Undisrupted! Now streaming on CBC Gem, this series captures an ambitious pandemic pivot from the National Arts Centre.
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Hi, Art!

Sunday, September 05, 2021
Hi, Art!

Sunday, September 05, 2021

Hi, art lovers!
 
Sorry to keep you waiting a whole two weeks, but after a little summer vacationing, the newsletter’s back to its usual schedule. And it’s returned amid a week of major comeback announcements. I’m talking about Abba! Concert tours! (Albeit messy ones.) In-person art fairs! (Hello, Art Toronto!) Drake! (Damien Hirst did the cover art for Certified Lover Boy — an image that you and everyone else has already snarked about. If there’s one thing more common than a spot painting, it’s a story on Drake’s memeability.)  

Other things: if “Abbatar” was the best word you learned this week, watch the trailer for Grimes and Alanis Morissette’s new reality show. CBC News on Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and the challenges stacked against the latest Marvel blockbuster. (Related: a Shang-Chi cheat sheet so you can pretend to care about the tangled storylines of the MCU.) Why would any 12-year-old get a summer job when they could make a fortune selling NFTs? A triptych of portraits by Amoako Boafo was launched into space. (Artwashing knows no bounds?) BookTok continues to boost the work of Canadian authors. Are you a hopeful author yourself? Consider submitting to the CBC Short Story Prize. (Deadline is Halloween.) 
 

And because we promised you eye candy ...
 
Oil painting of a field at twilight. The sky is shades of pink and lilac and trees can be seen in silhouette cutting through the middle of the composition. The scene is somewhat impressionistic. Cartoonish daisies appear to float in the foreground.

@eeeemmawhite/Instagram

Everything’s got me mourning the end of hot, sunny days, and this painting by Toronto’s Emma White is a little on the nose (but marvellously so).
 
Painting of a male and female figure dancing alone in a ballroom. They have thick, toned features. The man, at left, is all blue and wears tight briefs and socks. He stretches his arms above his head. The woman, at right, has purple skin and long royal blue hair with Bettie Page bangs. She wears a long column dress with a split up the leg, a la Jessica Rabbit. The room has a purple floor, blue curtains and a ceiling painted with a circular pattern in shades of green, blue, purple, pink and gold. Globe pendant lights (3) hang from the ceiling.

www.justinyoon.com
The same goes for the title of this piece by Justin Yoon: Ghosts of Summer.
 
Painting suggesting a top-down view of rippled water. Spruce tree branches can be seen framing the composition in the reflection. At centre is a large yellow circle that fills the frame, possibly the reflection of the moon or sun. At top, two bare human feet appear to wade in the water. Below, two black and brown Birkenstock sandals rest against a bed of round pebbles.

www.giordannesalley.com
More late summer vibes from American artist Giordanne Salley.
 
Abstracted landscape oil painting. A large sunburst in shades of yellow and chartreuse fills the top half of the composition, appearing to be reflected in the liquid forms below.

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The Sun by Darby Milbrath. This painting and more of the Canadian artist’s work will be at the Armory Show in New York City Sept. 9 to 12.
 
 

You've got to see this
 
 
 
A performer stands on stage. The set is bathed in blue light. Tall trees appear to rise toward the ceiling. Shimmering starry projections appear to fill the space.

CBC
 

‘This is not your typical series’
Now streaming on CBC Gem, Undisrupted captures an ambitious pandemic pivot from the National Arts Centre. Watch inventive, original performances by Canadian artists.
 
Textile art rendering of the CBC gem logo in black on purple linen. In each segment of the gem there is a different cartoon sea creature or pattern: punch needle illustrations of fish, squid, shrimp, starfish, jellyfish, oyster and -- at the centre -- a red octopus.
Hiné Mizushima

Shrimply the best
 
Sea creatures or CBC creatures? Whatever they are, they’re off the hook. Meet the artist who created this logo design, Vancouver’s Hiné Mizushima. 
 
Still from the animated series Q-Force. Five human figures stand against an orange wall, listening (with varying degrees of attentiveness) to a male figure second from left.

Netflix
 

Matt Rogers knows what you thought about the Q-Force teaser
But the show itself is an inclusive triumph, writes Peter Knegt.
 
 

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Mallory Tolcher
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Photo of a basketball hoop against a clear blue sky. The net is made of strands of white beads, similar to a chandelier.

@methenorth/Instagram
We covered Mallory’s Nothing But Net project way back in February, but if you’re in the vicinity of Guelph, Ont., this September, you can see hoops like this one in person at 10C Shared Space all month.
 

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