 Hi, art lovers! | | |  | Selections from CBC Life's gift guide. (Stephanie Cheng) | | | Prepare to click “add to cart.” I got to play virtual Santa for a day, crashing my browser with links to artist merch and brand collabs from some of the talented folks we’ve previously covered on the site. Yep, our annual holiday gift guide is locked and loaded, and you’ll find it on the site quicker than you can say “credit card debt.” But if you’re in shopping mode right this second, other teams around the Ceeb can help you out. CBC Life and CBC Books have published arts-leaning gift guides. Here are some must-have items by Canadian makers, and if you’re buying for fans of music, sports or historical fiction, these book lists will get you sorted. Need a guide to the art of gifting? This article says books are a surefire win, for what it’s worth. Or have you ever wondered if shopping itself could be a work of art? This upcoming auction at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre might give you something to consider. | | | | | And because we promised you eye candy ... | | |  | Glen Baldridge | No Way by Glen Baldridge. | | | | |  | Karen Thürler | | A bunch of artists have made “toys” that they’re showing at Toronto’s Toutoune Gallery through Dec. 22. Santa, I’ve been very good this year and I would like a My Little Gremlin by Karen Thürler please and thank you. | | | | |  | Hangama Amiri | | Reclining Woman on a Sofa by Hangama Amiri (previously seen here). The Afghan Canadian artist just announced her first solo museum exhibition. It opens at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut Feb. 5. | | | | |  | Clay Ellis | | Evening at the Big Dipper by Clay Ellis, who has a solo exhibition at Edmonton’s Peter Robertson Gallery through Dec. 10. | | | | |  | Getty Images | | | | | According to columnist Huda Hassan, that Megan Thee Stallion lyric is just the latest example in a long pattern of misogyny. | | | | |  | CBC Arts | | | | | Mixing sci-fi with contemporary dance, these five short films explore our digital destiny. | | | | |  | CBC | | | | | | | The cartoons we grew up with were packed with hidden messages, and a new series on CBC Gem (Stay Tooned) reveals all. You can stream Season 1 right now, but first, read an interview with its host, Scarborough, Ont.-born voice actor Eric Bauza. | | |  | Rajni Perera | | When I had Rajni on the phone the other week, she said her long-running Traveller series is coming to an end, but this post (part of a diptych for Jeffrey Deitch gallery) is a great example of the new direction she’s taking her work in. | | | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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