What do photographs of women, taken by women, look like? In honor of International Women’s Day, March 8, seven female National Geographic photographers shared an image they took that revealed a woman’s experience. In a world where gender equality is still elusive, these photographs tell stories of hope, bravery, hardship, and survival. Philomene, […]
Category Archives: Conditions for Community Health
Street Photography by Photojournalist Benjamin Lowy
“Good art doesn’t follow dots or lines, otherwise we would still be drawing like we did in kindergarten with paint-by-number books,” writes photojournalist Benjamin Lowy, editor of the most recently published Your Shot story. “Art—and for this class specifically, street photography—is about expressing yourself and asking questions through image-making about the world around you. Some […]
Dogs of War: A WWI Exhibition at Bishopsgate Institute, London, England
The Dogs of the First World War exhibition at the Bishopsgate Institute in London explores the role of dogs as both companions and workers during the years 1914-18. It features photographs from Libby Hall, who for more than 40 years collected old pictures of canines that show their unique bond with man. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatpicturegalleries/11469622/In-pictures-dogs-of-war.html?frame=3231178 These messenger […]
FoAL launches fundraising campaign
http://www.thecasket.ca/archives/43996 From The Casket, March 12, 2015 Friends of the Antigonish Library (FoAL) vice-chair Len. ‘P.D.’ MacDonald, fundraising chair Edward Langille and chair Lyle Smith, as well as Amberlee Boulton from the People’s Place Library, met recently to discuss a new fundraising campaign FoAL has started. PHOTO: Richard MacKenzie Noting libraries across the province […]
Snoga on Snowshoes on the Keppoch Summit
Frig Off Get Fit hosted an Antigonish first — Yoga on SnowshoesOur Snowga instructor Speirag Hendra, Noella Murphy with FrigOffGetFit leaders Rosemary Curry and Filmmaker Corinne Dunphy John Graham=Pole reaches the summit Dorothy Lander reaches the summit
Detroit in the Depression Years Through the Eyes of Frido Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit will be on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts (5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit) March 15–July 12. The catalogue is published by Yale University Press. http://hyperallergic.com/184891/detroit-through-the-eyes-of-diego-rivera-and-frida-kahlo/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Detroit+Through+the+Eyes+of+Diego+Rivera+and+Frida+Kahlo&utm_content=Detroit+Through+the+Eyes+of+Diego+Rivera+and+Frida+Kahlo+CID_613c462830995bd90d974bde9c4c0153&utm_source=HyperallergicNewsletter The period between April 1932 and March 1933, when artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo sojourned in Detroit, was a desperate time […]
Map of War Plan Red, US Invasion of Canada 1930
Map of War Plan Red, for the hypothetical US invasion of Canada, approved by the War Dept in 1930.
Canadian photographic artist Geneviève Cadieux Exhibition at Mount St. Vincent Art Gallery 21 March to 17 May 2015
http://msvuart.ca/index.php?menid=02&mtyp=17&article_id=514 Here you may see the best portrait that, later, I was able to make of him. Passages to Abstraction. Geneviève Cadieux Geneviève Cadieux, Ravissement 1985 (detail) black and white stereoscopic photograph (© Geneviève Cadieux) 21 Mar 2015 – 17 May 2015 Organized and circulated by the Musée d’art de Joliette with financial support from […]
Del Bel band on Q March 6, 2015
The Southern Ontario 15-musician band has a Hollywood collaboration as its backstory, as reported in Toronto’s NOW magazine: It’s a bit of a cliché to describe a band that deals in eerie atmospherics and dark blues as “cinematic,” but in the case of Del Bel it’s not only accurate – it’s literal. Bandleader Tyler Belluz […]