Frances Foster’s paintings are a look through the eyes of another—an exploration of mind and memory. The Montreal-born artist and Dawson college alumna has received much praise for her work, on display in U.S. and Canadian collections throughout the past 20 years. Her solo painting exhibit Selective Memory marks Foster’s[Read More…]
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Could Be Good
Comedy: Mike Delamont at the Mainline Theatre Comedian Mike Delamont, who has sold out performances from coast to coast, brings a trio of shows to Montreal this week. Mike Delamont: Husky Panda, as well as the acclaimed God Is a Scottish Drag Queen and its sequel, will enjoy a four-day run.[Read More…]
The introspective and the aesthetic
The temptation to force similarities is there, but the styles and aesthetics seem decidedly different. Upstairs, blurred dreamlike photographs of the Danish landscape are in a room adjacent to motorcycle-inspired sculptures. A floor below, photographs with sharp geometric angles hang across from colour-coded diagrams with a sociopolitical focus. Similarities between[Read More…]
The Coup: Sorry to Bother You
The outspoken, openly communist The Coup did not produce their sixth album, Sorry to Bother You, with easy-listening in mind. Rather than concerning themselves with typical hip-hop mainstays like money and women, The Coup use music to disseminate ideology The album keeps its distance from the over-produced hits often popular[Read More…]
Donald Fagen: Sunken Condos
If one had to sum up Donald Fagen’s latest offering, Sunken Condos, in a single word, it would unquestionably be ‘smooth.’ From the funky five-minute opener “Slinky Thing,” the album establishes a mood of sultry reverie that holds (although admittedly not always so effectively). Nevertheless, the nine tracks constitute an[Read More…]
The phantom menace, Wagner style
Written in 1841, The Flying Dutchman tells the story of a man condemned to roam the sea for all eternity, until he finds a woman who remains faithful to him until her death. Paired with a celebrated musical score, this dark love story requires virtuosic performances from the entire cast.[Read More…]
Shakespeare’s masterpiece passes on to good hands
When Gabrielle Soskin founded Persephone Productions in 2000, she intended for the non-profit theatre company to provide work opportunities for young performers. Hamlet—a story of life and death, love and loss, and the epitome of human suffering—may be deemed a rather demanding play for such a young group, but it[Read More…]
Think you’ve heard the world? Think again
Nov. 13 marks the start of the second edition of Mundial Montreal, an annual conference and festival that brings together some of Canada’s finest world music artists. This year’s festival showcases 33 home-grown and international performers, including Canaille, Heavy Soundz, and Delhi 2 Dublin. In addition, the event this year[Read More…]
Defecation, death, detritus: a Catalan artist at work
In February of this year, modern art lost an important figure. Of the hundreds of paintings, drawings, and prints left behind after Antoni Tàpies’ demise, more than 80 have been acquired by Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts due to the generosity of several donors. In Memoriam: Thirty-Three Prints and a[Read More…]
Inlet Sound: folky, reflective, and romantics at heart
Listening to The Romantics reminds me of hanging out with an old friend. The kind you can go months without seeing, but fall back into familiar rhythm in no time at all; the kind with whom you can tear up the town, or just sit on your bed, and have[Read More…]
