Articles
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A Visual Song of the Open Road
Kristine Moran, who now lives in Owen Sound, has given up her wheels. For the last 10 months, she and her husband and two young children toured the United States in a 30-foot-long Airstream trailer drawn by a Ford F-250.
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Art Policing
The invitation card to Brian Hunter’s exhibition “Gut Feeling” at Winnipeg’s Library Gallery in May showed Hunter posed, like a Ken doll, in a t-shirt, socks and boxer shorts.
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Paintings That Go on Somewhere Else
In 2014, after living in Brooklyn for 10 years, the Canadian painter Beth Letain moved to Berlin. She has always lived and worked in the neighbourhood around Kreuzberg, an area she describes as “a little shabby and literally covered in graffiti and posters. I find it especially enjoyable because it means there are a lot of people here marking things.”
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Alexander Kluge, Arthur Danto, Ludwig Wittgenstein: What is Left Over
It gave me no end of pleasure, a frisson of pleasure, to have come, many years ago, upon the fact that my grandfather, born on July 15, 1892, shared a birth day with Walter Benjamin.
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Gordon Smith
In a 1995 interview with Ian Thom, the curator of “Gordon Smith: Black Paintings” at the Vancouver Art Gallery this past winter, the artist described himself as being “100 painters deep,” acknowledging the influence of the work of others on his own.
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The Impossibilist
In Paris in 1964 the Swiss-Italian artist Alberto Giacometti asked James Lord, his friend and an American art critic, to sit for a portrait. It would require only a single sitting lasting two or three hours and then Lord could go back to America as he had planned. A fortnight later, and after 18 unpredictable sessions
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Picturing The Red Line
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The Space of Not-Knowing
It’s my sense that engaging with Erin Shirreff’s work involves an act of faith. Her proposition that time is the elemental dimension in the embodiment of her works, that is, in bringing them into being, is one with which we agree if we commit to her work.
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The Song of the Recalcitrant Labourer
The sculpture of Guelph-based artist Andrew Buszchak can be viewed through an altered line of poetry by noted Alberta-born poet Robert Kroetsch.
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Curious Intersections of SciArt
Curiosity has had a bad rap through the ages. As a proverb it is the source of feline termination, and in classical myth it blames Pandora for releasing into the world a cornucopia of evils.
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Taking Back the Territory
MAWA (the letters stand for “mentoring artists for women’s art”) is in its 34th year of operation and on June 1, 2018, will launch the “National Billboard Exhibition Project,” a two-month public celebration of the art of Indigenous women that will be visible across the country.
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Melanie Authier
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