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Michel de Broin's new street-lamp sculpture in New Orleans is a notable return to North America for the artist, who has spent much of the past six years living and working in Europe. In this feature from our Winter 2012 issue, managing editor Bryne McLaughlin takes a closer look at de Broin's work, which is both popular and powerful.
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You enter artist-designer-architect Jacques Bilodeau's Montreal studio expecting a stark modernist interior, but what you find instead is a sort of Plato's cave of blue-black steel, all hollows and shadows. This and other surprises abound in critic Gary Michael Dault's feature on the artist, published in our Winter 2012 issue.
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Tim Whiten is a professor emeritus of York University's fine arts faculty, but when asked how he fits into the current Canadian art scene, he says, without hesitation, "I don't." This and other revealing perspectives are offered in author Ann Ireland's feature on the artist, which appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Canadian Art.
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To many, Newfoundland’s Fogo Island is a barren landscape of marsh, scrub and lichen-mottled boulders at the edge of the continent. But as author Lisa Moore reports in our fall issue, new arts programs (and dramatic buildings) are changing that image.
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In this feature from our fall 2011 issue, critic R.M. Vaughan travels to Malmö, Sweden. There, he finds a gloomy city harbouring some bright talents: Sarah Jane Gorlitz and Wojciech Olejnik, the young Canadian duo known collectively as Soft Turns.
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In this feature from our Fall 2011 issue, writer Sara Angel provides a thoughtful reflection on Joyce Wieland's landmark exhibition "True Patriot Love"—the first solo exhibition by a living woman artist at the National Gallery of Canada—in the year of its 40th anniversary.
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In this feature from our Fall 2011 issue, contributing editor Nancy Tousley focuses on Sarah Anne Johnson, the Winnipeg artist who recently debuted a series on the Arctic and who is known for exploring themes of environmentalism and community through photography.
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In this feature from the Fall 2011 issue of Canadian Art, Toronto critic Murray Whyte takes a look at the playful oeuvre of Calgary-based First Nations artist Terrance Houle.
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Writer Noah Richler provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of art restorer Laszlo Cser in this feature from our summer print issue. Working to diagnose and repair vulnerable works of art, Cser’s studio is home to an accomplished craftsman with an unusual Old World air.
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Since its 2010 renovation, attendance at the Art Gallery of Alberta has skyrocketed from 22,000 to 111,000. In this article from our summer issue, critic Amy Fung looks at a key player in the AGA’s rise: deputy director Catherine Crowston.
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Paul P. grew up in the 1974-founded suburb of Mississauga, but his sensitive paintings—created from a now Paris-based studio—hearken back to the days of Sargent and Proust. Find out more in this summer-issue feature by Joseph R. Wolin.
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Toronto’s An Te Liu is internationally regarded for bridging art and architecture. As critic John Bentley Mays writes in this feature from our summer issue, his oeuvre also tells a tale about linked childhoods—namely, Liu’s and modernism’s.
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During her 10-year tenure as director of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Kathleen Bartels has turned a quiet museum into a bustling town square. In this summer-issue feature, Hadani Ditmars reveals how Bartels did it, and what she’s got planned next.
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In this feature article from the Summer 2011 issue of Canadian Art, Trevor Boddy tours the well-designed new digs of Plug In ICA, the longtime hub of Winnipeg's world-renowned art scene.
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In this feature from the Summer 2011 issue of Canadian Art, assistant editor David Balzer thoughtfully analyzes the art of Toronto's Luis Jacob, whose deft work with archives and other themes has gained much national and international attention.
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Free exhibition at the Power Plant highlights our nation’s emerging painting stars
Award in Portrait Photography category recognizes Donald Weber's artist project in the Fall 2010 issue
More than 300 GTA teens enjoy free downtown-Toronto gallery talks during this fall’s School Hop
In 2010, at the age of 35, Toronto artist/DJ/promoter/activist Will Munro succumbed to brain cancer. Here, David Balzer reviews the first big survey of Munro’s work, which makes apparent how talented, prolific and perceptive this creator was.
The Dulwich Picture Gallery’s recent Group of Seven show was one of the UK museum’s biggest hits ever, drawing 41,000 visitors. The attention was deserved, writes Sarah Milroy, as the exhibition offered new insights even to seasoned Canadian-art observers.
The Occupy movement has galvanized the way we think about haves and have-nots. But where do artists fit in? As Joseph R. Wolin observes in this review of David Altmejd’s show at the Brant Foundation, context can be as powerful as content in determining the split.
What happens to identity when our relationship to land and language is disrupted? This is a key question raised in “A Stake in the Ground,” an exhibition of works by 25 First Nations artists, curated by Nadia Myre, that’s currently at Montreal gallery Art Mûr.
Our education and careers site has just posted more stories and tips to help students achieve a great winter term. Highlights include a profile of internationally renowned fashion designer Jeremy Laing, a Q&A on grad schools and more.
