Tag: art

Neutral Ground: art from the edge

“Edgy” is an adjective frequently used–maybe overused–these days to describe everything from movies to fashion. The avant-garde, it seems, has become just another marketing niche. But the concept of the avant-garde has a long and honorable history in the art world, where artists are always seeking to be on the edge, to provoke and disturb, …

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Fauna Secreta

The current exhibit at the Dunlop Art Gallery in the main branch of the Regina Public Library may confuse you at first glance. It doesn’t look like it belongs in an art gallery; it looks like it belongs in a museum. There are stuffed animals; artifacts in glass boxes; yellowing photographs and excerpts from scientific …

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The shock of the new

  The Apple Tree, the Broadway musical Regina Lyric Light Opera is presenting at the Shumiatcher Theatre in the Mackenzie Art Gallery through Sunday afternoon, is a fabulous, funny show that shouldn’t be missed. Unfortunately, judging by the half-full houses on Wednesday and Thursday, it is being missed, by far too many people. Why? Most …

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Let’s free art from the shackles of gibberish!

Visual art and the text that explains it are uneasy bedfellows, I firmly believe. Maybe it’s because I’m a writer, but a visit to far too many art galleries today either leaves me in a state of suppressed fury or with a severe case of the giggles. It has nothing to do with the art …

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Prairie women remembered in dance

“Modern dance” and “prairie pioneer life” are two phrases that don’t get used together very often. This weekend at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, however, they’ll merge, under the direction of local dancer and choreographer Tracy Houser.   On the Edge: Prairie Women , presented Saturday, April 1, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 2, at …

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The Viewpoints method of acting

Just as (at least according to the old saying) there’s more than one way to skin a cat, so there is more than one way to approach the craft of acting–and lessons in one new approach are about to be offered in Regina. Probably the most famous method is usually called, capital letters and all, …

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A virtual tour of Regina’s art galleries

My wife and I share an interest in art–we make a point of visiting galleries wherever we go. And now, thanks to the Web, we can visit galleries even in places where we don’t go, as more and more of them make their presence felt online. Regina’s art galleries are no exception. Visiting them online …

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Art and science at the Saskatchewan Science Centre

Art and science are too often thought of as opposites, when in fact they are anything but. What is science, after all, but an attempt to make sense of the world, to detect the order lurking in apparent chaos (and sometimes, the chaos lurking in apparent order)? And what is art, but exactly the same …

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The McIntyre Gallery turns 15

What could be more natural than artwork hanging on the walls of a house? At the McIntyre Gallery, that’s exactly what you get: outstanding work by Canadian artists, hung on the walls of an old house in the Transition area, so that a visit to the gallery is a lot like visiting the home of …

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Alison Lohans

When Regina author Alison Lohans was four, she spent hours pretending to read to her little sister. At five, she discovered that just because you stop dreaming when you wake up, the dreams don’t have to end: she’d lie awake continuing the dreams in her head. When she was seven, her father let her use …

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The Assiniboia Gallery

The Assiniboia Gallery is 23 years old this year. So is its new owner Mary Weimer, who took over from the founders John and Monica Kurtz, in September. Running one of the city’s best-known, established art galleries was hardly what Mary had in mind when her mother called her one day in 1998, while she …

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Art restoration

A few years ago I had the immense pleasure of visiting the Louvre, tempered only by the immense annoyance that the choir I was touring with had to be somewhere else that afternoon, leaving us with a grand total of 45 minutes to spend in the world’s most famous art museum. Among the few paintings …

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