The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia has never sounded so good: Rock Show: At the intersection of music + art has arrived on the gallery’s fourth floor, described as an exploration of “the influence of music as subject and subculture on contemporary visual artists and their art.” Included in the show are works by Carl […]
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Sarah Burwash’s brief Sojourn
She may call north end of Halifax home, but the woods are never far from Sarah Burwash’s imagination. “I’ve always been drawn to the wilderness,” says the 27-year-old artist and illustrator. Best known for her watercolour drawings of woodland clearings with playful critters, slender trees and bright-faced figures, Burwash moved to Halifax from the west […]
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Picturing Dartmouth’s new optimism
It’s Saturday morning and downtown Dartmouth is bustling as customers flit between cafes, brunch spots and the Alderney Landing market. Inside The Dart Gallery on Portland Street, a couple picks up a painting before leaving for vacation, and Huxley the rabbit, named after the author of Brave New World, naps in his cage behind the […]
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Best In Fest
“We just want things that are interesting, things that we haven’t seen here in a while,” says Robyn Mitchell, artistic director of Art in Fest, her yet-to-be- born event. Art in Fest is the visual arts offspring of the OBEY Convention. For its inaugural year it will be hosting select artists in venues throughout the […]
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Voices in Longitude and Latitude works through narratives of girlhood
“I mean, anytime your sister offers to collaborate with you on a project you should say yes.” This is sage advice coming from filmmaker Noam Gonick. His sister Marnina is the Canada Research Chair in Gender at Mount Saint Vincent University and their collaboration is a project called Voices in Longitude and Latitude, currently on […]
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Beat Nation’s national identity
Lined up end to end, Duane Linklater’s five-part neon series “Tautology” could be at home among the bright lights in Times Square, but the Omushkego Cree artist’s work is more an urban reflection of Canadian identity than anything, subverting a medium usually reserved for advertisement or signage with a thunderbird directly appropriated from the Norval […]
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Halifax’s art problem
“Now that the Khyber’s closed I don’t know where my next show will be. I had a show scheduled there but now I have to find another space. I’m having trouble with that,” said multimedia artist Jesse Mitchell. When The Coast interviewed Mitchell earlier this year, he was struggling after the sudden closure of what […]
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The black female form, reborn
A chorus of giggles, snippets of conversation and the swishing of snowsuits emanate from a group of local children as they crowd against the heavy, closed doors of the library’s Terry Symonds Auditorium. The door hinge creaks and squeaks its swing song as it opens just wide enough for a small head to peak inside. […]
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For the love of art
Do you like the dark and smoky? Or perhaps warm tones with a distinctive flavour? Studio 21 gives you a chance to find out at its first Art and Wine event, Friday, February 14, 5-7pm. Visitors will be able to sample wines that match the feel, depth and mood of selected paintings from the exhibition […]
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Graeme Patterson’s male bonding
Graeme Patterson has returned to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia with Secret Citadel, a mixed media installation that’s an ode to male friendships, nostalgia and growing up. The title refers not to our city’s historic mound but to an early incarnation of the Fortress of Solitude, Superman’s headquarters. In the centre of the dark […]
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Beyond February
“What’s important to understand is that African-Canadian history is Canadian history, and acquiring knowledge and understanding of this history is not only for people of African descent,” says Sylvia D. Hamilton, Gemini-winning filmmaker, writer, poet, journalist and educator. For this year’s African Heritage Month, Hamilton and the Dalhousie Art Gallery’s Ron Foley Macdonald have curated […]
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New Art 2014
The diverse and prepossessing work of local artists like Beck Gilmer-Osborne, Jayme-Lynn Gloade, Dylan Fish, Jesse Mitchell and Stephanie Yee get those winter-dulled synapses firing. Have a look at our New Art issue and dream of longer days and creative nights. by Kevin Hartford, Allison Higgins and Jade Nauss. Jesse Mitchell Stephanie Yee Dylan Fish […]