 | Sunday, June 13, 2021 | |  | Sunday, June 13, 2021 | | Hi, art lovers! | | | | There is nothing worse than missing out. So while this article has been referenced just about everywhere I live online, I’ll share it with you just in case. The Americans are already crowing about The Return of FOMO and a summer marathon of good times that’ll keep on raging until we’re collectively diagnosed with exhaustion. Sounds fun. But if FOMO, in the Before Times sense of the word, is actually back, its Canadian flavour is different. It’s blander, certainly, and dizziness is a potential side effect. We don’t have the luxury of crying over missed cocktail hours here — the thinks-and-drinks we failed to squeeze between a matinee and three warehouse raves. Not quite yet, anyway. And the mood — for me at least — isn’t frustration, but confusion. The friends (and corporate brand accounts) I creep on Instagram are scattered all over. Pals in Montreal might be gallery-crawling this weekend, and maybe it’s the same for your friends in Alberta, who could have squeezed in a double feature (at a real live movie theatre) to boot. Meanwhile in Toronto, it’s still Hot Introvert Summer … albeit with the option of patio concerts. I’d argue FOMO won’t return until each and every one of us is equally empowered to schedule back-to-back karaoke sessions. But on a more serious note, the regional disparity presents a real challenge for arts organizations. One example: this campaign demanding the safe reopening of galleries and museums in Ontario. This CBC News story gives a glimpse of how reopening compares for museums in Ottawa versus those across the border in Gatineau, Que. | | | | | And because we promised you eye candy ... | | |  | Lauren Crazybull | Last Thursday, Albertan museums were permitted to reopen, and the Art Gallery of Alberta will be ready to welcome visitors June 19. This painting by Lauren Crazybull (previously seen here) appears as part of The Scene, an exhibition of local artists. | | | | |  | Seth Rogen | | As is this work by Seth Rogen, my all-time favourite celebrity on Instagram because he mostly posts photos of ceramics. (This is a very good profile where he talks a bit about pottery.) | | | | |  | @hellsbellsdaniel/Instagram | | Like this one, Melanie Daniel’s recent paintings are set amid the fallout of some unspecified climate disaster. The B.C. artist has been Instagramming about her support of the protests at Fairy Creek. (More on that in the story below.) | | | | |  | CBC Arts | | | | | Meet Jeremy Herndl, an artist who advocates for B.C.’s old-growth forest while painting among its ancient trees. | | | | |  | | Sungpil Yoon, Frederico Pellachin, Dimitri Levanoff, Chickweed Arts/Jamie Griffiths, Annie France Leclerc | | | | | The short list was revealed this past week along with dates for a group exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada. | | | | |  | John Paillé | | | | | Meet the artists of this year’s Emerging Creators Unit: Ajahnis Charley, Janis Mayers and Babe Waters. | | | | |  | @emily_kirsch_art/Instagram | | Emily graduated from the University of Victoria this spring and appears in our Class of 2021 feature. This piece (Consume) started as a swirl of acrylic paint. Emily then scanned that image and presented it as a large photographic print. Does it remind you of anything? Emily says the work is inspired by microscopic life, but they love it when viewers approach the work Rorschach-style and find another story in the picture. | | | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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