The thought that crawled when I heard that Kim Newport Mimran is opening an art hub this month. Called Cultural Goods Gallery, to be exact — a 2,500 square foot space in The Junction, on Dupont — it is a venture that the Pink Tartan designer is starting with her fashion pasha husband, Joe Mimran.
“The first gallery Joe had was Starving Artists on Scollard Street when he was 19. I guess he never got it out of his system.” Kim reminded me this week. “Cultural Goods Gallery is open to the presentation of all things creative that impact our culture today,“ she emphasized. “That was the inspiration for the name.”The inaugural exhibition — which is already shaping up to be one of the surprise delights of the Fall social calendar — takes its cue from legendary New York-based artist Al Diaz, who rewrote the rules of street art and was Basquiat’s OG partner in crime, so to speak.
Certainly, the Mimrans have been collecting for a long time, their midtown manse — which shares the same breathtaking view of the Toronto skyline as nearby Casa Loma — a cornucopia itself. Faves include British artist Clare Woods, German painter Jonathan Meese, and American neo-realist George Condo. Kim, in particular, has long gravitated toward sculptures.
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