CBC celebrates hip-hop's 50th anniversary.
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Sunday, August 13, 2023

Hi, Art!

Sunday, August 13, 2023

Hi, art lovers!

 
Graphic design poster. Blue background. At centre is a golden circle. Type in white reads:

CBC Music

 
Friday, CBC was at Toronto’s Echo Beach for Manifesto Presents: The Block Party, a one-night music festival headlined by L.A. rapper Aminé and Canadian icon Saukrates. CBC Radio’s The Block teamed up with Toronto’s Manifesto to make it all happen.

The whole extravaganza was conceived as a blowout for hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, a milestone that’s being celebrated all over the CBC universe. At The Block, the show just wrapped a marathon project called Hip Hop 101 — 50 hip-hop history lessons broadcast over 50 days. (For a more regional focus, explore this special feature from CBC Music: 20 songs that tell the story of Canadian hip-hop. And yes, you bet it comes with a preloaded playlist.) 

The anniversary has been a recurring hot topic on Commotion: Monday, U.K. rap was up for discussion; Friday, the chatter turned to Toronto’s hip-hop roots. And in addition to the CBC Radio specials that have already aired (here’s Marvin’s Room and Frequencies for your Sunday listening), there are still more celebrations to come. Starting Aug. 21, Q will be marking hip-hop’s 50th with an entire week of all-star interviews. (Two names I can already reveal: Charmaine and Wyclef Jean.)
 

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
MInimalist graphic design. All blue poster. A black grid, meant to suggest a table tennis net intersects horizontally at the very top of the composition. A white sphere appears to hover, casting a perfect black circular shadow, bottom right.

Yuri Uenishi

(Table) tennis, anyone? This poster by Yuri Uenishi is just one example of the eye-popping graphic design that’s featured in A Sense of Movement, a travelling exhibition of Japanese sports posters. The show’s appearing at the Japan Foundation, Toronto until Sept. 9.
 
Graphic design poster in a surreal style. A deconstructed burger on a blue backdrop. The bottom bun might also be a bbq grill. Red cartoon flames leap from it. Gooey condiments and flumes of smoke curl in the same psychedelic patterns.

Tiffany Chin

“Grill season” inspo from Toronto illustrator Tiffany Chin.
 
Painting meant to suggest a tile mosaic in pastel hues depicting a blue hammer on a green held by a yellow hand.

Luke Van H

A smashing painting by Toronto’s Luke Van H.
 
Surrealistic painting of a landscape. Wildflowers grow at an enormous scale for their hilly surroundings..

Remy Fortin

Montreal artist Remy Fortin has work appearing at Tap Art Space through Sept. 17. (Is it just me, or does his statement really vibe with the message behind this month’s CBC Arts logo?)
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
detail of art by Sarindar Dhaliwal. Grid composite image of realistic portraits of women, pictures of flowers and plants and maps. Grid marked by a floral border.
Lipman Still Pictures

Sarindar Dhaliwal combines the personal, the political and the fantastical

 
A new show at the Art Gallery of Ontario looks back on four vivid decades of the Toronto artist’s work.
 
Medium shot of performer Ryan G. Hinds, a black man wearing a long-sleeve pink shirt holding purple flowers. He smiles broadly, looking to the right, and stands in a verdant forested area.
Dahlia Katz

There’s a first time for everything

 
Ryan G. Hinds is a queer icon of Toronto’s theatre scene, but in all his years of performing, he’d never done Shakespeare … until now. Ryan is currently appearing in the Canadian Stage production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and as he tells CBC Arts, the experience has been pure magic.
 
Medium close-up portrait of Ariane Louis-Seize,. A white woman with blonde hair in a messy updo, she stares intently at the camera, her red lips slightly pursed. Text reads:

Samuel Engelking/CBC Arts

 

Gatineau-born filmmaker sinks her fangs into the festival circuit

 
Ariane Louis-Seize describes her new movie as “a classic coming-of-age with a vampire twist.” Its title? Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person. It will premiere in Venice before arriving at the Toronto International Film Festival this September.
 

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Rocky Dobey

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Photo of an etched metal artwork on the weathered cornerstone of a downtown building. Text etched in the artwork's metal plate canvas reads

Rocky Dobey

This short doc about street artist Rocky Dobey is a must-watch, especially if you frequent downtown Toronto. Rocky’s been leaving metal plaques and sculptures around the city since the ‘70s. They’re often hidden in plain sight, so thank goodness for his Instagram, which is a great online archive of his work.
 

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I’m Leah Collins, senior writer at CBC Arts. Until next time!

 
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