Paul Gauguin would be pleased. As people move through the new exhibition of Gauguin portraits at the National Gallery, they’ll likely form impressions of what manner of person Gauguin was. That was exactly the point of Gauguin’s portraits. “Gauguin was highly adept at promoting himself,” wrote
There is a picture of five year old Elaine Klimasko that seems to sum her up perfectly. She’s sitting rather formally in her best dress with a slight smile on her face, holding her violin, surrounded by trophies and sporting a pretty serious black eye.
An abandoned high school in the village of Farrellton, Que., just north of Wakefield, seems an unlikely place to be charting the future of theatre and exploring the role of digital technology in live arts. But Nadia Ross is having a shot at it. Ross is
UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS — The Overvecht section of the city of Utrecht is diverse culturally, socially and economically. It used to be a very troubled part of town but these days it is evolving into an example of how to bring people together from all
CityFolk has announced its lineup for Lansdowne Park this fall and it includes one of rock's legendary vocalists, Robert Plant. Plant is best know for his work with Led Zeppelin, but these days, he's touring with the band he formed in 2012 called the Sensational Space
UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS — The city of Utrecht hold an important place in Canadian history. In 1713, a treaty signed in the city hall in 1713 saw some French colonies of the day, notably Newfoundland, Acadia and the area around Hudson's Bay handed over to England. Canada
When it’s time to write, author Darrel McLeod often begins with a sage-and-sweetgrass ceremony. Then, he turns on the “modernized” opera music of France’s Emma Shapplin. And the words start to flow. For part of the year, the author of the Governor General Award-winning Mamaskatch, a
UTRECHT — These are tumultuous days in Europe. Nationalist politicians are pushing a hard, anti-immigrant line in the lead-up to the European Union elections this week. A cluster of far right parties, led by the Italian Matteo Salvini of The League, Marine Le Pen of
It's been awhile since Sir Andrew Davis has been in Ottawa. These days he is headquartered in Chicago where he is the music director and principal conductor of the Lyric Opera. He's also the chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and conductor laureate of the
PARIS — Donna Feore has done a lot in her storied career as a producer, director and choreographer. But her work on Life Reflected stands out just a little bit for her. "Someone asked me the other day, 'What's your favourite thing about Life Reflected?' "Looking back,"
