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Art Imitates Life: Walter Scott and His Comic Book Doppelgänger
Art Imitates Life: Walter Scott and His Comic Book Doppelgänger Current Issue — The multidisciplinary is best known for creating the cult-favourite graphic novel series Wendy, chronicling the misadventures of a young artist in a contemporary art world. “I’m fascinated with people losing everything and crawling out of it,” Walter Scott says of The Wendy Award, the fourth and newest instalment of the Kahnawà:ke-born Mohawk artist’s cult-favourite comics.
Guillaume Simoneau, Author at NUVO
Like the brutalists of Montreal’s past, MRDK isn’t creating spaces to be ignored. Rather than play it safe and favour the comfortable, the duo’s impulse for audacious design is exactly what has made the studio resonate within the city.
École de Pensée’s Founders Propose a New Philosophy of Luxury
From skatepark beginnings to quality menswear. Like many great menswear designers, from Noah founder and J.Crew creative director Brendon Babenzien to the late Virgil Abloh, Marc-André Garand can trace his cultural influences to one place: the skatepark. “My first touch with subculture was skateboarding,” Garand, now 30, remembers. In 2014, he co-founded the Montreal menswear brand École de Pensée with his childhood best friend, William Lessard, who oversees production.
Designer Will Choui’s Creative Expression
Designer of the Day. Will Choui’s work is a visual journey of creative expression, forming materials into bold, skeletal shapes to create unconventional furniture with acute purity. The first thing Will Choui tells me is he’s moving to Bolton-Est, a town of around 1,000 residents about an hour southeast of Montreal, where he lives and works.
The World of Nicolas Party: Exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Psychic landscapes. Writer Esmé Hogeveen Photographer Guillaume Simoneau We don’t have the biggest stories, legends, and characters, but we have this incredible landscape,” Lausanne-born, New York–based artist Nicolas Party says regarding the influence of his home country, Switzerland, on his practice.
Montreal’s Ménard Dworkind Is Adept at Creating Dramatic Spaces
Good Form Writer Alison Sinkewicz Photographer Guillaume Simoneau Sitting low against the Saint Lawrence River, Montreal is rarely seen from a vantage. Its cityscape is modest—there are no glass skyscrapers competing with mountain peaks, nor an interest in superfluous record breaking. Instead, the city, almost defiantly, keeps its architectural treasures intimate—they must be experienced close up, not viewed from afar. The city’s most compelling public architecture is retracted deep underground.
Lindley Warren Mickunas
The history of photographers making images of their family is a rich one, but how do we photograph the intangibility and complexity of what we inherit from our family? What does it mean to declare agency over personal history through art? Lindley Warren Mickunas’ new project Maternal Sheet delves deep into these complexities without hesitation.
Observing Eye - Photographs by Sanna Kannisto
Observing Eye A dance between art and science, Sanna Kannisto’s theatrical images place her subjects centre stage of her outdoor studio, delicately drawing attention to ecological questions threatening their future. In Sanna Kannisto’s clean and minimal studies, the animals and plants she photographs become the protagonists of a small, yet theatrical, stage.
Linear Constructions
Linear Constructions By imposing luminescent disruptions into natural landscapes, artist Barry Underwood highlights our negligence towards our natural environment. My innate curiosity about the ecological and social history of specific places drives my photographic practice.
Home Sweet Home - Photographs courtesy of Rencontres d’Arles | Text by Sophie Wright | LensCulture
In a landmark exhibition at this edition of Rencontres d’Arles, thirty artists take us on a journey through Britain’s turbulent recent history through the lens of the most humble and familiar starting point: the home. How much can a photograph of home convey? What lies beyond the banal objects, habits and routines that litter our everyday space?
Tony Ray-Jones (1941-1972)
Photographer Tony Ray-Jones, who died in 1972 at the early age of 31, exerted an enormous influence on the development of British documentary art photography that continues to be reflected in the work of Martin Parr and many others. A retrospective of his work was a highlight during the Month of Photography in Krakow, Poland. Tony Ray-Jones, whose photographic career spanned only one decade, defined a new way of looking at his own society — with irony, nostalgia, compassion and humor.
Some Birds Are Not Meant To Be Caged
Combining old family photographs with his own contemporary images, Guillaume Simoneau reframes his childhood pet crows into an omen for dark times ahead. In the spring of 1982, when he was a child, Guillaume Simoneau’s family adopted a nest full of abandoned baby crows. His mother photographed the two families—one animal and one human—growing up together.
Can This Startup Break Big Tech’s Hold on A.I.?
IN THE MODERN FIELD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, all roads seem to lead to three researchers with ties to Canadian universities. The first, Geoffrey Hinton, a 70-year-old Brit who teaches at the University of Toronto, pioneered the subfield called deep learning that has become synonymous with A.I. The second, a 57-year-old Frenchman named Yann LeCun, worked in Hinton’s lab in the 1980s and now teaches at New York University.
Workshop: Grant Writing with Donald Weber
An in-depth course on how to find the money to fund your photo projects. Excellent! Learn How to Obtain the Funding You Need Complete Your Projects the Way You Want Photography projects require money. Many photographers produce work at their own financial cost. There are, however, plenty of funding sources available from different organizations. These organizations are ready to support image-makers, providing funding for research, creation, production, travel, and living expenses.
Interview: Before Tampa show, Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry talks about trolling the media, solo work, what it's like to be led by Win Butler and more
On September 22, Arcade Fire brings a polarizing new album (Everything Now, released in July) to the USF Sun Dome for the venue’s first big show since Jeff Vinik’s Tampa Bay Entertainment Properties took over operations.
The late show - Issue 95 - Magazine
B Report / Montréal The late show Entrepreneurial audacity has transformed a once desolate plot into a peerless late-night hive. Monocle meets Montréal’s marvels of change and other business night owls pitching up after dark.
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