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Sunday, May 14, 2023

Hi, Art!

Sunday, May 14, 2023

Hi, art lovers!

 
Screen grab from YouTube series Chasing Hollywood. Seen in medium closeup is host Broey Deschanel, a young woman with long dark straight hair. She appears against a white backdrop that displays black text:

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If your weekend plans include a trip to the movies, BlackBerry might be the one to see. Directed by Matt Johnson (Operation Avalanche) and starring Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton, it’s the story of the world’s first smartphone, and CBC News Entertainment has been raving about how “chaotic, comedic” … and just darned good it is. 

How rare is that, though? A new Canadian movie that’s being tipped as the best thing in theatres? Homegrown fare has always struggled to find an audience, and if you’re at all curious about why that is, check out Chasing Hollywood. It’s an all-new series of video essays produced by CBC’s Creator Network, and the first episode premiered Friday on YouTube. The topic: Why is no one watching Canadian film? The answer’s complicated, but your host, Broey Deschanel, goes way, way back to the birth of the film industry — both here and in Hollywood — to break it down. 

Broey’s already a star on YouTube, and her channel has more analysis of film and pop culture than you could ever stream in a weekend. She’s also the co-host of Rehash, a podcast about notable #trendingtopics in recent digital history. (For more on that project, listen to this interview from CBC’s Podcast Playlist.) 

New episodes of Chasing Hollywood will arrive on the CBC Arts YouTube page each week. On deck: Broey will explore why Canada never plays itself on screen, and she’ll also explain why Canadian movies almost never turn up at your local megaplex (BlackBerry being an exception). 
 

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Top-down photo of six illustrated greeting cards with French Mother's Day greetings. The illustrations are colourful and floral in a naive style.

Laurie-Anne Deschênes

It’s Mother’s Day! It’s probably way too late to get one of these cards to your mom, but illustrator Laurie-Anne Deschênes will be at the Puces Pop market in Montreal next weekend. (Maybe get a head start on next year?) 
 
Illustration of an all pink domestic scene: a room with a window. Pictured: stockinged feet, an assortment of plates and glasses, vases, books. A white animal in a red head kerchief perches in a window sill next to a pear and potted cactus. Small fairies with large flowers around their heads prance in the domestic scene and one is flying in the window among clouds.

Foonie

Saya Oiwa (a.k.a. Foonie) is another illustrator who’ll have a table at Puces Pop. This print of hers is called The Fairies’ Tea Party.
 
Abstract photo collage made of cut images of yellow flowers and colourful striped and circular patterns.

Maggie Groat

Have you seen this art? Work by Maggie Groat is appearing on billboards around Toronto as part of the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival. 
 
Photo of Gaudi's Casta Battlo at night. The facade is illuminated by a projection-mapped digital artwork by Refi Anadol. It creates the illusion of swirling forms of colour and texture.

Casa Batlló

Have you seen this art? (If so, I am very jealous of your jet-set lifestyle.) This is a scene from Refik Anadol’s recent projection-mapping spectacle at Casa Batlló in Barcelona.
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Multi-exposure photograph of life on a cruise ship.
Sarah Palmer

Postcards from the end of the world

 
A new photo project from Toronto artist Sarah Palmer captures the beauty and excess of last-chance tourism.
 
Medium-closeup portrait of Keris Hope Hill, an eight-year-old girl of Indigenous heritage. She smiles and looks upwards, revealing a missing front baby tooth. She wears her dark straight hair down and wears a black polka-dot one shoulder top. Text reads:
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Our youngest Rising Star!

 
She’s only eight years old, but Keris Hope Hill is making a splash in Rosie and Little Bird.
 
Daytime photo of two people sitting on a stone step: Gavin Crawford, a white man with short reddish hair wearing an olive green polo and khakis and his mother, an older white woman with short white hair wearing black leggings, a black scoop-neck top and a white button up shirt.

Gavin Crawford

 

It’s the story of a comedian, his mom and Alzheimer’s

 
Gavin Crawford on the origins of his new podcast, the darkly funny Let’s Not Be Kidding. 
 

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Toko Hosoya

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Surreal illustration of a giant red-skinned human figure in a floral patterned dark garment. It peers at a tiny human figure all in white that it holds between its fingers. The tiny figure holds a paint roller and is painting the giant's clothes white.

Toko Hosoya

To launch the Pop Japan film program, the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto is throwing an art exhibition. (More on that here.) Toko’s one of the local artists appearing in the show.
 

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