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Hi, Art!

Sunday, November 24, 2024

Hi, Art!

Sunday, November 24, 2024

Hi, art lovers!

 
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Ian Williams is an award-winning author and poet. His 2024 Massey Lectures address the breakdown of private and public discourse. (CBC)

 
The 2024 CBC Massey Lectures are now online, and for this year’s edition, author Ian Williams wants to get people talking about conversation. It’s a lost art, after all — especially in the era of cancel culture, he argues. “We’re living in a point now where we can barely talk to each other,” he said earlier this year in an interview with Q’s Tom Power. “It seems really timely that we kind of step back and say, 'Why can't we talk to each other? How can we talk to each other? What do we need to talk about right now in 2024?” Williams explores those questions in his lecture series, which he took on the road last month. So how does he define good conversation? Listening is key — and the same rule applies to social media. Find the 2024 CBC Massey Lectures, What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time, on CBC Listen and the Ideas podcast. Plus find interviews with Williams on Ideas and Commotion.
 

Because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Photo of a blue and white beach towel hung on a wall with peeling wood siding. The towel is printed with a surreal illustration featuring details from plants and seashells.

Alicia Nauta

I can’t open Instagram without seeing a post advertising a holiday arts market somewhere, which is why this week’s batch of eye candy has a particularly crafty flavour. In Toronto today, Alicia Nauta will be tabling at 918 Bathurst for Arts at the End of the Year: A Holiday Market.
 
Surreal cartoon-style drawing in a primary colour palette. Suggests a giant fantasy creature with four human hands and multiple heads shooting a white fiery beam to the earth below. At the beam's centre is a blank-faced humanoid of a significantly smaller scale than the being above.

Dalbert B. Vilarino

If you make it to 918 Bathurst today, look for Dalbert B. Vilarino's stall as well. The title of this risograph is Discorporate 2. 
 
Painting of two women in profile with their mouths open, as if screeching. Painted in a realistic style, but somewhat blurred and sparkling, as if seen in memory.

Elycia SFA

City of Craft is the biggest non-profit juried craft show in Toronto, and it’s set to take over the Theatre Centre Dec. 6 to 8. Artist Elycia SFA is one of the many vendors who’ll be there. 
 
Surreal illustration of two pink bubble faces squished together. They are identical with black holes for eyes.

Dogs Understand

Expozine is happening in Montreal this weekend, which is where you’ll find wares by Dogs Understand.
 
Flat lay photo of three cyanotype holiday cards with images of crystal glasses imprinted on them. Text reads the same on each card:

Blue Pine Press

I really enjoy the Ghost of Christmas Past vibes of these spectral cyanotypes by Mathew Thomson of Blue Pine Press. Find the artist at OddBird Art & Craft Fair in Edmonton. (The event runs for two weekends, starting Nov. 29 to Dec. 1.) 
 
Flat lay photo of a realistic surreal drawing in blue ink. Depicts a man's head. Beams of light stream out of his upward-facing eyes.

Jacob Scott

Jacob Scott drew this piece with a ballpoint pen, if you can believe it, and he’s selling prints of his artwork at Halifax Crafters today.  
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Coloured sand on the ground. Many footprints are visible.
Polina Teif

It might be the world’s most underappreciated resource

 
I’m talking about sand. It’s a material that’s used in everything from concrete to computer chips, and our global supply is running out. That’s one reason Shannon Garden-Smith is devoted to researching the stuff — and making stunning art with it too. 
 
Still from Here & Queer. A white man with short hair wearing an ocean blue sweater holds a tight-lipped expression while seated on a white couch.
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Ever heard of the Windsor Hum?

 
It inspired The Listeners, a new BBC series created by Jordan Tannahill. The Canadian artist and playwright dropped by Here & Queer to discuss the making of the show.
 
Close-up of Sameer Farooq in Studio Q. He is a man of colour with a grey beard. He wears a black ballcap and taupe button-up. He smiles broadly. He wears over-the-ear headphones and is seated in front of a large microphone.

Vivian Rashotte/CBC

 

According to this artist, flatbread belongs in a museum

 
On Q, Sameer Farooq discussed his new project, Flatbread Library, appearing at the Toronto Biennial of Art.
 

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Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

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Installation photo of surreal abstract artworks hanging from the ceiling to form a wave shape that cuts through a gallery space.

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

The artist has a show at MOCA Toronto (Diaries After a Flood), and he visited Q last week to discuss why he blends traditional Haida art with Japanese manga. Listen to that conversation.
 

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