Art, Music & Pop Culture

Lucy Lawless and Reneé O’Connor: Warrior Stars of Xena

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 »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century

By Joan Murray

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

Stopping Time: Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz

By Paul Bley with David Lee

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

Intertwining: Artists, Landscape, Issues, Technology

By John K. Grande

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

Wired for Sound: A Journey into Hearing

By Beverly Biderman

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

Brave Films, Wild Nights: 25 Years of Festival Fever

By Brian D. Johnson

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

Gathie Falk

By Robin Laurence et al.

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

The Maclean’s Companion to Canadian Arts and Culture

By Tom Henighan

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

Diana Thorneycroft: The Body, Its Lesson and Camouflage

By Meeka Walsh, ed

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

One Track Mind: Photographic Essays on Western Railroading

By Ted Benson

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

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Lucy Lawless and Reneé O’Connor: Warrior Stars of Xena

Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century

Stopping Time: Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz

Intertwining: Artists, Landscape, Issues, Technology

Wired for Sound: A Journey into Hearing

Brave Films, Wild Nights: 25 Years of Festival Fever

Gathie Falk

The Maclean’s Companion to Canadian Arts and Culture

Diana Thorneycroft: The Body, Its Lesson and Camouflage

One Track Mind: Photographic Essays on Western Railroading

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