The reason Montrealers can survive the grim winter
The sun is out, and everywhere the delicate flutter of flyers can be heard, advertising yet another festival. As if it needed proving, summer is when Montreal justifies its reputation as the spiritual centre of arts in Canada, by offering yet again a full calendar of world-renowned festivals with international lineups. All this stellar art going on its almost enough to make someone turn jaded at even hearing this particular “f-word”.
Jazz legend Miles Davis honoured with new exhibit at Montreal Fine Arts Museum
Summertime, and the livin’ is easy, fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high. Your daddy’s rich and your momma’s good lookin’, so hush little baby, don’t you cry.
In a way, this line sums up what Miles Davis’ childhood might have been like, growing up in sunny East St. Louis. As a jazz innovator, he is today considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, and the Montreal Fine Arts Museum honours his vast contribution to the music industry in the exhibit “We Want Miles.”
The antidote to a world drowning in data is good art and nuanced perspectives
Minutes after the earthquake hit Chile on Feb. 27, expatriate Chileans were receiving tweets with the news. Within hours, Google had set up a page marking earthquake activity throughout the zone by city, province and even postal code. It took days to get the phone lines up and it felt like technology had failed us. A virtual reversion to the dark ages again.
An arts rant on why art helps us grasp what speedy technology cannot.
Goes well with popcorn, and sand
If you absolutely insist on visiting a desert at the movies this weekend, better choose horseback riding with a Persian prince over getting sunstroke while wearing stilettos à la Carrie Bradshaw. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has all the ingredients for a perfect popcorn movie.
The Concordian discovers which trailers scream summer blockbuster
For some people, the summer months ahead are what they look forward to all year: sunbathing, beaches, travelling, swimming, barbecues and the great outdoors. For others, summer’s a real bummer. It means sun burns, sand in unimaginable places, sweating, bugs and difficulty breathing.
No matter how you feel, it wouldn’t be summer without spending a couple of hours in an air-conditioned cineplex watching the latest Hollywood Blockbuster/animated flick/rom-com/indie hit.
The Concordian has come up with this definitive list of the movies you must see this summer – and the ones you need to avoid.
Concordia grad features hard dicks and rim jobs in his Exxxplicit painting series at B-Side
When asked what words best describe the 12 paintings he was recently commissioned to do for B-Side Club (aka the Second Floor), Adam Vieira smiles and immediately says, “colourful, sexual and graphic.” The 26-year-old couldn’t have picked three more appropriate adjectives.
Simply put, the paintings feature people going at it. Hell, they’re called the Exxxplicit series. Although most of his paintings depict hard dicks and rim jobs, Vieira doesn’t consider them pornography. “It’s just art,” he explains. He does admit to having watched tons of porn for inspiration, though.
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