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Arts News Canada: Arts News for Canadians Have a comment or suggestion? Contact us "Updated" image -- Quick Menu Use this menu for navigation or just scroll on down! Today's Arts News Features Visual Arts Music Performing Arts Dance Film and TV Literary Arts Media and Broadcasting Homegrown Opinion Arts Business Today's Featured Artist Today's Featured Composer-- Canadian Arts Matter Discussion forum News Archives Search this site Blue Column Featured Links Advocacy Links For best enjoyment of the features on this site:         For opinionated commentary on Arts News Canada’s top stories of the day, subscribe to our FREE Daily Alert — sent to your inbox every weekday morning. Click the button below to sign up now. Founder and Editor Marianne Lepa, Senior Editor Steven Laird About Arts News Canada Updated on Friday, September 14, 2007 Arts News Canada is the online meeting place for Canada’s arts community,with news, commentary, and thoughtful insight on our industry. Arts News Canada will not publish on Victoria Day, Monday, May 23, 2006.The next issue will be posted on Tuesday, May 24. -- THE CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS IS 50! For five decades, the Council has given Canadians access to their own storiesthrough the imagination of artists in every corner of the country. Visit the Canada Council for the Arts 50th anniversary web site Featured Artist Ian Coristine, Hudson Heights, Québec 1000islandsphotoart First Solo - The Thousand Islands Giclée Print Click the image for full-size view Selected as an Image Master by DxO Labs in Paris, Ian Coristine's work has been published internationally in France's Le Figaro, Canadian Geographic, Gourmet, Central New York Magazine, Country Discoveries, Cottage Life and Volvo's international LIV Magazine amongst others. One-man exhibitions of his work have been held at Clayton, N.Y.'s Antique Boat Museum, The Brockville Arts Center, Onondaga Community College in Syracuse and this summer, the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. Each of his books have become bestsellers, with over 47,000 copies sold, despite only being distributed in the 1000 Islands region. Displayed work is subject to copyright and not to be downloaded. If you are a visual artist living and working in Canada, and would like to have samples of your work posted here, please see our submission guidelines. Curated by Meaghan Clemént-Ball, Montreal, Quebec -- Canadian arts matter:Essays in support of cultural leadership In keeping with our vision of connecting Canadians in the arts, Arts News Canada is proud to present Canadian arts matter: Essays in support of cultural leadership. A new essay will be posted on the first Monday of every month. These essays, written by Canadians from all arts sectors, are meant to provide a more in-depth look at the issues, experiences, and opportunities in promoting and advocating Canadian arts. But more than that, they are intended to be 'opening rounds' in a nationwide discussion on the value of the arts in Canada. September's essay: Canada Post and Canadian Magazine Delivery By Magazines Canada Canada Post has been an integral part of successful magazine distribution policies in Canada since before Confederation. Its historic role in the sector has been important in ensuring that Canadian-content magazines dominate subscription delivery in this country. While Canada's newsstand distribution network is dominated by foreign titles, Canadian magazines make up approximately 70% of subscription sales — a ratio that goes a long way in helping Canadians achieve a 41% market share of magazines overall. All of this could change if Canada Post moves away from its historic cultural and social policy role and adopts purely commercial objectives — the course the company appears to be on. read more We have been forced to close our discussion forums. The spam was overwhelming and the forums were underused. Please look for Arts News Canada on Facebook where you can post comments on this or any other issue. Edited by Steven Laird, Oshawa, Ontario Today's Arts News National arts news collected from Canadian sources and updated every weekday Many of Canada's online newspapers require paid subscription to access their stories. Arts News Canada does not pay subscription fees to any site. Some sites do require free registration however. If you encounter a site that asks for free registration, you may use Arts News Canada's registration information. Username: artsnews Email address: infoATrockyloamDOTca (change capital letters to symbols) Password: artsnews Click on the news item title to read the full story. Click on the section title to see the recent archives Visual Arts That horse needs a hat! While Calgary launched a Public Art Program in 2004 that has several huge art commissions on the go, the city takes an aggressive approach to policing independent public art and graffiti — and what's