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Check out our weekly recap of the best arts-related articles we’ve come across. You’re welcome!
1 – Not to toot our own horn, but… we’re tooting our own horn. The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design exhibition currently on view at the Art Gallery of NS has inspired a lot of debate and reviews from some heavy-hitters in the Canadian art scene. Sink your teeth into these super interesting reads:
MOMUS’ “How To Lie About Canadian Art”: A Case Study In Art Criticism”
John Baldessari, I will not make any more boring art (1971), lithograph on white Arches paper, NSCAD Impression, 57.1 x 76.4 cm. Collection of NSCAD University
The National Gallery of Canada Magazine’s “The Last Art College: A Challenge to the Art World Today”
Guido Molinari, Opposition triangulaire, 1971. Collection of NSCAD University.
2 – Visual Arts News’ Writer-in-Residence, Merray Gerges, pens a most excellent and thought-provoking article relating to Black History Month: “What’s Your Flavour? Being Critic of Colour in February.”
3 – Canadian Art’s “Drake-Parody Instagram Feed to Become Public Art in the 6ix”
4 – artnet news’s “Take a Peek at David Bowie’s Idiosyncratic Art Collection”
IMAGE CREDIT: mural of British singer David Bowie, painted by Australian street artist James Cochran, aka Jimmy C, (CHRIS RATCLIFFE/AFP/Getty Images)
5 – W Magazine’s “Meet the 11 Most Powerful Female Museum Directors”
6 – Conceptual art: More Than Meets the Eye
New York Times’ “When a White Square Is More Than a White Square”
