Toronto’s Birch Contemporary celebrates 30 years, while the Susan Hobbs Gallery considers motion in art by Kate Taylor In his first year in business on Toronto’s Danforth Avenue, Robert Birch overheard one pundit standing outside his storefront predicting this new gallery wouldn’t last six months. Thirty years and multiple locations later, Birch Contemporary is showing…
Eighty-eight years ago, Marcel Duchamp coined the term mobile for the hanging artworks of Alexander Calder. The word implied movement but was also a pun: ‘mobile’ in French means motive. One year ago, Nancy Hass posited in the New York Times that artists have avoided making mobiles until recently as Calder’s legacy loomed too large. Perhaps so,…