The world of Newfoundland author-actor-musician Joel Thomas Hynes is filled with bad boys we learn to love despite their petty crimes, barroom brawls, substance abuse and doomed romances. “My challenge is always to make those characters sympathetic somehow,” Hynes said in a recent ARTSFILE interview. One of
I think therefore I am is Rene Descartes' famous statement of human awareness. Embedded in that sentence is the fundamental reality of the human brain, that marvellous and still mysterious organ that controls our every function. Understanding our brain and understanding the implications of what it
The horses are running again alongside Sussex Drive. By early Thursday afternoon, with the artist watching, a new set of Joe Fafard's 11 magical, colourful, Running Horses had been installed by a technical crew working for the National Gallery of Canada. Work began in the morning
There was a time, mayhap 25 years ago, when the news of an exhibition of great impressionists was thrilling, but today, after so many impressionist exhibitions in Ottawa, Toronto, New York, etc., the thought of another can elicit an artful meh. I thought of this
When Heather Gibson took over the NAC Presents series of Canadian music concerts, she promised change. Guess what? She has delivered. A series that once hosted about 50 concerts a year will stage about 100 in 2018-19 with shows that include artists such as Bahamas, Holly
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
