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Sunday, August 06, 2023

Hi, Art!

Sunday, August 06, 2023

Hi, art lovers!

 
People in medieval garb on stage in a production of Richard III.

CBC Gem

 
Something new for your streaming queue! After airing last night on CBC, the Stratford Festival’s Richard III is now on CBC Gem. It’s the same production that appeared at the festival last summer — the first show to appear onstage at Stratford’s newly reopened Tom Patterson Theatre, a space that recently underwent a $72-million transformation. And Colm Feore stars as the tyrant king, a role he kept rehearsing through all the COVID closures. 

The New York Times was a fan of his performance, calling him “superb, in a very cool and traditional reading of the role.” As for the play, if you skipped it in high school English class, the Shakespeare classic is a must-watch for any casual fan of Succession, although the Kendall Roy factor is just one small reason why the show remains relevant. On that point, I’d recommend this episode of CBC Radio’s Ideas. Have a listen before you start the play on CBC Gem, and discover Richard III’s timely themes of “complicity, conscience and speaking truth to power.” The episode even checks in with some of Richard III’s Stratford stars: Feore and Jessica B. Hill, who plays Lady Anne.
 

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Painting in a naive abstracted style with wide brush strokes. Depicts three figures, a giant one at centre, in a green field filled with white and yellow daisies.

Kellen Hatanaka

Lazy Sunday by Toronto’s Kellen Hatanaka.
 
Realistic painting. A forest. In the foreground at left is the back of a person's head. They have long frizzy straight blonde hair. One tendril wraps around a bare tree branch at right.

Caroline Zhang

This painting (Blonde) by Caroline Zhang is up at Afternoon Projects in Vancouver as part of the gallery’s summer exhibition (ends Aug. 15).
 
Surrealistic painting in shades of golden yellow and green. A human figure, back towards the viewer, kis enveloped in folds of yellow textural forms.

Shoshana Walfish

Hunting for Morels III by Shoshana Walfish. Shoshana’s part of a group show at Galerie Nicolas Robert in Montreal (A Symphony of Untold Depths). It’s on through Sept. 2.
 
Digital photo collage of overlaid pictures of leafy trees, all cropped rectangularly. The central image is more leafy branches, but with a person's hand extended holding an orange apricot.

Laura Kay Keeling

Untitled Portal 05 by Laura Kay Keeling, who just wrapped a solo show at Smokestack in Hamilton.
 
Graphic style painting in shades of blue and electric red. Shows legs and arms of a female figure bending over. Blue wavy hair cascades towards the floor, entirely filling the frame. Red long-stemmed flowers rise from the ground, poking out between tendrils of hair.

Florence Solis

Spring at Midnight. Painting by Florence Solis.
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Exterior of a building, the Cardiff Miller Art Warehouse, at dusk. A large sign shaped like an orange QR code, is in front of the building.
Cardiff Miller Art Warehouse

Come for the lazy river; stay for the sprawling contemporary art gallery

 
Artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, who repped Canada at the 2001 Venice Biennale, have transformed a furniture warehouse in the North Okanagan into a permanent home for their art. (And now I wish I was spending the long weekend in B.C.)
 
Performer Margot Robbie, a white woman with long straight blonde hair wearing an off-the-shoulder black sequin gown, appears in a medium shot, smiling in front of a large golden statue of Oscar.
Richard Harbaugh/AMPAS via Getty Images

The stage is set for a very Barbenheimer Oscars, but will the strike ruin everything?

 
The movies are back in a big way, but the Hollywood strike threatens to devastate awards season.
 
Film still from Double Happiness. In a dimly lit room, Sandra Oh, in character as Jade Li, appears in profile, her hands clasped to her chest, bathed in blue electric light. She is a woman of Asian descent, and wears her black hair in a bob. She appears to be in an ordinary bedroom. Curtains and posters hang on the wall behind her.

Fine Line Features

 

Heal your quarter-life crisis with Double Happiness

 
The 1994 film, starring Sandra Oh in her feature debut, is an underseen gem of Canadian cinema. (Tip! After you read this essay, stream the movie for free on CBC Gem.)
 

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Sophie Benmouyal

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A version of the CBC Arts gem logo rendered in mixed media. The geometric shapes that comprise the

Sophie Benmouyal

Sophie’s logo design has an eco-conscious message: “We must do anything we can to preserve the beauty of nature around us.” She told us more in this Q&A. 
 

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