Spacing blogs about Coach House AGO show

Spacing's Shawn Micallef blogs about the 'fun and exciting' Coach House Press retrospective at the renovated AGO.

From the post:

'I knew [Coach House] — and people associated with them — were involved in the local and Canadian art scene over the years, but had no idea of the depth until I saw the Coach House show that opened with the reopening of the AGO two weeks ago.

I keep revisiting this gallery on each trip to the AGO to find out more — the exhibit looks at Canadian Art “through the lens” of folks associated with Coach House, and there is much Toronto to see here. The central Coach House table and walls are full of ephemera produced in the 1960s and 70s: posters for art exhibits and various semi-political events; the famous CN Tower “Fall Zone” poster; photos of people involved with Coach House over the years (all those 1970s beards) — it’s very much a documentary exhibit, with the posters actually stapled to the wood as they would have been out in public.'

Read the full post and view some pictures of the show here: http://spacing.ca/wire/2008/11/27/coach-house-books-show-at-the-ago/.