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Hi, Art!

Sunday, June 25, 2023

Hi, Art!

Sunday, June 25, 2023

Hi, art lovers!

 
Photo collage of Canada Day performers Aysanabee, Tegan and Sara and Preston Pablo.

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Next Sunday’s newsletter will almost certainly be devoted to a special project that we’re keeping under wraps for now (PSA: brace yourself for a blast of Cancon cheerleading), so let’s skip ahead to Canada Day. Yep, it’s not even Monday, but I’m already dreaming of the long weekend. 

CBC’s guide to holiday programming is available right here, and on the arts and culture side of things, the main event is Canada Day: A Playlist to Celebrate. That music special, hosted by Isabella Racicot, will focus on the big concert happening at LeBreton Flats Park in Ottawa, with a lineup that includes Jann Arden, Aysanabee and Preston Pablo. But the broadcast will zip around the country too. Watch for Tegan and Sara in Vancouver, 6 Hearts in Charlottetown and Dear Rouge in Calgary.
 

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Gallery installation at Harbourfront Centre. Five mannequins dressed in colourful and sparkly costumes, standing on a hot pink backdrop. Sparkly pom poms and a disco ball hang from the ceiling.

Harbourfront Centre

Need some last-minute inspo for your Pride parade look? New York artist Machine Dazzle has packed Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre with costumes and photographs and scads of “queer maximalist” ephemera for his exhibition, Art and Intention. You’ll find these ‘fits inside Harbourfront’s Gallery 235 through Aug. 13. (A little related trivia for you: Machine Dazzle did the costumes for Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, and an HBO documentary based on that Pulitzer Prize-nominated show is arriving on Crave this Tuesday.)
 
Photo of a sculpture of a colourful two-headed tortoise with tiny trees and a human heart growingg on its shell. The piece is made of colourful re-used materials, mostly plastics, and is photographed on a white backdrop.

Johnston Foster

From the recycling bin to your eyeballs! This piece by Nova Scotia artist Johnston Foster is part of a survey exhibition (From Hell to Breakfast) he’s put together for Cchhuurrcchh, Hannah Epstein’s gallery in Mahone Bay, N.S.
 
Circular multi-media artwork incorporating embroidery, lace and emoji patches. At centre, a large winking emoji with its tongue sticking out.

Kenzie Housego

An idea for your next Hinge date: visit the Art Gallery of Alberta. Kenzie Housego’s got a solo exhibition there through Oct. 15, a show that reflects on how “romantic communication is coded, transmitted, interpreted and misinterpreted through technology.”
 
Photo of an illustrated colourful quilt, hanging on a white gallery wall. The quilt features a large blue-skinned female figure wearing a costume reminiscent of Xena Warrior Princess. She holds an axe in one hand and a tiny lizard in another.

Libbie Farrell

Some “super mega epic” textile art by recent Mount Allison University grad Libbie Farrell.
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Still from Elliot Page's interview on Here and Queer. Elliot is a white trans man with short dark hair who wears a zip-up top with vertical stripes. He sits in an all-pink room. A potted snake plant is visible behind him.
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Elliot Page has never felt better

 
He’s our guest on the newest episode of Here & Queer. Get the story behind his new memoir, Pageboy.
 
Actors Sean Arbuckle and Krystin Pellerin on stage in the play Casey and Diana. Sean plays Thomas, a bald patient with sores on his head and face, dressed in a navy housecoat and white undershirt. He sits on a hospital bed draped with a crocheted blanket next to Krystin, who plays Princess Diana, a slim white woman with short blonde hair who wears a pink skirt suit.
Cylla von Tiedemann

In 1991, a Toronto AIDS hospice welcomed one of the most famous people in the world: Princess Diana

 
A new play by Nick Green revisits that story. Casey and Diana opened at the Stratford Festival earlier this month. 
 
Still from Disney's The Little Mermaid. Medium closeup of the villain, Ursula the seawitch, a purple-skinned mer-creature with short white hair, blue eye makeup and crimson lips. She smiles an open mouthed smile and looks over her shoulder. Her henchmen, two blue eels, encircle her sneering.

Disney

 

They’re not bad, they’re just drawn that way

 
Armchair psychiatrist Anne T. Donahue makes excuses for Disney’s greatest villains. 
 

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Illustration of a postage stamp that has a picture of a winking yellow cartoon snail on it.

Nina Drew

Illustrated by Nina Drew, this li’l snail buddy is here to remind you to take it easy. Happy Sunday, everybody. (Find more of Nina’s work in our Pride comics zine, Out in Space.)
 

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