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ART

Descending Into La Nuit

ART SOUTERRAIN, NUIT BLANCHE

by Lori Callaghan
23.02.2010

A nocturnal tradition in Montreal, Nuit Blanche returns this Saturday for its 7th edition. From 6 pm until 3 am, art lovers can enjoy perusing the 10 venues of Art Souterrain, which will host paintings, videos, photographs, performances, installations and artists. With 104 projects spread across 4 km in the underground, audiences will encounter a [...]

ART

Setting The Crappy Aside

Live in the Lost, Warren G. Flowers Gallery

by James Gartler
18.02.2010

There’s something innately nerve-wracking about a homecoming. You end up judging the who-you-were against the who-you-are-now, and hoping the disparities amount to a much-improved, but no-less-promising self. For these reasons, Emily Shanahan and Corina Kennedy’s live in the lost is an interesting experience.

ART

Oozing Narratives

VON WONG, CAFÉ PI

by Lori Callaghan
09.02.2010

Benjamin “Von Wong” is a dreamer. He sees more than what’s in front of him and is inspired by everything around him. His portraits skate the lines around surrealism, fantasy, gothic couture and robust masculinity. His first exhibit Von Wong, now showing at Café Pi, comprises 41 photos whose subject matter includes such things as [...]

ART

Displaying The In Between

FEBRUARY, MUSÉE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN DE MONTRÉAL

by Lori Callaghan
03.02.2010

The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is busy setting up for the winter’s major exhibitions (Marcel Dzama, Etienne Zack and Luanne Martineau) that open on February 4th. Some rooms are closed to the public in preparation for the shows, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t some great art to see now. Riopelle, Anselm Kiefer and [...]

ART

Woven Memories

Anna Biro, Text in Textiles

by Sara Szabo
25.12.2009

“One of my oldest dreams came true: to create textile storytelling, to weave oral history into my textiles.” That’s Anna Biro speaking about her latest project Text in Textile, an installation consisting of textiles containing audiotapes.

ART

Rising From The Ashes

THE PHOENIX ART, GALERIE SIMON BLAIS

by Lori Callaghan
22.12.2009

You can’t help but notice Melanie Authier’s vivid pinks and magentas that are on the far right when you enter the latest exhibit, The Phoenix Art: The Renewed Life of Contemporary Painting, at Galerie Simon Blais. Walk around the corner and you will quickly feel the onslaught of Jeremy Hof’s vibrant discs. Saunter down the [...]

ART

Masked Female Avengers Hit Back

DISTURBING THE PEACE, GALERIE DE L’UQAM

by Lori Callaghan
17.12.2009

“One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.” – Confucius
This epithet, along with about a dozen others, is part of a 2009 poster created by the Guerrilla Girls that focuses on the history of hate speech against women and feminism, and includes quips from the likes of Frank Sinatra, Napoleon and Picasso. The poster [...]

ART

Somewhat Watery And Bland

J.W. Waterhouse, MMFA

by Arthur Kaptainis
05.11.2009

J.W. Waterhouse? You mean, like, the investment firm? Or is that the crystal? It is a fair guess that fewer than five percent of the millions who recognize instantly the Lady of Shalott – the dreamy aquatic canvas that functions as the official highlight of the Waterhouse exhibition currently showing at the Montreal Museum of [...]

ART

Beneath The Body Beautiful

BODIES: THE EXHIBITION, CENTRE D’EXPOSITION DE MONTRÉAL

by Lori Callaghan
04.11.2009

Beautiful is not the first word that pops into most people’s mind when they think about the circulatory system, but after seeing Arteries of the Trunk on display at Bodies: The Exhibition (Centre d’Exposition de Montréal, Eaton Centre), many will think it’s apt. Meticulously dissected and preserved, this specimen shows the many blood vessels that [...]

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Friday 12.03.2010

Blogs
Marianne Ackerman
- Riding The Wave To MECCA 09.03.2010
  Is it just me, or are Montreal theatre artists riding a new wave of excellence? The Montreal English Critics Circle Awards (MECCA) seems to […]
Noah Richler
- The Writing Life (5): “The Writer as Athlete (and Not)” 03.03.2010
  A rough patch: all those January plans and nothing adding up. No money coming in, no big thoughts, not even small ones that are all that int […]
Daniel Weinstock
- An Elegy for Joey 14.02.2010
  I only saw the Ramones live once, at the late and unlamented Plateau Auditorium. It was the day of my 17th birthday, and my girlfriend had s […]
Claude Lalumière
- The Films of 2009 #5: My Top 10 05.03.2010
  Counting down to my favourite film of 2009… 10. Jennifer’s Body directed by Karyn Kasuma; written by Diablo Cody; starring Megan Fox & A […]
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At the Dièse Onze Jazz Club tonight, yet another double bill with Les 2 Guitares, followed by the Yannick Rieu Quartet ... The Joel Miller Quartet, featuring Matt Wilson, is at Upstairs while the ever-present Taurey Butler joins up with the DTW Jazz Trio at House of Jazz ... Stay tuned tomorrow for the third of the special three-part dialogic session with Professor Norman Cornett, featuring world-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Ivar Mendez ... [more]