Dalhousie Art Gallery’s African History Month free film series, curated by Ron Foley Macdonald, kicked off yesterday, continuing every week at 8pm until the end of the month (6101 University Ave). If you know what’s good, you won’t sleep on this one, last Tuesday featured The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, next week is Melvin Van […]
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A Very Long Engagement
Six unique artists explore connection through textile art. Dorie Millerson worked with needle lace to create pieces that blend light, shadow and imagery. Each piece took 50 to 150 hours. “When you spend so much time, you really get to know the subject,” says Millerson. “I wanted to bring my drawings into sculpture.” Jozef Bajus […]
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Surf the French New Wave right into spring
Beginning tonight, Nouvelle Vague Landmarks: The French New Wave and the reach for new cinematic expression, Dalhousie Art Gallery‘s weekly free Wednesday night film series (8pm at the Dalhousie Art Gallery, 6101 University Avenue) covers the wide, weird and wonderful ground of the most fashionable of all film movements, French New Wave. Film and video […]
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Symphony Nova Scotia’s dirty 30
You may not know this, but Symphony Nova Scotia does more than just play rockin’ concerts with folk musicians at the Rebecca Cohn. What?! It’s true—not just Mangan, but Bach! Chopin! Beethoven! If you’re unacquainted with this side of our great city’s Symphony, now’s the time to say hello. Symphony Nova Scotia is celebrating its […]
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Dyan Marie and Bill Marshall: Disrupted Pictures
Looking at Dyan Marie’s photographs and Bill Marshall’s oil-painted landscapes (Detail of “Navigating Complex Systems—091,” above) separately would make you question what, if anything, they have in common—Marie’s still-life shots of urban Toronto life, altered in Photoshop to create streaks of elongated colour, seem more than a province away from Marshall’s almost artificially coloured landscape […]
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The rise of fall arts: visual arts
Nocturne October 17 at various locations, dusk-midnight, free, artgalleryofnovascotia.ca Last year’s inaugural Nocturne festival brought 5,000 people out to local streets and galleries from dusk to midnight. Following up on that success, this year’s after-dark art festival will feature 32 gallery spaces opening their doors and more than 30 artists setting up installations and performances […]
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Soundbytes festival kicks off this weekend
Marla Hlady’s Playing Piano. Photo courtesy of the artist. Last night the Soundbytes festival kicked off with a performance at Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery and an opening of Resounding, at Dalhousie Art Gallery. The Dal staff are such a class act, you’d never know it’s been a tough week at the arts centre—a bronze […]