It’s time to reflect on everything we saw, heard and double-tapped.
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Sunday, December 15, 2024

Hi, Art!

Sunday, December 15, 2024

Hi, art lovers!

 
Moo Deng, a baby pygmy hippo, smiles and splashes in a small tub of water in a zoo enclosure.

Because 2024 was the year of Moo Deng. (Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)

 
As the clock runs out on 2024, it’s time to reflect on everything we saw, heard and double-tapped in the last 12 months. This is the season of the list! And Friday on Commotion, the pop culture panel recapped the year’s biggest memes and moments, while over on CBC Arts, resident cinephile Peter Knegt shared his picks for the 10 best queer films of 2024. CBC Music is also experiencing a full-blown case of listmania. So far, they’ve named the greatest Canadian pop songs of 2024 — plus the top 100 across all genres — and these are their selections for the 15 best Canadian albums. Once you’re done with all those links, this site compiles (almost) every album-of-the-year list in existence, and for the literary set, CBC Books has ranked the best in Canadian fiction and non-fiction.
 

Because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Abstract painting suggesting an orange sun seen through a window grid. The sky is foggy and coloured lilac and jade green.

Mark Neufeld

Summer Open Studio Window by Mark Neufeld, who has a show with Julie Oh at the Centre for Cultural and Artistic Practices in Winnipeg.
 
Photo of art installed in white walled gallery. Translucent panels printed with ornate imagery, many suggesting doors and windows, hang from the ceiling like the walls of a house.

Rachel Topham Photography/Elif Saydam/Franz Kaka and SFU Galleries

Here’s a peek inside Hospitality, Elif Saydam’s exhibition (which closed yesterday) at Audain Gallery in Vancouver.
 
Abstract collage off cut photos in colour palette of brown, blue and murky yellow.

Aimée Henny Brown

Follow Aimée Henny Brown on Instagram to discover more collages like this one: A Vessel Is a Portal II.
 
Painting in orange of one pair of hands passing berries to another pair of outstretched hands.

Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet

Passed Between Your Hands and Mine by Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet, who won an Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund award earlier this month.
 
Artwork resembling a patterned red rug, made off plastic filament.

Sukaina Kubba

There’s an eye-popping salon show at Patel Brown Toronto right now. It’s up through Dec. 21, and if you make it to the gallery, look for this piece (Flowers for MM 2) by Sukaina Kubba while you pore over works by more than 50 artists. 
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Photo inside a white walled gallery. Paintings hang on the walls. In the centre of the room is a sculpture of enormous Nike sneakers.
Art Gallery of Ontario

Massive show examines hip-hop’s impact on the world

 
The Culture is a touring exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, and it’s touched down at the Art Gallery of Ontario for its only Canadian stop.
 
Two people, their backs to the viewer, stand facing a wall-mounted TV showing a Snoopy cartoon.
Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada

Snoopy battles the Red Baron once more

 
In Winnipeg, a museum show devoted to the Peanuts character explores a surprising chapter of local history.
 
Movie still. Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon are seated at an opulent dinner table. They smile broadly.

Neon

 

How to film the end of the world

 
Joshua Oppenheimer has made an apocalyptic musical starring Tilda Swinton, and he stopped by Here & Queer to discuss the movie’s audacious take on doomsday.
 

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Mike Del Mundo

@deadlymike
Illustration of a child dressed like an astronaut. He is surrounded by flying toys and holds a toy rocket ship aloft.

Mike Del Mundo

Mike’s one of Canada’s top comic book artists, and he’s worked on Marvel series including X-Men and Spider-Man. To what does he owe his success? Having a “delusional mind state” helps, he says. Read more from our interview.
 

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