Exhibit 500, Ferry Terminal Park, 88 Alderney Drive, Dartmouth We typically understand a trophy to be something awarded with success, something you collect with an achievement or milestone, but for the organizers and participants of Trophy, these milestones may take less positive, but equally as important forms. In a pop-up tent city, 15 storytellers sit […]
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Striving for Light-Based Connections
Exhibit 203, NSCAD Academy Building, 5163 Duke street and Citadel Hill A spotlight may bring particularly theatric or cinematic scenes to mind: Bright movie lights or a single beam illuminating a soloist on stage. Alternatively, a beacon can bring to mind images of distress: A bat signal, or a lighthouse. Mark Hines’ installation Striving for […]
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Review: Works by Mario Doucette
Works by Mario Doucette Anna Leonowens Gallery 1891 Granville Street To Oct 7 If history is a set of lies agreed upon, as Napoleon Bonaparte once said, then artists have long been complicit in those lies. Acadian artist Mario Doucette paraphrases this quote in his artist statement: “History is a lie that no one ever […]
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Review: Bodies in Translation: Age and Creativity at the MSVU Art Gallery
Bodies in Translation: Age and Creativity Through November 12 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 166 Bedford Highway One of two current shows at MSVU Art Gallery, Bodies in Translation: Age and Creativity features work by eight senior artists who explore aging through art. Several of the artists address the physicality of aging, as in […]
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Review: Zachari Logan’s Topiary at Anna Leonowens Gallery
Zachari Logan, Topiary Anna Leonowens Gallery, Granville Square, 1891 Granville Street To September 23 While the word “topiary” may conjure up images of shrubs in the shapes of elephants and swans, Zachari Logan’s latest exhibition by the same name delivers an entirely different articulation of this, but just as luxurious and with just the right amount […]
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Nocturne turns 10
Nocturne: Art at Night October 12 & 14 various locations nocturnehalifax.ca Halifax’s annual Art at Night festival always promises spectacle, but according to this year’s curatorial team, Nocturne 2017 promises to deliver something different: Magic. A recent highlight was doubtlessly the spooky and whimsical Citadel Hill Ferris Wheel organized by Anna Sprague, and it is […]
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Photopolis snaps happy
PHOTOPOLIS: The Halifax Festival of Photography October 1-31 photopolis.ca Happening all of October, Photopolis, Halifax’s triennial photography festival, will consist of series of exhibitions and events across the city celebrating the many diverse forms of contemporary photography. If you can’t wait until October, never fear: there are a few early-bird exhibitions opening this month: Convergence: […]
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//RESPONSIVE’s light entertainment
//RESPONSIVE: INTERNATIONAL LIGHT ART PROJECT October 18-21, 7pm-Midnight various locations responsive-halifax.com A newcomer to this year’s fall arts calendar—but one that’s sure to be a hit—is //RESPONSIVE: International Light Art Project Halifax, a four-day light-art exhibition with an international cast. //RESPONSIVE is the collaborative efforts between curators in Halifax and Cologne, and features artists from […]
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Review: New works by Shane Keyu Song at Lost & Found
New works by Shane Song Through September 20 Lost & Found, 2383 Agricola Street Fans of Century Egg will be familiar with the visual talents of the band’s frontwoman Shane Keyu Song, whose illustrations grace their album covers and merch, and will recognize her distinctive style in the latest show at Lost & Found. For her […]
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Review: Prime Suspects: Canada’s Prime Ministers in Caricature by Bruce MacKinnon at AGNS
Prime Suspects: Canada’s Prime Ministers in Caricature by Bruce MacKinnonThrough April 1 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis Street With only a swooping hairline needed to bring him to mind, there has perhaps never been a POTUS more easily caricatured than Donald Trump, and few Prime Ministers that have looked better in comparison than Justin […]
