Odds are, when we imagine a female spy it’s a busty James Bond temptress or Jennifer Garner in Alias, flirting with terrorists in conspicuous disguises. Toronto artist Nina Levitt hopes to portray something a little closer to the truth in her exhibition at Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery. Little Breeze pays homage to the lives […]
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Twenty + Change
If you want to feel reassured that our cities are in good hands, go see Twenty + Change, a travelling exhibition of projects by emerging Canadian architects, urban and landscape designers. The inaugural show at Dalhousie’s new Architecture and Planning faculty exhibition space kicked off Monday with a lecture by Ian Chodikoff, editor of Canadian […]
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Catherine Clover is winging it
“They were able to see that pigeons could distinguish between impressionism and cubism!” artist Catherine Clover quips. She’s referring to a 1990s study done that tested animal intelligence by showing images of various master painters like Monet and Picasso to pigeons, gauging the birds’ ability to distinguish between them. This reappears in her show opening […]
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Nocturne spotlight: Water Works
David Clark is on top of the world, or nearer to it. “I’m on top of Whistler Mountain,” the Halifax-based new media artist says. He’s accompanied by David Ogborn, an electronics artist and composer from Hamilton. “Basically I’ve gotten 20 yards down the hill,” says Clark, asking for a 20-minute reprieve before continuing the conversation. […]
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Tyler Munford gives the big picture
One wall of Tyler Munford’s small apartment bedroom looks like an evidence board from a Law & Order episode. Photos of street scenes, colourful charts, online article printouts. Although it’s been almost two months since the NSCAD student was involved in an altercation with a Halifax Alehouse bouncer after Munford took his photo for a […]
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Diane Landry’s beautiful ordinary
A cluster of umbrellas springs to life: the objects appear to be breathing, folding and unfolding of their own free wills. As the umbrellas move, they compress accordions to emit eerie, otherworldly music. Light shines through their tops, casting kaleidoscopic shadows on the gallery ceiling. Quebec artist Diane Landry is at Mount Saint Vincent University […]
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Young artists go outside in
If you threw together a stack of comics, zines and scrappy drawings from across the country, you’d find a complex web of friendships, school ties and social networks underlying it. That’s what curator Corinna Ghaznavi found when putting together the show Pulp Fiction, opening at Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery—uncovering an interconnected community of artists […]
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AGNS’ portrait of problems
Ray Cronin has an office with a gaping picture window giving view to the provincial legislature across the street. After 18 months as director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Cronin’s gone through the looking glass and is still winding his way through wonderland. Running a provincial art institution, Cronin works with […]
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Jean-Pierre Gauthier’s Noise control
Hours before Jean-Pierre Gauthier’s Machines at Play opens at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the gallery is chaos. Yellow ladders loom among pushcarts of tools and cleaning equipment. Gauthier’s work fills the air with honks, scratches of graphite, gurgling bubbles and piano flourishes. It’s a bit much for Gauthier, the 2004 Sobey Art Award […]
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Textile artist Brownlee weaves a message
It’s 1995 and Sandra Brownlee has stopped weaving. It’s not quite the reaction she expected following the success of her internationally touring solo exhibition, Weaving Out Loud. But that dust has settled, and the physical repetition of the loom has begun to worm itself into her thoughts and ideas. After first sitting down at a […]
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Secret art installation, Saturday night
This Saturday night at 8pm, artist Jyelle Vogel has taken over the vacated upholstery shop at 5682 North Street for an installation. This is the third and last showing before she gives up the space. She describes the candle-lit installation: “There are four mobiles hanging from the ceiling. They are made from bicycle rims and […]
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Sara Angelucci’s family ties
From a long, narrow and reverberant corridor in the Loyola Building at Saint Mary’s University, visitors cross a threshold into the gallery’s quiet plain. First conscious of the evaporation of sound, gallery-goers are met by a strong but silent visual: a triptych on a table called “Questions She’ll Never Answer,” the introduction to a show […]
