The Spring 2011 issue of Canadian Art hits newsstands across the country this week, featuring a wide range of articles on art-world movers and shakers, from national to international, contemporary to historical.

Highlights of the issue include:

• Vancouver writer Danielle Egan’s engaging profile on Myfanwy MacLeod, whose sweetly foreboding The Birds sculpture was commissioned by the City of Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program.

• Daniel Baird’s feature on New York painter, filmmaker and all-around big personality Julian Schnabel, who spent last fall in Toronto, opening a survey at the Art Gallery of Ontario and premiering a film at the Toronto International Film Festival.

• Canadian Art Writing Prize–winner Pandora Syperek’s feature on Sobey Art Award–nominee Brendan Fernandes as he anticipates a fall show at New York gallery Art in General.

• Sarah Milroy’s visit with sculptor and installation-artist Brian Jungen in Vancouver, where he prepares for a show at Catriona Jeffries that bridges discourses of the art world and the Doig River First Nation in northern B.C.

• Art historian Roald Nasgaard’s riveting examination of Quebec’s Automatistes’ tricky relationship to the legacy of postwar abstraction.

• Contributing editor and recent Governor General’s Award–winning writer Nancy Tousley’s look at the careful, mysterious work of photographic artist Alison Rossiter.

• Noah Becker’s interview with the craft-based artist Luanne Martineau.

Plus all the top-quality reviews, previews and news that you expect from every issue of Canadian Art.

The fun continues online, where you can find:

• A look at work from this year’s Governor General’s Award winners

• An exclusive collection of period photographs by Automatiste member Maurice Perron, who captured members Jean Paul Riopelle, Francoise Sullivan and others in gorgeous black-and-white

• A bonus portfolio of the spare, haunting work of Alison Rossiter

• Views of Brendan Fernandes’ striking show at New York’s Art in General last fall

• And much more!

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