Gold Winner The Dart Gallery Silver Winner Argyle Fine Art Bronze Winner Art Gallery of Nova Scotia For the second year in a row, downtown Dartmouth’s delightful Dart Gallery takes home the gold for Best Gallery. Owner Jane MacDougald is enthusiastic as heck about showing accessible art in a chill and comfortable environment, as she […]
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Photos: The Sobey Art Award Gala at AGNS
Last night at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax and Canada’s artists and art patrons gathered for the announcement of this year’s Sobey Art Award winner, a $50,000 prize that recognizes the best in contemporary Canadian art each year since 2002. Born in Tehran, raised in Toronto, representing Ontario, Abbas Akhavan was awarded the prize […]
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7 things you need to know Monday
1 If you missed it, NSCC photography instructor and bike enthusiast Ingram Barss took over The Coast’s Instagram account this weekend. Saturday didn’t provide the best weather to document the great things happening during Bike Week/Doors Open/100 in 1 Day, but Barss still ended up with some amazing shots (like the one above). If you […]
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Sobey Art Award shortlist announced
This morning, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Sobey Art Foundation announced the five shortlisted artists for this year’s Sobey Art Award, a coveted prize for Canada’s contemporary artists under age 40. A curatorial panel whittled down the longlist of 25 artists to come up with five, one from each region. The selected […]
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Art Gallery of Nova Scotia 2015/16 season announced
Upcoming AGNS exhibitions have a very local focus, with nearly 100 percent Nova Scotian content. See the list below and start planning your gallery visits: John Greer: retroActive Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design 1968-1978 Spring in Cambridge: the Visionary Drawings of John Devlin (more on Devlin here) Terroir: a Nova […]
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HFX Art Gossip’s 2015 picks
Spaces and places Young Offenders Gallery has moved spaces (2130 Gottingen, one floor down) and has some cool projects for winter. BSide Gallery (2180 Gottingen) is really blossoming under the direction of Laura Baker-Roberts, Britt Ward, Emily Lawrence and David Figueroa. Hermes (5682 North) has also come under new leadership, with a group of local […]
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Dark Utopian society
King’s exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia promises to be an immersive—and potentially disorienting—experience. Bridging the two very different worlds of New York and Nova Scotia lies King’s “Deepwater Horizon (BP)” wall painting, the central piece of the show. We interrupted installation to get a first peek. 1 The show is called Dark […]
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Best Gallery
Gold Winner The Dart Gallery Silver Winner Argyle Fine Art Bronze Winner Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Owner Jane MacDougald was a bit flustered to get the call that her Dartmouth art hotspot had won our Best Gallery award. No need to worry though, Jane! The Dart Gallery’s welcoming, accessible approach to art means the […]
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Fringe Binge 2014: Day 3
The Atlantic Fringe scheduling offers two really valuable tools for mapping out a Fringe Binge: the opening night Fringe Sampler and Festival Chair (and charming funnyman) Kevin Kindred’s Fringe Talk Show. The Sampler has come and gone, but there are two more opportunities to take in the talk show, which shines the spotlight on an assortment […]
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Fringe Binge 2014: Day 2
I’d forgotten how fun, and frantic, Fringe can be. Trying to see the bulk of the shows means mad dashes across town to meet tight turn-around times as well as lengthy layovers in The Bus Stop lobby that offer a chance to discuss and digest the plays. Last night’s offerings certainly offered lots of food […]
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Untitled Eats is closed
Your next visit to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia might leave you a little hungry—Untitled Eats (1723 Hollis Street) has officially closed its doors. The AGNS’ restaurant, known for its hot eats and cocktail nights, has been run by The Armview’s (7156 Chebucto Road) sister company, Uptown Catering since late 2011. They couldn’t be […]
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Hanson and Sonnenberg’s internal language
Most Haligonians are probably familiar with the three lampposts installed on the waterfront: one is drunk and has fallen over, one is pissing in the harbour and the other is probably checking its phone. Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg are the Brooklyn-based duo behind these pieces, which are part of a larger body of work […]