Public beading circles Treaty Space Gallery, NSCAD University Port campus 1107 Marginal Road February 20, 27, March 6, 13, 6-9pm What does it mean for a place to be called home? It’s a question that’s become inescapable for interdisciplinary artist Carrie Allison. Living in Halifax for several years after being raised in British Colombia and […]
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Kevin Cormier lives through paint
“I had this one really turbulent Tinder date where they decided ‘Let’s meet at your studio at 12 o’clock in the morning on a Friday.’ We had this big bag of booze and we were just tearing through my work and this boy was like ‘You’re Taylor Swift!’” Kevin Cormier laughs, leaning forward in his […]
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Shary Boyle and Emily Vey Duke’s epic feminist poem
Shary Boyle & Emily Vey Duke, The Illuminations Project To April 29 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis Street “Meet Bloodie,” reads the promotional material for the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia’s latest exhibition. A naked, dirt-encrusted girl stands in murky darkness as colours burst from her body: Rainbows stream from her arms and […]
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Emmanuel Nwogbo’s digital riffs
Emmanuel Nwogbo’s favourite James Bond is Sean Connery. Growing up on tales of spy missions and perfectly gelled hair, he’s seen all the Bond films, but it’s Connery’s ’60s capers that stand tall above the rest: “I keep watching those ones because they’re so ridiculous. Some of the names are hilarious, stuff that you could […]
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CFAT’s Hyper colour
Hyper > Media > Paradise February 8-February 14 Opening reception Thursday, February 8, 7pm Centre for Art Tapes 2238 Maitland Street suggested donation $10 cfat.ca The Centre for Art Tapes hits the big four-oh this year, and one of its flagship events, the media arts scholarship, is not far behind. Video, audio, projection, virtual reality, […]
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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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The year in visual art
In a year commemorating many anniversaries, 2017 is a landmark, for better or for worse. And with so much political upheaval it often felt like a landmark to come, history in the making. So with a historical lens pointed in all directions, it is no surprise that some of the most interesting exhibitions reflected this […]
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The multi-grained Veronica Post
Woodworker Veronica Post knows she’s a woman in a male-dominated field, but doesn’t let her gender overshadow her work. “I feel like it’s always there,” says Post. “I want to be talking about the furniture because that is what I’m passionate about and not have the attention be about something that really doesn’t matter.” Post […]
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Ursula Johnson’s big win
“It’s strange, you know, thinking about this idea of ‘the first,’” says Ursula Johnson. “There’s a certain amount of pride that comes with it, but then there’s also a certain amount of ‘What the hell,’ you know?” Johnson is sitting in Java Blend on a rainy Monday. Five days ago she was in Toronto, being […]
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Prism
Exhibit 411, Northwood, 2615 Northwood Terrace “A lot of the work I do is movement-based,” says Alexis Milligan, the choreographer, actor, director and creator of Transitus, a theatre company that aims to explore how art is used as a communication tool. “Stillness, silence: How do we find those places where communications begin?” For Nocturne Milligan […]
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Watch Us Vanish
Exhibit 315, Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, 1096 Marginal Road The average right whale weighs between 54 and 72 tonnes; at Nocturne you’ll be given a pound of clay to make your own. It’s not much, but it’s what Andrea Puszkar and Marla Benton landed on as a tribute to the endangered mammals […]
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Opera From Scrap
Exhibit 304, RBC Waterside Centre, 1871 Upper Water Street This interactive opera will require audience participation: A collaboration between performer Janice Isabel Jackson and visual artist Arianne Pollet-Brannen, Opera from Scrap is a durational performance whereby an opera, a character and a costume will be constructed out of scraps throughout the night. In transforming into […]