 Hi, art lovers! | | |  | The illustration for Jessica Eaton's Think Like An Artist card. Why is it at the top of this newsletter? Scroll to the bottom for the answer. (Nolan Pelletier/CBC Arts) | | | Are you a music person or a lyrics person? If you’re a fan of Amy Winehouse, it could go either way. The singer, who died in the summer of 2011, had a raw and cutting wit and a voice that could never be duplicated. And she’s now the subject of a new Hollywood biopic that arrived in theatres this weekend. That film, Back to Black, has generated a double feature of shareable CBC Arts content (find those stories below). The movie’s been panned — though maybe not as extensively as another cultural property involving a famous Brit. Still, CBC News was unimpressed with the drama, giving it a middling review. Among the outlet’s quibbles: there’s precious little in the movie about Back to Black, the artist’s most celebrated album. (Don’t let the title fool you.) If the reviews have convinced you to skip it, there’s always this: Amy, an Oscar-winning documentary from 2015, is streaming for free on CBC Gem.
We began last week with another artist on our minds, however — one of Canada’s greatest authors, Alice Munro. A master of the short story, Munro died Monday in Port Hope, Ont., and you can hear more about her legacy on Commotion. Or better yet, revisit a conversation with the Nobel Prize winner herself. Here she is in 2004, discussing her life and career with CBC Radio’s Eleanor Wachtel. | | | | | And because we promised you eye candy ... | | | | |  | Marina Levit | | Softening the line by Vancouver-based artist Marina Levit. | | | | |  | Tony Romano | | And here’s something big! The Big Hat is the name of Tony Romano’s exhibition at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ont. For the show, he’s created a veritable city of whirligigs — kinetic characters that he’s made from upcycled metal. (More info here.) | | | | |  | Getty Images for Focus Features | | | | | Sam Taylor-Johnson, director of the new Winehouse biopic Back to Black, reveals how she set the tone for the film. | | | | |  | Focus Features | | | | | At the height of her fame, the pop star was a punching bag for the gossip blogs. “We like to think we know better now,” writes Anne T. Donahue, but a Hollywood movie about the singer’s life won’t erase the mistakes of the past. | | | | |  | Thunder Lotus Games | | | | | | | 33 Immortals takes players on a journey through hell. They didn’t have games like this in Dante’s day. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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