February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
Ah, Xena: Warrior Princess. You’ve gotta love this small-screen giantess and the TV show she stars in. The Styrofoam props that perpetually give themselves away, the ravishing New Zealand landscape where it is filmed, the ... Read More »
Joan Murray’s Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century is a first, though one would have expected there to have been a compendium of this kind before now. There is Dennis Reid’s Concise History of Canadian ... Read More »
February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
I once saw jazz pianist Paul Bley playing “My Funny Valentine” in a Montreal music store. He did a kind of Goldberg variation à la Glenn Gould on the tune, turning conventional melody every which ... Read More »
February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
Eco-art had meaning in the 1970s, and eco-artists were, for the most part, visual creators of the environmental movement. Much of the work that fell into the category was made on site – on beaches, ... Read More »
February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
The deaf and the telephone – three short scenes:A group of little girls sit cross-legged on the floor. They’re playing “Broken Telephone.” The first girl whispers a sentence into the ear of a girl beside ... Read More »
February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
Brian Johnson has been with the Toronto International Film Festival from the beginning. In its early days, Johnson literally held the festival in his hands, schlepping film cans from cinema to cinema, delivering prints to ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
When artist Gathie Falk was growing up on the Prairies, apples were rationed like candy. But from an isolated and impoverished childhood, Falk went on to a successful career in off-beat performance art, installation, sculpture, ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
Ever wondered about the most popular Canadian books ever? According to Carleton University English professor and cultural critic Tom Henighan, the top 25 all-time fiction bestsellers include Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes, Gabrielle Roy’s The Tin ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
Many people have trouble with the work of Winnipeg photographer Diana Thorneycroft. While her staged black-and-white portraits may be gorgeously rich in texture and composition, every one of them confronts our moral and ethical senses ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
For the past 30 years photographer Ted Benson has been documenting the beauty and travails of western railroads. From coal freighters in the Sierra Nevada to the final run of the California Zephyr, Benson and ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture