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Emily Dolmans

Don’t Look Now

Danielle Larochelle, KAI Design & Communications

by Emily Dolmans
12.11.2010

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore once said that the sign of a good painting was whether you could feel the subject’s eyes follow you as you walked around the room. They were joking, of course, since they were talking about Vernon Ward’s duck paintings, but there remains some truth to their statement. People are intrigued [...]

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ART

A Fascinating, If Meandering, Trip

Journeys, Canadian Centre for Architecture

by Emily Dolmans
03.11.2010

For thousands of years, humans have been traversing this ever-shrinking planet, etching their imprints onto the physical environment while allowing their surroundings to seep into their consciousness, influencing thought, culture, and migration. With increased travel and communication, it is not only people who circumnavigate the globe, but also ideas, objects, animals, and plants, all of [...]

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ART

The Long Journey’s Power

Wathahine - Photographs of Aboriginal Women by Nance Ackerman, McCord Museum

by Emily Dolmans
20.10.2010

“I look at myself as though I’m in a doorway… between the way I grew up and the modern world,” claims Susan Avingaq, an Inuit writer, artist, and traditional seamstress. Avingaq is one of the 25 extraordinary Indigenous women represented at Nance Ackerman’s photography exhibit, Wathahine, at the McCord Museum.

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MUSIC

Inspired By Post-Suburban Boredom

Arcade Fire, The Suburbs

by Emily Dolmans
23.09.2010

Do you remember those long hours of your youth, waiting for something – anything – to happen? Those years of boredom, where the world outside felt so foreign and unreal? So do Arcade Fire – and they’re inviting you to go back.

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