deemed appropriate adornment of our spaces. Enter the approachable and gently controversial public works of Suzen Green. Her proposal to knit socks, hats and other garb for bronze public sculptures as part of Artcity has met with some awkward negotiations. Green worked together with Artcity programmer Wednesday Lupypciw and the public art program administration to approach the dressing of public sculptures for just two weeks during the annual festival. A string of rejections underscores the lack of imagination and entrenched conservativism that colours Calgary's appreciation of art in public spaces. It also points towards a belief that public works such as sculpture, mosaics and murals are "art" whereas interventions, graffiti and other temporary works that contribute to the visual patina of the city are not. "I wanted to do William McElcheran's The Conversation men in front of The Bay, but they said the knitting would 'devalue' the sculpture and it would not be appropriate," said Green. "The argument was about being out of line with the values of the original work. I also wanted to do garments for Barbara Paterson's The Famous Five and pillows for their chairs, but they wouldn't let me." Fortunately, two sites agreed to host the works, and with the hemming and hawing about signage and safety out of the way, the project is proceeding. "There were a lot of compromises to get the two sites that we did, and everything came with strings attached. When you see the work, you will also see signs (that the city required us to attach to the knitting) explaining it, so that people don't get confused." FFWD Weekly          Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 Music Guitar Hero hates Canada One per cent. One barely noticeable per cent. That is how many Canadian songs have been announced for this year's two blockbuster rhythm games, Rock Band and Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. And that one song, Rush's Tom Sawyer (in Rock Band), is a cover track — one of only three songs on that game's preliminary soundtrack not recorded by the original artists. That is not good — for Canadian music fans or musicians. Interactive music, where the listener is also a player, represents a new way for artists to distribute their work. Guitar Hero and its replica guitar controllers got it rolling — and will look to stay on top with a multi-platform launch in late October — while Rock Band will up the ante by adding singing and drumming when it arrives for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in November. Thus far, the set list for Guitar Hero III is filled with heavy hitters, from the Rolling Stones (Paint It Black) to Metallica (One) and the Beastie Boys (Sabotage). But again, almost nothing from Canada, which was one of the first markets to embrace Guitar Hero and which represents at least 10 per cent of North American game sales. Where are The Guess Who, The Tragically Hip or Sloan? Where is Clayton Park, a full album of riff-happy tracks from Thrush Hermit? What about Neil Young's Rockin' in the Free World or Steppenwolf's Born to Be Wild? Rock Band's creators at Harmonix and MTV Games have been taking requests online and Canadian music fans should definitely throw in some suggestions. The Globe and Mail          Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 jacksoul artist responding to therapy Haydain Neale, frontman for the soul ensemble jacksoul, remains in a coma six weeks after he was injured in a car accident, but has begun to respond to therapy, his mother says. "He moved his eyes and he moved his fingers on Monday," Geneva Neale said yesterday. Neale, 36, was critically injured in Toronto on Aug. 3 at 9:53 p.m. when a car turned into the path of his Vespa scooter. Married with a teenaged daughter, Neale has enjoyed great success with his band jacksoul, since they formed in the 1990s. In the spring, he was presented with his second Juno Award for best R&B/soul recording of the year for the album mySOUL, a compilation of cover songs. The first Juno came in 2001 for the album Sleepless. On jacksoul's My Space page, Neale wrote that among other things, he enjoys "changing the world one song at a time." Mrs. Neale said she has faith her son will recover. "He's responding to the therapy -- they're doing a great job," she said. National Post          Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 Performing Arts Dance Film and TV Film fest puts out call for cash to build home As the red carpets were rolled up and the stars made their way home yesterday, the Toronto International Film Festival served notice to the philanthropic community that it still needs money for its new building, announcing a gift likely to exceed $22-million from the Reitman family and developer Daniels Corp. The gift announced yesterday from Daniels and the Reitmans - specifically filmmaker Ivan Reitman and his sisters Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels - wasn't cash. Instead, they