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Sculptural Utility
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Article by Lorraine Johnson
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ITH FREEDOM AND SPEED defining the most adept skateboarders’ moves, it’s easy to be dazzled by the motion and lose sight of the spaces in which such skilled practitioners of the sport are performing. But if one looks beyond the physical dexterity of...
Spotlight On The Collection: Animal Head Stirrup Cups at the Royal Ontario Museum
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Article by Lindsay Rose-McLean
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HE EARLIEST RECORD OF HUNTING as a recreational activity in Britain appears in AD 43 after the Romans introduced the brown hare and new species of deer as quarry. With the victory of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066,...
The Hockey Photo with Legs
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Article by Sheldon Posen, Ph.D.
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N 1934, THE ST. LAWRENCE STARCH Company Ltd. of Port Credit, Ontario, introduced a campaign to promote sales of their Bee Hive Corn Syrup. They commissioned photographs of the best-known hockey stars on two NHL teams—the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal...
Flies Fit for a King
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Article by Jason Klimock
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KILLFULLY MADE FISHING FLIES of all types are noteworthy, and yet there is something especially captivating about the exquisite salmon flies of the nineteenth century, which were also known as gaudy flies. …
Sport and the Decorative Arts
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Editorial by John Fleming
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N THE WORLD of entertainment today, sport appears to play an ever-expanding role in the opiate spaces of the public imagination. In the end, however, most sports can be reduced to the same principle of conflict, a multiplicity of obvious or sublimated analogues...
Spring/Summer 2014 Issue – Botanical Art
Editorial: Botanical Art – John Fleming
The Diaphanous Folds of Botanical Art: The Work of Jean Johnson – John Fleming
The Colours of Nature: Dye Plants and Design – Thea Haines and Rachel MacHenry
Mining Material: The Emerald Ash Borer – Noa Bronstein
Eye, Mind, and Hand in Evolution
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Article by Sam Carter
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YE, MIND, AND HAND” is the motto of the Emily Carr University of Art and Design coat of arms. “The crow is the smaller cousin of the raven, but unlike the raven, is at home in urban areas…As well, they are noted...
Spotlight on the Collection: A Flowering Passion for Porcelain – George and Helen Gardiner
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Article by Rachel Gotlieb
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OLLECTORS ARE MOTIVATED to collect for myriad reasons that often overlap: for personal pleasure, scholarship and edification, preservation and prosperity, and for financial investment. George and Helen Gardiner, the founders of the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto, which opened thirty years...
Linking Human to Nature and Hand to Machine: Marian Bantjes’s Designs
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Article by Brian Donnelly
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ISTORY SUGGESTS THAT even the most unexpected twists and turns never come completely from nowhere. Narratives of the career of designer and artist Marian Bantjes always note her sudden rise, “bursting” onto the scene in 2003, an overnight sensation at age 40. Her...