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MOCCA is hosting the 7th installment of LUFF Art+Dialogue’s Critics Forum. Based on David Cohen’s Review Panel at the National Academy Museum in New York City, three critics will review three current Toronto exhibitions, after which questions and dialogue between critics and audience will be facilitated.

Participating Critics:

Amy Fung

David Balzer

Maryse Larivière

The exhibitions to be discussed by Fung, Balzer and Larivière are:

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Inter/Access

September 19 – November 22, 2014

Phil Baljeu, Steve Daniels, Hannah Epstein, Dragan Espenschied, Nancy Paterson, Bill Perry

Curated by Maiko Tanaka

This Area is under 23 Hour Video and Audio Surveillance

September 4, 2014 – June 30, 2015

Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto

Kim Adams, Myfanwy Ashmore, Katie Bethune-Leamen, Diane Borsato, Shane Krepakevich and Elif Saydam, Gwen MacGregor and Lewis Nicholson, Kelly Mark, Ahmet Ögüt, Roula Partheniou, Vincent Trasov, VSVSVS, and Lee Walton.

Curated by Yan Wu

Color me Badd

20 September 2014- 4 January 2015

Julia Dault

the Powerplant

Curated by Julia Paoli

OPEN SESAME in Toronto was founded in 2013 by Xenia Benivolski, Christine Atkinson and Thomas Payne, in direct collaboration with Thomas Payne Architecture studio.

OPEN SESAME is generously funded by the OAC.