donated the valuable downtown property and waived their management fees. Insiders familiar with the boardroom decision-making prior to the announcement indicated that the gift was long expected. However, TIFF co-director and chief executive officer Piers Handling said yesterday that this was the first official announcement of the gift and the first time it was given a value. He also explained that the key target these days is achieving the $129-million in capital funding needed to build the festival's new home, currently a block-wide hole in the ground. The Globe and Mail          Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 Mighty winners make noise and music There was a lot of music (and noise) at this past weekend's Mighty Asian Moviemaking Marathon in Vancouver. Alfred Liu's E.V.E.S., a sci-fi musical set in a world where women keep men imprisoned, won $500 for third place, and the audience-favourite award. Alberto Valenzuela's The Shrine, a horror-fantasy about a deadly temple, won the $1,500 second-place prize. Winners Jeff Chan and Ken Tsui scooped the grand prize of $3,000 with their crime-musical Noise and Music. All three films will screen during the 11th annual Vancouver Asian Film Festival, November 1 to 4. straight          Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 Festival spotlights francophone New Brunswick Every year, Moncton, New Brunswick's International Festival of Francophone Cinema in Acadie (FICFA) promotes the best in regional filmmaking, engaging the public in celebrating the achievements of local artists. Getting the work of local producers on the big screen is something the organizers of FICFA are very passionate about. "Most Acadian film companies produce almost entirely for television, but that means that you can't get it anywhere after it's aired," says festival director, Marie Renée Duguay. Held in Moncton from September 20 to September 27, the festival attracted over 13,000 film fans last year. Established 21 years ago by Film Zone, a non-profit organization that promotes local French producers and directors, the festival was a reaction to the lack of French films available in local cinemas. "We were at the mercy of these distributors and cinemas that had a monopoly on films, so we felt it necessary to create a festival to promote French film and celebrate what we have created here in this region," says Marc Gauthier, assistant director of the festival. "At the time it felt necessary to create an organization to promote French language film in Moncton," he adds. "Film Zone has over the years helped different individuals hold screenings and push projects that promoted French-language film in Moncton." Duguay says that they've been working hard to make the festival accessible to more and more people, by increasing the percentage of English subtitles and doing a print out of the movies with subtitles to distribute to the public. As part of the festival's ongoing mandate to promote French cinema in Acadie, the films also tours some of its films throughout the province, stopping in Fredericton, Saint John, Grand Falls, Miramichi, Bathurst and Caraquet. According to Duguay, by bringing these pieces to other parts of the provinces they are creating an audience, "We are not only bringing French films out for a festival, but we're also creating a demand for more French films by giving people the opportunity to see them." here          Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 Cool green flickers on-screen Environmentally minded movies showing as part of the new Climate for Change series at this year's Vancouver International Film Festival are competing for a $25,000 prize offered by aptly named fest sponsor Kyoto Planet, a green investment firm. "This is the most substantial cash prize ever given at our festival," VIFF festival director Alan Franey said, "and one of the biggest at any festival." Falling somewhere between macro and micro is The Green Chain, a first feature for Mark Leiren-Young, a long-time Straight contributor as well as a playwright and comic performer who long tickled Vancouver audiences with his satirical Local Anxiety troupe before moving to Toronto for most of this decade to work on series television and freelance journalism. Last summer, he returned to B.C. and made Chain, a series of monologues representing the ongoing conflict between loggers and environmentalists. Leiren-Young's main concern was to put the film on the provincial circuit, getting it to rural areas where the issues it raises would hit home. The film will be seen alongside almost a dozen titles in the Climate for Change series, all of them meant to stir discussion and maybe even global change. "It's an amazing program," Leiren-Young says, "and I love that it's happening in Vancouver. B.C. is seen as ground zero for environmental issues in general." straight          Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 'Away From Her' ships 100,000 