Alberta's Kate Hallett holds her own in Women Talking.
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Hi, Art!

Sunday, January 15, 2023

Hi, Art!

Sunday, January 15, 2023

Hi, art lovers!

 
Still from the film Women Talking. Eight white women gather in a dimly lit barn wearing traditional Mennonite garb. all but one looks to the left of the composition. One young woman, at centre, looks directly at the camera.

Still from Women Talking. (Orion Pictures)

 
Last week, Sarah Polley’s latest film, Women Talking, celebrated its umpteenth nomination of awards season, earning a nod from the SAG Awards. The film’s in the running for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture, and an incredible cast it sure is, including Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, Rooney Mara and Frances McDormand alongside even more powerhouse actors, one of whom is an emerging talent out of Alberta. I’m talking about Kate Hallett, who makes her screen debut in Women Talking, and as you might have seen on the site, she’s a CBC Arts Rising Star. You’ll find a feature profile of the young actor online (link below the jump). 

What’s “Rising Stars”? It’s a project that’ll introduce you to up-and-coming Canadian film stars: actors like Kate, but also directors, producers, screenwriters — folks who are getting noticed for the great things they’re doing in cinema. Look forward to a new profile story every month. Radheyan Simonpillai, a pop culture columnist for CBC Radio, is the guy leading the project. He’s also the former editor of Toronto’s Now Magazine … which ran a very similar project (Canada’s Rising Screen Stars) before the weekly was shuttered. 

But before you dig into that Kate Hallett profile, I want to share a comment I received via email recently: “While it’s important to promote current artists, I also think it’s important to honour the great ones who have come before.” A reader named Melanie sent me that note, surprised at the lack of Michael Snow coverage in last weekend’s dispatch. The legendary Canadian artist died in Toronto this month at age 94, and I hope it’s not too late to direct you to this piece — a tribute from CBC News. The article links to footage from the CBC Archives, namely a video from 1970 that also turned up in the CBC Archives newsletter: an episode of CBC’s Telescope, which follows the artist to the Venice Biennale. (Yep, CBC Archives has its own newsletter. Curious? Sign up here.) 
 

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Photo of two people looking at a floor-to-ceiling video projection of an animated film by Howie Tsui.

Vancouver Art Gallery

It’s Calgary’s turn to see Howie Tsui’s Retainers of Anarchy, which is now appearing at Glenbow at the Edison through April 16. Inspired by martial arts fantasy and current events in Hong Kong, the animated piece was previously at the Vancouver Art Gallery (pictured).
 
Photo of a broken porcelain hand. Three porcelain fingers lay before it.

Fausta Facciponte

Story Fragment No. 13 by Fausta Facciponte. Fausta has a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Burlington. Little Tragedies and New Beginnings is there through March 5.
 
Surrealistic painting in tones of red. Suggests a duplicated walking female figure, reminiscent of Michael Snow, in profile: one figure suggests neon red lights the other a black silhouette. Behind the figure(s), a gauzy curtain.

Sascha Braunig

B.C.-born artist Sascha Braunig just wrapped her own exhibition in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, and dang, do I ever wish I’d braved the drive to see her stint at Oakville Galleries. 
 
Artwork created with metal staples on painted wood. Suggests a winding river intersecting a vertical patterned band.

Sasha Huber

Mami Wata by Sasha Huber. (It’s hard to tell from a JPEG, but those marks are made with metal staples on wood!) Sasha had a show at the Power Plant in Toronto around this time last year, and if you’re looking for a reason to explore the waterfront, check out the gallery’s newly announced winter exhibition schedule. The details were revealed last week.
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Close-up photo of Kate Hallett, a young white woman who wears her fair hair in a crown braid. Text reads:
Cooper & O'Hara/CBC Arts

Kate Hallett holds her own in Women Talking

 
The Albertan actor gives an awe-inspiring performance in her professional debut — and she’s our first ever Rising Star.
 
Closeup photo of a miniature clay figure of a fairy with red flower petals on its head.
aAron Munson

A tiny fairy world was hidden in an Edmonton gallery during lockdown. Now it's yours to explore

 
Artist Tammy Salzl reveals the origins of Emerald Queendom, her miniature fantasy universe.
 
Black and white photo of the band Doug and the Slugs: six white men in '80s garb.

Hans Sipma

 

The Cancon legend next door

 
Doug and the Slugs and Me is a new documentary by Vancouver filmmaker Teresa Alfeld. Growing up, Teresa didn’t realize Doug Bennett was a rock star; she just knew him as her best friend’s dad.
 

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Alex Bierk

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Realistic painting of two vehicles at an intersection, on the verge of colliding perhaps. Set in the evening, the sky is dark blue and the lighting is shadowy, illuminated by the glow of car headlights.

Alex Bierk

One of the quirkier entries on this list — CBC Arts’ extremely personal and entirely subjective picks for the top arts and culture of 2022 — was a long-sleeved T-shirt with this painting on it. Alex is the artist (and the purveyor of the beloved T-shirt in question).
 

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