Installation art

Abbas Akhavan Explores Faith, Theatre & Architecture in script for an island on Fogo

In fall of 2019, multidisciplinary artist Abbas Akhavan hung two ten-foot wide theatre curtains from a twelve-foot scaffolding on the beach in the small community of Joe Batt’s Arm on Newfoundland’s Fogo Island. The wind animated the velvet curtains, choreographing a dance between the undulating fabric and the waves in front of them, transforming the...

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The NSCAD Venice Connection

NSCAD has its fingerprints all over the Venice Biennale this year

Representation of NSCAD across multiple shows and national delegations underline the school’s place in the broader art world, as well as Atlantic Canada’s slow move away from the international art world’s periphery.

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Online exclusive: Venice Biennale

A walking tour through Venice’s artistic “Disneyland”

I was introduced to a world I hardly knew, when I travelled to Italy for the 55th Venice Biennale.

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