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  • Features26.01.2012

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    Canadianartschool.ca: Tips for a Successful Winter Term

    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.
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  • Features19.01.2012

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    Laurie Anderson: Down the Rabbit Hole

    As a child, Laurie Anderson broke her back while showing off on a diving board. Now, she draws on that experience in The Gray Rabbit, a work having its North American premiere at Calgary’s Glenbow Museum. Nancy Tousley reports on the project, and its inspirations, in this feature interview.
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  • Features19.01.2012

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    Christian Eckart: Beyond the Wall

    Calgary-born artist Christian Eckart has always asked a lot of painting, often stretching the medium to optimum effect—right out into sculpture, actually. In this current-issue feature, Mark Cheetham explores Eckart’s innovative, interwoven oeuvre.
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  • Features12.01.2012

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    Lyonel Feininger: Seeing from a Different Angle

    This month, a Lyonel Feininger retrospective organized by New York’s Whitney Museum will open in Montreal. As David Balzer reports, the Canadian spin on this modern master promises to highlight overlooked output in music.
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  • Features12.01.2012

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    Reece Terris: The Contractor

    After working in construction for 15 years, Reece Terris went to art school. Now, his works—from time-travelling apartments to guerilla bridges—marry trade tricks with inimitable insights. Find out more in this current-issue feature by Robin Laurence.
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  • Features12.01.2012

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    Olmsted: Photography and the Democratic Pastoral

    What is a park? More than a century ago, Frederick Law Olmsted offered some answers. In this Canadian Art archives article, Max Kozloff reflects on Olmsted’s legacy as framed by photographers Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander and Geoffrey James.
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  • Features05.01.2012

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    2012 Preview: The Future Files

    As 2012 dawns, thoughts turn to what’s next in the Canadian art scene, and there’s already a number of key events—both at home and abroad—that promise to make a major impact. Here’s a bit of what we’re looking forward to.
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  • Features05.01.2012

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    Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Ghost in the Machine

    As a kid in the Gaspé, Jean-Pierre Gauthier spent hours taking toys apart to see how they worked. Now, as Katie Addleman shows in this feature from our current issue, he puts that mechanical curiosity to excellent artistic use in remarkable kinetic sculptures.
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  • Features22.12.2011

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    Leah Sandals’ Top 3: The Institution, Reframed

    Part 2 of our year-end best-of series offers top picks by our contributing editors and art director, and kicks off with a posting by associate online editor Leah Sandals. For Sandals, art's institutions (and their troubles) are what stood out during 2011.
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  • Features22.12.2011

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    Nancy Tousley’s Top 3: Supercharged Surveys

    In early 2011, Nancy Tousley, our contributing editor from Calgary, won a Governor General’s Award for her distinguished arts-journalism career. Now, her expertise highlights some strongly curated surveys as the year’s best shows.
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  • Features22.12.2011

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    Isa Tousignant’s Top 3: Into the Deeps

    Montreal critic and Canadian Art contributing editor Isa Tousignant saw many shows this year, but the ones that rose to the surface were also the ones that pulled her down to the depths—be they suburban basements, contested histories or poetic darknesses.
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  • Features22.12.2011

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    David Liss’ Top 3: Rewarding Risks

    David Liss, artistic director the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, is also one of our contributing editors. His top exhibitions for 2011 include an unconventional biennial, a disturbing moving-image show and a broad invitation to non-art practitioners.
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  • Features22.12.2011

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    Barbara Solowan’s Top 3: The Art of Design

    Award-winning Canadian Art art director Barbara Solowan travelled extensively in 2011 to take in visual creations of many kinds. Her favourites for the year look beyond the traditional bounds of art into fashion, fairs and some surprisingly fun corporate ventures.
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  • Features15.12.2011

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    On Newsstands and Online Now: Special Issue on Sculpture

    Our Winter 2012 issue hits newsstands across the country this week with a special focus on our country’s most compelling sculpture and installation artists. Online portfolios and videos flesh out the 3-D theme.
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  • Features15.12.2011

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    Richard Rhodes’ Top 3: Ambitious Imaginations

    Kicking off week one of our year-end roundups, editor Richard Rhodes finds that his 2011 standouts had an enveloping mindfulness—as well as an ambition to push artistic and curatorial standards. Read on now for his top picks, and tune in next week for more.
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  • Will Munro: Ecstatic Legacies

    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.

  • Painting Canada: Artistry in the UK

    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.

  • David Altmejd: In the Belly of the Beast

    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.

  • A Stake in the Ground: When Language Wounds

    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.

  • Canadianartschool.ca: Tips for a Successful Winter Term

    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.

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