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Canada's New Art Scene Shows Off True Colours

The Experts at Microsoft | Posted 12.17.2012 | Canada
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The idea that appreciating art takes place in a stuffy gallery as you snootily discuss the merits of a piece has evolved greatly with innovative event...

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B.C.'s Top Artists Gather to Protect Great Bear Rainforest

Jeffrey Whiting | Posted 01.22.2013 | Canada British Columbia
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Jeffrey Whiting

"Art for an Oil Free Coast" will open for just a few days on Granville Island featuring a film, book and art exhibit featuring dozens of British Columbia's most talented and acclaimed visual artists. The exhibit -- designed to stimulate discussion about the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline in Kitimat, B.C. -- will then travel to Victoria, Saltspring Island and beyond.

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ChangeMaker: How One Artist Made His Mark

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 12.16.2012 | Canada Impact
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Craig and Marc Kielburger

It was an urban restlessness that first drove graphic artist and Toronto native Jonathan Cruz to explore the far reaches of Canada's North. It was the simple pleasure of eating a hardboiled egg that compelled him to stay. But we'll get to that. The 30-year-old founder of Iqaluit-based Nuschool Design Agency, a multidisciplinary graphic design studio, has literally made his mark all over Canada.

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Picasso Exhibit Arrives At Toronto's Art Gallery Of Ontario

The Huffington Post Canada | Rod Charles | Posted 04.25.2012 | Canada Travel
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Over 150 masterpieces by Pablo Picasso will be displayed at the Art Gallery Of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto. For the first time since 1964, works from...

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Why Artists Should Hate the Internet

Ben Johnson | Posted 02.16.2012 | Canada Business
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Ben Johnson

By so enthusiastically embracing this newfound ability to share everything, artists' work is being inherently devalued in the rush to simply "get it out there." Sure, you're anxious to share your passion with the world, but think about who is really benefiting from all your hard work before you click that submit button.

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Eve Sussman's Control Issues

Andrea Carson | Posted 12.05.2011 | Canada
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Haute Culture: General Idea at the AGO

Andrea Carson | Posted 09.27.2011 | Canada
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Andrea Carson

General Idea, a Canadian art collective, are famous for employing a range of materials, like work in plaster, taxidermy and fluorescent tube. There is even straw on the floor of one fantastic installation. In it, the poodles (the artists) are contemplating the Canis Major constellation. It's quite funny.

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