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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Creative Editions: your monthly art subscription
Always working hard to get more people to buy more art Adriana Afford and Crystal Ross, team Argyle Fine Art (1559 Barrington Street), have launched a really great new program inspired by the Community Supported Agriculture model. But, instead of unpacking loads of cilantro from your CSA, you’ll get a fresh piece of art monthly, […]
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Valentine’s Day must-do: tiny poems!
Local writer and poet (and occasional Coast contributor) Shannon Webb-Campbell has the ability to woo with only a few words. That’s obvious from one quick glance at her Twitter page (@shannonwc), which is all it took for Argyle Fine Art’s (1559 Barrington Street) Adriana Afford to recruit her to help fill a bunch of little […]
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Argyle Fine Art smarts
This will be Argyle Fine Art’s (1559 Barrington Street) third Christmas on Barrington Street, and its 13th Christmas in the business of bringing great, local art to Halifax. From paint, to pottery, jewellery to papercraft, the downtown store and gallery keeps its walls and shelves interesting always, and offers special events regularly like this coming […]
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Best Gallery
Gold Winner Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Silver Winner Argyle Fine Art Bronze Winner Swoon Fine Art
 What can we say? The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is a big gun in this category, consistently placing in the top three (more often than not, taking the gold) for as long as we’ve been asking for […]
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Justin Lee’s monstrous glee
Tucked away in the lower gallery at Argyle Fine Art is the Pixar-laced stuff dreams are made of. Part friendly monsters and part brightly coloured glee, the creatures in Justin Lee’s new exhibit will help you embrace your fears. Harold Hickenbottom and the Story of how he became friends with the Monsters under his Bed […]
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Tacos and art: Is this what heaven is like?
TO DO: Saturday, February 2, from 10am-12pm, drift in a dream-like state over to The Food Wolf‘s truck at the Historic Farmers’ Market, eat a face full of delicious tacos, and gaze in wonder at the tiny works of locally made art in front of you, while that magical Food Wolf house salsa drips down […]
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It’s the end of the world as we know it…
If the Mayan calendar is correct, we’re done for as of this Friday, December 21. And if you’re going down, you probably want to take some original art with you, right? Seriously though, Argyle Fine Art (1559 Barrington Street) knows we’ll all still be kicking it on the 22nd, hence why it’s selling beautiful, limited […]
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Weightless World
They are weightless, majestic and beautiful. The women in Steve Richard’s The Sensual World float in a dark, mysterious world. Through elaborate staging, Richard successfully gives a modern spin to the classic aesthetic of the female body in his underwater fine art photography. The models pose in flat water with a black background and velvet […]
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Silent stories
An inukshuk saved John Houston’s life—alone at night on the water it was the lighthouse that guided him to safety, and it’s what inspired him to open his collection to the public. “In the morning I looked around and I was on the only bit of beach that there was. So, the only way to […]
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Best Gallery
Gold Winner Argyle Fine Art Silver Winner Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Bronze Winner Swoon Fine Art “Over the moon, we are,” says Argyle Fine Art’s Adriana Afford of the gallery’s first first-place BOH finish since 2008. The Barrington Street community-centric contemporary art space recognizes variety is the spice of life, and fills its two […]
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Help Argyle Fine Art find its signs!
Someone has taken the Argyle Fine Art (1559 Barrington Street, Unit 102, 425-9456) signs. You know the ones, well-designed sandwich boards that have always alerted pedestrians that one of the city’s finest art galleries is right there. Three of the signs have gone in the past 24 hours. This is a premeditated sign stealer they’re […]
