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Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot

ISSUE 15 | IN FOCUS

INTERVIEW — A complicated portrait of William Kentridge plays out in this 9-part series presented by MUBI

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Profile: Michael Kiwanuka’s Small Changes

ISSUE 14 | ALT.ITUDE

Without being overly verbose, Kiwanuka walks the line between being a narrative storyteller and purveyor of proverbs

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Indigenous Theatre at the NAC Turns 5

ISSUE 14 | OTTAWA | FOURTH WALL

INTERVIEW — Artistic Director Kevin Loring weighs in on performative land acknowledgements

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Warbling

ISSUE 14 | LONDON | SPACES

INTERVIEW — Robyn Graham clears space for quiet art

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King Cruff

ISSUE 14 | LONDON | HOMEGROWN

On his latest EP WHAT HAVE I ‘DON, Bob Marley’s grandson lays the foundation for his own reggae sound

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Is the studio a public place?

ISSUE 14 | STUDIO SESSIONS

INTERVIEW — William Kentridge, the eminent South African painter and star of Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot, weighs in

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The Staying Power of John Adams 

ISSUE 14 | LOS ANGELES | ENSEMBLE

INTERVIEW — The composer reflects on "Frenzy", "City Noir", and why contemporary music is beginning to atrophy

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Legends, Myths and Lavender

ISSUE 13 | ENSEMBLE

What happens in Debussy, and in Moccio’s music, is not a direct mimetic relationship of sounds to images but an open mesh of possibilities

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A MOCA Retrospective

ISSUE 14 | TORONTO | SPACES

INTERVIEW — As a trio of fall exhibits wrap up, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas reflects on the powers of hybridity

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Top 10 Classical Albums of 2024

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Iron & Wine’s "Light Verse"

ISSUE 13 | NASHVILLE | ALT.ITUDE

INTERVIEW — Sam Beam’s latest release is a colourful contrapposto of gloomy joy

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Max Richter’s In A Landscape

ISSUE 14 | OXFORDSHIRE | ENSEMBLE

On the Richter scale, this latest album goes to the max

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Samara Joy's "Portrait"

ISSUE 14 | THE BRONX | ELLINGTON

"I think that there’s definitely an aspect of society, or maybe of this generation in particular, that craves nostalgia."

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Pablo Larraín’s "Maria" 

ISSUE 14 | IN FOCUS

“Maria follows in the footpath of its thematic predecessors─but backwards, in heels, and with great music”

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Profile: Sarah Kinsley’s Escaper

ISSUE 14 | ALT.ITUDE

“To have chosen to work with a female producer simply because she was a woman would have risked the integrity of the project.”

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Upcycling: Harford House

ISSUE 13 | MATERIALS

Carina Harford on the “luxury of immediacy”

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Wayne Burns’s Top 10 Canadian Films

ISSUE 13 | TORONTO | IN FOCUS

INTERVIEW — With the recent releases of fastLOVE and Longing, the Canadian actor looks back on the films that helped shape his appetite for cinema

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Oriah Wiersma

ISSUE 12 | IN MOTION

What does support for independent Canadian contemporary dance really look like?

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Return to the Rat Park

ISSUE 12 | TORONTO | ARTS & LETTERS

Emerging research at the University of Toronto strengthens the link between social isolation and increased vulnerability to addiction

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The Tranzac: A Case Study in Third Places

ISSUE 14 | TORONTO | HUBS & HUDDLES

Artistic hubs are in danger of becoming either profit-engineered businesses─or disappearing entirely.

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BODY: Cassils

ISSUE 14 | LOS ANGELES | MATERIALS

INTERVIEW — “What better way to push for trans presence and historical archives than to burn images of trans people into the eyes of cis beholders?”

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Lang Lang in France

ISSUE 13 | ENSEMBLE

The superstar Chinese pianist uncovers a garden of Gallic delights

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Phosphorescent Blues

ISSUE 13 | NASHVILLE | ALT.ITUDE

“If you don’t know him, try. If you don’t like him, that’s ok too.”

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Manami Kakudo’s Contact

ISSUE 13 | TOKYO | ALT.ITUDE

“How would my younger self feel listening to this?”

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Facetime: Kachelle Knowles

ISSUE 13 | NASSAU | STUDIO SESSIONS

INTERVIEW — “Living in a nation that relies on tourism has convinced people that looking ‘less Black’ is more tolerable.”

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Bruce Liu’s Year with Tchaikovsky

ISSUE 14 | MONTREAL | ENSEMBLE

INTERVIEW — Music intended for amateur pianists finds expert hands in this latest recording of The Seasons

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Toronto Dance Theatre

ISSUE 14 | TORONTO | IN MOTION

“If the people can’t come to you—perhaps because they don’t know you exist—then it’s imperative that you go to the people.”

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Phantom Details: Agata Wierzbicka

ISSUE 14 | WARSAW | STUDIO SESSIONS

“If you want to create and you have such a strenuous need, it won't matter to you if you have a large or small studio”

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