By Chuck Chiang The Canadian Press Posted February 9, 2024 5:53 pm Updated February 9, 2024 9:03 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Organizers of the Vancouver Chinatown Lunar New Year parade have changed course and rescinded their rejection of two progressive and LGBTQ+ groups that they previously barred … Read more
When Loie Hollowell and I first start discussing her mesmerizing work, which combines the gestures of great feminist artists with the luminous, inherent sexuality of Neo-Tantric painters, I can almost feel her blushing through the telephone. “I call my abstract paintings ‘Linked Lingams,’” says the California-raised, New York-based artist, 40. She describes her visual vocabulary … Read more
William Brickel’s elongated, sometimes contorted, often intense figures possess an ambiguous beauty that is a bluntly modern nod to 16th-century mannerist styling, offering a whiff of Paul Cadmus, Lucian Freud, or even Egon Schiele. Mostly, though, they hold your eye with their strong and distinctive presence; they crackle with feeling, pulling you in with their … Read more
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A new work on the New York stage by the sublimely gifted composer, performer, and high priestess of modern-day ritual Heather Christian is always a cause for celebration. But in the midst of this winter of our discontent, her latest piece, the ravishing Terce: A Practical Breviary, now playing at the Space at Irondale in … Read more
If you’ve ever been on the Sleep No More side of the internet, you know this character isn’t the one who brings you up to the hidden sixth floor experience. But what she did do was shepherd me through a story— just her and me, alone for nearly an hour. She was in control of … Read more
“I’m looking forward to finding out what my children are in therapy complaining about me [for] in 30 years’ time,” says Laura Donnelly, with a wry laugh. Sitting, chin in hand, at the back of a rustic Primrose Hill café, on a crisp autumn afternoon, motherhood is on the 41-year-old’s mind—and not just because we’re … Read more
