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Inside Montreal duo Atomic3's magical Island of Warmth
The Island of Warmth, by Atomic3, Montreal’s Louis-Xavier Gagnon-Lebrun and Félix Dagenais, is a trompe l’oeil.
Q&A: Janice Kerbel, the Canadian artist up for this year's Turner Prize
Janice Kerbel has turned it into art. Doug, her song cycle for six voices, subjects its titular spade-in-the-cranium victim to nine further catastrophic, darkly funny accidents, from being attacked by a bear to slipping on a banana peel; it’s being performed daily at the Tramway arts centre in Glasgow, where the works nominated for this year’s Turner Prize are being exhibited.
Migrations
Canadian expat artist Mark Lewis: greed is squeezing the life out of cities
Mark Lewis, sitting in front of his film Pavilion (2015), shot inside Toronto’s Mies Van Der Rohe-designed Toronto-Dominion Centre, the Hamilton-born, Toronto-raised artist told CBC Arts about living in London, working in Canada, and the snakes and ladders of globalization.
Shaun the Sheep leads the stop-motion animation revival
As the Shaun the Sheep Movie bleats its way into the hearts of North American moviegoers, critics are raving about its stop-motion animation. The technique didn’t go out with Jurassic Park’s dinosaurs — despite the rise of computer-generated imagery (CGI), the art of painstakingly filming puppets and models, one incremental movement at a time, has been preserved by a small gaggle of enthusiasts.
Analysis
Royal wedding inspires largely reverent art
The pop culture response to Will and Kate's nuptials has been surprisingly positive -- even from Sex Pistol John Lydon, who calls them "a very nice suburban couple."
C is for controversy
Booker-nominated provocateur Tom McCarthy stirs up literary debate.
The master's craft
Literary superstar Jonathan Franzen on pleasing readers, reconciling with Oprah and meeting Obama.
Driven to distraction
Novelist Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story satirizes our diminishing attention spans.
Embracing change
Hip-hop veterans The Roots take stock of their lives.
Young gun
Trumpeter Christian Scott summons the cool of Miles and the fire of Coltrane.