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Through the Looking Glass: Reflecting a Renewed Contemporary Commitment |
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“Through the Looking Glass” is a thoughtful, A-list-spiked examination of perceptual inversion strategies in contemporary art. And it puts Calgary’s Glenbow Museum back on the map as a major contemporary exhibition venue to boot. |
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7a*11d: Live Art, Alive and Kicking |
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In an increasingly digital age, it seems that embodied art and experience tends to suffer. But the seventh edition of the 7a*11d performance art festival, kicking off this week in Toronto, offers a stream of international live art and artists who might beg to differ. |
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Valérie Blass, David Humphrey and Adrienne Spier: Shape Shifters and Meaning Grifters |
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As dropping fall temperatures strip trees of their leaves and turn passersby into amorphous shapes bundled in coats and scarves, Montreal’s Parisian Laundry presents three artists who cleverly obscure familiar objects with paint, plastic and form. |
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Double Space/Douglas Gordon: Doublethinking and Elephant Tricks |
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There are often, if not always, two sides to every story. This position is taken up effectively in “Double Space,” an exhibition of dual-projection video works at the MacKenzie Art Gallery. A must-see Douglas Gordon installation further underlines the theme. |
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