 Hi, art lovers! | | |  | (Thibault Camus/The Associated Press) | | | There’s plenty of arts-adjacent audio to catch up on this weekend. Over the last few days, the folks at Commotion have chattered about everything from Tubi to Céline Dion — and this conversation with Canadian violinist Lara St. John has been especially popular with listeners, I’m told. Plus if you were blown away (or befuddled) by Miles Greenberg’s nine-hour performance at the Luminato Festival in Toronto, you should definitely click on Q’s interview with the artist.
That said, there’s another episode of Q you’ll likely want to hear first: a recent conversation with the great Donald Sutherland. The Canadian actor died last week at the age of 88, and as tributes from his friends, colleagues and admirers show, few performers have left a legacy that compares to his. Over more than six decades, Sutherland made his mark in Oscar-winning films (Ordinary People), blockbuster franchises (The Hunger Games) — and one of the best music videos of the ‘80s. He was the recipient of an honorary Academy Award and named a companion of the Order of Canada. And yet, as he told Tom Power in December, he was far prouder of another achievement, and it’s something you’d never guess. (Listen to that interview.) | | | | | And because we promised you eye candy ... | | | | |  | Jeremy Shaw | | Maximum Horizon by Canadian artist Jeremy Shaw, as seen in a solo exhibition of the same name, which closed today in France. | | | | |  | Shannon Sandwell | | A visual reminder that summer is finally here! (Pictured: a detail from Community, a four-panel painting by recent OCAD University grad Shannon Sandwell. | | | | |  | Chris Flodberg | | And from Calgary (via Instagram), a new untitled painting by Chris Flodberg. | | | | |  | Audra Auclair/Cara | | | | | Fear of AI is driving thousands of creators to join Cara. But will the app convince them to turn their backs on Instagram, something they’ve relied on for years with diminishing returns? | | | | |  | Ibrahim Abusitta | | | | | The Days We Sang features new and recent work by Ibrahim Abusitta and Amanda Boulos. | | | | |  | Ann Baggley | | | | | | | The musicals are plentiful; Malvolio is a woman; and the swans are still angry. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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