It's looking less and less likely that I will run over to the gym for a cardio session. I need to get over to Jimmie Simpson around 12:30 and the weather is pretty miserable (cold rain), so I will be trying to figure out how to do this all by TTC. Probably head down to Queen, and then after swimming just take the Queen streetcar downtown. I'm hoping there is enough time to drop in at work and pick up more printing (only a few pages printed after all), then go up to St. Mike's and drop off DVDs, see the concert, go to Robarts and drop off the rest of the DVDs and do a bit of research, then maybe see about selling some stuff to BMV (though this will only happen if I do manage to make it to work), and then perhaps see Project Hail Mary.
I did decide not to bother with the TO Bach Festival pass. While there is some modest price savings, that is only if you go to all 4 concerts. I am definitely skipping one and probably a second one of motets. But I would like to finish booking everything else today. I am very tempted to buy tickets to Penderecki Quartet on May 21, but I remembered just in time that I have tickets to see Hillary Hahn on that date at Koerner Hall. It's a bit of a waiting game, as her recovery is not going that well unfortunately, and she's cancelled a lot of concerts, and I expect she will probably cancel this one as well, but hasn't done it officially yet. I'd probably slightly prefer the Penderecki Quartet, but I'll just wait and see how it plays out. Also, I don't think they let you cancel concerts just on a whim or the worry that an artist will pull out. (I'm still a bit annoyed that they rescheduled the Music of Golijov concert so that it overlapped with the Amici concert they are also presenting, but I ended up using the price of the ticket to a jazz concert coming up at Koerner Hall.)
As a brief overview, yesterday I biked downtown. I stopped in at the BMV near Yonge-Dundas Square. I was mostly looking for Howl's Moving Castle, though there are a couple of Criterions I am always looking for. I suppose there is a small chance I would pick up Buñuel's Él, as the bonus features are really good. (I have a DVD on hold at TPL, but this is fairly recent release and it will take quite some time to work my way up the queue.) Anyway, I saw Breaking Bad on Blu-Ray, the complete seasons 1, 3 and 4, so I got those. Why not. If I do make it to the BMV on Bloor, I'll have to see if they have season 2 or 5. I was almost out the door, when I saw an interesting Max Beckman and Paris book for only $15, so I got that as well.
I went over to the AGO right after that, though I didn't have much time and decided to skip the Paul McCartney photo exhibit. I saw the Edna Taçon exhibit instead (where the Naoko Matsubara exhibit had been , and this was definitely more up my alley. Her early works are quite similar to early Kandinsky, and her later works are akin to Klee with perhaps a touch of Miro. I'll definitely want to check this out a few times, and it runs through late August. I'm not quite sure I want to pay $45 for the catalogue, as nice as it is, but the library appears to have a few copies, so I will check one out and decide then.
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| Edna Taçon, Untitled, 1941 |
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| Edna Taçon, Ecstasy (Black Accent), 1944 |
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| Edna Taçon, Improvisation No. 2, 1946 |
I also had a chance to stop by the contemporary sculpture garden by Ranbir Sidhu and take some photos, as the previous batch was lost.
Then I ran over to Gagné Contemporary where they have a new show called Mona Lisa with Moustache, which only runs one more week. I think this piece, which involves cut-outs and interesting shadow play, was perhaps the most interesting.
I had a bit more time so I ran upstairs to the Red Head Gallery as well. Then I grabbed a banana chocolate loaf slice and walked back over to No Frills. Since my bag was completely full, I actually went to work to drop some stuff off, then biked back to The Well and grabbed Thai food, but ate it at work. I didn't have a lot of time, but I did update a few things. I would have finished my time sheet, but I haven't been given some of the codes, which is very frustrating.
I went to the concert at Soundstreams. I liked some of the pieces a fair bit, though there were just too many pieces (9 premieres in total), and the quartet went offstage to retune between many of them, so the concert lasted well over 2.5 hours! In the end, it was a bit too much.
I will close by saying this is the very last day to catch Jeff Wall at MOCA. I was tempted to go again. Though I went at least twice, and maybe a third time. I probably would have if the weather had been better or if I could have scored a free pass through the library or if it had extended one more week, since I would have bundled it with a trip west to see Shakespeare Bash'd at the Monarch Tavern. Anyway, here are a few of my favourite photos from the show. (I'll circle back and label them tonight, but I'm running late again...)
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| Detail from Insomnia |
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