Crossovers

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  Michael Lin and Federico Herrero

  Michael Lin’s temporary commission for the private art foundation Museo Jumex is a hand-painted floor that occupies 1,300 square metres across the museum’s plaza and through the building’s main level. The work is based on a traditional tablecloth design, one found in inexpensive restaurants in Mexico and one that echoes textile designs from Lin’s native Taiwan.

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  “John Eisler: Lantern,” and “Janine Miedzik: Tie-Dye for Germans”

  Angell Gallery’s parallel exhibitions of Janine Miedzik’s “Tie-Dye for Germans” and John Eisler’s “Lantern” bring together two artists for whom play is serious business.

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  “Yearning for Comfort, Not Cure”

  I have spent the greater part of my life entangled in a search for a cure to my madness. From a young age I was made to believe that there was something wrong with the chemicals in my body, that I had a defect that ought to be fixed.

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  “The Impossible Museum”

  The Thomas McCulloch Museum is tucked away in one of the many brutalist buildings from the late 1960s and early 1970s that make up the stolid core of Dalhousie University.

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  Chen Zhe

  Beijing-based multimedia artist Chen Zhe gained international recognition with her deeply personal project “The Bearable & Bees,” 2007–2012, comprised of two related series of photographs and texts.

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  Lyse Lemieux

  Lyse Lemieux has, over the past 10 years, created a distinctive and compelling art practice by expanding notions of what drawing is and can be.

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  Susan Rothenberg

  Two days after returning home from New York, I attended a chamber music concert featuring violinist James Ehnes, accompanied on piano by Andrew Armstrong. The evening program was drawn from Beethoven’s 10 violin sonatas.

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  “First We Take the Museum”

  Long-time design collaborators Rodney LaTourelle and Louise Witthöft have made a practice of working with colour and light. From the colour strategy they employed for the interior corridors at PlugIn ICA in Winnipeg, to the public sculpture commission, “HOFA,” in Berlin, Germany, the team uses colour to provoke new forms of interaction within public space.

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  AR Penck

  I hadn’t guessed that AR Penck was quite such a hero in his hometown. It hadn’t even occurred to me when I was booked into Dresden’s Penck Hotel that the coincidence of names was anything more than that, a coincidence— but no, I found the lobby filled with marvellous canvases by the artist, named Ralf Winkler by his parents, a 1939 son of the city who died in 2017.

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  Mark Bradford

  Mark Bradford ’s show “Cerberus” at Hauser & Wirth in London consists of nine paintings and a video. The video is Dancing in the Street, and has Martha and the Vandellas projected, recorded and filmed flickering across city blocks, fences and garages on a drive through Los Angeles.

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  Robert Houle

  “Histories,” located just down the hall from a large exhibition of works by another Manitoba painter, and Group of Seven member, Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, has the air initially of an intervention.

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  “NSCAD Lithography Workshop: Contemporary Editions”

  In 1971, John Baldessari sent a letter to NSCAD, instructing students to write the phrase I will not make any more boring art on the walls of the school’s Mezzanine Gallery.

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