ARTS
In Conversation with Toronto’s Feminist Art Conference
Coordinator Ilene Sova on the Toronto feminist art culture and The Women’s Kit Regeneration
The Strand reviews JFL42
10 days, 42 events, 1 tired student writer
The beautifully grotesque worlds of Guillermo del Toro
A look inside At Home with Monsters Too steeped in genre for the art crowd, yet too artful to be purely commercial, Guillermo del Toro has always been something of an outsider. Plucking inspiration from art indiscriminately, his movies end up looking like Vermeer paintings while telling the story of ...
A diverse exploration of identity
Photo | Grace King An overview of Toronto’s inaugural Bi Arts Festival The first annual Toronto Bi Arts Festival took place from September 22nd to 24th, 2017. The festival’s vision is stated as the creation of “an annual Bisexual Arts Festival that celebrates bisexual visibility, culture, and history.” Planned to ...
Review: Loving Vincent
A loving homage to a beloved painter Vincent van Gogh’s artistic impact on our world is undeniable. One mention of his name, and images of the swirling yellows and blues of his Starry Night flash before our eyes—seeming to come alive and dance before us. To have a film that repurposes ...
Review: Hart House Theatre’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Forget Crews and Tangos—go see Hedwig!
In Conversation with W. Kamau Bell
The comedian talks activism, podcasts, and self-care
Onsite Gallery presents raise a flag: works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000 – 2015)
An expressive, multifaceted, and crucial first exhibition from OCADU’s newest gallery
TIFF Review: On Chesil Beach
Having read Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach, it would be hard to imagine how the unsettling subject matter of the novel could be accurately adapted into film. It is fair to say, however, that director Dominic Cooke beautifully translated what may have been perceived as a story of two shallow ...
TIFF review: Lady Bird
A nuanced directorial debut that shows Greta Gerwig as more than an indie-darling