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Sunday, October 13, 2024

Hi, Art!

Sunday, October 13, 2024

Hi, art lovers!

 
Close up photo of orange fall leaves on brown frosty grass.

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Autumn has never been my favourite time of year; I tend to catch a month-long case of the sniffles as soon as the leaves turn. But I do enjoy the notion that social media fall is the “People’s Season.” For once, living your best life is cheap, and anyone can nail the vibe with a PSL and a dog-eared novel. And should you plan to read the stuff you photograph, CBC Books has shared a cornucopia of selections over the last few days. Their fall preview boasts 51 must-read titles, and as a bonus, they’ve made dozens of additional suggestions —  just for the month of October. Want to add the year’s best CanLit while you’re placing all those library holds? The finalists for both the Governor General’s Literary Awards and the Giller Prize were revealed last week. (The winner of the latter will be announced Nov. 18 in a gala broadcast on CBC.)  
 

Because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Mirrored image of decaying trash, symmetrically composed to suggest a Rorschach test.

Sean Martindale and JP King

Detail from Our Desires Fail Us by Sean Martindale and JP King. The duo is featured in Face/Waste, a group exhibition that opens Oct. 19 at Industrial Arts in Markham, Ont.
 
Pencil and ink illustration. Close-up of a woman's face. She reclines in tall grass, looking at the viewer. Black ants crawl across her skin.

Jasmine Lesperance

Crawl by Jasmine Lesperance. 
 
Painting in a ghostly style. Depicts two hands. A white hand hovers over a peach hand with long pointy claws (possibly trumpet-shaped blossoms worn on each finger). The white hand picks a black ant off the peach hand. More black ants crawl below.

Anna Ruth

Cherry Picking by Anna Ruth.
 
Photo of a concrete sculpture suggesting an Escher-like labyrinth of decaying staircases.

David Umemoto

I very much enjoy the decay of this concrete brutalist sculpture by Montreal artist David Umemoto.
 
Illustrative surreal painting of three female figures in masquerade dress. They dance in knee-high blue water with two brown speckled cranes. An anthropomorphized cloud blows golden rays on they from a starry sky.

Marcel Dzama

For readers in southern Alberta, Marcel Dzama’s Ghosts of Canoe Lake is at Contemporary Calgary until Oct. 27. The artist was on Q back in January to talk about the exhibition. (It debuted at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection last December.)
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
In a white room with sun streaming in from a window, an orange ball bounces against the ground.
Gordon Hicks

More than meets the eye

 
In a hidden gallery near the top of Canada’s tallest skyscraper, this artwork eerily defies gravity.
 
Shadowy black-and-white full body portrait of Patrick Watson, a white man wearing a light suit and carrying a bouquet of wildflowers. He is seated on a bench and backlit by large windows.
Lawrence Fafard

How Patrick Watson channelled Leonard Cohen

 
Is anyone else out there watching So Long, Marianne? The limited series is now streaming on Crave, and here’s a bit of trivia for you: its theme was composed by Patrick Watson. The Montreal musician was on Q to chat about the show.
 
Still from Robby Hoffman interview on series Here and Queer. Robby, a white woman with slicked-back hair and glasses, sits on a couch smiling, her hands and legs crossed.

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Comedian Robby Hoffman loves coming home to Canada

 
Why? Nobody does shit coffee better.
 

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Colin Davis

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Realistic painting of a medieval helmet on a bed of fall leaves and grass. The helmet is emblazoned with modern logos including ones for Snap-on Tools and Monster Energy Drink.

Colin Davis

What’s it like being a dude in northern Ontario — or anywhere, for that matter? Colin has a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Thunder Bay (Steel, Grease and Gasoline), and he spoke with CBC News about the things that inspired the show, including Frank Frazetta’s fantasy art and symbols of rural masculinity.
 

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