The literary accompaniment to The Suburbs is found almost too perfectly in William Faulkner’s 1950 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, in which he declared the state of youth in the union: “There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only one question: when will I be blown up?” The Montreal-based septuplet similarly poses the difficult questions of the age on their latest release, sometimes ironically a ...

On loan from the National Museum of Wales, “Turner to Cezanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection” features the donated collection of two Welsh sisters. The exhibit largely consists of European Impressionist, pre-Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings. But the charming thing about this exhibit is its slight inconsistencies, its surprises. The fact that these paintings come from the collection o ...

We all know what it feels like to be the black sheep – and we can all recall a time when that’s all we wanted to be. Think back to your rebellious phase – that time in your life when you felt like Big Brother was out to get you and your parents just didn’t understand (Will Smith knew it best). Mine was the product of a discovery of old-school punk rock bands like the Clash combined with an eye-opening readi ...

Increased partnerships between the commercial and academic worlds could strengthen the local arts sector, and contribute to the development of an arts workforce that is creative, innovative, and adaptable. ...

"I wrote to artists and non-artists to ask the question: why should our government support the arts?" ...

Edward Winkleman wonders if an MFA offers artists something that they couldn't have gotten from a BFA program ...

"The greatness of a people is eventually judged by what they contribute to the arts and culture of their times." ...