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As the Arab Spring warmed in the Middle East this year, Ed Ou, a 24-year-old Canadian photojournalist, was in Tahrir Square documenting its revolutionary moments. With the resulting images now showing in Toronto, Ou offers an incisive look into a people realizing their power.
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Annie Pootoogook took the Canadian art world by storm when she arrived on the scene with her drawings of daily life in Cape Dorset. Her current solo show at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre reminds us why Pootoogook’s art is so powerful.
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Though biennials and social media have shrunk distances between artists, curators and viewers, ideas of distance have also gained traction in contemporary art. Now, the Vancouver Art Gallery reflects on the theme through three Pacific Rim artists.
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A year after graduating with her OCADU BFA, Winnie Truong’s bolstered her CV with exhibitions in New York and awards in Toronto. Now, a solo show at Erin Stump Projects, full of Truong’s striking, hirsute subjects, continues to live up to the promise.
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American photographer Larry Clark is widely known for his documentation of youth on the verge. Now, North Vancouver's Presentation House Gallery focuses on the body of work that made his name: Tulsa, a rigorous look at 1960s teen experiments in drugs, sex and violence.
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Modern industrial design in Canada is a subject gaining increasing interest, and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s current exhibition “The Modern Eye: Craft and Design in Canada 1940–1980” attempts to catalogue its mid-century climax.
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Will Janet Morton forever be known as the woman who knitted a massive cozy for her house? Perhaps. But the artist’s newest works—currently on view in London, with more shows to come in Toronto and Guelph—would seem to unravel that reputation.
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This weekend is the last chance to see “Global Nature” in Kamloops. It features work by Sarah Anne Johnson and Lorraine Gilbert, two photographers who focus on our complicated relationship to nature—and who’ve done major projects on tree planters.
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Graham Gillmore—he of glistening, routered-letter painting fame—has a way with words. Pencil me out, his expanses read, or Look at me when I’m speaking to you. This sarcastic parental voice has much to say about painting’s messy generation gaps.
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Childhood toys meet apocalyptic themes in “Toys Gone Rogue,” a group exhibition at Regina’s Dunlop Art Gallery that troubles assumptions about childhood innocence by bringing fairytale scenarios into the 21st century.
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For many, the French term sans souci may conjure up end-of-summer visions of utopian retreats. But in photographer Scott McFarland’s latest exhibition of digitally altered landscapes, the phrase becomes a thematic for exploring the transitory effects of light and the seasons.
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Dawson City’s ODD Gallery takes a critical look at the relationship between contemporary art and commodity culture in the latest iteration of its annual residency and exhibition series, “The Natural & the Manufactured.” Drawing on the city’s gold rush past, artists Bill Burns and Steve Badgett and Deborah Stratman put a creative spin on economic speculation.
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Summer is often a season for sleepy permanent-collection shows. But the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal enlivens the form with “Déja,” its showcase of large-scale installations by David Altmejd, Louise Bourgeois and Richard Serra, among others.
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Greg Girard is known for casting a discerning eye on Asia’s developing economies, a reputation consolidated by his latest book, Hanoi Calling. With photos from the book showing in Toronto, gallery-goers enjoy poetic glimpses of Vietnam’s booming capital.
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The relevance of soft-craft techniques in hard-nosed contemporary art gets a big push this summer from “Fibred Optics,” a group show in Richmond featuring Halifax’s Frances Dorsey, Montreal’s Jérôme Havre, Toronto’s Ed Pien and Ottawa’s Michèle Provost.
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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.
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.
