Opens Friday, August 10 Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road Beth (Danika Vandersteen) is a young mother, recently widowed, attempting to heal with a retreat in a big beach-side house that looks like it was made out of very fancy Lego—wood and glass, triangles and rectangles. The trip quickly turns creepy—there’s a jarring, ugly […]
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Visual art review: Danika Vandersteen, Works
This month Eyelevel christens its new gallery space with a member’s show by Danika Vandersteen. Shifting from landscape paintings to cartoons, from the decorative arts to quirky assemblages, Vandersteen’s paintings, sculptures and buttery leather goods show an eye for detail and a goofy sense of luxury. In her paintings lanky, cartoonish figures with oblong googly […]
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10 Questions with Old & Weird
Tonight at Gus’ Pub (9:30pm, $7), Halifax rock band Old & Weird will play with fellow locals Muncho Joe, Mauno and special guest iji, “absolutely perfect pop all the way from Seattle, Washington.” I’m not missing this one since it might be a few minutes before Old & Weird play Halifax again. After last summer’s release of […]
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Sneak Peek: Paints & Prints at The Nook
For the month of October, The Nook (2116 Gottingen) is featuring drawings by Danika Vandersteen and paintings by Sara Russell, both NSCAD graduates living in Halifax. The show opened last night to a full cafe that smelled like cookies. I had a pop. Vandersteen (Old & Weird) says that she “fragments surreal figures and decorative tropes to […]