“Playing Anne is something I was told I would never do”
The pandemic forced the Charlottetown production of Anne of Green Gables—The Musical on hiatus for the first time in decades before its much-anticipated return this past weekend.
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Arts
How Siphesihle November is shaking up ballet
November is bringing a South African flair to the National Ballet of Canada
This Winnipeg art gallery is a monument to Inuit culture
Qaumajuq is not just an art gallery or a stylish feat of architecture. It’s much more.
Artist Stan Douglas is representing Canada at the Venice Biennale
Vancouver artist Stan Douglas is Canada’s first ever Black representative at the prestigious exhibition
This Canadian teenager wrote your favourite Frida Kahlo quote
The web has wrongly credited the brooding meditations of a Canadian teen to the artist Frida Kahlo. Is that necessarily a bad thing?
Two paintings by a beloved Nova Scotia folk artist have vanished. Can they have gone far?
Maud Lewis’s paintings have recently become sought-after collectibles. Two have disappeared–and they’re tearing a community apart.
The story behind Marc-André Fleury’s Indigenous-designed helmet
The Chicago Blackhawks wanted to honour their Indigenous namesakes. Toronto-based Ojibwe artist Patrick Hunter explains the thinking behind the new helmet.
The Power List
50 Canadians who are forging paths, leading the debate and shaping how we think and live
Why these artists are leaving ghostly sculptures at the bottom of the ocean
Artists are populating seabeds with sculptures that attract divers while also asking whether they should really be there
Themes of class and patriarchy in the classic opera ’La Traviata’ still resonate today
One fancifully sinister scene in the Canadian Opera Company’s 2021-22 performance of ’La Traviata’ encapsulates why we return to the opera time and time again