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Sunday, June 23, 2024

Hi, Art!

Sunday, June 23, 2024

Hi, art lovers!

 
Photo of actor Donald Sutherland in a medium closeup. He is a white-haired man with short beard and dark-rim glasses. He is dressed in a black bowtie and tuxedo and smiles.

(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 ...

 
Photo of a large stained glass window installed standing in a white-walled gallery. The glass is a grid of orange and red suggesting the perspective of a tight corridor.

Jeremy Shaw

Maximum Horizon by Canadian artist Jeremy Shaw, as seen in a solo exhibition of the same name, which closed today in France.  
 
Acrylic painting in loose figurative style. Collaged illustrations of clasped hands, yellow sneakers, a bunch of strawebeeries, a hand holding a large ice cream cone. All forms painted on a blue background.

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.
 
Photo of a mixed media canvas hanging on a white wall. The image is photorealistic but textured suggesting collage and quilted textile. Depicts a white woman seated in shallow water wearing a tiger striped bikini. She looks away from the viewer. Her shoulder is deep orange and roughly textured in a 3D pattern, suggesting sunburn.

Xénia Lucie Laffely

Post Fight by Montreal-based artist Xénia Lucie Laffely. 
 
Figurative painting in a surreal style. A ghostly female form is in the foreground, surrrounded and interwoven with flat botanical forms in pale yellow, orange and green. The leaves of the botanical form are patterned with detailed drawing fragments: patterns, butterfly wings, eyes, Medieval-esque illustrations of people. The setting appears to be field in the nighttime, with yellow glowing grass and an indigo sky.

Nadia Waheed

Dreaming Tree by Nadia Waheed.
 
Abstract painting in shades of blue, yellow and green. It is a square canvas hanging in a white-walled gallery.

Chris Flodberg

And from Calgary (via Instagram), a new untitled painting by Chris Flodberg.
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Screen shot of Audra Auclair's portfolio page on the social platform Cara. Web browser with a black background. A grid of eight images: colourful fantasy paintings in a surreal figurative style. Text identifies the page as belonging to Audra Auclair, a Canadian artist with 4.6K followers.
Audra Auclair/Cara

These Canadian artists are betting on a new social platform

 
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?
 
Two paintings side by side. First one of a family portrait. The second is people on one side of a fence and a tree on the other side.
Ibrahim Abusitta

In fraught times, this exhibition gives Palestinian Canadian artists space for reflection

 
The Days We Sang features new and recent work by Ibrahim Abusitta and Amanda Boulos. 
 
A man in 1600s period dress looks startled on stage.

Ann Baggley

 

Everything you need to know before making a trip to the Stratford Festival

 
The musicals are plentiful; Malvolio is a woman; and the swans are still angry.
 

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Britt Wilson

@britterson
Photo of illustrated ceramics in a colourful cartoon style gathered on a yellow backdrop.

Britt Wilson

This portion of the newsletter always links to folks’ Instagram profiles, but here’s the thing: Britt spoke to us last week about the social network Cara, which has recently exploded in popularity among artists. (Take a look at her profile there too.) 
 

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

 
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