Banksy in Toronto

After seeing the fab movie...Exit through the gift shop....and hearing rumours about Bansky pieces in TO...I found a work  on Church below Front under a protective plexiglas sheet....It was actually pointed out by a friend who found it and now has it as her blackberry wallpaper.  Supposedly there are other works that were dotted around Toronto, but have either been painted over or ironically enough been vandalized!  I find it  amusing that the one below Church is only noticeable now because of the protective cover....if that wasn't there I'm sure people just walked right by caught up in their lives......

POP

Haven't been bloggin for a while....loving Bonhams, sale coming up on May 31st......and I've just started reading a fantastic book...POP...a reevaluation of Andy Warhol...thought it was fitting after Tom Ford sold his painting earlier this month.....

BONHAMS

I am now employed at Bonhams Canada....you can contact me at.........

perry.tung@bonhams.com

Sound Bites!

• Heffel and Joyner Waddington's both had successful auctions this past week....some amazing prices have the auction community buzzing in the city......
  
• Bonhams (www.bonhams.com )have their sale on Monday (Nov. 30th) and......... Sotheby's(www.sothebys.com) go Thursday (Dec. 3rd), I plan on attending both.....
• My friend Lori-Ann, opens an exhibition Thursday night (Dec. 3rd)...www.loriannbellissimo.com
• Just received an e-blast from Clark&Faria that Wallpaper* Magazine lists Douglas Coupland's art as #2 on Canada's Fab 40 list.......www.monteclarkgallery.com
• Last Thursday (Nov. 26th) for The Oshawa Hospital Foundation, I conducted A Night to Swirl, an auction of fine wines....it was a great success, with all lots selling well over the values........
  

PechaKucha

What an interesting evening last night... I was invited by the owner of Caviar20 to the Spoke Club on King West .......

 
to a "PechaKuchaNight"....a series of presenters get 20 slides and  20 seconds on each slide to discuss, projects, current work, inspirations, objects etc.  Last night a wide range of topics were presented from the Barcelona chair, traffic cones of the world, interior design and photography.....the organizers were expecting  around 30....which was quickly doubled and then some as the evening got underway.....PechaKucha was devised in Tokyo in 2003 as a networking social meeting place for people in the cultural industries....as I witnessed last night it is more a celebration of  ideas, people and culture........I'm looking forward to the next one....

PREVIEWS

Over the weekend I was at both the Heffel and Joyner Waddington's previews for their upcoming sales of Canadian Art...the sales kick off tonight.....previews are a very important part of the auction process, they are where the majority of decisions are made about what will be bid on....catalogues can misleading with regards to colour and size, they are a point of reference...the work needs to be seen in person, its condition examined as well as its reverse viewed: this is where all the information is, gallery labels, exhibition history and previous owner information.....

Jeanne-Claude

Today I found out that Jeanne-Claude, Christo's partner in life and work passed away at the age of 74....I had the chance to spend some time with her and Christo a number of years ago....she was simply fabulous.....a group of us were invited to spend the afternoon at Christo's  studio in New York....we were greeted by her and spent a wonderful couple of hours talking with her, she answered all the questions we asked and made us feel so welcome before Christo came down from the third floor of the studio....it is amazing when you meet someone that is so passionate about what they do..... and you could see the love Christo had for her........