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Sunday, October 08, 2023

Hi, Art!

Sunday, October 08, 2023

Hi, art lovers!

 
Night time photo of Las Vegas. An illuminated globe, the Sphere, is lit up with a photorealistic image of a human eye.

Greg Doherty/Getty Images

 
It’s Thanksgiving, and for the first time in forever, I have space to share a pile of the stories I’ve bookmarked. It’s a veritable cornucopia of headlines, folks! And I am thankful to be sharing the following content with you.

Oops, did I say content? Don’t tell Emma Thompson. On a related note, this might be my favourite quote in recent memory: “In practical terms, ‘content creator’ neatly accomplishes two things at once: It lets people who make garbage think they’re making art, and tells people who make art that they’re making garbage.” 

Oops, I’m going to say content again. What happens when a content creator outgrows the shtick that made them famous? And what happens when one of the most famous people on TikTok opens a gallery show? 

Speaking of TikTok, you can watch Mean Girls (and the rest of your favourite movies) there … which is a problem for writers.

An AI trend forecaster never would have seen this coming: Nirvana T-shirts are “preppy” now, which says more about the evolution of language than you might think. But the week’s top piece of Gen X-baiting content: U2 at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Here’s (yet another) in-depth look at the immersive performance venue. Commotion got a first-hand review of the eye-searing experience, and this story goes long on how some of the visuals (namely Marco Brambilla’s AI-assisted Elvis tribute) were made. (Fun fact: Montreal company Saco Technologies designed the LED screens that wrap around the structure.) Also happening in Vegas: a musical about a certain botched Spanish fresco (As It Happens has more on that story).
 

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Photo portrait of a woman, artist Miya Turnbull, wearing multiple masks of her own unsmilingg face. They are split down the middle and layered as though peeling away in her hands.

Miya Turnbull

Mind-blowing, yeah? That’s a self-portrait by Miya Turnbull. The Halifax-based artist is showing a selection of mask sculptures as part of the Esker Foundation’s current exhibition, Like everything alive that we try to hold forever. See it in Calgary until Dec. 17.
 
Photo diptych. Two female figures completely covered with patterned fabric. Figure at left, covers their masked face with their hands. Figure at right appears to hold their detached head above their body.

Michelle Forsyth

The Art Gallery of Hamilton’s AGH Festival launches next week (Oct. 12-21), and a party for the gallery’s newest exhibition (Wonder: the real, the surreal and the fantastic) is among the event highlights (info here). Michelle Forsyth is one of the artists featured in Wonder. Pictured: Green Dress 1 & 2.
 
Gouache on paper collage. Landscape. Most of the canvas is a pastel sky filled with long cartoonish clouds. At the base, a treeline of verdant palms. Two rainbows cut through the sky like twin snakes.

Celan Bouillet

This is Wandering Rainbow, a gouache on paper collage by Celan Bouillet. Celan is part of this year’s North Van Art Crawl. The free community event returns Oct. 13-15, and if you need help planning your itinerary, there’s an interactive map over here.
 
Installation view of an artwork that looks like a giant 3D chessboard. Painted 2D figures sub in for the game pieces.

Anna Boghiguian, Kunsthaus Bregenz

In Toronto, the Power Plant will launch its fall programming this Friday. Among the new exhibitions: Time of Change by Egyptian-Canadian artist Anna Boghiguian. Pictured: an installation view of The Chess Game (2022).
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Medium shot of artist Kaylyn Baker, an Indigenous woman wearing a black off-the-shoulder puff-sleeve dress, square-frame glasses and a black beaded choker. She smiles with her mouth closed and looks at the camera. Behind her is a series of mannequins dressed in her wearable art.
Mark Kelly Photography

Winning the Yukon Prize was a dream Kaylyn Baker never expected to come true

 
A decade ago, the Whitehorse artist hated beading. Now, it’s her favourite way to tell stories about her life in the North.
 
Performers Félix Maritaud (left) and Théodore Pellerin on the set of Here & Queer. Two white men sit on a beige couch against a pink and blue geometric backdrop.
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An electrifying new film set in Montreal’s drag scene

 
I’m talking about Solo, which won the prize for best Canadian feature film at TIFF this year. The movie is now screening in theatres across the country. Stars Félix Maritaud and Théodore Pellerin dropped by Here & Queer.
 
Three men sit in a hockey locker room.

Bell Media

 

Letterkenny spinoff ‘true to the spirit’ of Sudbury

 
Also: how is acting like playing on a hockey team? Shoresy co-stars Tasya Teles and Jordan Nolan have some thoughts.
 

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Handpainted sign featuring the CBC gem in bright yellow and red on a blue backdrop with a sky blue frame.

Sloan Brown

According to Sloan, the CBC gem is the GOAT of Canadian iconography, but she gave it a fresh coat of paint as this month’s featured logo designer. 
 

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

 
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