New'ish & Noteworthy

Mike Billington - Free Money $ 5.00

Soner Ön - Richie Rich $ 20.00

Soner Ön - The Light In The Dark, With The Neon Arms
- $ 10.00

Ryan Dodgson - Paper Bag/Canvas Bag - $ 15.00

Ryan Dodgson & Matthew King - Libary Bag - $ 20.00

 
VSVSVA - Accidental Ashtrays - $ 20.00

Psst! GIFTS BY ARTISTS is coming soon. Watch out for upcoming event announcements and our preview page...

Christy Langer, Untitled,2011

 

Peanut Brittle

Katie Bethune Leamen, Robert Dayton, Sarah Nasby, Miyo Takeda, Pascal Paquette, Colette Urban, Kika Thorne, Heather Goodchild, Kerri Reid, Laurie Kang, Anitra Hamilton, Hanna Hur, Lyndsey Cope, Chrysanne Stathacos, Liz Knox, Paul Kneale, Janice Gurney, Christy Langer, Matt King and Ryan Dodgson, Maryse Larivière, Petrina Ng, Emily Smit-Dicks, Jennie Suddick and Cole Swanson, Anitra Hamilton, Sarah Nasby, Derek Sullivan and Christy Thompson, Charlie Murray, Annie Dunning, Christine Baigent, Julius P. Manapul, Cary Leibowitz, XXXX collective, David Horvitz, Lex Vaughn, Alicia Nauta, Garry Neill Kennedy, VSVSVS collective, Bill Burns, Ron Benner, Tonik Wojtyra, Sandy Plotnikoff and Swintak. Performance by Peanut Brittle.

Anitra Hamilton, Blue Balls: The Multiple, 2011

What's On is What's Here

Pascal Paquette's mural can currently be seen in the courtyard of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto. Click image to purchase or learn more about Paquette's Bricks.

 Mat Brown's series depicting natural history and deep time can currently be enjoyed at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto. Click image to purchase or learn more about his work Temptations of Cryogenian Thermal Genesis.

 Derek Sullivan was recently commissioned by the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto to produce Albatross Omnibus, new artist books, and a drawing and installation project. Peruse Sullivan's artist books at our shop in Toronto or click on any image of his books to take you to his listings on our site.

 Art Metropole will launch its latest 'By Artists' publication, Commerce by Artists, edited by Luis Jacob in December at Art Basel Miami with a Toronto launch to take place in early 2012. But purchase your copy now by clicking on the image of our book.

Antonia Hirsch and her project The Surplus Library On Affect & Economic Exchange will be featured at Art Metropole's booth at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art MISS READ art book fair in Berlin (November 25 - 27). Click on the image of Hirsch's Komma (after Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun) to find out more about this artist's work.

General Idea are the focus of the major retrospective exhibition Haute Culture: General Idea - A Retrospective 1969 to 1994 at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Click General Idea's crest above to purchase or learn more about this Canadian art collective's highly desirable editions.

Instant Coffee - Good News, Issue #3, 2011

Artist service-oriented collective, Instant Coffee offers a compilation of writings on the relationship between art and money in an (of course) flourescent-covered bookwork.

Includes: Michael Turner, Amy Fung, Hank Bull, Lee Henderson, Glenn Alteen, Anne Cottingham, Caitlin Jones, Leah Sandals, Lucas Soi, Johan Lundh, Rachel Roselfield Lafo, Rosemary Heather, Lise Nellemann, Jeff Ostergren, Robert Fougere, Tori Abernathy, Katrina Elven, Mo Salemy, Eileen Sommerman. 

$6 

Western Front - Momentarily: Learning from Mega Events, 2011

'Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events' began with a shared interest in the impacts of the 2010 Olympic Games on Vancouver at a time when the city was ranked through a variety of criteria as especially livable. This publication employs multiple textual forms – from semi-fiction to interview to theoretical historical examination.

Western Front’s Executive Director Caitlin Jones expounds upon how 'Momentarily' fits into a rich organizational history of mail art and public accessibility. Artist collective Bik Van der Pol share a dialogue on their work 'I Confess I Care,' a response to the infringements on free speech that is encouraged by heavily sponsored sports events. Artists Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber talk with Jerry Zazlove about radical pedagogy at Simon Fraser University in the 1960s. Art historian and critic Jeff Derksen examines "the long moment" of Neoliberalism ushered in by large events. Curator Candice Hopkins considers the works of Bik Van der Pol and Urban Subjects as proposals in the most productive sense.

Activist Am Johal traces the link between development, culture and the State. Myka Tucker-Abramson evokes and analyzes the effectiveness of today’s universities as sites for public learning. Pelin Tan reveals the undercurrents of a recent clash between the art public and a local community within the Tophane neighbourhood of Istanbul. Moments, as defined by urbanist Henri Lefebvre, are expanded upon and illuminated by Stuart Eldon. Arnold Van Bruggen weighs the effects of the Sochi Olympics in Russia and Lize Mogel compares the recent megaevents of Beijing, Shanghai and Vancouver. The questions at stake are grounded in specific, local perspectives that dovetail into the global intertwined relationships of urban development, freedom of speech and public space.

