 | Sunday, August 01, 2021 | |  | Sunday, August 01, 2021 | | Hi, art lovers! | | | I was texting with a co-worker this morning, brainstorming a list of real live events in the real live world 一 debating whether any of these attractions might have the potential to lure us away from our COVID-free cocoons. Outdoor theatre? Day camp for adults? A giant severed head soaring over Lake Ontario? Speaking for myself, I don’t know that I’ll add any of that to my weekend to-do list, but she’d already managed to tick one item off of hers: a trip to the Art Gallery of Ontario. The AGO is newly reopened, and a blockbuster Andy Warhol exhibition is among the big attractions. (Their supplementary virtual programming continues, FYI, for the benefit of those all over. Vogue lesson, anyone?)
In further Warhol-related reading, take a trip to the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection, which the artist looted as a sort of “proto-Pinterest.” And in thoroughly unrelated reading: after 25 years, Arthur is ending … and this grown-up Canadian child star is finally asking the tough questions, namely why was D.W. always played by a boy? (This podcast grapples with the “mystery.”) Treat yourself to a Leonardo da Vinci … NFT. If you took that last suggestion seriously, this Frank Lloyd Wright might be a more interesting investment. Robot art is one Olympic event I can get behind. Billionaires aren’t the only things being blasted into space. Have you seen these phoney Indigenous artworks in a gift shop near you? | | | | | And because we promised you eye candy ... | | |  | @birdiseyeview/Instagram | Wherever you’re spending this August long weekend, may you be blessed with beach weather 一 and fingers crossed, access to an actual beach. Photo print by Jaspal Birdi, who opens a solo exhibition at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ont., Tuesday. | | | | |  | @laurakaykeeling/Instagram | | When It Gets Dark, I Have Shallow Breath by Laura Kay Keeling 一 an artist who happens to have a project at the RMG too. Try your hand at making a digital collage via Layers of Love. It’s a site Laura created with Khadija Aziz and it’s being presented by the museum right now. | | | | |  | Joseph Staples | | Another collage for you. This one’s by Joseph Staples and it’s part of Together Again, an auction and exhibition organized by the Burrard Arts Foundation in Vancouver. | | | | |  | Shoplifter | | One day, when the pandemic is long behind us, I will travel to Iceland to see this. (But first, there’s a Kickstarter goal to reach.) | | | | |  | @rock_vandal/Instagram | | Meanwhile in Newfoundland, Nina Elliott is yarn-bombing Twillingate, making the town her own personal art gallery. Follow her progress on Instagram. | | | | |  | CBC Arts | | | | | Celebrate Emancipation Day with a CBC Arts special featuring performances from coast to coast. The show kicks off Aug. 1 at 1 p.m. ET. Stream it live on CBC Gem and YouTube. | | | | |  | | Courtesy of Andy Nulman | | | | | From the days of Yiddish vaudeville to the birth of Just for Laughs, the Montreal comedy scene owes a debt to the city's Jewish communities. | | | | |  | Gay AF Comedy/Robert Watson | | | | | Live comedy is back in Toronto, and starting Aug. 7, Elvira Kurt, Martha Chaves and Tamara Shevon will be headlining Courtyard Comedy outside the Campbell House Museum. Hear from those comics as they gear up for an entire month of weekend shows. | | | | |  | @am.illustrates/Instagram | | The CBC Toronto team has been running a project whereby they commission local artists to make illustrations inspired by the city and its communities, and Alannah’s work was featured in July. (Either the white squirrel population has migrated beyond Bellwoods or this one’s meant to be a fanciful tribute to Toronto’s favourite parks.) | | | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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