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Hi, Art!

Sunday, December 26, 2021
Hi, Art!

Sunday, December 26, 2021

Hi, art lovers!
 

The situation is going to be a little different depending on where you’re reading this, but I suspect that Omicron’s got you facing another quiet New Year’s Eve at home, contemplating which live-streamed countdown you’ll be watching dead-eyed from afar. Will it be Toronto? Calgary? London? New York? Everywhere in between? So as we hurtle toward 2022, here are a couple of streaming entertainment options from the CBC universe — a couple of items that didn’t make it into last week’s dispatch. Podcast Playlist curated a few episodes that’ll make for a super hygge evening, and CBC News movie critic Eli Glasner would probably suggest you stream and/or rent a few of these.

And because we promised you eye candy ...
 
Painting of two pale hands stretched towards either in a diagonal line. The backdrop is a dense floral pattern in shades of indigo and violet that has been speckled with white dots suggesting a night sky. At the centre of the frame is a glowing white orb . The hand at top right appears to emerge from a wobbly portal.

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A winter solstice mood ℅ Montreal artist Alexandra Levasseur.
 
Painting of a night sky, framed by tall trees cast in complete shadow. At the bottom centre, a post with a globe-shaped lamp glows with amber light. A crescent moon, waxing from the bottom of the orb, hangs at the top of the frame.

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Moonlit night, you will fade into the distance. And we will fall asleep, flooded with longing. Painting by Sung Hwa Kim.
 
Lumen print. Image perhaps resembles an eclipsed sun against a pale pink sky.

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Lumen print by Galina Kurlat. 
 
Airbrush-style illustration of a kitchen-sink drain. Three transparent sheets appear to circle the drain, which sparkles with cartoon stars, like ghosts. The image is rendered in shades of grey.

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And just like that, another pandemic year goes down the drain. Art by Montreal’s Trevor Yardley-Jones.
 
 

You've got to see this
 
 
 
Photo still of Jean Smart in HBO Max series Hacks. She is an older white woman with blonde hair in an updo. She wears a multicolour sequin jacket and a black sequin lowcut top. She smiles and is seated in front of a dressing-room vanity table.
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Maybe 2021 wasn’t so bad?
 
Plenty of good things happened in 2021. We recap 10 of the best pop-culture moments — the stories that gave us hope for the future. 
 
A woman wearing a face mask crosses her arms and looks at digital art projected on screens surrounding her. She is looking at a cartoon of a blue-haired woman holding a sign that reads
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Nah. Go home, 2021
 
An entirely biased and subjective list of the worst trends to emerge this year.
 
Composite image of six CBC logos.

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2021 through the eyes of our logo artists
 
Take a look back at the imaginative designs submitted this year. Each and every one’s a gem.
 

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Hilary Jane
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Illustration of a woman in profile. She tilts her head back and looks upwards with a blank expression. Long dark hair falls down her back. The backdrop is a stylized sun with rays that stretch to the edges of the frame. The picture is rendered in shades of tan, black and white.

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The Sun by Hilary Jane. (Come back, sun! Come back!!!)
 

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I’m Leah Collins, senior writer at CBC Arts. Until next time!
 
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