Edited by Bik Van der Pol, Alissa Firth-Eagland and Urban Subjects 

Critical text and catalogue. Softcover, glue bound, black and white

$4 

Scapegoat - Scapegoat Journal Property 00, 2010

SCAPEGOAT is a new journal of architecture, landscape and political economy. It examines the relationship between capitalism and the built environment, confronting the coercive and violent organization of space, the exploitation of labour and resources, and the unequal distribution of environmental risks and benefits. Issue 00 focuses on Property, because it is the literal foundation for all spatial design practices. Architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design each begin with a space that is already drawn, organized, and formed by the concrete abstraction of the property lines. From our perspective, property stands as the most fundamental, yet underestimated, point of intersection between architecture, landscape architecture, and political economy. What is a “site” except a piece of property? What are architecture and landscape architecture but subtle and consistent attempts to express determined property relations as open aesthetic possibilities? How can these practices facilitate other forms of relation?
 

Issue 00: Property

Features
Interview with Alexis Bhagat and Nato Thompson, Adam Bobbette
Deathgrip by Troy Cochrane
Property in Three Registers by Shiri Pasternak
The Detroit Unreal Estate Agency: Properties in/of/for Crisis by Andrew Herscher

Projects
Familiar Site by Vincent Wittenberg
House Magic: an Incomplete Timeline of Occupied Social Centres Around the World by Alan Moore
H.O.P.E. Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere by Adrian Blackwell and Jane Hutton
Thirty Points to Challenge the Hegemonic Order in the City of Buenos Aires by Iconoclasistas
SUB_city by Marc Maxey
Picture the Homeless by Not an Alternative
Social Bridge by Reece Terris

Reviews
Wasting Naples, reviewed by Alessandra Renzi
Architecture Depends, reviewed by Lucas Freeman
24 City, reviewed by Kin Tsui
The Garden, reviewed by Rhonda Teitel-Payne 

$7

Scapegoat - Scapegoat Journal Service 01, 2011

SCAPEGOAT is a new journal of architecture, landscape and political economy. It examines the relationship between capitalism and the built environment, confronting the coercive and violent organization of space, the exploitation of labour and resources, and the unequal distribution of environmental risks and benefits. Issue 00 focuses on Property, because it is the literal foundation for all spatial design practices. Architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design each begin with a space that is already drawn, organized, and formed by the concrete abstraction of the property lines. From our perspective, property stands as the most fundamental, yet underestimated, point of intersection between architecture, landscape architecture, and political economy. What is a “site” except a piece of property? What are architecture and landscape architecture but subtle and consistent attempts to express determined property relations as open aesthetic possibilities? How can these practices facilitate other forms of relation?

In our second issue (01), SCAPEGOAT looks to current practices to intensify our concept of Service—as a problem. That is, how can we develop new models for self-management and mutual aid that move beyond unidirectional forms of service as clientelism and dependency? How can we think through service provision beyond the State? How can we privilege voluntary association and ethical reciprocity rather than volunteerism? How can new approaches to training and the intergenerational transmission of knowledge be radically re-organized? How has the rise of the populist Right coincided with mechanisms of gentrification and the ideologies of the so-called ’creative city’? How can we counter the predominance of economic metaphors in our attempts to articulate values and commitments? How could design services work in solidarity with the labour of extraction, construction, and maintenance?

$7

Jason McLean, Peter Thompson, Billy Bert Young - Uncle Pork Chop scrapes away the summer, 2011

Drawn in London, Ontario by Billy Bert Young, Jason McLean and Peter Thompson.
Signed.

$4.00

Sebastian Butt - "Call Me Flexible" Special Edition tote, 2011

Reverse side

The latest in Art Metropole's "Shopping Bag by Artists" series. Silver screen printed soft-touch non-woven tote bags.

Reverse side text lists ART METROPOLE and the 2011 dates of Art Basel 42 and Art Basel Miami Beach.

Edition of 50
$10

Janis Demkiw - Double U Turn Necklaces and Bracelets, 2009/2011

Even without a laptop or smart phone you can take the office anywhere with Janis Demkiw's Double U-Turn Jumbo Paperclip bracelets and necklaces of varied lengths.

$10 - $20

Errol Richardson - CAVE, 2011

cover

'CAVE' is a paranoid post-apocalyptic interpretation of Plato’s classic allegory.
Edition of 150. Numbered by artist 

$4

Kerri Reid - Drips (Porcelain), 2010

Various shaped drips of porcelain that eloquently illustrate the result of variances in gravity, time, material and chance.

Individually packaged. Shapes and sizes vary.

Edition of 140

$5

Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay - Libretto, 2004

LIBRETTO provides the complete song texts of LYRIC, an epic video performance involving sampled lyrics from one thousand love songs. Libretto allows viewers to follow the performance line by line, acting as a memento of bearing witness to Lyric, like an opera programme.


Produced with Barr Gilmore


Signed and numbered edition of 1,000


$10.00

Maura Doyle - Handmade coins and tickets, 2010

Doyle challenges the idea of the uniform, machine-punched slickness that usually represents currency with an assortment of handmade coins, tokens and tickets.

$6 each

Derek Sullivan - Manuscript for Wattle & Daub, 2009

An artist's book featuring the sculptural components of Derek Sullivan's 2009 work of the same name. 

$10

Ryan Foerster - Blank Red Black Printing Plate Zine, 2010

Ryan Foerster's reversed aluminum printing plate zines in red and black.

$0.50

Ryan Dodgson - This Condition, 2011

Similar to other collections of Dodgon's singular observational line drawings, 'This Condition' is comprised of a series of juxtapositions that encourage the viewer to dwell on the possible conversations that can occur between forms.

Numbered edition of 30 

$4.00