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Hi, Art!

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Hi, Art!

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Hi, art lovers!

 
Still from the movie Cocaine Bear. Medium shot depicting actress Keri Russell and a standing bear, on either side of a tree. Keri is a white woman wearing a pink '80s jumpsuit and beige purse. She has an expression of exhaustion and fear on her face.

Universal Pictures

 
Based on a true story — this true story — Cocaine Bear is the only new movie I care about this weekend. And if you, like me, have been too busy Googling the effects of four grams of blow on an average female black bear — and whether it’d help her win a scrap with a Jurassic Park raptor (find that CBC Arts column below) — I can’t imagine you noticed this news zip by on Wednesday: the Canadian Screen Awards will return to CBC April 16, and the nominations have now been revealed. 

There are a few changes in store for this year’s show: the broadcast is being pre-taped (to some actors’ chagrin), and for the first time, performance categories will be gender-neutral. And for those seeking additional viewing options this weekend (because we’re all seeing Cocaine Bear, right?), you’ll find loads of nominated shows on CBC Gem including Sort Of (the 2022 CSA winner for best comedy series) and The Porter (this year’s front-runner with 19 nods). 

Around this time last year, actually, Amanda Parris was raving about The Porter in her CBC Arts column. Amanda is up for a bunch of CSAs herself as the creator of the CBC Gem series Revenge of the Black Best Friend. (That show scored nine nominations in the web program categories.) Add it to your queue along with more arts-adjacent fare that’s now officially CSA-nominated: Lido TV, Race Against the Tide, Best in Miniature, Doug and the Slugs and Me (previously covered here) and Crystal Pite: Angels’ Atlas.
 

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Photo of a glass reliquary containing a gold human skull.

Tim Whiten

As announced by the Art Gallery of Ontario this past week, Tim Whiten is the winner of the Gershon Iskowitz Prize, a $75,000 award that recognizes “an artist who has made an outstanding contribution to visual arts in Canada.” As the recipient, he will also present an exhibition at the AGO (dates and other details TBA). In the meantime, folks in Ontario can find his work right now at the Art Gallery of Peterborough, where he’s presenting a show called Elemental: Earthen.
 
Photo of a gloved hand pulling back a gauzy beige curtain in a white walled corner. A white pillow covered with tendrils of blonde hair appears below it.

Elisabeth Perrault

An eerie and intriguing peek at Dancing With Her Ghost, an installation by Elisabeth Perrault that’s currently up at Pangée in Montreal.
 
Photo of greenery next to a roadway. The shrubs have yellow flowers. A large circle has been cut out of the hedge.

Natasha Lavdovsky

If you’ve been in Victoria recently, you might have seen this photo by Natasha Lavdovsky displayed downtown. (She’s part of the city’s Art in Kiosks program.) The image captures an “ecological intervention” of hers, and if you were a fan of our video series, Natural Collaborators, definitely take a peek at her portfolio.
 
Photo of an abstract pattern of interwoven cyan, orchid and marine blue lego bricks.

Matt Donovan

Lego artist Matt Donovan has an exhibition at Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto, which is worth mentioning for the dad-jokey title alone: I can see for tiles and tiles.
 
Photo of a painting by Marigold Santos hanging on a white wall. The piece depicts a female figure with long hair, her back to the viewer. She is drawn in white lines. She holds her hands in front of her and to the side, revealing blue-ish palms covered with hair-like strokes. The background, in dark purple and black, is a swishing pattern of brushstrokes suggesting movement.

Marigold Santos

Marigold Santos (previously seen here) opened a solo exhibition at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge this weekend. Pictured: shroud envisioning (mirror in grape).
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Medium closeup of a screaming black bear.
Universal Pictures

Cocaine Bear vs. Paddington?

 
Anne T. Donahue isn’t planning to see Cocaine Bear. She’d rather watch its ursine hero fight these five animal movie stars.
 
Medium close-up of an actor portraying Jackie Shane, a Black singer from the '60s wearing shimmery blue makeup and clothing. She stands in front of a silver microphone.
Historica Canada

New Heritage Minute pays tribute to a trailblazing trans icon

 
Back in the ‘60s, soul singer Jackie Shane was a fixture in Toronto’s music scene. Today, she’s the subject of a new Heritage Minute. (Watch it here.) We got the story of how it was made from filmmakers Pat Mills and Ayo Tsalithaba.
 
A Black woman in '60s-style formal dress, an amber satin dress, stands on stage with her hand on her hip.

Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre/Photo by Dylan Hewlett

 

The play that was 66 years late for its Broadway debut

 
The show? Trouble in Mind. Its author? Alice Childress, a Black artist whose work is now in high demand. Carly Maga explores the renewed interest in a groundbreaking playwright.
 

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Meryl McMaster

@meryl_mcmaster
Photo of the artist Meryl McMaster, a woman with long dark hair wearing a long dark cloak and standing on the shore of a body of water at purple twilight. The top half of her face is painted chalk white and she holds a small wooden boat on her shoulder. It is filled with stuffed black birds.

Meryl McMaster

Beyond Instagram, you can find this particular image (On the Edge of This Immensity) at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. It’s appearing there as part of Meryl’s must-see survey exhibition, Bloodline. (More on that here.)
 

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