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Preview: Barnaby Martin – Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei

September 13, 2013

Ai Weiwei is contemporary China’s most famous artist. More than that, Ai Weiwei is an activist. On April 3, 2011, Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Capital International Airport under

Panning For Drifters Gold at The Railway Club

September 10, 2013

Wow, Friday already. How did that happen so quickly? I must have lost sense of time while tripping to White Poppy’s self-titled debut LP, which dropped on Not Not Fun

Preview: Geordie Greig – Breakfast with Lucian: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain’s Great Modern Painter

September 6, 2013

Over the course of his thirty-year career, writer-editor Geordie Greig has interviewed some of the most high-profile living artists. But perhaps larger than any of those interviews – perhaps more revealing

Peace Sounds Anything But Crystal Clear on White Poppy’s Full-Length Debut

September 6, 2013

Vancouver-based multimedia artist Crystal Dorval may have just recently started attracting international nods from the likes of SPIN and The Fader for her work as White Poppy, but she’s been

Ohio’s Tweens Confident Beyond Their Years

September 6, 2013

It’s been a busy week and will be for a while, so I wasn’t planning to review The Breeders’ Vancouver show on their Last Splash 20th anniversary tour, especially since

Pleasure is Still the Principle for Numan

September 4, 2013

As much of a pioneer as Gary Numan has been in electronic pop, New and Dark Wave, post-punk and gothic industrial, I wish I could say with indisputable confidence that

Preview: Witold Rybczynski – How Architecture Works: A Humanist’s Toolkit

September 4, 2013

We work in them. We live in them. We walk amongst them every day. Buildings. They serve as both the settings of our daily lives and public art. But how

Preview: Samira Kawash – Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure

August 30, 2013

“IIIII want candy!” the famous song penned by Bert Berns goes. Seemingly for as long as candy has existed, children have been taught that candy is bad: it’ll rot your

Preview: Debora L. Spar – Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection

August 27, 2013

It doesn’t take a feminist to wonder why fifty years after the Equal Pay Act – fifty years after Betty Frieden’s The Feminine Mystique – women are still faced with endless double-standards

Preview: David L. Chapman – Universal Hunks: A Pictorial History of Muscular Men around the World, 1895-1975

August 24, 2013

From the art of Ancient Egypt to Classical Antiquity, right through to our modern era, despite how much cultural norms seem to have shifted, the chiselled male figure still stands

Preview: Grant Lawrence – The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie

August 16, 2013

Fans of CBC’s Grant Lawrence have known him as a musician, a radio broadcaster and an award-winning author. Now, with his upcoming memoir The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of

Blind Horses “Mindy”

August 14, 2013

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpfyNd4iNpU[/youtube] There’s something undeniably gestational about Vancouver duo Blind Horses’ clip for “Mindy”, the first video from their debut full-length Avail. It could be in the figures’ crude rendering; their

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Preview: Barnaby Martin – Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei

Panning For Drifters Gold at The Railway Club

Preview: Geordie Greig – Breakfast with Lucian: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain’s Great Modern Painter

Peace Sounds Anything But Crystal Clear on White Poppy’s Full-Length Debut

Ohio’s Tweens Confident Beyond Their Years

Pleasure is Still the Principle for Numan

Preview: Witold Rybczynski – How Architecture Works: A Humanist’s Toolkit

Preview: Samira Kawash – Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure

Preview: Debora L. Spar – Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection

Preview: David L. Chapman – Universal Hunks: A Pictorial History of Muscular Men around the World, 1895-1975

Preview: Grant Lawrence – The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie

Blind Horses “Mindy”

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