Dance shows not to miss at the sixth edition of Festival TransAmériques, the MMFA goes big with Beyond Pop Art the first major North American retrospective of artist Tom Wesselmann, Chromatic festival gives audiences a 360 degree view on art of all kinds and the OFFTA invites you to go off the beaten path at the multidisciplinary fest.
Temps d’Images brings the international avant-garde to Montreal, New York City-based Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater does Ailey’s classic Revelations and more, Blue Met celebrates its 14th edition and the MAC unveils its latest permanent exhibit A Matter of Abstraction
The exaggerated, witchy paintings in Janet Werner’s new portrait series, Earthling at Parisian Laundry, Calgary’s Theatre Junction’s Resident Company of Artists brings its post-apocalyptic multi-disciplinary piece Lucy Lost Her Heart to Montreal and the Grand Burlesque Show takes audiences on a champagne and glamour fuelled odyssey with their new show Island Fever
ArtSida lets you buy art and help those in need, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal tackle Noces and The Rite of Spring with Soirée Stravinski, Scott Wallis turns 98 red squares into a interesting, versatile sculpture and Forever Falling Apart features the best of video and animation shorts from the 70s to the present
Edgy Women returns for its 19th edition with four full-length shows, conferences, bloggers and more, Deborah Dunn tackles Virginia Woolf’s gender-bending, time traveller Orlando, Abbas Akhavan brings the sun to Montreal with his first solo show Beacon and art books superstore Formats opens in Le 2-22 with hot dogs, dancing and books
Parisian Laundry features the work of seven up-and-coming MFA grads with Collision 8, Ben J. Riepe asks what lies beneath beauty in his work LOVE | DEATH | DEVIL—THE PIECE, It’s all about the have and the have not’s in Karine Giboulo’s sculptural installation Democracy Village and Concordia students Andrew Hovi and Spencer Gilley offer a glimpse into life on a reserve with their art film “Dogs on a Beach.”
Batsheva Dance Company returns with Hora, Concordia students flex their artistic muscles for Art Matters, Clockshovel shows off his latest work with mammals vs. ghosts, we travel back to Montreal’s sleazy heyday in the stripperific Mama’s Club.
Matt Forsythe launches Jinchalo the follow-up to his ’08 graphic novel Ojingogo, dancers explore moving and migration in Straight Right ou l’art d’être Nulle part Ailleurs, Anita Schoepp asked fellow artists to personify their sexuality in It Started With a Simple Question and Grown-up Story Time Montreal makes its debut
ARTSWEEK: Ghada Amer, Wangechi Mutu and Valérie Blass bring their works to the MAC, Ciel Ecchymose explores the worlds of Nunavut-based artists Ningeokuluk Teevee and Shuvinai Ashoona, choreographer George Stamos looks at the costumes we all wear in his latest piece, Husk and DomeFest at the SAT brings you the future of film
Designers present their A/W 2012-13 collections at Montreal Fashion Week with not-to-be-missed parties and films to match, Concordia celebrates anime, manga and video games with Experiencing the Media Mix and choreographer and dancer Jean-Sébastien Lourdais brings Trois peaux + Vers to agora de la danse.
