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Jeffrey Spalding
PostMedia Network Buries David Milne Exhibition
A recent review of the current David Milne exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery was, to parrot the writer’s words, disappointing, underwhelming and a dud. Moreover, it gives art writing a bad name. Read more
Aug 26, 2018
Trumpets of the Last Judgment?
The National Gallery of Canada quietly put one of its two Marc Chagall paintings up for auction in New York. The news has sparked a full-on national controversy. Read more
Apr 23, 2018
IN MY OPINION: Canada 150: It’s Our Party
Canada 150 will be the year’s leitmotif; every action and public event will surely be enwrapped in the flag, acknowledging our anniversary. So what’s the plan? Read more
Jan 15, 2017
Rita Letendre Receives 2016 Paul-Émile-Borduas Award
The Paul-Émile-Borduas Award is reserved for the very finest and most significant contributors to the art of Quebec. Read more
Nov 4, 2016
Douglas Bentham: The Tablets
"Douglas Bentham: The Tablets" is on exhibit at the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery from September 16th to December 31st, 2016. It will be touring to the Art Gallery of Swift Current, with exhibition dates of January 7th to February 26th, 2017. Read more
Oct 19, 2016
Say it Ain’t So, Joe, Say it Ain’t So!
Without fanfare, ceremony (or for that matter pre-warning) a grand contributor to cultural life of Western Canada has closed its doors. The Douglas Udell Gallery posted a low-key message on the front entrance of its Edmonton gallery. Read more
Oct 3, 2016
Guest Blogs
Ten Tips from Sree Sreenivasan on Smartphone Cameras
Among the presenters at MagNet2016 was the engaging Sree Sreenivasan, a long-time professor at Columbia University and former chief digital officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Read more
Jun 22, 2016
Jeff de Boer: Art with Beauty and Meaning
Our Everyday Tourist (Richard White) takes another look at Calgary's growing collection of public art. This time it's the Calgary Stampede's new ENMAX Park public artwork, "Rainbow." Read more
May 23, 2016
Editor’s Tour: Prairie Roads, Prairie Art
Animal sculptures on the Prairies are, in a sense, what the lone pine is to the Group of Seven: a single vertical assertion of presence. Read more
May 13, 2016
Photo by Richard White
Glenbow: Strokes of Genius?
Our Everyday Tourist blogger Richard White riffs on the merits of Glenbow's Free First Thursdays program. Spoiler: he likes it... a lot. Read more
Feb 19, 2016
Art Basel - Hong Kong - Mar 15 - 17, 2015
Intrepid traveller and sometime printmaker, Gordan Novak gives his impressionis of the third Art Basel in Hong Kong. Read more
Apr 3, 2015
Courtesy Richard White
Arts Commons / Contemporary Calgary
It is just me or do others hate the new name of Calgary’s Performing Arts Centre and the merger name of our public art galleries? Read more
Feb 9, 2015
The Small Artwork Exhibition
rom new to experienced art enthusiasts, the Small Exhibition is a wonderful place to find paintings, drawings, and printmaking. Fifty-five Canadian artists have mastered working small, making a big impression with one hundred small works. Read more
Aug 19, 2019
prOphecy sun and Darren Fleet: ‘Nostalgic Geography: Mama and Papa have Trains, Orchards and Mountains in their Backyard’
In "Nostalgic Geography: Mama and Papa have Trains, Orchards and Mountains in their Backyard," prOphecy sun and Darren Fleet use AV technology to reveal the complex social and economic relations that have shaped the orchards and surrounding landscape Read more
Aug 19, 2019
Katie Barron: Odd and Unusual
Baby bottles stuffed with candy and toy horses suspended in bright blue Jello—emerging artist Katie Barron aims to delight and confuse with the opening of her first solo show, Odd and Unusual. Read more
Aug 19, 2019
