Fringe Arts

Igniting Festival City

Your Guide to Nuit Blanche

Elysha del Giusto-Enos — February 22, 2012 | Comments

Montreal’s all-night art party attracted 900,000 visitors last year. For its 13th edition, it’s bigger than ever, stretching from the George William Campus all the way to the Olympic stadium, from Little Italy to the Old Port.

  • Weekly Spins

    Point / Counterpoint on Grimes’ Visions

    Alex Giardini & Colin Harris — February 21, 2012 | Comments

    A look at the 4AD Records debut from local synthstress Grimes, for the lovers and the haters.

  • Fringe Food

    Gastronomie en Lumiere

    Josh Davidson — February 17, 2012 | Comments

    Culinary artistry is back in the spotlight this month, part of a wide-ranging city strategy towards “keeping February fun”—a response either to mid-winter suicides or to the failing economy, I’m not sure. Festival Montréal en Lumière picks up where Igloofest left off, culminating in that notorious late-February climax of creativity: Nuit Blanche on Feb 26.

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    Amidst the Cold

    Sam Rosenberg — February 16, 2012 | Comments

    Ensorcelor are arguably Montreal’s premier blackened doom-mongering horde, straight out of the burgeoning St. Henri scene surrounding the Death Church and Fattal. They work to channel the pitch-black feeling that frozen earth imposes on us, forging sweeping, riff-laden landscapes of snow-covered vastness.

  • Frame to Frame

    Nonchalant Corruption all the More Frightful

    Nikola Grozdanovic — February 15, 2012 | Comments

    Believe it or not, not all of the film industry revolves around the Academy Awards. Here’s a good example of a film that most certainly should have been floating around the Best Foreign nominee list, but didn’t make the cut.

  • POP Montreal & CCA Team Up For Nuit Blanche

    Colin Harris — February 14, 2012 | Comments

    POP Montreal and the Canadian Centre for Architecture are collaborating for the second year in a row for a night combining the best both organizations have to offer—and in true Nuit Blanche spirit, it’s offered for free.

  • A City of Festivals

    Art Matters Explores Art and Athleticism at Nuit Blanche

    Alex Mcgill — February 14, 2012 | Comments

    “I cultivated a weird fetish for boxing this summer,” said Zoe Koke, exhibitions coordinator for the 2012 edition of Art Matters, when asked about the theme for the long-running Concordia art festival’s upcoming event In Our Time.

  • TOPS to Pop Off

    Ex-Silly Kissers Prepare North American Debut

    Guillermo Martínez de Velasco — February 14, 2012 | Comments

    For TOPS, a new name is more than a fresh paintjob. You probably haven’t heard of them before, though the Montreal band has actually been around for a few years now—thye had just called themselves the Silly Kissers.

  • Montreal Fashion Week

    The Violent and the Sustainable

    Stephanie La Leggia — February 13, 2012 | Comments

    In the hopes of showcasing early spring trends, local socialites and fashionistas peeped out into the cold and endured the icy cobblestones to reunite for Montreal’s 22nd semiannual Fashion Week.

  • Canvassing the Masses

    Aquil Virani Wants to Show You That You’re an Artist

    Katie McGroarty — February 13, 2012 | Comments

    If you’ve ever felt intimidated by an art show, alienated by performance art or just like you didn’t understand, Aquil Virani wants to teach you a thing or two. “Being an artist is a mental attitude,” he says.

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    Take it as You Please

    Alex Giardini — February 10, 2012 | Comments

    While ‘mature’ may be a little cliché, to say the band is more accomplished and diversified seems more accurate. Because this is exactly what has happened with The End of That.