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Hi, Art!

Sunday, January 08, 2023

Hi, Art!

Sunday, January 08, 2023

Hi, art lovers!

 
Still from HBO series The Last of Us. Two figures, a man and a young woman, stand with their backs to the camera. They face a prairie landscape. At the top of a small hill is the wreckage of a plane crash.

Still from The Last of Us. The new series was shot in Alberta. (HBO)

 

Happy 2023! As the following cultural properties enter the public domain (in the States at least), and I contemplate a side hustle selling Edward Hopper T-shirts or some such, the CBC Arts team is only just crawling back to the office after all the comfort (and travel chaos) of the holiday season. Check out a few of the things we binged in our off time: January’s streaming picks hit the website a few days back (link below). But with a whole new year on the horizon, there’s plenty more to look forward to in 2023. I’m talking about movies and TV — and even more movies and TV. (This Criterion Collection list of must-sees made me hopeful for the future, even if these Hollywood industry predictions aren’t especially rosy.) 

But if you’ve resolved to avoid the couch this year, I’d be very curious to know what you’re looking forward to seeing in 2023. Already filling your calendar with festivals and plays and art shows and all manner of real live arts-adjacent fun? Tell me about it! I love a good tip.

 

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Realistic painting in neon shades of green, blue and purple. An '80s style TV stands on a plinth against a black backdrop. On the screen is a close-up of two human hands. The hand at left stretches a finger towards the next hand.

Peter Chan

Study of Anticipation 1 by Toronto-based painter Peter Chan.
 
Digital collage in shades of yellow and taupe. Creates an abstract composition.

Alison S. Kruse

Because new year’s resolutions: Self Improvement by Toronto’s Alison S. Kruse.
 
Surreal figurative painting. Five outstretched turquoise human arms emerge from a bed of green shrubbery. One holds a white and green flower crown. Three hold a basket filled with flowers, fish, fruit, pears and the green lifeless head of the gorgon Medusa.

Michelle Nguyen

Gorgoneion by Vancouver-based artist Michelle Nguyen. The painting’s appearing in a group exhibition (Hysteria) opening Jan. 12 at Gillian Jason Gallery in London.
 
Photo of a ceramic figure painted in an all-over print (black, pink, red, yellow). Its limbs are wavy and its profile suggests two figures smashed into one.

Julie Moon

See this piece by Julie Moon at Toronto’s Birch Contemporary. It’s featured in the gallery’s current group show, Remnants.
 
Painting of an abstracted campfire scene. The logs are in unrealistic colours: pink, blue, peach, polka-dot white and yellow. Gradient squiggles cut the composition and emerge from the suggested fire pit.

Lisa Cristinzo

Fire is the Spirit of Matter by Toronto’s Lisa Cristinzo.
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Marc Fennell, host of Stuff the British Stole, in front of London's Tower Bridge. He is a young man with short hair wearing a navy-blue collared jacket and he looks at the camera with a slight smile.
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Stuff the British Stole

 
Every object has a story, and this podcast (turned CBC Gem TV show!) is all about telling them, no matter how complicated. 
 
Giancarlo Esposito in a still from Netflix series Kaleidoscope. He is a man in advanced middle age and stands in a dimly lit locker room wearing a dark denim overshirt. He looks at the camera with a blank expression.
Netflix

January's must-stream TV

 
Add to queue: Kaleidoscope, The Last of Us, Copenhagen Cowboy and plenty more.
 
Still from the 1997 film Titanic. Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack and Kate Winslet as Rose. The duo stand on a ship at sunset. He is behind her with his hands on her waist. Her arms are outstretched, as if in flight. Wild blows through their hair.

Paramount

 

Her heart will go on for Titanic

 
It’s been 25 years since Titanic conquered the box office. The James Cameron blockbuster was a cultural phenomenon, one that’s remembered fondly by many children of the ‘90s. Among them? Columnist Anne T. Donahue.
 

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Paige Bowman

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Illustrative version of the CBC Gem. Digital line drawings of red-eyed black loons comprise the gem itself, their faces poking out of the geometric segments of the logo's design. Text reads: CBC Arts.

Paige Bowman

For January’s logo, the B.C. illustrator combined the CBC gem with another Canadian icon: the common loon.
 

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