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In the Atmosphere
On January 20, 2021, Jill Biden highlighted a Robert S. Duncanson painting at the US inauguration reception. Find out about Duncanson’s years in Montreal and connections with Canadian artists in this story from our Fall 2020 issue, “Chroma”
In the Atmosphere
On January 20, 2021, Jill Biden highlighted a Robert S. Duncanson painting at the US inauguration reception. Find out about Duncanson’s years in Montreal and connections with Canadian artists in this story from our Fall 2020 issue, “Chroma”
Melvin Charney: Anthropomorphic Joggers and Urban Crawl
What with their speeding traffic and icy concrete, cities, though human-designed, can seem rather human-unfriendly places. Artist and architect Melvin Charney has thought long and hard on these things, making drawings, sculptures and no small amount of political controversy on the topic.
Phyllis Lambert and Lisa Rochon at RAFF 2008
Listen in as Lambert, founder of the world-renowned Canadian Centre for Architecture, discusses her life in New York and Paris in the early 1950s and her famous selection of Mies van der Rohe as architect of New York’s Seagram Building.
“Subconscious City”: Going where no Maddin has gone before in Winnipeg
Ever since Marcel Dzama got that Vanity Fair spread in September 2005, the culturati’s view of Winnipeg has never been the same.
David Rokeby’s “Plotting Against Time”: Erring tech grievances in Windsor
Interactions between humans and computers have been fraught with the potential for violent misunderstandings ever since Stanley Kubrick’s disturbingly rational HAL computer said “Hello, Dave” in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
“Generation”—Cutting Class in Edmonton
From the technological pop phenomena of the iPod and Facebook to the celebrity spectacles of Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears, western society is captivated more than ever before by the power of youth culture.
“Let Me Be Your Mirror”—Artful Reflection on the Permanent Collection in Regina
Timothy Long, head curator of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, has put together a terrific group show to complement the gallery’s “Warhol: Larger Than Life,” exhibition.
John Brown: “The Visceral Thing”—Painting the Abstract Body in Toronto
Painter John Brown has been a presence on the Toronto art scene since the 1980s.
“What We Bring to the Table”—Food for Thought in Oakville
A group exhibition situates the dinner table as a locus for both awkward and meaningful daily exchanges of emotion in “What We Bring to the Table” at Oakville Galleries’ Gairloch Gardens location.
“Beyond Green”—An Update on The New Black in London
Green is the new black, or so those tiresome organic style wags driving top-end Priuses to pick up their free-range filet mignon like to say these days. Now “Beyond Green,” a travelling exhibition curated by Chicago’s Stephanie Smith, suggests that artists, as usual, were on to the trend way ahead of its Al Gore-led pop-cult surge.
See It: “MONTREAL: The 50s, 60s, 70s” in Toronto
Montreal was the first home of advanced contemporary art practice in Canada. Beginning with the radical Refus Global manifesto of Les Automatistes in 1948, the city became a hothouse for postwar abstract painting.