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the dancing ash
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Article by Mary Ann Steggles
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or as long as individuals have been shaping clay into vessels and objects, wood has been used as a fuel...
mi’kmaq basketry
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Article by Joleen Gordon
If we could see beneath the forest floor, we would see that all the trees, the pine, the birch, maple and so on,...
the medium is the message
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Article by John Fleming and Marian Bradshaw
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arshall McLuhan’s pithy formula–“the medium is the message”–has become an ever-present cliché of the electronic age. This prescient...
the tall narrow canvas of William Grit Laskin
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Article by Judy Donnelly
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illiam Grit Laskin is one of North America’s pre-eminent luthiers and inlay artists. Since the early 1970s he has built beautifully-crafted guitars,...
art for art’s sake
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Article by Tony Luppino
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very time the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra performs, jewellery designer Claudine Hannigan is one reason they sound so splendid. Through a program...
plain and fancy
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Article by Sheldon Posen
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n his classes at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1970s, anthropologist Ray Birdwhistell sometimes brought in objects to prompt discussion....
music and the decorative arts
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Article by John Fleming and Marian Bradshaw
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an music be included among the decorative arts? Perhaps not. Yet the instruments that make non-vocal music possible, from...
shelf life
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Article by Michael J. Prokopow
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ondering the changing relationship between art and commerce, Andy Warhol, the onetime window-dresser turned artist, filmmaker, society fixture and rapacious yet...
print in context
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Article by Chloë Catán
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orking from her studio in Toronto, Canadian textile designer Virginia Johnson has built a hugely successful brand of colourful prints on clothing,...