Exhibit 203, 1749 Argyle Street (best viewed from across the street) N ova Scotian artist Anne Macmillan joins Halifax in bringing the visual art scene to the streets at this year’s Nocturne. Macmillan, who hails from Wolfville and has art degrees from both NSCAD and MIT, focuses much of her work on challenging the idea […]
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Jessica Wiebe and The Veteran Farm Project unveil A (Temporary) Memorial to Ongoing Conflict and War
Exhibit 211 Barrington Street entrance to Grand Parade Square, 1770 Barrington Street Jessica Lynn Wiebe has been keeping her calendar packed. She’s currently writing a piece for Visual Arts News and has started a residency at Centre for Art Tapes where she’s building a body of work from a past residency with a Canadian Forces […]
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Where I work: Forage Studios
WHO SHE IS Five years ago, ceramicist Mariko Paterson found a home in Nova Scotia. Originally from Vancouver, Paterson studied, taught and created art in numerous Canadian and US cities. It wasn’t until she came to Nova Scotia that she renamed her studio Forage Studios. One thing she enjoys about Halifax? Its size. For her, […]
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Fall Arts Preview: Visual arts calendar
SEPTEMBER Africville: A Spirit that Lives on – A Reflection Project MSVU Art Gallery, Mount Saint Vincent University, 166 Bedford Highway, Aug 17-Nov 10 Atmospheric Events Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie Arts Centre, 6101 University Avenue, Aug 30-Nov 24 21 Days to Make or Break a Habit For the first 21 days of November 2018, artist […]
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Review: Atmospheric Events is brutally soft
Atmospheric Events Daily to Nov 24 Dalhousie Art Gallery It’s hard to love a brute—at least, hard to love a Brutalist building. Severe concrete structures like the one that makes up the Dalhousie Arts Centre—home to the University’s art gallery—have fallen out of fashion. They are seen as ugly remnants of misguided 20th century socialist […]
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Visual arts review: Photographer Anne Launcelott captures the face of rural Russia, Now
Now Daily to Aug 31 Teichert Gallery, 1723 Hollis Street I n the genre of travel photography, the visiting artist runs the risk of moving through their locales like an invasive species: capturing subjects without permission, walking into sacred and private moments with the unearned authority of the western traveller (an especially cringe-worthy phenomenon when […]
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Who to see at this year’s Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival
Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival Aug 17-18, 11am-5pm Alderney Landing, 2 Ochterloney Street If you want to check the pulse of the international comic book scene, hitting up the Dartmouth Comic Arts Festival has always been a surefire bet. The fest, held at Alderney Landing, routinely brings in top-of-their-field cartoonists and comic creators. For example, this […]
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The Centre For Art Tapes is at the centre of it all
The Centre for Art Tapes’ 40th Birthday Aug 15, 7-10pm Art Bar + Projects, 1873 Granville Street, free Tori Fleming works in the thick of it. Unlike many programming directors holed up far away from the art they help bring into the world, her office is in the heart of the Centre For Art Tapes—and […]
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Visual arts review: Hopelessly Devoted To You examines the apocalypse and Olivia Newton-John
Hopelessly Devoted To You Wed-Sat 12-5pm, to Aug 24 Khyber Centre for the Arts, 1880 Hollis Street If you’ve ever imagined the end of the world—or wondered if it’s happening right now—the Khyber’s latest exhibition (titled Hopelessly Devoted To You) is for you. The group show is at the intersection of contemporary consumer capitalism, Olivia Newton-John […]
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Artist Jenny Yujia Shi explores the immigrant experience
Entering the studio space of mixed-media artist Jenny Yujia Shi, a repetition in colour and shape arrests you before you even notice the view of Halifax Harbour. On every surface—even the slanting ceiling—arrows like the ones on Shi’s passport point into oblivion. Faceless figures stack up neatly as Plexiglas cutouts on the table. A large […]
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Artist Carrie Allison is clearing space to think
Carrie Allison can’t stop thinking about grass. Like a verse in a Walt Whitman poem, she’s been ruminating on single blades of the stuff, questioning its symbolism. “I look at grass as a tool of colonization. Basically it’s been used to claim space. This idea of grass and of lawns started with royalty and them […]
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Artist Arjun Lal makes art outside your comfort zone
Mixed-media artist Arjun Lal is deep in thought, their expressive brown eyes surveying the Halifax Common as if the perfect word they’re searching for will be found in the grass. Sitting beneath a squat tree, they are sharing the story of how their art has evolved. “I grew up in the Halifax-Dartmouth area and went […]
