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Sunday, January 26, 2025

Hi, Art!

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Hi, art lovers!

 
Photo collage of movie posters for the 10 Academy Award nominees for best picture.

(Neon, A24, Searchlight Pictures, Focus Features, Warner Bros., Netflix, Sony Pictures Classics, Amazon MGM Studios, Mubi, Universal Pictures)

 
The Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday, and there are a few Canadian artists and stories in the mix. (Of note: honourees in the categories of costume design and documentary feature film.) The show is scheduled to air March 2, and you may be wondering who’s expected to walk away with an Oscar … or 10? CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt has already filed his predictions, so bookmark this page for when you’re placing bets around the office. Or start shaping an informed hot take of your own. For example, not sure what to say when your buddy starts ranting about Emilia Pérez, a movie the Academy recognized with 13 nominations, even though plenty of folks are baffled by the hype — or just plain hate the film? This story breaks down the controversy. And between Q and Commotion, there’s enough film-related content to make you feel like an awards-season expert no matter what’s up for discussion. Listen to interviews with acting nominees Mikey Madison (Anora) and Isabella Rossellini (Conclave). Q also has conversations with directors Sean Baker (Anora), Brady Corbet (The Brutalist), Denis Villeneuve (Dune: Part Two) and RaMell Ross (Nickel Boys); all of their films are competing for best picture. Who deserves to win, though? Commotion’s got plenty to say about that, and the show’s culture panel has sounded off on a bunch of the nominees, including The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Nickel Boys and The Substance.
 

Because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Abstract art. an assemblage of shapes which appear to be cut out. They are in pastel shades of pink, cream and green and are arranged on a dark green background.

Roxane Fiore

Stillness in Motion by Roxane Fiore. See more of her work at Tian Contemporain in Montreal. She’s part of a group show there (Interpolated), which is on through Feb. 15. 
 
Photo taken from the bottom of a yellow rocky crevasse. Seen at the pit's opening is a figure draped in diaphanous veils. Birds fly in the blue sky overhead.

Stasia Schmidt

The Exposure Photography Festival launches Feb. 6 in locations around Alberta, and Stasia Schmidt, a past winner of the event’s Emerging Photographer of the Year Award, will open a solo exhibition at Contemporary Calgary as part of the programming. Her show is called Ephemerality and it features images from around the world. This piece, Lumen, was captured in Mongolia. 
 
Abstract artwork of shapes filled in with gradient colour schemes of dark blue, yellow and lilac. Each shape is full of egg-shaped holes.

Karen Kar Yen Law

Karen Kar Yen Law is the artist behind this piece, Egg Assemblage No. 6. She’s a painter and printmaker based in Markham, Ont., and Chinese culture and cuisine are major influences on her work. If you’re in southern Ontario this season, there are a couple of opportunities to see more of her art in person. She has a show on now at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham and a second exhibition will open at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa Feb. 25.
 
Abstract painting suggesting a landscape in spring colours with a blue waterfall. Colour palette is pale pink, sky blue and forest green.

Artwork: Kristine Moran; Photo: LF Documentation

Kristine Moran’s current show at Daniel Faria Gallery in Toronto (Not As It Was but As It Might Be) features abstract oil paintings informed by the landscape of the Georgian Bay area. Pictured: Towards the Unseen. 
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Photo collage of three images taken during a Caribbean carnival. One image is of a dancer on stilts wearing a blue fringed costume. The middle image is of a Black person wearing a mask; they are seated and holding a DSLR camera. The right-hand image, taken at night time, is of a stilt-walker seen crouching and in profile.
Pixel Heller

What’s worth seeing at Canada’s biggest design festival?

 
Art shows galore, plus a corner store ... for pigeons! Look for these must-see projects at DesignTO. 
 
Carmela Sison, a woman with dark hair in chef's whites and an apron, holds a fish in each hand.
Emily Cooper

See theatre from the comfort of your bathtub

 
The organizers of Vancouver’s Push International Performing Arts Festival want to immerse you in culture that defies convention. 
 
Still from CBC interview series Here and Queer. Sook-Yin Lee, a woman of Asian descent, wears a pastel tie-dyed T-shirt and her black hair is in a top knot. She smiles while seated on a white couch strewn with patterned cushions.

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Here & Queer with Sook-Yin Lee

 
In her new movie, Paying for It, the filmmaker revisits a story from her past.
 

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Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart

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Still from video art. In close-up we see a person's hand holding an ice sculpture of a human hand. The sculpture melts. Type reads I used to think my grandma was primitive.

Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart

We’ve received so many beautiful reactions to Melting Grandma, a piece of video art Sage produced through the CBC Creator Network. If you haven’t spent a moment with it yet, watch it here — then see how Sage created it.
 

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