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Hi, Art!

Sunday, October 16, 2022

Hi, Art!

Sunday, October 16, 2022

Hi, art lovers!

 
Photo of Tegan and Sara, identical twins, seated on a cream leather couch across from a blonde male interviewer, also seated on a cream leather couch. Tegan and Sara are slim white women with dark hair. They wear pink fashions in the style of the late '80s. A camera tripod is visible in the foreground suggesting a

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They’re musicians, authors, ambassadors of Calgary public transit. And now, Tegan and Sara are the creators of an all-new streaming series (High School). Personally, that’s all the info I need to add the show to my streaming queue. But if you require a little more background, we posted this interview with the duo before the weekend. 

The video’s actually the second episode of a brand new project for CBC Arts, Here & Queer. Consider it the AV spinoff of Peter Knegt’s weekly column (Queeries), but with a focus on in-depth interviews with LGBTQ artists and personalities. Episode 1 featured a chat with Billy Eichner — one of several convos that Peter taped during TIFF time. Watch for more episodes in the weeks ahead.

Until then, here’s a bonus feature for you — a deep cut from the CBC Archives. It’s a flashback to 1998, when Tegan and Sara were actually still in high school.

 

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Photo of an art installation in a white walled gallery. It suggests a face, suspended from two blanched tree branches against a yellow backdrop. Glittery clothes hangers make the eyes and a sequinned butterfly top suggests an open mouth.

Emily Harrison

Moth rising. Installation by Emily Harrison.

 
Painting suggesting a spiderweb covered with circular dewdrops, each showing a reflection of a moonlit body of water.

Nadya Isabella

Full Moon by Nadya Isabella. See it in person at Libby Leshgold Gallery in Vancouver. It’s up until Oct. 30.
 
Photo of a ceramic figure shot against a white backdrop. It's a female head, from which branches and worms grow. The worms are white with cartoon faces, suggesting Halloween ghosts.

Daumante Stirbyte

Ghost worms? Whatever they are, the spooky-season vibes are strong. Sculpture by Daumante Stirbyte (previously seen here). She has an exhibition at Ottawa’s Wall Space Gallery through Oct. 27.
 
Photo of a paved courtyard. A large pill-shaped sculptural object fills the floor and wall of the courtyard. It is painted in a grid pattern suggesting a pool and is framed with a gradient pattern in neon colours. Two people are seated next to the object and look up at it smiling.

David and Jorden Doody

Toronto isn’t the only place to find art that doubles as a skate park. Artists David and Jorden Doody just unveiled this installation (The Wishing Well) at the Kelowna Art Gallery, and as Jorden writes on Instagram, it’s “equal parts sculpture, mural and skate ramp.”
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Detail of a painting by Kent Monkman. Painted in a realistic style with vibrant colours, it depicts the artist in character as Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, a genderfluid Cree character who is wrapped in pink and white fabric and wears black Louboutin pumps and red lipstick. A humanoid figure with the head and tail of a coyote floats in space below her. Tiny people dressed in green hold up the fabric draped around Miss Chief.
Kent Monkman

Go inside Kent Monkman’s ‘legendary’ new project for the ROM

 
From moccasins to a dinosaur skull, the acclaimed Cree artist pulled items from the museum’s collection to create the show. Have a peek at the exhibition (Being Legendary), plus hear the artist’s recent convo with Q.
 
Still of Angela Lansbury in Murder She Wrote. She is an older woman with short blonde hair and large red glasses. She sits at a table typing at a large black typewriter and is seated in a brown and white kitchen.
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‘How Murder, She Wrote helped me come out of the closet’

 
Christopher Ali pays tribute to Angela Lansbury, who died last week. Growing up “different” in Winnipeg wasn’t easy, but as Christopher writes, he could always rely on Jessica Fletcher. 
 
Still from Netflix series Spirit Rangers. Three 3D animated characters smile and point at neon swirls. They are small children with brown skin and hair and wear puffy vests in different colours: blue, green and orange.

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‘I’m excited my kids can finally see playful Indigenous representation’

 
Spirit Rangers is a new animated Netflix series made by a team of Indigenous creators. When Kelly Boutsalis was growing up, there was nothing like it on TV. As she writes, watching it with her family has been a delight.
 

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Bogdan Anifrani

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Still from an animated video. A cartoon of a young Black girl with short dreadlocks is seated in a big yellow armchair holding a book. She holds her hand up, suggesting she is in the middle of telling a story.

Bogdan Anifrani

We grabbed this image from Bogdan’s episode of Dreams in Vantablack, where he animated life advice from Eva Anthony, a (now) 10-year-old poet and budding self-help guru from Windsor, Ont. The whole series is streaming on CBC Gem.
 

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