Back in his day, our good friend Shakespeare asserted that "All the world's a stage", but now in the age of the technological reproducibility of art and everyday life, what about the virtual world? This is exactly the domain of The ...Read More
The primary question posed at the panel discussion on the Art of Children’s Books at OCAD was a very simple one: what is a good picture-book? Is it the writing, the illustrations or a combination of both? Is it a ...Read More
Forgive me while I indulge in a Curran-esque personal anecdote to start my article this month… When I was little I always wanted my favorite story books to be turned into movies. I could picture them perfectly in my head, devising ...Read More
Ninety years is a pretty big gap by today’s standards. While in the past it was entirely commonplace for whole millennia to just zoom by without much really changing in the way of, well anything, what with the rate that ...Read More
My first Luminato experience this year – or ever really as I was scarcely aware of the seminal arts fest until this year (my bad!) – was an installation from New York City-based artist Tony Oursler called Forty One – ...Read More
Opera on Steel Bananas? Really? I know, opera isn't something that independent artists in Canada often consider within their realm of influence. Powdered wigs, haughty Italian vocals, fat ladies, and the inevitable presence of the pretense-ridden bourgeois? Our beloved Richard ...Read More
Let me make one thing perfectly clear. That Friday night I got there about an hour in, my whole attendance was an impulse move, spur of the moment. This won’t be the most formal capturing of events, but then ...Read More
It starts with the reinvention of the body, a lone dancer becoming both horse and rider. Barefoot and strong bodied, she is the epitome of beauty and grace as the herd welcomes her. The sun rises on the prairie plane ...Read More
