D[a]UNTING On until Nov 20, Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville Street There’s a section in writer Ruby Tandoh’s anti-diet manifesto Eat Up! that delves into the science of “you are what you eat”: Yes, Tandoh explains, when you eat a watermelon, you become a bit more melon-y yourself: Its nutrients are processed and topped up […]
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Hannah Thomson celebrates a star Nova Scotian photographer
Hannah Thomson shot her first Coast cover in 1995. She was fresh out of art school at Mount Allison University, back in her Halifax hometown and wondering what to do, exactly, with her photography education. But it was The Coast’s lucky break. Thomson brought a rare combination of talent, work ethic, artist’s eye and captivating […]
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The Woods’ multi-disciplinary tribute to Anna Leonowens
The Woods present: I AM ANNA May 11-12, 7:30 & 9pm; May 13, 7:30pm Anna Leonowens Gallery 1891 Granville Street $20, tickethalifax.com “There’s a whole generation of females raised on Julie Andrews and Salt-N-Pepa,” says Alexis Cormier. “Because of them we know what a strong woman is: Educated, informed, strong. And she’s single, which is […]
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Ali Seglins goes beneath the iconography
Ali Seglins, A380 March 13-17 Opening reception Monday, March 12, 5:30-7pm Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville Street Ali Seglins’ new exhibit, A380, is named after the gate code of the apartment she lived in last fall in Paris. She’d won the Roloff Beny scholarship—awarded to a NSCAD student working in photography—and moved there for two […]
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Kelsey Borden stitches her anxiety
Kelsey Borden, Thoughts and Confessions February 27-March 3 Anna Leonowens Gallery 3 1891 Granville Street Kelsey Borden’s interest in embroidery didn’t click in one moment. It unfolded slowly: “I come from some very crafty women. My grandmother was Depression-era, so she sewed all her kids’ clothes, and my mother grew up with the craft of […]
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Waka Okabayashi wants to be a plant
Waka Okabayashi, I want to be a plant To February 17 Anna Leonowens Gallery 2, 1891 Granville Street In the mind and work of Waka Okabayashi, life really does imitate art. The NSCAD student, who moved from Japan to Canada after middle school to begin studying English, says she draws inspiration for much of her […]
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The year in visual art
In a year commemorating many anniversaries, 2017 is a landmark, for better or for worse. And with so much political upheaval it often felt like a landmark to come, history in the making. So with a historical lens pointed in all directions, it is no surprise that some of the most interesting exhibitions reflected this […]
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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: 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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Ceramics technician Doug Bamford says so long to NSCAD after 23 years
Doug Bamford, the WORKSOpens Monday, July 31 at 5:30pm Runs to August 5 Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville Street Retirement party to follow at 7pm at Art Bar + Projects, 1873 Granville Street Beloved NSCAD ceramics technician Doug Bamford is closing the chapter on 23 years at the college with a goodbye exhibition at the […]
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Ten purrfect weekend picks
10 Untitled by Steven Zuo Thursday // Friday // Saturday A classically trained painter and one of the up-and-coming artists featured in The Coast’s New Art issue in January, Zuo sifts portrait-style pieces of found objects and lost people through a twisted, abstract sieve for this show at Anna Leonowens Gallery. 9 Journey to the […]
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Ten super sunny weekend picks
10 Write For Your Life IV Sunday Cheer for Halifax’s deadliest writer! 9 Dazor EP Release Show Saturday Heavy sounds from hard rockers. 8 Elephant’s Graveyard Thursday // Friday // Saturday // Sunday The Dartmouth Players share the tragic story of a small town’s struggling circus in 1918 Tennessee. 7 Shokran Canada Thursday A traditional […]
