Articles
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Trace Elements: Spring and Arnaud, directed by Marcia Connolly and Katherine Knight
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Animation Noir
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A Mother’s Story, for Brief Moments, in Dreams: The Problems of Language
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Landon MacKenzie
Landon Mackenzie’s “Nervous Centre” is a significant survey exhibition of works from the past 20 years by the Vancouver-based artist. The largest solo show of Mackenzie’s work to date, the exhibition provides an important overview of one of Canada’s influential painters.
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Patti Smith: Making the Past Present
The Patti Smith I encountered when she opened her hotel-room door in Ottawa this past November, while she was in the middle of a whirlwind, eight-city international tour with Neil Young and Crazy Horse, was hardly the frenzied, spit-spraying performer she was in the 1970s—and, incredibly, still is.
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Empyrrhic Evidence: “The Gatekeepers,” directed by Dror Moreh
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Salt Seller: Elvira Finnigan
There is a saying that we have inherited from medieval England about being either “above or below the salt.” The former was preferable since it meant that you sat with the Lord, his family and honoured guests at high table. (Salt is absolutely necessary to human survival; every cell in our body is bathed in a salt solution). And because you were able to have salt with your meal, things tasted better. Both prestige and palate were satisfied. For Winnipeg artist, Elvira Finnigan, everyone who attended her performance, “Festin et Conséquences (Feast and Aftermath)” at the Centre culturel franco-manitobain, was “above the salt.”
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Indifference and Donkeys, A Tale
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Possibly, Everything: An Interview with Robert Frank
Robert Frank has always produced books of photographs. He made his first one, “40 Fotos”, in 1946, a spiral-bound, single edition of 40 images he’d taken between 1941 and 1945 and assembled as a portfolio he would use in seeking employment. It accompanied him on his trip to New York in 1947 and helped him secure work with Alexey Brodovitch at Harper’s Bazaar. In 1953 he produced “Black White and Things”, an edition of three. That book mapped the course Robert Frank would follow in all the work he did. Everything is there: the place of memory, the use of sequencing, a reliance on intuition, the rigour and emotional courage of poetry—and trusting and leaving space for the viewer.
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The Success of Failure: Divya Mehra
“For me, the concept comes before the medium,” says Divya Mehra. The Winnipeg-based artist is explaining why her work takes so many forms. “I don’t feel like I owe anything to any particular medium.”
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Alona Rodeh and the Art of Camouflage
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Headgames: Deco Dawson’s “Ne crane pas sois modeste (keep a modest head)”
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