UPDATE: I should have known that there were clever people behind this great idea. I heard from Garry Neill Kennedy: “The Starfish windows were filled with images by students in my spring term Printed Matter Class. The idea came from Noah Logan, one of the students in the class and another student Keith McLeod did […]
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Starfish Properties prize supports NSCAD grads
A dress from Chloe Gordon’s fall 2010 collection. Though Starfish Properties may have the ire of those frustrated by empty Barrington storefronts (read Carsten Knox’s interview with Louis Reznick), the development company has been doing their best to align with the artsy crowd: first hosting last year’s AGNS party in the gutted Roy building space, […]
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Product of the week: Hearts at Seeds
Other than Christian Slater’s baboon heart, I can’t think of another blood-pumping vessel that I’d like more than Alana Wilson’s “Hearts.” The NSCAD student makes one-of-a-kind porcelain hearts that come in a bunch of colours. Each heart, about the size of a small vase, is designed with something special, like a secret message or a […]
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Tyler Munford gives the big picture
One wall of Tyler Munford’s small apartment bedroom looks like an evidence board from a Law & Order episode. Photos of street scenes, colourful charts, online article printouts. Although it’s been almost two months since the NSCAD student was involved in an altercation with a Halifax Alehouse bouncer after Munford took his photo for a […]
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In your face, art
Last week’s news of NSCAD student Tyler Mumford’s photos of bouncers at the Halifax Alehouse (look for a news story tomorrow) has drawn a lot of online discussion about public space and privacy. But if this was, as what is being suggested by Mumford’s schematic illustration on a Facebook page, intentionally meant to provoke and […]
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Influential artist Gerry Ferguson dies
From the Dalhousie Art Gallery: Gerald Ferguson, 9 Drain Covers, 2006. Acrylic enamel on canvas Photo: Steve Farmer Retired NSCAD prof and influential conceptual artist Gerald Ferguson passed away at the age of 72. For almost 40 years, up until 2006, Ferguson taught at the art university, staying true to the conceptual spirit, while maintaining […]
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Hamish Fulton steps into Halifax
Hamish Fulton Get your shoes on. Renowned British artist Hamish Fulton is coming to Halifax. Fulton’s art is hard to classify: since 1969 he’s been conducting solo and group walks around the world, including Iceland, Bolivia, Tibet and Japan. Fulton extends the tradition of landscape painting or sculpture, and although his walking projects often result in photos, text, wall paintings or publications, there is “no construction of a product,” he explains, calling from the States. There’s no trace of his path: “It looks the same before and after.” Recently Fulton, who had a large exhibition at the Tate Britain in
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NSCAD: where art and music converge
The Khyber ICA is steaming hot, packed with bands and fans for the Totally Wicked Music Festival, a one-night music event where bands come together for one night and play one song each. The first Totally Wicked Music Festival happened 10 years prior—an idea born on the NSCAD campus after an Anna Leonowens exhibition opening, […]
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Best. Halifax. Concerts. Ever.
Sonic Youth Thursday, August 9th, 1984 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Cafeteria One of the most talked-about shows of the last 25 years. Unfortunately, that talk is about how everyone missed it. Advertised as “killer rock + roll from NYC,” the poster, featuring a photo from Evil Dead, is one of the most […]
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They’re back….University students return
We’re all about to get hit. No, not with a hurricane, necessarily—even though we have seen a couple of tropical storms already in August. We’re talking about the storm of the student body, Hurricane Academe. Most businesses in town will be boosted by the sudden increase in the local population, either directly or indirectly. Some […]
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How to enroll in a summer course
Academic, my dear Watson Are you too busy to take a course? Well, why not take a course in Time Management through the Nova Scotia Community College. Hurry, the one-day workshop is happening on June 20 and will teach students things such as how to save up to one hour per day of time, overcome […]
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Wearable art works
It’s Good Friday morning, and while the rest of the city plans a lazy day, the NSCAD fashion studios hum with the sound of sewing machines, music and laughter. Sunlight streams through the large windows, casting a shine on duct-taped body forms, or Judys, as they’re called. Students are preparing for NSCAD University’s 19th Wearable […]