After earning raves, Dixon Road closes its run today. Amanda Parris spoke with its creator, Fatuma Adar.
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Hi, Art!

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Hi, Art!

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Hi, art lovers!

 

This Tuesday is National Indigenous Peoples Day, and CBC is marking the occasion on all platforms. From CBC TV to CBC Gem, stories reflecting First Nations, Métis and Inuit perspectives will be airing all day long as part of a special slate of programming that includes everything from feature documentaries to pop music. This guide will give you a complete overview of everything that’s on deck, but why wait until Tuesday? Here are a couple of featured programs you can stream right now: SGaawaay K’uuna (Edge of the Knife), a period drama set on Haida Gwaii, which happens to be the world’s first Haida-language feature film; and Buffy, a five-part podcast about the legendary Buffy Sainte-Marie. Also: if you’re curious about the new CBC logo that’s been appearing all over social media for National Indigenous History Month, here’s a little behind-the-scenes featurette about the design. 

As for browser tabs I’ve kept open all week: ready to meet the Couch Monster? (Brian Jungen — previously seen here — will unveil a new work outside the Art Gallery of Ontario this week, the museum’s first-ever public art commission.) Remember this story about a long-lost de Kooning and the pensioners who (very likely) swiped it? An exhibition about its recovery recently opened at the Getty Center in California. The Billboard chart is dunzo (because Kate Bush). The video star’s dead too (because TikTok). And yet one of these 13 tracks will be Canada’s song of the summer. Even more music for your weekend: the Polaris Music Prize revealed its 2022 longlist. For sale: the Rose Apothecary. And on the subject of homegrown TV, all of these new shows have Canadian connections. 

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Photo of a painting hung on a grey wall. Painting is a pink canvas with an abstracted figure on horseback. Both the person and horse are blue and patterned with green and maroon diamonds. The person appears to wear a rainbow cape.

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It’s the last day of Gallery Weekend Montreal. This painting by Danny Gretscher is appearing at Galerie C.O.A.

 
Aerial photo of a road mural in an illustrative style. It depicts a blonde woman with bushy eyebrows wearing a purple sweatshirt. She is encircled by flowers and a snake like motif.

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Elsewhere in the city, Doras just wrapped this ground mural (Niamh) outside the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
 
Illustrated poster reading

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A reminder from Freddy Carrasco (who made this poster): it’s TCAF weekend in Toronto! The in-person event wraps today, but its online marketplace will be running through June 26.
 
Photo of the exterior of OCAD University. It has been covered with a geometric patterned mural.

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Spotted at OCAD U: a new mural by Jordan Bennett! The piece is called pi'tawita'iek: we go up river, and Jordan also has a solo exhibition (Souvenir) happening right now at the school’s Onsite Gallery. 
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Photo of performer Germaine Konji on stage in Dixon Road. It is an outdoor wooden stage. Green trees can be seen behind the scenery: draped panels of colourful fabric and photos of people. Germaine is a Black woman wearing a long patterned dress. She looks up, a concerned expression on her face.
Elijah Nichols

A musical that could only come out of Toronto

 
Dixon Road is the story of a Somali family who arrives in Toronto in the early ‘90s. After earning raves, it closes its run at the High Park Amphitheatre today. Amanda Parris spoke with its creator, Fatuma Adar.
 
Photo illustration of Elena Reyes as Andromache and Elektra in Trojan Girls & The Outhouse of Atreus. The characer at left is a feminine person wearing Black lipstick and a black fuzzy bunny onesie. They clutch a beige stuffed rabbit. The person at right screams at the camera, one finger pointing up. They wear red lipstick and blue face paint. Their hair is styled in a purple curly pompadour.
Dahlia Katz

Live theatre is back … with a post-lockdown twist

 
The makers of Trojan Girls & the Outhouse of Atreus, a new play that’s coming to Toronto, have learned a few things from the era of digital pivots. But as Carly Maga writes, the show embraces the live aspect of theatre “in a way not seen in the city since pre-pandemic days.”
 
Wide shot of artist duo Clandestinos in front of a mural of a lake landscape and giant details of a bird and deer. The artists, a young man and woman with dark hair wearing colourful patterned clothes, hold a young girl with dark pigtails, their daughter.

Clandestinos

 

With dozens of murals to their name, this duo is transforming the look of their hometown

 
For the better part of a decade, Shalak Attack and Bruno Smoky (a.k.a. Clandestinos) have made Toronto their psychedelic canvas. What mark do they want to leave on the city? We checked in with the artists, who recently opened a gallery exhibition — their first solo show in Toronto.
 

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Caroline Monnet

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Photo of a framed work of art on a white wall. It is a square canvas embroidered with a geometric pattern in shades of purple and neon yellow.

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You’re looking at Comfort Boost, a 2022 work by Caroline Monnet, but we reached out to the acclaimed artist and filmmaker to chat about a piece that’s even more recent. In fact, it’s still in progress. Caroline’s in Montreal to make her first mural. Read all about it.
 

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