First You Dream: Celebrating 75 Years of the Nova Scotia Talent Trust To July 28 MSVU Gallery, 166 Bedford Highway Opening reception Saturday, May 25, 2pm A lthough she’s known for two years, Lux Habrich says sometimes she still can’t believe it. At 27, Habrich is the youngest visual artist to be selected to exhibit […]
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Visual arts review: Jane Kidd’s Curious and group show Material Remains at MSVU
Jane Kidd, Curious and Material Remains To August 26 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 166 Bedford Highway Meticulously and intricately hand-woven, Jane Kidd’s tapestries in Curious explore human agricultural intervention and ideas of a “post-natural” world. In her three distinct series: Wonderland, Curiosities and Land Sentence, she composes strange landscapes and collages, merging botanical […]
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Maria Hupfield’s balancing act
Maria Hupfield: The One Who Keeps on Giving Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery 166 Bedford Highway To May 13 Dressed all in black, four artists slip into orange work vests in headlamps before their faces are painted with neon makeup: Lines of hot pink across foreheads, small purple triangles on cheeks and electric yellow […]
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Review: Melanie Authier, Contrarieties and Counterpoints
Melanie Authier, Contrarieties and Counterpoints To March 4 MSVU Art Gallery 166 Bedford Highway When you think about “drama” in relation to abstract painting, what may first come to mind is controversy. The art form has had its fair share: More than 60 years since painting first concerned itself with abstract formalism (line, colour and […]
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Review: Bodies in Translation: Age and Creativity at the MSVU Art Gallery
Bodies in Translation: Age and Creativity Through November 12 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 166 Bedford Highway One of two current shows at MSVU Art Gallery, Bodies in Translation: Age and Creativity features work by eight senior artists who explore aging through art. Several of the artists address the physicality of aging, as in […]
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Art in and out of the sun
Every Wednesday Welcome Wednesdays Did your beach day with the kids get rained out? This weekly initiative aims to invite young families, daycares and new Canadians to explore Halifax’s nautical museum. Both staff-guided and self-guided activities are on offer, including a puppet theatre, colouring sheets, crafts and books. Books are available in French, English and […]
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Brenda Pelkey’s cinematic landscapes
Brenda Francis Pelkey: A Retrospective Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery 166 Bedford Highway April 22-July 9 MSVU Art Gallery’s upcoming exhibition explores the work of Canadian photographer Brenda Francis Pelkey in the artist’s first-ever retrospective. With a career spanning over three decades, the subjects of Pelkey’s photographs range from empty strip clubs and courtrooms, to […]
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The long walk to Halifax
Walking With Our Sisters January 14-February 1 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery 166 Bedford Highway More than 1,000 unfinished moccasins are making the long walk to Halifax to commemorate missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. The commemorative art project Walking With Our Sisters will make one stop in Halifax (Kji’puktuk in the Mi’kmaq language), […]
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How to spend your summer in the galleries
OUT OF TOWN To June 24 YORODEO, New Findings If the air-conditioned glory of the cinema isn’t cutting it, head to CBU’s gallery for some static 3D images from Coast illustrator Paul Hammond and design partner Seth Smith. Showing their ongoing body of 3D screenprints, the works in the exhibition draw from sci-fi, fantasy and […]
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What is it about Kids these days?
Ah, the art world: where you never have to grow up. At least that’s what a person might assume, given the relentless popularity of youth culture as a subject in contemporary art. That’s what led curator Zoë Chan to put together an exhibit on the topic, Kids these days, opening Saturday at MSVU Art Gallery. […]
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The Beats go on
Until November 8, the MSVU Art Gallery is showing 116 framed photos taken by 1950s American Beat poet, Shambhala Buddhist and cultural visionary Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997). MSVU Gallery director Ingrid Jenkner explains that, along with his poetics, Ginsberg practiced photography on a daily basis while he traveled the world. Many photos are candid shots of […]
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The Beats go on
Until November 8, the MSVU Art Gallery is showing 116 framed photos taken by 1950s American Beat poet, Shambhala Buddhist and cultural visionary Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997). Gallery director Ingrid Jenkner explains that, along with his poetics, Ginsberg practiced photography on a daily basis while he traveled the world. Many photos are candid shots of his […]