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Modern Fuel spring exhibits unusual, yet effective

Written on April 4, 2018. Posted in Arts.

Running until Apr. 28, Modern Fuel is showcasing two unique exhibits tackling all too familiar social issues like gender identity and environmentalism. Chun Hua Catherine Dong’s The Drift Latitudes and Jocelyn Purdie’s Nature FIXED (on resilience) are challenging expressions of art and its political...

New exhibits are a modest attempt at a big idea

Written on January 26, 2018. Posted in Arts.

This January, Modern Fuel unveiled two new exhibits for the winter semester — Ritualia and Untitled (eyelids). The wide open space of the main room features a variety of scattered pieces that viewers can wander around, under and through. Altogether, these form the exhibit Ritualia, meant to re-examine...

Kent Monkman on decolonizing art and history

Written on January 23, 2018. Posted in Arts.

Artist Kent Monkman delivered a talk on his exhibit “Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience” this weekend to a packed auditorium in Ellis hall. Before the lecture, Monkman spoke with The Journal about challenging ideas of Canadian history and advocating Indigenous perspective. Now featured in...

“Can Artists Really Save the World?” panel has no easy answers

Written on January 16, 2018. Posted in Arts.

Some of the foremost names in Canadian contemporary art gathered in the Agnes Etherington Art Centre last Saturday to debate whether or not art could really save the world. The panel’s title “Can Artists Really Save the World? Exhibitions, Exchanges, and Other Moments in Trojan-horse Diplomacy,” refers...

Agnes funding increases

Written on January 12, 2018. Posted in Arts.

Taking effect immediately, the Canada Council for the Arts has nearly doubled the Agnes Etherington Art Gallery’s funding from $105, 000 to $200, 000 annually for the next three years. This money is allocated in three-year funding cycles and the counsel’s Engage and Sustain program, which promotes...

A preview of the Agnes' winter exhibition

Written on January 12, 2016. Posted in Arts.

Located at the heart of Queen’s campus, the Agnes is showing another set of brilliant exhibitions that blend the new and the old. The Agnes’ winter launch will be hosted at the gallery on the evening of Jan. 14. The launch, which lets gallery visitors meet the artists and curators behind the exhibition,...

Brawn on the lawn

Written on June 28, 2011. Posted in Arts.

There are three life-sized sculptures made out of chicken wire on the front yard of 448 Bagot St. The spectacle is part of the Swamp Ward Window project that presents artwork in a location for people to pass by everyday and interact with in an unconventional way. The current installment at the Bagot...

Tag: contemporary art

Modern Fuel spring exhibits unusual, yet effective

New exhibits are a modest attempt at a big idea

Kent Monkman on decolonizing art and history

“Can Artists Really Save the World?” panel has no easy answers

Agnes funding increases

A preview of the Agnes' winter exhibition

Brawn on the lawn

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