The pandemic playing out on the small screen looks a whole lot different.
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Sunday, May 30, 2021

Hi, Art!

Sunday, May 30, 2021

Hi, art lovers!

 
There’s a CBC News guide to COVID-19 reopenings across the country. Maybe you keep it bookmarked too. Maybe you refresh it every 10 minutes. Maybe you think if you just keep doing that, you’ll see the news you actually want to see: a single all-caps line that screams, “IT’S OVER.” (Or, you know, maybe that’s just me.) Scroll down a bit and you’ll find a timeline for when events and entertainment are expected to return, region to region. CBC Saskatchewan recently took a closer look at how live music, specifically, might rebound. In Alberta, where the province is rapidly lifting health restrictions, festival organizers are feeling iffy about the pace. (This story out of CBC Edmonton notes the concern over superspreader potential.) And as a “reminder of the ongoing uncertainty of life in the pandemic,” here’s a dispatch from Taiwan; performances had been happening there for months, but an uptick in COVID-19 cases recently shut things down again.

Other things: Y2K is hot, but not the era’s ugly side. There’s a reason why blockbuster movie trailers always feature old rock songs. Six-and-a-half minutes of David Hockney flipping through a sketchbook. And in honour of Eric Carle (who died last week aged 91), watch what happened when Mister Rogers went to visit his art studio.
 

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Photo of a wooden sculpture painted in a geometric pattern of blue, green, orange and yellow.

@bbbboyne/Instagram

I honestly thought this was a 3D rendering when I first saw it, but it’s actually a wooden sculpture by Bayne Peterson. In conclusion, I spend too much time online.

 
Photo of a watercolour sketch on paper. An abstracted form in shades of brown, red, black and blue.

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She’s a Fancy Lady. (So says Ontario-based artist Krisanne.) 
 
Photo of the CIBC Square lobby. Towering prints of trees painted in neon pinks and green extend from floor to ceiling between six elevator banks, side by side.

Steve Driscoll

If you’re in Toronto right now, maybe you’ve peeped through the windows of CIBC Square to discover a towering pink forest in the lobby. Those illuminated prints are by Steve Driscoll (previously seen here and here). 
 
Painting by Keiran Brennan Hinton of a cottage living room in summertime. The room has warm wood floors and a wooden staircase and loft ceiling are visible, as are built-in bookshelves which are lined with books and other objects. A kitchen table appears at the back of the room. A couch piled with blankets at centre, facing a matching black couch at the fore. To the right, an open window reveals lush greenery outside.

Keiran Brennan Hinton

Or if you’re planning an escape from Toronto right now, maybe this painting will speak to you. The artist’s Keiran Brennan Hinton. Usually based in New York, he’s a Canadian painter who’s been riding out COVID-19 in rural Ontario. (This new exhibition documents scenes from his cottagey lockdown.)
 
Painting by Frances Ferdinands. A colourful patterned backdrop resembling quilted fabric. Flat images of vases and a grenade appear in the foreground. Realistically painted jungle frogs and monarch butterflies are scattered throughout the composition. A grey elephant patterend with blue and gold paisley appears top right.

@francesferdinands/Instagram

Reader Frances Ferdinands sent me a link to her Instagram recently. (Hello, Frances!) This piece is called The Burden in Becoming. Find even more of her work here.
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Still from the TV series Superstore. At left, a young-ish man of Filipino descent wears a blue face mask and glasses. He has a blue Cloud 9 uniform smock which he wears over an aubergine pullover and collared shirt. He holds the hand of a young-ish man of Latino descent. Both men look at one another. The man at right wears a grey mask, striped T-shirt and orange overshirt. They are together inside a big box store.

Ron Batzdorff/NBC

 

COVID-19, as seen on TV

From Superstore to This Is Us, the pandemic playing out on the small screen looks a whole lot different.
 
Photo of a gloved hand burning the image of a mountain into a piece of wood with what appears to be a hot needle. Text on image reads:
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Play with fire

 
Calgary’s Aicha Lasfar will give you a lesson in the art of pyrography. (That means “wood-burning,” FYI.)
 
Film still from Thelma and Louise. Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis pose for a selfie with a grey Polaroid camera. They are two middle-aged white women with curly shoulder-length auburn hair. Susan, at right, holds the camera and wears cat-eye sunglasses and a patterned head scarf. Geena wears gold earrings, blue eye shadow and frosted coral lipstick. Moth women smile with teeth.

MGM

 

Life lessons from Thelma & Louise, 30 years later

And no, those lessons do not involve murder, robbery or driving off a cliff. (Sorry not sorry for the spoilers.)
 
 

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Phoebe Todd-Parrish

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Photo of a black and white linocut print of the UFO restaurant in Toronto. It is housed in an old brick house on a residential street corner. A two-storey building, there are bikes parked out front and a small table and chairs. A billboard sponsored by KitKat appears on one wall. Below the chocolate bar's logo it reads:

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Phoebe appears in the newest edition of CBC Arts Makes. (Need a Sunday project? She’ll show you how to make a cute handmade notebook.) This picture, though, is from an ongoing project of hers: relief prints of Toronto greasy spoons.  
 

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