The Nova Scotia Designer Craft Council Christmas Craft Market The NSDCC Christmas Craft Market is a juried craft market that takes place at towards the end of November, featuring artisans working in pottery, decorative art, glass, jewellery, textiles, leather, organics, wood and metalwork. November 20-22, Cunard Centre, Pier 23, 961 Marginal Road, 423-3837 nsdcc.ns.ca/main/Christmas_market.html Show […]
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Bloomfield brings in Artscape
On my Nuit Blanche trip to Toronto I visited the amazing Artscape Wychwood Barns, an old streetcar repair barn transformed into a cultural community centre with affordable residential housing and a farmers’ market. The Master Plan for the Bloomfield Centre, which was passed by council in September, follows a similar mixed-use model. Wychwood Barns, best […]
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Best Gallery
Taking back its crown, the big boy on Hollis Street is at the top of Coast readers’ minds again. Top of our mind is the Jean-Pierre Gauthier show opening December 20. The Sobey Art Award-winner is bringing his *Machines At Play* kinetic sculptural work to the AGNS, an installation that takes cables, wires and electrical […]
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Sara Angelucci’s family ties
From a long, narrow and reverberant corridor in the Loyola Building at Saint Mary’s University, visitors cross a threshold into the gallery’s quiet plain. First conscious of the evaporation of sound, gallery-goers are met by a strong but silent visual: a triptych on a table called “Questions She’ll Never Answer,” the introduction to a show […]
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Sobey Art Award 101
Shary Boyle Right before the Sobey Art Award announcement a few weeks ago, I spoke to AGNS director Ray Cronin and Rob Sobey about their trip to London for the Turner Prize announcement. The Turner, which is presented annually to a British artist under 50, is as well known and discussed in the UK as the Oscars are in North America. Sure, a lot of the media attention is paid to notorious behaviour at the events themselves, and to “questionable” art (elephant dung, porn, blow-up dolls, etc., tend to get the public talking, especially as it somehow confirms many people’s
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Best Visual Artist
A locally based designer, White loves “all things colourful, retro and metal” and has worked with Toyota, VH1 Latin America, MTV, Wired magazine and Armada Skis. He’s currently working with Reckless Love, a hard rock band from Finland, developing their identity and CD design for their upcoming album on Universal, and has also been approached […]
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Photos: ArtRising takes off
Last night, after the Sobey Art Award, the party moved onto ArtRising, a fundraiser for the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Hosted in the gutted Dooly’s space in the Roy Building on Barrington, the industrial feel—the peeling walls, the concrete floor—made you feel as if you were transported to another place (or decade, actually, minus […]
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David Altmejd wins the Sobey Award
The white wine was flowing as hundreds of artists, politicians, men in suits and other well-wishers crowded into a large tent, in the courtyard of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia last night for the Sobey Art Award reception. Hosted by Seamus O’Regan, wearing his arty face, and Laura Regan (which had Mad Men fans […]
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Gerald Ferguson’s legacy
New York-based conceptual painter and sculptor Rachel Beach manages to get one sentence in before choking up. “In terms of being influential on students that then go out into the world and have a certain idea about how art gets made,” she says, “there’s no other influence that’s had any single larger effect than the […]
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Secret party: AGNS keeps ArtRising location under wraps
Pastoralia in the studio, Go North! 2009 Remember that episode of 90210 where the gang had to take an egg to a convenience store, in exchange for the party location? Well, keep the produce at home, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is going to release the location of its fundraising party, ArtRising, on its […]
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Patterson’s past
There’s something weird going on in Canadian art, easily evidenced by this year’s crop of Sobey Art Award nominees. Fantastic, dark, playful and pop-culture influenced, nominees David Altmejd, Shary Boyle, Marcel Dzama, Luanne Martineau and Graeme Patterson all share similar sensibilities and themes, making the award exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia one […]
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The rise of fall arts: performing arts
THEATRE A Beautiful View October 13-31 at Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street, $15-$35, 429-7070, neptunetheatre.com Love without labels. That’s what actor-writer-producer Jackie Torrens feels the two women in Daniel MacIvor’s A Beautiful View have spent 20 years working towards. “As humans, there seems to be a need for us to define something, to label it,” […]