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The most powerful art might be made of garbage

The most powerful art might be made of garbage

Carlyn Yandle photo The astronomical private art-investor feeding frenzy at prestigious auction houses is light years away from art. It’s a greedy need for prestige, worlds apart from the hand of Picasso or Andy Warhol and, most recently, Francis Bacon and the...
Out of catastrophe comes creative thinking

Out of catastrophe comes creative thinking

Pretty, and pretty alarming stripes show future water levels. All the recent natural and unnatural disasters in this country — city-paralyzing changing-climate-induced floods in Calgary and then Toronto, an oil-tanker train disaster that derailed an entire...
A childhood of risky business inspires

A childhood of risky business inspires

My nephew is about to launch. Freshly freed from high school, he’ll soon be flying high at the National Circus School in Montreal. If there is one kid who would run away and join the circus, Domenic is it. Long before he pushed the physical limits of the human...