UMSU announces new pub name
With the construction of the new campus pub at the University of Manitoba about to begin, UMSU has released the new name and logo of…
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Let’s get critical
Think about your favourite contemporary artist. Do you have one? What do you like about their work? Now think about your favourite artist ever. Do…
Getting digitally intimate
What can one say about a show called Projected Intimacy? Perhaps that it sounds singularly intimidating and cerebral. You might also say that it a…
Up-and-comers at Outworks
Friday, March 11 brought Winnipeg another ten centimetres of snow, MPI a new batch of accident claims and the art scene a new exhibit of…
Tastemaker
The institutions of café and gallery go so well together that many small towns have combined the two, ensuring that no roadtripper can stop to…
Sound art: Isn’t that just music?
This past November, Winnipeg hosted Send+Receive, a festival celebrating artists who work exclusively with sound. While I enjoyed many performances during the festival, it left…
U of M sculpture competition announces winner
Joshua Roach was announced, on Jan. 28, as the winner of the third annual University of Manitoba’s Sculptural Experience competition. Sculptural Experience is a competition…
Technology for art’s sake
What happens when you give a reference librarian an iPhone and tell her to do something exciting? If you’re Liv Valmestad, a librarian in the…
Living in GOSA’s glass bubble
From the week of Nov. 15-19, 2010, I lived in a tent in the Gallery of Student Art on campus at the University of Manitoba,…
Ad Infinitum
Starting Dec. 1, the Winnipeg Art Gallery will be screening the winners of the 2010 Cannes Lions festival, which took place June 20-26, 2010. The…