Etiket: arts
National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec | Espace Riopelle: the budget increases to 84 million
First estimated at 45 million, the budget for Espace Riopelle, which will be built within the confines of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec (MNBAQ), now amounts to…
“Tarratuutiq | Taima”: cultural shock at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec
Where the artist Chih-Chien Wang saw a round head of green cabbage, the young Inuit Iliana Beaulne saw a volleyball stained with diesel. Placed side by side, these two works…
The performing arts go green
This text is part of the special World Theater Day notebook The Quebec arts community, including theater, is moving towards more sustainable modes of creation, scenography, production and distribution. With…
Exhibition by Dany Laferrière | A nomadic heart at the Pont des Arts in Paris
The open-air exhibition A nomadic heartwhich uses extracts from Dany Laferrière’s graphic novels, will adorn the Pont des Arts in Paris and the square in front of the Institut de…
International art film festival: telling the story of visual arts from here (and elsewhere)
Manon Labrecque and experimental FIFA Among the important sections of this 42e International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), let us note that of the experimental films presented again, for…
Obvious, hackers of art at FIFA | When AI invites itself to the visual arts table
“Our brush is AI! », proclaim the members of the French collective Obvious, which has been producing works generated by artificial intelligence for five years. An approach that intrigues as…
Quebec Budget 2024 | The performing arts sector worried, the audiovisual sector happy
Quebec grants culture, heritage and the French language a sum of 187 million over five years. A budget which worries the performing arts community, which will have to share a…
The place of women in visual arts today, not so rosy
“In general, people have the impression that the place of women in visual art is a done deal, that it is settled. The path is not paved, however,” says Mylène…
Governor General’s Visual and Media Arts Awards announced
The Canada Council for the Arts announced on Wednesday the eight artists who received a Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts. Posted at 7:11 a.m. Montreal artist Louise…
Light on the #MeToo movement in the visual arts
This text is part of the special Feminine Leadership notebook While the cinema sector was shaken by the #MeToo wave after the outbreak of the Weinstein affair, denunciations were quick…
Montreal in light | Kid Koala at Place des Arts: recreating the Chaplin effect
Forty-nine performances around the world later, The Storyville Mosquito is back in the city of its creator, Kid Koala. The Press spoke with the multidisciplinary artist, who was also very…
Powerful musical union between the National Arts Center Orchestra and the Quebec Symphony Orchestra
The Grand Théâtre de Québec hosted on Wednesday the first of three stages of the presentation of Jaques Hétu’s final symphony by the Orchester symphonique de Québec (OSQ) and the…
the painting “Spring” by Claude Monet doused in soup at the Museum of Fine Arts
This intervention by the Riposte Alimentaire collective took place almost two weeks after a similar action on the painting of “The Mona Lisa” at the Louvre. Published on 02/10/2024 5:47…
the painting “Spring” by Claude Monet doused in soup at the Museum of Fine Arts
This intervention by the Riposte Alimentaire collective took place almost two weeks after a similar action on the painting of “The Mona Lisa” at the Louvre. Published on 02/10/2024 5:47…
From nature to creation at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
From an animal bone, one made monumental sculptures, the other, detailed paintings. Living an ocean apart, British sculptor Henry Moore and American painter Georgia O’Keeffe created strangely parallel universes during…
60 years of poster shows | Place des Arts is displayed
Paris celebrates Riopelle (Paris) The celebrations of the centenary of the birth of Jean Paul Riopelle end in Paris with two exhibitions that The Press has seen first. First, a…
“Piano Concertos Nos. 19 and 25”, Mozart, Alon Goldstein, Fine Arts Quartet
We cannot praise enough the rediscovery of Ignaz Lachner’s (1807-1895) arrangements of Mozart’s piano concertos with an orchestra reduced to a quartet and a double bass. Mozart himself used this…
Overview of interesting proposals in visual arts for 2024
Art Manifesto 11 Latency, pause, introspection, these “forces of sleep” which shake up our lifestyles compose the theme of the eleventh edition of the Manif d’art, the biennial of Quebec…
Performing arts | Ten shows that intrigue us
A show by Robert Lepage merging wrestling and circus art. The journey of migrants danced to music by Sting. The stage adaptation of one of Marie-Claire Blais’ final creations. The…
Three wishes against the precariousness of visual arts artists in Quebec
The prevailing precariousness hurts me. However, I want to focus here on one that I know very well and that I see around me. Those of visual artists. I want…