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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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On the road with David Askevold
Retracing the footsteps of one of conceptual art’s most important contributors
Mike Landry traces conceptual artist David Askevold's chance encounters and collaborations on the road.
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A wolf in sheep’s clothing
Chris Foster`s Fronteirs in Real Estate
Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John`s, NL. December 15, 2012 – February 9, 2013 Halifax-based artist Chris Foster’s Frontiers in Real Estate explores contradictory themes of civilization—its fear stories, misguided good intentions and self-indulgent sincerities. Foster’s dark humour is never moral, at least not overtly. Composed of serigraphs, collage and small sculpture, his work considers the...
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Tuning into Sounding Selves
Escaping the hubbub of Dalhousie Graduation mayhem, I entered the Dalhousie Art Gallery and felt an eerie calm. There was a dark sparseness to the space: black walls, limited light and silence. Well not complete silence—after all I was there to listen to the Sounding Selves exhibit. Curated by The National Gallery of Canada’s Heather...
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Tracking the evolution of Nova Scotia’s “Rabbit Movement”
“It’s been a few years, I’m trying to remember how it started.” Tom Young and I are sitting in the entranceway of the Eyelevel Gallery in Halifax. It’s February and we are at the launchparty for the Black Rabbit Arts Festival, a month-long series of playful events for the arts community. Black Rabbit features sculptural...
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