Visual Art

Since she was a kid playing in the mud Miro Davis has had a fascination with materials, nature and 3d spaces and it shines through in her latest exhibition Skins. The collection of sculptural pieces plays with porcelain, woodcarving, canvas, sculpted canvas, paint and grout to represent experiences Davis has had in nature, like laying […]

When it comes to art galleries we’re normally encouraged to look, but not touch. But the AGNS is branching out with Akousmaflore, an installation that is part of its current exhibit The Last Frontier. The interactive piece from two French artists, Gregory Lasserre and Anais met den Ancx’t (known together as Scenocosme), is made up […]

Logan Hynes isn’t interested in the money shot, she’s looking at the photos that most people pass by or cringe over. “I kind of found an interest in the more awkward, quick photographs and their compositions and colours.” These snapshots were the unlikely inspiration for the soon-to-be NSCAD grad’s Bad Photo. The collection of non-traditional […]

On the average day, The Olympic Centre is an unlikely venue for one stop shopping, but not this weekend. Packed under its roof will be oodles of one-of-a-kind items that you may want to keep for yourself. It’s the fifth year for the ever-growing Halifax Crafters holiday market, a juried collection of gift-worthy gems from […]

It’s the whodunit of art shows. Almost 100 pieces for $100 each, but there’s a very interesting catch: You won’t know the artist behind the piece until you buy it. It’s Adsum Association for Women and Children’s third year piquing the curiousity of art lovers in the name of fundraising. The collection of five-by-seven works […]

Seven days a week, 12 hours a day, for nearly a month Kim Morgan and a team of artists and volunteers worked against the weather to capture every inch, inside and out, of a lighthouse in the tiny town of Borden-Carleton, PEI. Morgan calls the result an epitaph that speaks to the decommissioning of regionally […]

Wish ViewPoint Gallery a happy 10th birthday by walking its red carpet fundraiser this Friday, from 7-9pm. Local leaders such as Argyle Fine Art’s Adriana Afford, councillor Dawn Sloane and Fred Connors of FRED. beauty food art. and Whet Cafe have donated photos they’ve taken with both vintage and digital cameras, which you can bid […]

There’s so much great theatre happening in Halifax right now that you’d be hard pressed to see it all. But if you only see one play this year, make it Zuppa Theatre’s 5 Easy Steps (to the end of the world). It’s an original, haunting piece that will stick with you long after you’ve left […]

Artist Colin Lyons has brought parts of Lachine Canal to Gallery Page and Strange. The Montreal buildings—Shewing Cork Works Ltd., Ogilvie Flour Mills Co. Ltd., Dow Brewery and Canada Maltage among them—stare back at you from their miniature sculpture windows. The show is a study in industrial obsolescence—what happens to things once they become obsolete. […]

The saloon music that plays from video installations as you enter Kent Monkman’s exhibition is deceiving—the collection of his work from 2003 to today betrays anything you’d see in an old western. Romantic, mountainous landscape paintings depict scenes of 19th-century “cowboy and Indian” role reversals, with Aboriginals assuming lead roles and the central figure often […]

As soon as you step into Eyelevel Gallery, parts start moving. You hear a whooshing sound to your left, and look over to see what looks like a simulated car wash made up of winter wear. At the back left of the gallery you hear a faint clicking noise coming from found transmissions on FM […]