Arts & Culture

Warhol to Wedman

By
Benjamin Miller
Artist Neil Wedman is bringing his work to the University of Manitoba’s Gallery One One One. Wedman, a native Vancouverite, is well known for his work in a variety of media, but only one...
Arts & Culture

Cabane fever

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Benjamin Miller
Canadian choreographer and dancer Paul-André Fortier’s latest work steps outside the boundaries of dance. Cabane, the latest work by one of Quebec’s best-known dancers, incorporates elements of theatre, performance art and visual art, a...
Arts & Culture

More guns, less whimsy

By
Benjamin Miller
The Green Hornet has suffered from the expectations it created. While the film is — as I write this — the highest grossing currently in theatres, 79 per cent of top critics have panned...
Arts & Culture

Recital probe

By
Benjamin Miller
Classical musicians from the University of Manitoba’s faculty of music are trying to change the way we consume music by performing outside of organized orchestral concerts. People like Charmaine Bacon, flutist and Marcel A....
Arts & Culture

Genre-hopping

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Benjamin Miller
One of the defining aspec­­ts of today’s popular culture is its fragmentation. Popular music is divided into such infinitesimally small sub-genres that some bands move in and out of them with each album. In...
Arts & Culture

The noughties in Asian cinema

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Benjamin Miller
For the past month, arts and culture sections in newspapers and magazines have been filled with top 10s, fives and perhaps a few top 14s, but no discussion of the three most important and...
Arts & Culture

Power to the people

By
Benjamin Miller
In every friendship I have cultivated over the last few years I’ve found it necessary at some point to sit down face to face with my new friend and tell them about a part...
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