Up-and-comers at Outworks
Friday, March 11 brought Winnipeg another ten centimetres of snow, MPI a new batch of accident claims and the art scene a new exhibit of…
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Tastemaker
The institutions of café and gallery go so well together that many small towns have combined the two, ensuring that no roadtripper can stop to…
Sound art: Isn’t that just music?
This past November, Winnipeg hosted Send+Receive, a festival celebrating artists who work exclusively with sound. While I enjoyed many performances during the festival, it left…
U of M sculpture competition announces winner
Joshua Roach was announced, on Jan. 28, as the winner of the third annual University of Manitoba’s Sculptural Experience competition. Sculptural Experience is a competition…
Technology for art’s sake
What happens when you give a reference librarian an iPhone and tell her to do something exciting? If you’re Liv Valmestad, a librarian in the…
Living in GOSA’s glass bubble
From the week of Nov. 15-19, 2010, I lived in a tent in the Gallery of Student Art on campus at the University of Manitoba,…
Ad Infinitum
Starting Dec. 1, the Winnipeg Art Gallery will be screening the winners of the 2010 Cannes Lions festival, which took place June 20-26, 2010. The…
A message from a painting in Walmart’s art section
Hey! Hey you there! Look this way for a second, no down here, right next to the big yellow smiling face and guaranteed lowest prices….
See it, receive it
Sound art: what’s that? Whether you know or not, send + receive’s director crys cole believes, “Some people have an idea that since they may…
Hostile and heartwarming
Montreal-based artists Elisabeth Belliveau and Jessica MacCormack have created a world that is both hostile and heartwarming in their new exhibit Natural Disasters, Pets and…