Two new books on the inner workings of popular music are as different as AM and FM ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
Two new books on the inner workings of popular music are as different as AM and FM ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
Multi-talented Freeman Patterson’s latest collection of photos, taken in an abandoned diamond mining town in Namibia, Africa, is sheer magic. The subtle shades of golden images of sand, walls, and open doorways in Odysseys: Meditations ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
Keith McLaren is a captain for the B.C. Ferry Corporation and has spent most of his working life at sea on the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Light on the Water is his visual tribute to ... Read More »
February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
You won’t find Reservation X on a map, yet it is a place that aboriginal people must inhabit in the contemporary (colonial) world. It is that changing space between city and reserve, between contemporary and ... Read More »
February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
Robert Bateman has earned an international name for himself as an artistic, distinctly realistic chronicler of Canadian wildlife. But he has also made many trips to Africa, and Safari is the result of his life-long ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
Christopher Ondaatje, former stockbroker and investment banker, continues to be consumed by Africa. His earlier book, Leopard in the Afternoon, grew out of a trip there in the late 1980s in search of the leopard. ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
More often than not, books that claim to cover Canada from coast-to-coast appear as thinly veiled tourism brochures or unity propaganda. Thankfully, Harmony: Photographic Journeys Across Our Cultural Boundaries is neither. Marrying the images of ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
In the foreword to Canvas of War: Painting the Canadian Experience, 1914 to 1945 historian Jack Granatstein writes that the Canadian War Museum holds in excess of 13,000 art works. Over 100 of these have ... Read More »
February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
Artists are not always content to let their art speak for them. Some, like Newfoundland painter Mary Pratt, choose to stack prose up against their paintings, providing another piece to the puzzle that is their ... Read More »
February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction
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