Visual Art

THEATRE by Kate Watson You may wonder what methodology I use when selecting the productions for my YIR round-up. It begins in the bathtub, where I soak and try to recall the 60-plus plays I’ve seen in the past year. Those that are so memorable they jump immediately to mind likely make the list. Later […]

If Noah Logan has his way, Point Pleasant Park will be ready for its next hurricane. The third year NSCAD student has hatched an elaborate plan to keep the trees rooted to the ground the next time gale force winds feel compelled to take ’em down—and it involves chains. “If they blow over,” he explains, […]

Candace (Jimmie) Sepulis and Tanya Davis became friends in April of this year, when Sepulis did the illustration for Davis’ album, Gorgeous Morning. After talking over a beer one night the two decided to do another project together. At the time, Jimmie Sepulis was planning an art show at Venus Envy and from there it […]

Between militant security guards patting you down for bottles of shampoo over 10ml and the energy crisis, air travel isn’t much fun these days, so the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia’s Flight Dreams is a refreshing escape. Inspired by the story of Ken Barnes, an aeronautical designer for the doomed Avro Arrow, the exhibition brings […]

It’s Wednesday evening at Argyle Fine Art and Chr!s Sm!th and Argyle director Adriana Afford are surrounded by a few dozen half-packed frames containing Sm!th’s photos of musicians and artists’ responses to them. Sm!th and Afford are getting ready to take Repixxto Nova Scotia Music Week, and this is the first time that all the […]

She approaches without warning. A petite woman with a friendly demeanour, she’s not intimidating, particularly, but her question is unnerving in its directness. “Describe a special location,” she says pointedly to a passerby. That’s it: no idle chit-chat, no explanation for asking the question. The woman she’s approached—probably a student—is caught unaware. “Anywhere?” she says, […]

Wes JohnsonPhantom Stacks (1790-92 Granville) Describe your installation: This installation requires your personal attendance to be fully “realized.” If nothing happens, you might try a different spot. What emotions will people leave with? Depends on the crowd. I would anticipate from the drunken Split Crow patrons, confusion and/or some howling. For a more sober audience, […]

Susan Dobson, temporary architectureSaint Mary’s University Art Gallery (5865 Gorsebrook) Guelph-based photographer Susan Dobson has built a career documenting industrial sites, housing developments and other throwaway architecture. There’s a lot of work motivated by this type of architecture out there, and there are a lot of these buildings. Temporary Architectures shows her series Retail, imposing […]

Hannah Minzloff’s camera looks like a robot. The Russian-made LOMO Horizon is smooth and bulky, with a convex viewfinder on top that looks like the Honda robot ASIMO’s head. The panoramic camera has shot over 400 black-and-white images of subways and their travellers in Toronto, Montreal, London, Paris, Munich and Barcelona. Twenty of those images […]

Last weekend, most of us probably slept in, drank some beer, hit the market or watched a little TV. Last weekend, Montreal artist Matthew Forsythe toured the Pixar studios in San Francisco and contributed artwork to a high-profile tribute show for Japanese artist Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away). Oh yeah—and on the way […]