We are open until December 23rd and we have these....

 Gifts By Artists 2011: Fastwürms, mousepads (various cats available)

Documenta 13: 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken (100 Notes - 100 Thoughts) #002: Ian Wallace
 

Felicity Tayler,

A Group of Cluster of Related Things 
(un groupe des choses èparses), 2010

 Documenta 13: 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken (100 Notes - 100 Thoughts) #008: Lawrence Weiner

 

Jon Sasaki, Good Intentions (catalogue), 2011

 Gifts By Artists 2011: Seth Scriver, Opposites Attract (print folio), 2011

 Gifts By Artists 2011: Alicia Nauta,Untitled (artist book), 2011 

Johannes Wohnseifer

A Secret Show in a Secret Place, 2011

Derek Sullivan, Albatross Omnibus (artist book series), 2011

Edition of 28. Only $12 each

 

 

Onya Hogan-Finlay, Periods (2012 artist calendar), 2011

  

And we still have lots of other Gifts By Artists multiples and brand new books!

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.

The New Art Met Shelves are Finished and Loaded Down with Plenty!!!!

Miles perfecting the angles

Miles muscling the shelves into place

So many New Things, we had to build more shelves!!!!

                                     

                                        

Miles on the job

bsviv Books from Montreal and Shawn Kuruneru with Special Guests

Images by Shawn Kuruneru

Friday, Oct. 14, 2011 6:30-9 p.m. Art Metropole welcomes bsviv Books from Montreal & Shawn Kuruneru with Special Guests Join us for a special presentation of Shawn Kuruneru's most recent publication Women, along with contributions by Jimmy Limit, Julia Kennedy, Christy Kunitzky, Maggie Groat and Jesse Harris. Kureneru's Women is a 38 page collection of drawings produced in an edition of 300, 5 inches by 8 inches, full-color throughout, laser print, and perfect bound. Shawn Kuruneru has shown at The Drawing Center (New York, NY), Ribordy Contemporary (Geneva, Switzerland), Night Gallery (Los Angles, California) and Battat Contemporary (Montreal, Quebec). His drawings were recently acquired by the Montreal Contemporary Art Museum. Kuruneru has been reviewed by The New York Times, ARTFORUM, Artnet.com, The Village Voice, DOMUS and Border Crossings. BSVIV is a new publishing company based in Montreal, Canada dedicated to printing exceptional quality books with a focus on innovative visual sensibilities, DIY energy and creative freedom. Links: bsviv Books Shawn Kuruneru... and here Jimmy Limit Julia Kennedy Christy Kunitzky Maggie Groat Jesse Harris

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 

Fillip - Fillip Issue No. 14, 2011

Fillip is a publication of art, culture, and ideas released three times a year by the Projectile Publishing Society based in Vancouver.

1.  Series: Intangible Economies
2. Markus Miessen et al. Architectural Space as Agent
3. Vector Association and Kristina Lee Podesva Via Satellite
4.Diedrich Diedrichsen Living in the Loop
5. Michael Turner and Reid Shier Upon Further Reflection
6. Amy Zion Ascetic Desire
7. Kathy Mezei Shadows and Blind Spots
8. Ahmet Ögüt and Berin Golonu Between the Scaffold and the Ruin

End Matter: Commission: David Horvitz, Scotch Broom

Jeff Khonsary

Edition of 3000

Periodical. Perfect bound, black and white

$15

Bad Day Magazine - Bad Day Issue 11, 2011

Edited by Eva Michon, Bad Day is a quarterly arts magazine published in Toronto. Bad Day features work by artists from all over the world, of all mediums.

Issue 11 features director/graphic designer Mike Mills as well as interviews with artists David Shrigley, Tomi Ungerer, Tauba Auerbach, Steven Shearer, Andrew Kuo, and Martino Gamper, a joke by SANY, and a Hangover.

Periodical, softcover, perfect-bound, two-colour text and images with an 8-page full-colour gloss section

$12

Thomas Galler - Walking through Baghdad with a Buster Keaton Face, 2009

 

On the occasion of his exhibition 'Walking through Baghdad with a Buster Keaton Face' at the Aargauer Kunsthaus in Switzerland, Thomas Galler has published the first comprehensive book of his work. This catalogue is presented as an artist book that includes both documentation of his work as well as his artistic strategies and reference materials.

Additional texts include an interview with the artist by Hilde Teerlinck, a review of the artist's filmwork by Margrit Tröhler and an examination of the conceptual threads running through Galler's practice by Madeleine Schuppli.

Halfway between an artist-book and a monograph, an overview of new work and a retrospective, a publication and an exhibition. This book offers an in depth view into the highly influential practice of Thomas Galler.

ISBN 3-03746-138-1 

$55