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OPENS SEPTEMBER 20
Few people have married the artistic and scientific aspects of photography more completely than Harold Edgerton. A professor of electrical engineering at MIT from 1927 until his death in 1990, Edgerton developed the stroboscopic flash, which allowed him to capture movement at ultra-high speed. The resulting photos, such as Bullet Through Jack, helped change the visual vocabulary of both art and science. Head to the Distillery Historic District’s Corkin Gallery to see Edgerton’s famous “slices of time” for yourself.
OPENS SEPTEMBER 18
Many of rock music’s most iconic images, including the 1973 shot Led Zeppelin In Front of Plane, were snapped by legendary photographer Bob Gruen. His Rockers exhibition showcases more than 60 memorable pics this month at Liss Gallery.
OPENS SEPTEMBER 4
Contemporary gallery Georgia Scherman Projects presents three video works by top international artists.
1. Allan Giddy’s You depicts a sun-scorched road teeming with crows, while fragments of music and truck-driver radio chatter mark the time.
2. In Taranaki Descent by Shaun Gladwell, skateboarders ride through a modern, brutally functional parking garage while glimpsing a backdrop of enduring natural beauty: ocean vistas and the mythic peak of New Zealand’s Mount Taranaki.
3. Mischa Kuball explores the practice of suspending time with Amateurfilm, a grainy vacation movie blotted by another camera’s shadow, which seems to both re-record the footage and reveal our distance from the memories on display.
TO SEPTEMBER 14
For much of the summer, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection has been overrun by cows, horses and even politicians—the products of more than 40 years of work by Joe Fafard. Now, only two weeks remain to ogle the Saskatchewan artist’s lifelike livestock sculptures and expressive figures of family, friends and eminent persons like former prime minister Jean Chrétien, as depicted in The Candidate. With 68 diverse pieces, the retrospective offers an exceptional cross-section of Canadiana by one of the country’s foremost talents.
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