Some places have richer creative soil than others, encouraging a bumper local arts crop.
Category: Culture – visual arts
My Canada, 47/150: Totems of art
My particular favourite is The Raven and the First Men, a central installation at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.
My Canada, 46/150: The everywhere art of Michael Snow
I know Michael Snow for his unerring ability to create sculpture that engages people who might not normally think that art is for them.
My Canada, 45/150: Art for an accelerated culture
I read early reports about the exhibition, noting it included Lego structures and trash-heap-bits-become-“art” assemblages: stuff that normally set off a “wanker” alarm bell in my brain.
My Canada, 44/150: A piercing domestic light
Especially early in her career, critics dismissed Mary Pratt’s work as being “just” paintings of food and kitchens and domestic life. Technically competent still lifes. Nothing more.
My Canada, 43/150: Bowled over by ceramic beauty
I’m pretty chuffed that sisters of our popcorn bowl and coffee mugs strut their stuff at Canada’s premier ceramics gallery.
My Canada, 42/150: Inspired in the woods
In 1965, the McMichaels offered to donate the art collection, their home, and their property to the Province of Ontario.
My Canada, 41/150: London art-punches above its weight
First off, not THAT London. The other London. London, Ontario, Canada.
