 | Sunday, May 30, 2021 | |  | 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 ... | | |  | @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. | | | | |  | @krisanneart/Instagram | | She’s a Fancy Lady. (So says Ontario-based artist Krisanne.) | | | | |  | 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). | | | | |  | @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. | | | | |  | Ron Batzdorff/NBC | | | | | From Superstore to This Is Us, the pandemic playing out on the small screen looks a whole lot different. | | | | |  | | CBC Arts | | | | | Calgary’s Aicha Lasfar will give you a lesson in the art of pyrography. (That means “wood-burning,” FYI.) | | | | |  | MGM | | | | | And no, those lessons do not involve murder, robbery or driving off a cliff. (Sorry not sorry for the spoilers.) | | | | |  | @flycatcherpress/Instagram | | 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. | | | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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