There are, according to various sources, more than 440 billion pieces of Lego in existence, and it feels like most of them are now on display in a entertaining exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Science and Technology. The Art of the Brick is a collection
Rosie the Riveter conjures up a lot of connections. The iconic image of a woman working in an assembly plant during the Second World War speaks about a time when women were entering the workforce in large numbers. It also references so many of the concerns
If art music is supposed to reflect its times, you’d expect a program featuring new choral works by young local composers to be full of contradictions and tension, with maybe some references to today’s climate of social upheaval and political anxiety. Instead, Saturday’s concert with Jamie
The evolution of the School of Photographic Arts in its new location in the Preston Street area near Dow's Lake has been nothing short of breathtaking in speed and in activity. The next step in that evolution happens Friday evening with the opening the SPAO Centre
The Ottawa New Music Creators are dedicated to the performance of new and existing Canadian compositions. The organization was formed in 2008 by Evan Ware, James Wright, Colin Mack, Gary Hayes and Joanna Estelle. For Christopher Goddard, the current artistic director of the ONMC, the
I confess to an abiding love for “scientific” drawings of nature. If I’m in your cottage I’ll soon retreat to a corner to savour the drawings of birds in those Peterson field guides that every cottage has. Before one recent Christmas, I pecked and flapped
After several weeks of thick, T-bone steak and potatoes repertoire, Thursday’s NACO program served up a sleek, trim menu of Mozart and Haydn. But if the program’s length and girth were slimmer, the music-making was anything but lightweight. The evening opened with Alfred Schnittke’s marvellous 1977
The National Gallery of Canada has dodged a potential seven-figure penalty for cancelling a planned sale of the Marc Chagall painting, The Eiffel Tower, at a May 15 auction by Christie’s in New York. Although Christie’s levied a penalty for cancelling the sale, an anonymous donor
Marc Chagall's La Tour Eiffel is coming home to the National Gallery of Canada at last. The gallery said in another rather cryptic media release Thursday morning that "after revisiting the terms of our contract, the National Gallery of Canada and Christie’s confirm that La tour
For those of a certain vintage, the regular appearances of the anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist and editor Alberto Manguel on CBC Radio's Morningside, were oases of intelligence. Itis comforting to know he is still at the same game, these days as the head of the National
