[Image-1] Robert Houle turned painting into a full-time gig after selling his first piece—a small eight-by-10-inch acrylic titled “Red is Beautiful”—for $90 back in the ’70s. Since then, he’s served as the first curator of Contemporary Indian Art at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, garnered international exposure and most recently won the Governor General’s Award […]
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Sera Senakovicz on You Can’t Go Home Again
“The show is inspired by some work Emily Davidson and I did last year about the 1,600 people who were displaced when the Cogswell Interchange and Scotia Square were built. I think a lot about the folks who were displaced in relation to my relationship to the changing face of Halifax. I believe there’s an […]
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Wearable Art’s 25 alive
Models, and drag queens and acrobats—oh my! The Wearable Art Show is the wildest night of runway fashion and performance art in Halifax and it’s celebrating a silver anniversary. The Wearable Art Show is an annual extravaganza that is to Halifax’s fashion and art communities what Christmas morning is to tiny tots. After four years […]
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In the margins
In 1981, young art educator Tim Rollins was assigned to a classroom in South Bronx, New York, where he began art collaborations between marginalized youth and literary classics. The collective, Kids of Survival, has been active for the last 30 years. On Thursday at The Khyber and on Friday at NSCAD, Rollins will talk about […]
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Beckly and Westman’s romance and nostalgia
Eyelevel Gallery continues to promote contemporary art outside of a formal gallery space by exhibiting Under the passing stars at The Maitland Terrace. The works of Steven Beckly and Nicole Kelly Westman meet in a domestic setting that reflects the themes of historicity and intimacy present in their photo-based installations. Gallery director Katie Belcher recognized a relationship […]
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Review: Anatomica
The attendant sat wordlessly at his desk as I entered the gallery. Each footstep took me further from the outside world and moved me through an eerie place of dimly lit corners, ghostly voices and uncanny objects. A tall pile of porcelain femur bones dominates one wall, slices of paper-quilled dissected bodies rest in glass […]
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HFX Art Gossip’s 2015 picks
Spaces and places Young Offenders Gallery has moved spaces (2130 Gottingen, one floor down) and has some cool projects for winter. BSide Gallery (2180 Gottingen) is really blossoming under the direction of Laura Baker-Roberts, Britt Ward, Emily Lawrence and David Figueroa. Hermes (5682 North) has also come under new leadership, with a group of local […]
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Get that gold
Eyelevel Gallery’s annual fundraiser—and chance to get glamourous—is coming up this Saturday night. In its fifth year, Silver and Gold is a semi-formal art function: part exhibition, silent auction and raffle, part cash-bar dance party. The fundraiser takes place at sponsor location Maitland Terrace, to familiarize supporters “with the space of our February exhibit,” director […]
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Our 2015 New Art issue is here
A small sampling of some fresh local art brains. FYI: Galleries are a great place to warm up and provide just enough inspiration to coast on until the spring. Click here for the full feature.
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New Art: Peter van Gurp
Wandering into Peter Van Gurp’s recent exhibition at Anna Leonowens Gallery you’d be forgiven for thinking that you’d mistakenly walked into a room under construction. A pallet, cardboard boxes, a road work sign, an orange barrier, a length of chain, cinderblocks—Van Gurp’s pieces are so unremarkable in their everyday familiarity that you may not notice […]
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New Art: Kyle Martell
“Right now I’m focusing on Ancient Aliens theories,” says artist Kyle Martell. “I’ve been watching it a lot on TV and thinking about that. There’s this weird racism in show—it’s like watching a train wreck.” Much like Ancient Aliens, Martell’s work, images of which can be seen on his website/digital sketchbook gorgeorwell.tumblr.com, dwells in the […]
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New Art: Merray Gerges
Merray Gerges started CRIT in 2012, with NSCAD’s then-student union president Sarah Trower. Three years later, CRIT is still going strong, producing quarterly broadsheet issues—on newsprint. Let it sink in that someone started a physical newspaper in 2012—packed with essays, reviews and interviews about art and artists in Halifax and beyond. Today, Gerges is editor-in-chief […]