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  • Features26.08.2010

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    The Khyber Controversy: Three Years' Grace

    For the past number of years, there's been controversy regarding the future of Halifax’s Khyber Arts Society. Seen by many as a key venue locally and nationally, the Khyber was back in the news this month as a city report recommended a new three-year plan for its space.
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  • Features19.08.2010

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    Timeland: Alberta Calling

    To curate “Timeland,” the 2010 Alberta Biennial, Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes travelled the province, reflecting on psychogeography, history and identity. Here, he shares his introductory essay for the exhibition, which elaborates the lessons learned.
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  • Features12.08.2010

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    Blue Republic: The Order of Disorder

    Artists Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski, better known as Blue Republic, have a knack for drawing perennial truths out of life’s absurdities. Now Canadian Art’s Bryne McLaughlin chats with the pair about “Weather Report,” their latest Toronto exhibition.
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  • Features05.08.2010

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    Steven Shearer: Canada’s 2011 Venice Pick

    The National Gallery shook up the art world’s summer lull this week when it announced that Vancouver artist Steven Shearer would represent Canada at the 2011 Venice Biennale. The news also signalled an unexpected structural shift for our country’s approach to the event.
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  • Features05.08.2010

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    Bravo! to Canadian Art: All About Painting

    The second of four Arts & Minds episodes on Canadian Art launched on Bravo! on July 31. The video, now online, features an Elizabeth McIntosh interview, a visit to “Extreme Painting” in Montreal and more.
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  • Features05.08.2010

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    Full Opening and Event Listings

    Lots of openings, talks and other events happening from coast to coast this week, August 5 to 11, 2010.
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  • Features08.07.2010

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    La Colonie: Bonne Vacances

    What happens when you set a group of artists loose for an anything-goes summer camp in an historic rural village? That’s exactly what Quebec City’s L’Oeil de poisson aimed to find out with its 25th anniversary exhibition “La Colonie.” Here, curator Jean-Michel Ross and Canadian Art’s Bryne McLaughlin discuss the merits of taking art on vacation.
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  • Features30.06.2010

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    Doris McCarthy: A Century of Roughing It in the Bush

    July marks the 100th birthday of renowned landscape painter and art educator Doris McCarthy. Now, a series of exhibitions in Toronto and abroad sheds light on some of the artist’s rarely shown bodies of work, providing a fresh look at her lasting creative influence.
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  • Features24.06.2010

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    Dig Up My Heart: Agricultural Aesthetics

    Local sites and global changes converge in “Dig Up My Heart,” a group exhibition of socially engaged art that trades the usual big-city settings for rural landscapes. In this chat with Gabrielle Moser, curator Shauna McCabe discusses how the show was seeded.
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  • Features10.06.2010

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    On Newsstands and Online Now: Canadian Art’s Summer of Paint

    A special painting-focused edition of Canadian Art hits newsstands across the nation this week, with related online features that provide an inside scoop on our crucial canvas creators.
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  • Features10.06.2010

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    Luminato: Bright Lights, Big City

    This week, Toronto kicks off the summer arts season with Luminato. With more than 150 performances, exhibitions and events—including John Malkovich, inflatable playhouses and singing rabbits—there’s something for everyone. Read on for our picks.
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  • Features03.06.2010

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    Ron Terada Conversation: Painting, Pathos and the Pictures Generation

    Ron Terada’s latest solo show, currently in Banff, references painting, the image of the artist and Jack Goldstein’s memoirs, among other themes. Talking on-site with critic Amy Fung, Terada expands on art-world anxieties, genre mashups and the difficult ways Canadians view artists.
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  • Features03.06.2010

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    Grange Prize 2010: $50,000 Finalists Announced

    Talent is deep in this year’s Grange Prize nominee pool, which includes both fresh faces and rediscovered greats. Read up now to decide who will get your vote for Canada’s biggest photo prize.
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  • Features13.05.2010

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    David Bolduc: A Remembrance

    Last month, many in the Canadian art community were saddened to learn of the passing of respected artist David Bolduc. Here, writer Sheila Mudrick remembers Bolduc’s intelligence, wit and generosity, as well as his deep influence on friends, colleagues and fellow artists.
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  • Features13.05.2010

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    Right Reads: Canadian Art Nominated for Five National Magazine Awards

    Nominations for the 2010 National Magazine Awards, the most prestigious prize for periodical quality in Canada, were released last week, including five nominations for Canadian Art—tying for the most of any art magazine this year.
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  • Sol LeWitt: Primary Legacy

    In recent years, both the Dia and MASS MoCA have mounted tribute exhibitions to late American artist Sol LeWitt. This week, Mercer Union wraps up its own notable homage, which recreates a 1981 wall drawing LeWitt did for the then-fledgling space.

  • The Khyber Controversy: Three Years' Grace

    For the past number of years, there's been controversy regarding the future of Halifax’s Khyber Arts Society. Seen by many as a key venue locally and nationally, the Khyber was back in the news this month as a city report recommended a new three-year plan for its space.

  • Todd Tremeer: War Games

    Play and strife come together, DIY style, in Todd Tremeer’s Little Wars (Make Me), an interactive project that debuted this month at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. In it, viewers can collaborate on a wall-sized battle mural and “bring the war home” via paper-cutout soldiers.

  • John Kissick/Gwen MacGregor: Two for the Road

    Summer is often marked by contrasts, a dynamic that the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery seems to pick up on in its current pairing of solo shows: John Kissick’s manic, multifaceted paintings and Gwen MacGregor’s calm, geoscience-toned fieldwork.

  • Heat: Marvelous Meltdowns

    MKG127 acknowledges Toronto’s above-average summer temperatures with “Heat,” an exhibition that ironically offers some cool respite while displaying works that evoke bubbling tar, existential crises and blistering guitar solos.

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