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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.
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While contemporary art often underlines hidden issues in society and politics, the acute absence of an issue is something less easily defined. Opening this week in Montreal, “Chronicles of a Disappearance” makes an attempt towards this difficult project.
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How do we know what we know about war? That’s a question raised by Montreal-based artist Emanuel Licha in “Striking a Pose,” a two-venue show in Saskatoon and Edmonton. Best known for his War Tourist series, Licha explores journalistic reportage in his newest works.
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Amid the many distractions of an information-saturated world, a quiet moment of reflection may seem rare, and even slightly disorienting. Artist Steve Bates (recently featured in the Quebec Triennial) taps this tension in new sound-and-video works showing in Montreal.
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Two years ago, curator Marla Wasser developed a compelling Kitchener exhibition on Warhol’s cultural influence. This fall, she brings a similarly wide reach to a show on art and technology featuring Jim Campbell, David Rokeby and other innovative artists.
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Creation and destruction, harmony and discord, refinement and brute force—these are some of the tensions that abound in “Vertigo,” an exhibition of sculptural works by Montreal artist Maskull Lasserre currently on view at Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain.
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If the world tends towards decay, is that a good thing or a bad thing? On the one hand, it could be gloomy, on the other, transformative. Now, three Vancouver-connected artists are riffing on these extremes in a group show at Or Gallery.
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Some artists are popular stars, while others are artists’ artists on the quieter margins. The late Jerry Pethick falls into the latter category, and is now getting his due with a career-spanning exhibition of works at the SFU Gallery in Burnaby
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Canadian painter Attila Richard Lukacs has seen some major fluctuations over his career, including a crystal meth addiction. But he rightfully retains many admirers—among them philanthropist Salah Bachir, whose collection of Lukacs works is currently on view in Hamilton.
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Last Wednesday, the Canadian art community suffered the sudden loss of 30-year-old artist Mathieu Lefevre, who had recently moved from Montreal to New York. Here, critic Tess Edmonson remembers the promising and charismatic young talent.
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Leave it to Douglas Coupland to bring eccentric, colourful humour to a grey, concrete-laden urban view. For his latest public art installation in Oshawa, Coupland transforms a photo of abstract-art collective Painters Eleven into a series of graph-like circles and hues.
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The Art Gallery of Ontario has hit some populist high notes in its recent programming, and “Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde” is no exception. Chagall’s soft, dreamy, vibrant nostalgia goes well beyond the narrower limits of art history.
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Conceptual art can get a bad rap for being a closed club. But New York City–based artist Luis Camnitzer has made a career of testing how conceptual art can engage rather than exclude. A current survey at the Belkin, with a related installation at the Koerner Library, offers examples of this practice.
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Don’t miss Michael Fried lecturing this weekend at the Art Gallery of Alberta. Fried carries the mantle for American art criticism once borne by Clement Greenberg, and over his 50-year career, he’s shed light on Édouard Manet, Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky and many other important artists.
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In his current Oshawa exhibition “Other Worlds,” Douglas Walker steps into new territory while drawing on the deep, mythical past. He also goes big, integrating his evocative blue paintings with the architecture of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery.
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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.
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