 Hi, art lovers! | | |  | Michelle Yeoh attends the 91st annual Academy Awards on Feb. 24, 2019. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) | | | The Academy Award nominations will be revealed on Tuesday morning, and the undefeated champ in our office Oscar pool (CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt) has made his final predictions. Once the news is live, there’ll be even more awards-season chatter on the site, so watch for Peter’s analysis, plus further predictions — this time for the winners.
Until then, assorted links!
A little bit of trivia for you: the Academy’s voter turnout has never been higher, and for the second year in a row, it's broken a record. As Variety notes, all those extra ballots “could yield unexpected results.” As it stands though, the Oscar race hasn’t lacked in surprises. Exhibit A: What’s the deal with all the sequels? Exhibit B: What’s the deal with Andrea Riseborough? Less shocking: the Oscars keep ignoring horror movies ... while the genre continues to dominate the box office. | | | | | And because we promised you eye candy ... | | | | |  | Akeem Nermo/The Polygon Gallery | | The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver recently debuted this new public artwork (Hacer Memoria), a commission from Rebecca Belmore. More about it here. | | | | |  | Victoria Fard | | While the DesignTO Festival is happening in Toronto (through January 29), look for its featured installations and events around the city. Here’s a glimpse of one of them: Reign, a digital projection by Victoria Fard. It’s appearing at the Drake Hotel. | | | | |  | Serkan Özkaya | | Talk about an eyeful: this immersive installation by Toronto-based artist Serkan Özkaya will be coming to MOCA Feb. 24. | | | | |  | Javid Jah | | Also in Toronto: The Burn is an interactive public art project that’s touring throughout the city over the next few weeks. Created by Roger Mooking, Javid Jah and Catherine Tammaro, the project will culminate in a special event at Nathan Phillips Square on March 11. (It’s all to mark the anniversary of the pandemic.) As for how the interactive component works, there’s more info here … or just watch it in action. | | | | |  | Focus Features | | | | | From Avatar to … Tár? Expect to see a bunch of these names when the nominations are revealed Tuesday morning. | | | | |  | Stéphane Bourgeois | | | | | A tiny museum of wonders! Territories 2.0 is an art installation by Quebec’s Olivier Roberge and it’s appearing in Toronto as part of this year’s DesignTO Festival. | | | | |  | BayView Entertainment | | | | | | | Q talks to Kyle Edward Ball about his hit horror movie, Skinamarink. (And yes, he grew up listening to Sharon, Lois & Bram.) | | |  | Tammy Salzl | | Here’s a closer look at one of Tammy Salzl’s “cute but weird” fairies, which she told us all about earlier this month. (Tammy’s exhibition, Emerald Queendom, is at Edmonton’s Harcourt House through Feb. 17.) | | | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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