Fringe Arts
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Fringe ArtsFrame to Frame
Believe it or not, not all of the film industry revolves around the Academy Awards. Here’s a good example of a film that most certainly should have been floating around the Best Foreign nominee list, but didn’t make the cut.
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Fringe ArtsPOP Montreal & CCA Team Up For Nuit Blanche
POP Montreal and the Canadian Centre for Architecture are collaborating for the second year in a row for a night combining the best both organizations have to offer—and in true Nuit Blanche spirit, it’s offered for free.
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Fringe ArtsA City of Festivals
“I cultivated a weird fetish for boxing this summer,” said Zoe Koke, exhibitions coordinator for the 2012 edition of Art Matters, when asked about the theme for the long-running Concordia art festival’s upcoming event In Our Time.
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Fringe ArtsTOPS to Pop Off
For TOPS, a new name is more than a fresh paintjob. You probably haven’t heard of them before, though the Montreal band has actually been around for a few years now—thye had just called themselves the Silly Kissers.
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Fringe ArtsMontreal Fashion Week
In the hopes of showcasing early spring trends, local socialites and fashionistas peeped out into the cold and endured the icy cobblestones to reunite for Montreal’s 22nd semiannual Fashion Week.
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Fringe ArtsCanvassing the Masses
If you’ve ever felt intimidated by an art show, alienated by performance art or just like you didn’t understand, Aquil Virani wants to teach you a thing or two. “Being an artist is a mental attitude,” he says.
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Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
While ‘mature’ may be a little cliché, to say the band is more accomplished and diversified seems more accurate. Because this is exactly what has happened with The End of That.
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Fringe ArtsSurveyed by Wolves
Light skin, dark hair, and not one ounce of exuberance, she sits down in front of me. The first few minutes before our interview remind me strangely of a few blind dates I had in the past, nervous laughs and awkward silences included. We are both, for very different reasons, seemingly nervous. Pon-Layus ‘s work is both unsettling and deeply meditative, and I’m eager to discuss the foundations of these controversial images with her.
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Fringe ArtsFringe Food
When Ken Ilasz began baking fruitcake according to a recipe handed down by his Austrian great-grandmother, he had no idea of the profound connections it might hold right here in Montreal.
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Fringe ArtsExploring the Darkness
We are often perched just at the edge of a void—going through life with an unrealized deep-rooted fear of death, the unknown and the unfamiliar. Chronicles of a Disappearance, on now at the DHC/ART Gallery, is the kind of exhibit that leaves you thinking about these things for days afterwards.
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