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Sunday, May 21, 2023

Hi, Art!

Sunday, May 21, 2023

Hi, art lovers!

 
Screen grab from Q interview with actor Paul Sun-Hung Lee, a middle-aged man of Korean descent. He wears a red Toronto blue jays cap and black T-shirt and smiles broadly in front of a microphone.

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As soon as the long weekend’s over, CBC Arts will be publishing a whole lot of content about the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards. The prize is considered one of Canada’s top honours, and to celebrate this year’s laureates, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa will be hosting a gala on May 27. 

Leading up to the big day, we’ll be posting stories about the honourees. But if you can’t wait till then, Q already has a couple of must-listen interviews. Hear from legendary singer k.d. lang and actor Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, the star of Kim’s Convenience and the only GGPAA winner to have ever been immortalized as an official Star Wars figurine. 

This year’s awards ceremony won’t be televised, but keep your eye on CBC Gem for a special video series produced by the NFB. As per GGPAA tradition, the NFB has made original short films that profile the winners. Look for those on Saturday night.
 

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Photo of dried dancelions and purple flowers assembled to suggest a dancing figure against a black backdrop.

Linh VH Nguyen

Dandelion Dancer No. 2 by Linh VH Nguyen. The Ottawa-based artist will be showing at this year’s Toronto Outdoor Art Fair this summer (July 7-9).
 
Photo of three ceramic artworks photographed in an all-white backdrop. They suggest classical busts but are consumed by organic forms suggesting vines, tentacles, roots and blossoms. The forms are painted pastel colours.

Jess Riva Cooper

Sporophore Grouping by Toronto’s Jess Riva Cooper. Jess’s work will be featured at the 2023 International Ceramic Art Fair, which returns to the Gardiner Museum June 8-18.
 
Photo of a surreal metallic sculpture in a white room on a white plinth. The sculpture suggests a crouching human figure whose body is layered multiple times, either suggesting rising motion or maybe a mutating lifeform.

Stephanie E. Hanes

And because I couldn’t choose just one photo … here’s another preview from ICAF: Transfiguration by Alberta-born artist Stephanie E. Hanes.
 
Installation photo of a video installation by Jeremy Shaw, up at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. A darkened room is filled with four large screens projecting scenes of people enveloped by glitchy patterns in shades of blue and purple.

Timo Ohler/Courtesy of Jeremy Shaw and Macaulay & Co. Fine Art

Phase Shifting Index by Jeremy Shaw will open at the Polygon Gallery on June 23. The immersive installation first premiered at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, way back in 2020. (That’s where this photo was taken.) But the upcoming exhibition at Polygon in North Vancouver (Jeremy’s hometown!) will be its first showing in North America.
 
Daytime photo of the exterior of the Aga Khan Museum. A square pool is in the foreground. An art installation of upside-down words emerges from the pool. In the reflection, a phrase is legible. It reads:

Aga Khan Museum

This installation by Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel is now up at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. That phrase you see reflected in the water? It’s a quote attributed to Rumi, the poet and Sufi mystic who’s the subject of the museum’s main exhibition. Skip to the next section of the newsletter and you’ll find a story with more info about that show.
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Performers in orange prison uniforms stand in formation for a dance routine.
Nanc Price

How a classic viral video inspired Canada’s first all-Filipino musical

 
Prison Dancer is now playing the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton. Co-writers Romeo Candido and Carmen De Jesus tell the story of how they brought it to the stage.
 
Two Shepherds with Sheep and Goats,
Aga Khan Museum

This 13th century poet is bigger than ever

 
His words are everywhere: social media, Coldplay songs … Brad Pitt’s bicep. But who was Rumi, exactly? A new exhibit at the Aga Khan Museum tackles that question.
 
Photo of author Shere Hite, a pale white woman with long curly strawberry blonde hair, floating in green water in a green dress. She writes in a red book perched on a fountain shaped like a turtle and looks at the viewer.

Hot Docs

 

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William Ukoh

@willyverse
Surreal 3D image that blends photography and digital elements. A young Black woman sits in a low-ceilinged office behind a plain desk that holds a boxy '90s computer and a potted plant. A clock can be seen on the blue wall behind her. It is 5 o'clock. A long, narrow rectangular window stretches across that back wall revealing blue sky and puffy clouds.

William Ukoh

William’s on the new episode of digi-Art, where he teaches host Taelor Lewis-Joseph the basics of 3D rendering. Watch!
 

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