Samuel de Champlain may have been dead for nearly four centuries, but later this week, visitors to Nepean Point behind the National Gallery will get the chance to see him “come alive” in a stunning interactive...
“What does it mean to have the artist’s hand involved?” It’s a question Cory Arcangel raises, standing next to what he describes as “the ultimate drawing”: his series of three nearly identical portraits of...
The annual Electric Eclectics music festival held over the August Civic holiday weekend and now in its eighth year is an avant garde event that has become a pilgrimage for fans and musicians seeking—or already...
With its varied tones and textures and monumental size, Iluliaq conveys a terrible beauty. Parts of it resemble billowing sea foam, while others are smooth masses of turquoise ice or cool, jagged peaks. More...
In today’s digital era, it’s not uncommon to create and share your own playlist: a selection of individual songs that can span genres, from hip-hop to country to classical. But what’s increasingly the norm in...
The Scotiabank Photography Award—now in its third year—is Canada’s largest annual peer-reviewed award for excellence in Canadian contemporary photography.
Markonish organized the Oh Canada exhibition catalogue by geographical region, prompting me to consider the ever-elusive "identity" of artists in the Atlantic region. But piecing together a solid regionalist...
Bill Brandt was a master of the nighttime scene, able to render cityscapes and wilderness scenes in the darkest of tones, and constructing moods that shifted from eerie to romantic. Brandt’s Oakworth Moor ,...
It wasn’t until “very, very late in life,” that George Escher realized his dad—the internationally acclaimed artist M.C. Escher—might be doing “something unusual.” ... “In hindsight you realize it was kind of...
