Mollie Cronin
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Visual arts review: Photographer Anne Launcelott captures the face of rural Russia, Now
Now Daily to Aug 31 Teichert Gallery, 1723 Hollis Street I n the genre of travel photography, the visiting artist runs the risk of moving through their locales like an invasive species: capturing subjects without permission, walking into sacred and private moments with the unearned authority of the western traveller (an especially cringe-worthy phenomenon when […]
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Visual arts review: group effort at The Craig Gallery
To July 21 The Craig Gallery, 2 Ochterloney Street Group effort, the aptly named exhibition at Dartmouth’s Craig Gallery, features work by eight artists at various stages in their careers. Since 2006, Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s mentorship program has paired emerging and established artists for a 10-month period; the resulting show works to highlight the […]
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Visual arts review: The Captive Rain Forest
To June 2 ViewPoint Gallery, 1459 Brenton Street I n Oracle, Arizona, there is a rainforest in the desert. Specifically, there is a rainforest in a biosphere in a desert, and it is the largest closed ecosystem to date. On a recent visit to the research facility and tourist attraction known as Biosphere 2, photographer […]
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Visual arts review: Rebecca Hannon, Contemporary Camouflage
To April 28 Mary E. Black Gallery, 1061 Marginal Road The human body is an unavoidable topic in conversations about jewellery. As a wearable art form, considerations have to be made for jewellery to hang correctly from a neck, for clasps to be manageable by hands and rings to sit comfortably on fingers. But for […]
