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Oh MAI MAI

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ECLECTIK, MAI, May 25-26

by Veena Gokhale
18.05.2012

My friends had always spoken well about MAI over the years, and I was curious to find out more. Knowing a little about its mandate to promote artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, I decide to check out the curtain raiser for their annual cabaret, ECLECTIK. Running May 25-26, ECLECTIK features dancers, writers, actors, songwriters, musicians and interdisciplinary artists. About thirty artists in 13 mini performances reflect the theme ailleurs ici (elsewhere here), which also informs their overall programming for the year.

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NEIGHBOURHOOD

Tree Hugging Anonymous

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A new kind of exotic tree in Mile End

by Leila Marshy
27.04.2012

Tree hugging is serious business. Given that the average tree lives for over a hundred years, I can’t imagine that the occasional quickie hug does much to make the tree feel special. Where’s the commitment? The other alternative is to chain yourself to a tree, but that’s only one tree. You just know the others will feel left out. Trixi Rittenhouse solved this conundrum by stationing a cadre of permanent huggers on the 14 trees that line her Mile End block.

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FILM

Camera Rolling

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Picture Start, dir Harry Killas, at the FIFA Sunday 18 March

by Oksana Cueva
17.03.2012

In Picture Start, Harry Killas, Canadian director and producer, portrays an extraordinarily talented trio. The so called Vancouver School – Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham and Ian Wallace – are doubtless the biggest artists Canada produced in recent years and pioneers of conceptualism.

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VIDEO

Art for Art’s Sake

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Rover's Art Fair, December 1-4

by Leila Marshy
06.12.2011

You came to the party. You saw the art. Now catch the video.

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ART

Head Turning Sculptures

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Lauren Trimble, L’atelier de sculpture du Village

by Veena Gokhale
30.11.2010

Lauren Trimble’s first solo exhibition of clay sculptures at L’atelier de sculpture du Village features a time-honoured subject – the human head – but with intriguing symbolic elements added on. The chaste and thought-provoking pieces are inspired by “selected individuals who have made their unforgettable contributions, through their thoughts, their actions, or as captains of [...]

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ART

Cheeky Girls on the Verge

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Angela Grossmann, Galerie d’este

by Marianne Ackerman
10.11.2010

The impulse is familiar to me. A woman of a certain age, hit by a powerful interest in young girls. While men in their fifties may dream (and scheme) about sleeping with them, for a woman – at least one with a creative medium at her disposal – the urge is requited by watching and [...]

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ART

Speaking Of Heads And Hands

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Chicago In Glass, Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec

by Megan Stewart
28.09.2010

“I don’t normally do this, but I’d like to thank the Catholic church tonight,” Judy Chicago proclaimed from the podium of the Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec, housed in a former church, “for allowing work that challenges everything it stands for to be displayed in such a building.”

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ART

Explorations into the Obscure

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TIME AND THE CITY, LE ZIGOTO CAFE

by Lori Callaghan
15.07.2009

Through veils and contrived angles, Rohan Quinby explores the relationship between the city and time in his recent series of photographs on display at Le Zigoto Café. The artist’s statement offers up a general theoretical framework that guides his investigation. But the images seem to hide stories – the way that cities do – and [...]

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ART

Hiding Truths In Plain Sight

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ADAM PARKER SMITH, PARISIAN LAUNDRY

by Lori Callaghan
07.07.2009

Guns, antlers and NASCAR-numbered bongos: NYC artist Adam Parker Smith explores the human condition by drawing upon fantasy, folklore and reality. Parker Smith explains: “Through this combination, I establish psychological sites for disparate elements to congregate in environments that are simultaneously haunting, familiar and alien.” His installation explores the connections between and among sport, urbanity [...]

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