Visual Art

The stories of Africville, some horrifying and some inspirational, have been told many ways by many artists: At spoken word events, in the news, in the poetry of George Elliot Clarke. On street murals, inside public schools, at NSCAD University’s new campus, visual representations of Africville abound. This Saturday’s Go North! celebration of creativity and […]

The art galleries of Mount Saint Vincent, Saint Mary’s and Dalhousie universities operate in post-secondary institutions where fine arts degrees aren’t offered. The bulk of funding for programming at each space comes from the Canada Council for the Arts, not the institutions’ administrations, which tend to assist with operating funds (staffing and equipment costs). Although […]

There’s no question vinyl records are no longer the prevailing way for people to listen to music. That doesn’t mean they’re dead to everybody. Records certainly look better in all their seven-to-12-inch glory than CDs enclosed in flimsy jewel cases. And, while CDs continue to lose the war with mp3 technology, vinyl sales are on […]

“oi, oi, oi.” “wickedly punx.” “i was a teenage werewolf. punk forever.” You wouldn’t normally see comments like these, or references to a Cramps song in the guest book at an art gallery, but if you peruse through the pages at Michael Lewis’s show Holidays in the Sun, at the Hydrostone Gallery until July 6, […]

A lot of commercial websites would kill for 30,000 hits a month. Rachelle Goguen has seen that kind of traffic on her comics blog Living Between Wednesdays, and she’s never done any advertising. All it took was a little controversy. “I wrote an open letter to one of the editors at DC— that got a […]

Halifax photographer Suzi Cameron presents work that recasts familiar locations around this city. In her exhibition, 36 Halifax Corner Grocery Stores 36 Years Later, on now through Saturday at the Anna Leonowens Gallery, she reacquaints her viewers with sites they likely take for granted. “They’re part of my sense of what a neighbourhood is,” says […]

Long a local favourite, Toronto-based artist Kelly Mark is given a retrospective of 12 years of work in Stupid Heaven. Mark, who studied at NSCAD, had her first curated exhibit at MSVU Gallery in 1995, and she has since had her work widely exhibited nationally and internationally, as well as in many local exhibits. Mark’s […]

When you first look at Blythe Church’s boom box, you’ll notice it has all the things a boom box should have, but for a few minor details. It’s rectangular in shape, has a handle, knobs and buttons, a cassette deck and two speakers blaring out your favourite ’80s tunes. It’s also made of fuzzy felt […]

Canada’s points system of immigration favours doctors, engineers and PhDs as newcomers to the country. What if our immigration policies aimed to attract more artists instead? That’s one of the questions asked by the Newcomer Artist Project. Part art project, part curatorial venture and part activism, the project brings together a group of artists who […]