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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Best Gallery
Gold Winner Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Silver Winner Argyle Fine Art Bronze Winner The Dart Gallery After a banner visitor year following the release of the Maud Lewis biopic Maudie, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia has not rested on its movie-fuelled laurels. The usual interesting and innovative array of exhibitions has abounded since […]
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Gold Winner Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Silver Winner Argyle Fine Art Bronze Winner The Dart Gallery When your gallery has Maud Lewis’ house in it the same year a movie about Maud Lewis is released, people are going to want to see that thing. Perhaps the Lewis abode—and two shows of collections of her […]
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Picnic packs personality
Picnic at Dart 127 Portland Street Tue-Sat 4-10pm Sat-Sun 10:30am-2pm There is a line in the movie The Haunting—the perfect 1963 version, not the terrible one from the ’90s where Owen Wilson is spoilered in a spoiler with a spoiler—that always makes me think of downtown Dartmouth. When Eleanor Lance, the walking goosebump protagonist, arrives […]
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Best Gallery
Gold Winner Argyle Fine Art Silver Winner Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Bronze Winner The Dart Gallery “We are delighted to hear such great news,” says Argyle Fine Art’s director Adriana Afford, who’s periodically had to peer through scaffolding for months at a time as a shop-owner on Barrington Street. “Construction has been tough, but […]
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Best Gallery
Gold Winner The Dart Gallery Silver Winner Argyle Fine Art Bronze Winner Art Gallery of Nova Scotia For the second year in a row, downtown Dartmouth’s delightful Dart Gallery takes home the gold for Best Gallery. Owner Jane MacDougald is enthusiastic as heck about showing accessible art in a chill and comfortable environment, as she […]
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Versus union
Without conflict, there would be no stories worth telling. The Dart Gallery seeks to tell popular stories of conflict in fresh, contemporary ways with VERSUS, the downtown Dartmouth gallery’s latest group exhibition. VERSUS was initially dreamed up by Pierre Tabbiner and Dartmouth Clothing Company’s Eric Miller as a means to examine the relationships between classic […]
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Class of ’84 deemed bitchin’
Despite the rain last night, I walked three kilometres to the opening of the cinema-inspired art show, Class of ’84, at The Dart Gallery (127A Portland Street), running now until December 7. It rules. 1984 was a huge year for film, owning blockbusters like Terminator, Gremlins, The Karate Kid, Ghostbusters, This is Spinal Tap, Indiana […]
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Best Gallery
Gold Winner The Dart Gallery Silver Winner Argyle Fine Art Bronze Winner Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Owner Jane MacDougald was a bit flustered to get the call that her Dartmouth art hotspot had won our Best Gallery award. No need to worry though, Jane! The Dart Gallery’s welcoming, accessible approach to art means the […]