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MONTREAL ART GALLERIES AND EXHIBITIONS GUIDE
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JAZZ & PHOTOGRAPHY | DARK ROOMS
BY BENJAMIN CAWTHRA
The music came first, then the photographs... | read | ***
PORTRAITS AND PERSONS
BY CYNTHIA FREELAND
As a philosopher I ask different questions about portraits than art historians. I am interested in how portraiture helps illuminate questions about persons and selves... | read |
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BIOGRAPHY | MICHELANGELO
BY WILLIAM E. WALLACE Michelangelo Buonarroti is universally recognized to be among the greatest artists of all time... | read | ***
THE REAL REAL THING
BY WENDY STEINER
Any creation story is a story about models, for as King Lear reminds us, "Nothing can come of nothing." Models generate entities "made in their own image." They are the Real peeking out at us from the mirror of art... | read | ***
PHOTOGRAPHY | ALFRED STIEGLITZ BY KATHERINE HOFFMAN
In "Stieglitz: A Beginning Light ," Katherine Hoffman focused on the early years of Alfred Stieglitz's (1864-1946) career and his European roots. Now, she presents a compelling portrait of his life and career from 1915 to 1946, focusing on his American works, issues of identity, and the rise of Modernism... | read |
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"OUR DILBERT LIVES"
BY LUCY CAMERON
My friends and classmates: You may ask yourselves why I have gathered you here today. It has not been long since we last convened... | read |
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ART AND PROCESS WITH NOA KAPLAN
BY ROBIN TUNG
My arrival at the Broad Center at UCLA is rushed; there has been traffic, to no one's surprise, on the 405, and Westwood is bustling at the lunch hour with students, shoppers, and medical professionals. The Broad Center is a white building with long glass panels, and doors propped open to the gallery where I first encountered Noa Kaplan's exhibit, "Pollen"... | read | ***
NEW YORK, FILM AND RECONCEPTION OF THE WORLD
BY STANLEY CORKIN
I began researching Starring New York before I finished my prior book, Cowboys as Cold Warriors. In that book I considered a group of film westerns in their relationships to U. S. Cold War culture and politics...| read | ***
ON ART FOR ART'S SAKE
BY R. JOSEPH CAPET 'Art for art's sake' is a much misunderstood phrase. In the public imagination it is invariably the oriflamme of Decadents and Aesthetes... | read | ***
BETWEEN SENSE AND DE KOONING
BY RICHARD SHIFF
Even as he became a celebrity in the world of art, Willem de Kooning took pride in remaining an ordinary man, living (he liked to say) as he had when he was unknown and poor. He resisted the aesthetic and intellectual fashions of his era... | read |
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INTERVIEW | LANI IRWIN
"The term message or the idea of message is one that plays no specific role in my work. That is not to say that I am inattentive to ways in which objects, gestures, relationships in the paintings could be..." | read |
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LOVE TRIBUTE TO INUIT ARTIST
BY DOROTHEE KOMANGAPIK
"When I'm lost in my art - I'm at home," says Ruben Anton Komangapik, contemporary Inuit artist... | read |
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"WELCOME TO PINE HILL" THE SLAMDANCE NO HORSE
BY LORRI RUPARD
Last Thursday at Slamdance's closing party atop Main Street in Park City, I choked down chocolate chip cayenne cookies next to Keith Miller, an NYU art professor who won the Grand Jury prize for a narrative feature... | read |
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SUNDANCE 2012 | DAVID TRUEBA ON "MADRID 1987"
BY LORRI RUPARD
The Sundance film festival held its annual revelry in Park City January 19-29. Freelance journalist, Lorri Vodi Rupard caught up with author/screenwriter/director David Trueba at Cafe Terigo on Main Street and discussed his new film "Madrid 1987", which competed in the World Cinema Dramatic category... | read |
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ART | BEHIND VASARI'S PRINTED WORD
LYALL F. HARRIS
"...that villain time cannot consume what you have written." These were Paolo Giovio's words in a letter to Giorgio Vasari after the 1550 publication of Lives of the Artists... | read |
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ART HISTORY | BURSTING THE DAM
BY RACE CAPET
Norm and Exception in the Career of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 1848-1853 | read |
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ART | PHOTOGRAPHY: ART OR ARTIFICE?
BY TERRY BUCHANAN
It can be suggested that photography is a process of reception and art is a process of transmission... | read |
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"Mermaid's Story" by Alan Feltus (2003, oil on canvas)
INTERVIEW | ALAN FELTUS
When I was an art student, I became aware of the tendency I had to make very quiet paintings... | read |
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ART | INTERVIEW WITH THE ARTIST AND ART DEALER AMEL CHAMANDY
Creativity can not be taught, it is something that is born within you...
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PREMIERE | MORDECAI RICHLER:
THE LAST OF THE WILD JEWS
New documentary profile of controversial Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler by Montreal filmmaker/journalist Francine Pelletier. | read |
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BOOKS | SUSAN SONTAG: "REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS"
Regarding the Pain of Others begins with an example of differentiation... | read |
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EXHIBITION | TREVOR GOULD
at Lilian Rodriguez Gallery, Montreal | read |
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EXHIBITION | PATRICIA MORRIS' "TRANS-CANADA DRIVE"
Solo exhibition at Avenue Art Gallery, Montreal | read |
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JAMES MILLER | AN INTERVIEW
A conversation with the contemporary realist painter James Miller | read |
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CORNO | AN INTERVIEW
A conversation with the Canadian painter Corno | read |
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GLENN HARRINGTON | AN INTERVIEW
A conversation with the American oil painter Glenn Harrington | read |
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LETTER FROM UTAH | BEING HERE
BY LORRI RUPARD
What began as a collective to draw filmmakers to Utah, has turned The Sundance Film Festival into a major mecca for... | read |
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SLIM AARONS | A WONDERFUL TIME
In his twenties he photographed the horrors of the Second World War. Years later Slim Aarons, who lost his twin brother in the war and won a Purple Heart, said for The New York Times that combat had taught him that the only beach worth landing on was "decorated with beautiful, seminude girls tanning in a tranquil sun." | read |
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ART & MONEY | "PROFILE OF BELLA PRINCIPESSA"
"Profile of the Bella Principessa" is one of the biggest art surprises in 2009. In 2007, the Canadian art collector Peter Silverman bought the painting from a New York art dealer, Kate Ganz, for about $ 19 000 on behalf of anonymous Swiss collector... | read more |
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ALEX COLVILLE | CANADIAN LEGENDS
"What troubles people about my work, in which they find mystery and intrigue, may well be the idea that ordinary things are important." | read |
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GALLERIES | COOLEY GALLERY, OLD LIME
Jeffrey Cooley: "A more dramatic change of scene and focus would be hard to imagine than my switch from building wooden racing shells in Northern Vermont to working in the American Painting Department at Christie's in New York City back in 1981. In fact, it may not be as strange as it sounds, as I had grown up around my father Paul Cooley's business and... | read |
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