Invited last fall to contribute to Toronto's contemporary - art
festival Nuit Blanche, Capote was inspired by the widespread presence in the city of barricades used for crowd control.
The stunning installation was first created for the annual arts
festival Nuit Blanche in Calgary and proved so popular it travelled across the globe to countries like Russia, Singapore and Israel.
I was lucky enough to be invited on a press trip to Canada by the Toronto Tourist Board for the art
festival Nuit Blanche Big thanks to?
Not exact matches
On the cultural side there's the Scotiabank
Nuit Blanche arts
festival in Toronto, the Scotiabank Giller book prize, a photo
festival, a Caribbean
festival, marathons and movie theatres.
Illuminus is Boston's version of «
nuit blanche,» the late night
festival that began in France and has since spread to many cities around the world.
His most well - known project, HyperBound, was showcased at Toronto's
Nuit Blanche
festival and featured in Anna Anthropy's book Rise of the Video Game Zinesters.
The
festival is conceived and organised by Unlimited Productions, who were inspired by Paris» popular «
Nuit Blanche».
In 2012 his public art installation «Ensemble for Mixed Use» was commissioned by the City of Toronto for the 2012
Nuit Blanche
festival.
On July 7th, there will be a photo tour of Cornwall's work during La
Nuit d'Anne ̀e, during which the
festival's favorite artists and photographers and institutions were given carte blanche — projected in loops on six screens.
Over the past thirty years, Cai Guo - Qiang has realized large - scale exhibitions and projects across different geographic locations and cultures, including solo exhibition Cai Guo - Qiang: Saraab at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar (2011), Cai Guo - Qiang; 1040m Underground in Donetsk, Ukraine (2011), One Night Stand (Aventure d'un Soir), explosion event for
Nuit Blanche (2013), a citywide art and culture
festival organized by the city of Paris.
He has participated in a number of group exhibitions and
festivals, including Traffic, CAPC, Bordeaux, France; Shopping, New York;
Nuit Blanche, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France; Now Here, Lousiana Musuem, Denmark; Manifesta I, Rotterdam, Holland, and the recent Ontom at Gallerie fur Zeitgenoshisce Kunst, Leipzig, Germany.
Inspired by
Nuit Blanche, an all - night arts
festival created in Paris in 2002, the city - spanning show is curated by the Institute of Contemporary Arts» (ICA), curator Kathy Noble, who presents a series of works and new commissions in a variety of unexpected and unusual locations across Westminster: «As the sun goes down, Londoners and visitors alike will be able to experience the city in a new way.
Remembering Tony Conrad, Artforum Searle, Adrian, «Art Night review — London finally catches the «
nuit blanche» bug», Guardian.com, July 4 Muir, Gregor, «All - nighter arts
festival to transform London», Guardian.com, July 1 Droschl, Sandro, Words as Doors, in Language, Art, Film, exhibition catalogue, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria (cover image, photos) Graves, Jen, «Jennifer West's Video Store Instagram Residency», The Stranger.com, March 14 (photo) Gonzalez, Rita and Samborska, Paulina Samborska, «Jennifer West at LACMA».
Artist and Cranbrook Alumnus Cleon Peterson (2D Design» 06) is painting the first ever mural directly underneath the Eiffel Tower for this year's
Nuit Blanche
festival in Paris.
The free night - time arts
festival was inspired by the international
Nuit Blanche movement, first initiated in Paris in 2002.