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 […]
Fall Arts Preview
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Everywhere’s a sign
Local artist Scott Saunders was walking down a street in Halifax when he passed a man with a sign that read “Will accept verbal abuse for spare change.” Saunders did his best to ignore the man and kept walking. “When I got 15 feet down the street I thought, ‘What a curious thing that was.’ […]
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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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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,” […]
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The rise of fall arts: books, film, fashion
Word on the Street Sunday, September 27, 11am-5pm, Cunard Centre, free, thewordonthestreet.ca The annual lit festival happens this Sunday at the Cunard Centre. This year’s highlights include a special appearance by Margaret Atwood’s illustrious LongPen, the remote book-signing device she invented so she can sign your copy of her new novel The Year of the […]
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Returning home
Afternoon sunlight shines through the large front windows of Onelight Theatre’s office, a floor above Argyle Street’s busy restaurant row. It casts a warm glow, almost like a stage set, bouncing off painted-red walls and wood floors, maquettes from previous shows, well-worn books on the full shelves. It’s the day after their play The Veil […]
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Fall Arts Guide: September 2007
by Sue Carter Flinn, Sean Flinn, Mike Landry, Lindsay McCarney, Shannon Webb-Campbell That doe’s a dead deer but the Marquee is alive, and we all scream for ice cream at the Jim Jarmusch film survey. PROSPECT 12: DUSTIN WENZEL When up-and-coming sculptor Dustin Wenzel pictures a deer he doesn’t imagine a doe running through the […]
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Fall Arts Guide: October 2007
by Sue Carter Flinn, Sean Flinn, Mike Landry, Lindsay McCarney, Shannon Webb-Campbell GRAY’S ANATOMY: MYSTERIES OF THE HUMAN MACHINE Last June the amazing Wellcome Collection, a museum based on the intersection of art, medicine and science, opened in London, UK. Based on the collection and original endowment of Sir Henry Wellcome in 1936, the Wellcome […]
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Fall Arts Guide: November 2007
by Sue Carter Flinn, Sean Flinn, Mike Landry, Lindsay McCarney, Shannon Webb-Campbell CAL LANE: CRUDE Cal Lane’s vision is like no other in Canadian art. Turning everyday, hard-working objects into art, Lane elevates the potential meanings of wheelbarrows, oil cans, shovels and more. If we’re to use a spade, for example, to help beautify our […]
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Fall arts preview: September 2006
Written by Sue Carter Flinn, Johnston Farrow, Sean Flinn, Carsten Knox, Lis van Berkel. FUN 100 at Gus’ Pub There’s a good chance Vancouver indie-punk band FUN 100 will partake in just that when they hit Gus’ Pub stage on September 29 with The Maynards and Windom Earle. The quintet arrives in Halifax after being […]
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Fall arts preview: October 2006
Written by Sue Carter Flinn, Johnston Farrow, Sean Flinn, Carsten Knox, Lis van Berkel. Halifax Pop Explosion The fall in Halifax is synonymous with busting out scarves, wearing long sleeves and experiencing exciting concerts. The biggest annual alternative music festival in Halifax returns with another amazing line-up of rock, hip-hop, folk and experimental acts, set […]
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Fall arts preview: November 2006
Written by Sue Carter Flinn, Johnston Farrow, Sean Flinn, Carsten Knox, Lis van Berkel. The Hidden Cameras at Stage Nine The one thing that you can expect from a Hidden Cameras concert is to expect anything. There might be 30 musicians dancing with glockenspiels and Mexican wrestling masks, or there might be five souls, harmonizing […]
