To July 14 Nature as Communities For her masters in environmental studies, Dal student Jennifer Yakamovich has been researching the role art can play in helping a cultural shift towards sustainability. Here, she plays curator as she shares a slew of results by artists from across the country, with pieces in various mediums meditating on […]
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11 ways to see (or create) art this summer
May-October Halifax talks art Interested in supporting local artists? Are you a looking to fill some empty walls, or maybe even begin your own art collection? Halifax Talks Art has you covered this summer. Running from May to October, various commercial galleries in Halifax will be host talks on collecting. various locations, Wednesdays, 6:30-8pm, RSVP […]
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Welcome to The Darkside
Megan Hirons Mahon and her husband Oliver moved to Dartmouth just over a year ago and quickly noticed that in their neck of the woods there was no coffee option other than Tim Hortons—an incredibly sad reality, if you ask me. So when the former Karma Bridal space opened up, a mere few streets from […]
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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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Hot Summer Guide: Visual arts events
Will Gorlitz: nowhere if not here Through August 23 Guelph-based artist Will Gorlitz begins a painting by looking for the telling detail. “When determining the actual subjects I wish to paint, a crucial consideration is that the subjects present some acutely visual feature,” he explains in an email. “Commonly, this involves the tactile materiality of […]
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Eyelevel Gallery turns back the calendar for anniversary show
At first glance, you’d hardly notice the change. As usual, the walls at Eyelevel are hung with interesting work—on this day it’s paintings by Mark Stebbins and Art Krauss. At the back of the gallery, the administrative staff works behind a large desk. Then you hear it. “Ka-chunk.” Gallery intern Chris Foster is busily typing […]
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Upstairs Bachelor party
Walking down Agricola on a cold January night, you might think the crowd of people and clouds of smoke behind the Halifax Coalition Against Poverty’s office is just those HCAP kids up to something again. But this crowd has come for the bachelor apartment above the office—home of the Upstairs Apartment Gallery, a monthly one-night […]