Written by Miles Stemp
Christina Boyer is a painter that is working herself out of painting within painting. If that description is confusing, that’s alright, but it really isn’t that difficult to comprehend. Think of it as if you were a pediatrician that doesn’t like working with kids, but all your training is [...]

The Juried Art Show, in its 42nd year takes over the Zavitz Gallery
By: Daniel Bitonti
Sure you have your weekly showings at Zavitz. Sure you have Mac-Stew and Alma Gallery to visit work from local and not-so-local artists.
But for a University of Guelph student-artist, no event is more important than the Juried Art Show, this year [...]

Dave Willekes’ shows his work at eBar with Burn Planetarium
Written by Josh Doyle
“I’ve tried to not treat art with as much preciousness as I have in the past, and that sort of influenced how I used different mediums. That’s how the whole coffee thing came about,” said Dave Willekes, explaining some of the bizarre techniques [...]


Written by Duncan Day-Myron
Ah, the Oscars. The conflation of so many of my favourite things: betting, watching movies and judging people. Like the Super Bowl, it’s such a celebration of excess, with millions of dollars spent on something most people would probably be watching even if it was held under a tent in a field [...]

Written by Daniel Wright
On the surface, Album by the all male band, Girls, is one of the many melancholy, low fidelity gems of 2009. But catch a glimpse of Christopher Owens’s (singer/songwriter) back story and demons start to emerge.
Owens grew up in the evangelist Christian cult, Children of God (COG), until he escaped at age [...]

Everything is ridiculous when you think about it
Written by Miles Stemp
Ryan Park came over to my apartment this Sunday and we had a little soup and a little conversation. He also dressed up in my clothes and I photographed him in my living room (pictured). This is part of an ongoing project that [...]

Written by Daniel Wright
If you came to the same conclusion as last week’s Sound Check review of Lil Wayne’s Rebirth, you likely took to the internet to fill the void. If so, it is highly probable that you found Die Antwoord, whose YouTube videos more than quadrupled in views over reading week and continue [...]