Pattern Clash: Andrew Cairns
“It can be powerful and provocative to bring decoration in. It’s unexpected and not always seen as high fine art."
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Magazine Launch Party!
Join us at the Visual Arts News magazine launch party for a toast, snacks, and 3D glasses on Thursday, May 17th, 6 – 8pm at the Art Bar +Projects, 1873 Granville Street in Halifax. We’re celebrating 40 years of Visual Arts News with a special anniversary issue packed with more local content, including Nova Scotia’s Future...
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Redessiner les marges
Nous avons seulement eu une perspective de notre histoire, c’est la perspective des British. Les livres d’histoire ont été écrits d’après leurs témoignages.
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Neon Defiance
"For a long time, the Internet felt like the safest space to have conversations about race, gender, sexuality and mental health, when the communities I was brought up in shamed these things."
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Redrawing the Margins
"In my paintings I highlight heroes that people should know who we don’t learn about in school. We didn’t know that there was an Acadian resistance."
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Clay Rebellion
"My interpretation of art history is that craft is conceptual art. Craft was a whole new field invented by certain artists as a reaction to the industrial revolution."
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Job Opportunity – Advertising Sales Manager
Visual Arts News Advertising Sales Manager (contract) Visual Arts News magazine seeks an enthusiastic, self-motivated Ad Sales Manager with a solid knowledge of the Atlantic arts community. You’re an excellent communicator who’s not afraid to call or make in-person contact with current and new clients. Previous sales experience is an asset. Visual Arts News publishes...
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Beyond a seat at the table
Black contemporary artists constantly have to explain themselves to be accepted into the dominant framework. Their work is often defined as activism, without their consent, merely because it is presented from their own worldview.
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Brendan Fernandes’ hybrid ghosts
"For me growing up in East Africa and living in the Western world, when I first came, there was always this idea that I was exotic."
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Indigenous artists vs. Paul Kane’s controversial legacy
Visual Arts News' research intern explores the legacy of two NFB films from the '70s—One film portrayed Indigenous people in visual art, while the other depicted Indigenous people as visual art.
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