Art, Music & Pop Culture

Flea Market Style: Decorating with a Creative Edge

I can’t find a word for “fear of antiques,” but I know one must be out there. After years of being told not to sit on a chair, step on a rug, or drink from ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Irreplaceable Artifacts: Decorating the Home with Architectural Ornament

By Evan Blum and Leslie Blum, David Frazier, photog.

I can’t find a word for “fear of antiques,” but I know one must be out there. After years of being told not to sit on a chair, step on a rug, or drink from ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Country Matters

By Tom Zsolt

Ontario’s ever-changing landscape, rural inhabitants, and crumbling architecture are the subjects of Tom Zsolt’s elegiac Country Matters. With the same measure of care that an art restorer brings to a faded painting, Zsolt’s photographs reveal ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Claude Jutra: Filmmaker

By Jim Leach

The remarkable and oft misunderstood Claude Jutra, often dubbed “Canada’s Truffaut,” occupies a vital and complex position in the history of Canadian, and Quebec, cinema. He wrote and directed almost 30 film and television productions ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Ingmar Bergman: Magician and Prophet

By Marc Gervais

Ingmar Bergman, undoubtedly one of the greatest directors the cinema has produced, is also one of the most critically appreciated, analyzed, and assessed artists. There are dozens of works written about Bergman (not to mention ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Studio Rally: Art and Craft of Nova Scotia

By Robin Metcalfe

When Nova Scotia’s annual Studio Rally takes place each autumn, hundreds of craftspeople open their doors to the public. The event’s success over the years has led to a glossy book profiling some of the ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

First Son: Portraits by C.D. Hoy

By Faith Moosang

Chow Dong Hoy, a Chinese-Canadian photographer who took over 1,500 evocative portraits of First Nations, Chinese, and Caucasian subjects in the B.C. Interior during the early 1900s, was very nearly relegated to the ranks of ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Stories from the Bow Seat: The Wisdom & Waggery of Canoe Tripping

By Don Standfield and Liz Lundell

Like Wordsworth, the Romantic poet who took refuge in the memory of daffodils dancing in the wind when city life proved to be too tedious, canoeists try to store up enough adventure during the summer ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Painting Friends: The Beaver Hall Women Painters

By Barbara Meadowcroft

The landscape, portrait, and still life paintings of Montreal’s Beaver Hall group are not nearly as well known as works by the Group of Seven. Yet, like their more famous contemporaries, the Beaver Hall artists ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Have Not Been the Same: The Canrock Renaissance 1985-1995

By Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack, and Jason Schneider

Canadian rock and rollers have oft been overshadowed by their American and British cousins, so it’s no surprise that there’s been a dearth of memorable rock writing in this country. Where is our Greil Marcus ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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Flea Market Style: Decorating with a Creative Edge

Irreplaceable Artifacts: Decorating the Home with Architectural Ornament

Country Matters

Claude Jutra: Filmmaker

Ingmar Bergman: Magician and Prophet

Studio Rally: Art and Craft of Nova Scotia

First Son: Portraits by C.D. Hoy

Stories from the Bow Seat: The Wisdom & Waggery of Canoe Tripping

Painting Friends: The Beaver Hall Women Painters

Have Not Been the Same: The Canrock Renaissance 1985-1995

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