

A comprehensive full-color 450-page catalogue by MIT Press will accompany the exhibition and will provide insights into Canada’s thriving contemporary cultural scene. Featuring artist-to-artist interviews, the book also includes contributions from notable Canadian writers including Douglas Coupland.

Oh, Canada
May 27, 2012–Apr 1, 2013

MASS MoCA
87 Marshall Street
North Adams, MA 01247, United States
+1 413 662-2111

(Pictured above – “Permanent Press Landscape”, 2012, Acrylic on Canvas)

Douglas Coupland exhibits at the Armory Show, a leading international contemporary and modern art fair and one of the most important annual art events in New York. The Armory Show takes place every March on Piers 92 & 94 in Manhattan.

March 8 to 11, 2012, New York

Read All Over considers and contrasts the state of language in books and visual art. Though the world is bombarded by words – flickering across LCD displays on computers, on telephones, on dashboards – they are barely there. The words are merely bytes that can disappear with the touch of a button.

As books become less central to our culture and the printed word becomes a relic, Read All Over poses this question: Is visual art a refuge for words, a place where they can go to attain some permanence? The works in Read All Over – all of which incorporate language or books or both – confront this question and respond in remarkable and resonant ways.

Read All Over
December 9, 2011–May 1, 2012

SCRAP METAL
11 Dublin St., Unit E
www.scrapmetalgallery.com

The Global Art Forum was launched by Art Dubai at its inaugural fair in 2007. Bringing together art world protagonists for a week of conversation, the Forum has become the region’s leading platform for contemporary art discourse, with a particular emphasis on issues prevalent in the Middle East and Asia.

Entitled ‘The Medium of Media’, the Forum is re-inventing itself this year. Along with the familiar array of lectures, conversations, discussions, and workshops, it includes a new roster of commissioned projects that precede and succeed the live days. Thematically, the Global Art Forum_6 looks at the double meaning of the term ‘media’, both within the art world and referring to the world of publishing and reportage. Underpinning this is a look back at the past year in the Arab world, and how fundamental events have been both produced and consumed as media. The Forum is, effectively, a media production about media.

Douglas Coupland at Global Art Forum

March 18 – Doha, Qatar
MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art
Doha, Qatar

March 21 – Dubai
ART DUBAI, Madinat Jumeirah
Dubai

www.artdubai.ae/globalartforum