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Nationalism at the ballet? On mounting a very Canadian Swan Lake
Amid a trade war, the National Ballet of Canada’s patriotic restaging of the Russian classic brought audiences to their feet.
Arts March 31
Severance star Britt Lower takes a new job as a Toronto librarian
Straight from the hit Apple TV+ series, the actress leads the Canadian indie drama Darkest Miriam, in theatres now.
Marriska Fernandes
Arts March 28
Destination: Art
Inside Yellowknife's fairytale Snowcastle, a photo festival that pictures the North differently
Writer Sarah Swan visits the Far North Photo Festival, a biennial showcase of visual storytellers that has taken over the walls of Snowking’s fortress.
Sarah Swan
Arts March 27
How this Juno-nominated music video director captured the feeling of losing a loved one
Director Jorden Lee on how he captured rapper Sean Leon’s sense of loss in the Juno-nominated video for Gravity
Adriel Smiley
Arts March 26
The garbage artist who will make you rethink trash
Brandon Kaufman
Arts March 25
New play asks what happens when technology comes for all our jobs
Chris Dart
Arts March 21

DESTINATION: ART

In Halifax, you'll find amazing art where you least expect it

DESTINATION: ART

From poems in stone to a chime that plays Loverboy, Vancouver is full of great public art

She's thought to be Canada's first Black woman painter. Now the public can finally see her art

To write her new novel, Emma Hooper chose a desk near a frigid lake

If you're confused by this YouTube soap opera, that's kind of the point

We needed an open and trusting space to write this sometimes harrowing story

Mary Louisa Plummer

'My brother has worked on a job where it's him, an ex-priest and an ex-con'

The first time author Samantha M. Bailey walked into her backyard studio, she cried with relief

Samantha M. Bailey

Night of the Zoopocalypse pushes Canadian animation into the weird and wild

Marriska Fernandes

Like 'if the Muppets were trying to put on a seminar about ADHD and everything keeps getting worse'

We could not be more here for the Parker Posey party The White Lotus is serving us

Anne T. Donahue

Buffalo deserve an epic film about their history — so I decided to give it to them

Remembering Canadian artist Kelly Mark, the 'working-class conceptualist'

He didn't know what to draw. Then one song changed everything

The secret to a better commute? Ride the rocket with Margaret Atwood and Rupi Kaur

Arts February 27

Oscars Predictions

Who will win at the 2025 Academy Awards? Here are final predictions in every category

Arts February 27

This play staged inside a Toronto cafe serves up workplace horror stories

Arts February 26

In the visionary work of late artist John Scott, 'the future is coming at us with knives'

Arts February 25

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