copies on DVD Away From Her, Sarah Polley's directorial debut film, has been released on DVD and its distributor, Toronto-based Mongrel Media, has made a very gutsy move in shipping 100,000 copies. The size of this release makes the Away From Her DVD one of the most successful launches of any English Canadian film on DVD. Away From Her had its world premiere at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was hailed as one of the best films of the festival. It went on to earn more than $1.4-million at the Canadian box office, making it the highest grossing English Canadian film for the year. Still in very limited release the film has topped $4 million across North America and has been sold all around the world. The DVD of Away From Her is available as a single disc or as a 2-disc special edition which contains a lot of additional material. The substantial extras include deleted scenes with commentary from Polley as well as commentary by costar, Julie Christie. Northern Stars          Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 Adapting Mordecai Richler's large legacy for the small screen For Montreal producer Arnie Gelbart, the challenge was one he couldn't ignore. St. Urbain's Horseman, widely regarded as one of the best works of late Montreal scribe Mordecai Richler, had never been translated to the screen. And Gelbart wanted to be a moving force behind the venture. Gelbart bought the rights to St. Urbain's Horseman five years ago, and the in-between time has been about getting the tone of the page-to-screen adaptation just right. Key to the book, of course, is Richler's acerbic wit, something Gelbart was concerned might get lost in translation. The filmmakers were acutely aware that Montrealers would be tuning in, ready to scrutinize every historical detail. Production designer Donna Noonan said they had little choice but to move the St-Urbain of the book away from the St-Urbain of today. "There was a consensus that the St-Urbain of the period of which Richler was writing no longer exists," says Noonan. The solution was to recreate St-Urbain on Garnier, a quiet spot due east of Mile-End in an overwhelmingly francophone district. Old Montreal doubled nicely for London, something Noonan recounts as relatively simple: "You just put up some Union Jacks and old cars." While English Canada's film culture has a spotty track record, the adaptations of Richler's adult material, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) and Joshua Then and Now (1985), both directed by Ted Kotcheff, were widely regarded as successes. Which prompts the question: Why not more Richler on screen? One of the screenwriters for St. Urbain's Horseman, Joe Wiesenfeld, has a theory. "This is a very difficult book to adapt. Richler even tried it and acknowledged that his adaptation just didn't work. But I think what makes adapting Richler difficult generally is people are so intimidated by the source material. You really have to move ahead and not be too concerned about what others think." Montreal Mirror          Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 MacDonald leaves VIFF Jane MacDonald has announced that she will be stepping down as director of communications and corporate affairs for the Vancouver International Film Festival, a position she held for almost 20 years. MacDonald, who is retiring and will be replaced by Betty Verkuil, had a key role in the resurrection of an operation that had long been riven by "personal and political conflicts", according to festival director Alan Franey. Asked about the secret of MacDonald's "magic", Franey opined, "She's a really smart go-getter when it comes to raising support for the organization. She's got a nice mixture of bravado and charisma, she's not afraid to ask for money, she's well-connected, and a tremendous team player who knows that working at a film festival means more than just being a high-flying executive. You also have to roll up your sleeves and be a jack-of-all-trades sort of person, and right from the beginning Jane has been able to balance the interests of the audience, the sponsors, the staff, the volunteers, and the city of Vancouver in general." straight          Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 Literary Arts Media and Broadcasting Opinion How to deal with the Atlantic Film Festival Tara Thorne writes, "I was once afraid of the Atlantic Film Festival. When I was aimlessly wandering the grounds of Saint Mary's University back in the late '90s, I thought a cool thing to do, something that would assert my newfound adult independence, would be go to some film-fest films. But I didn't know how: where did I buy tickets? Could I go to anything I wanted? Will the ticket people heckle my country roots? Did I have to buy a beret? ... While it's cool to see anticipated films in a festival setting, it's also a huge mindfuck that can alter your true opinion. See some of your question marks instead — this will be your only chance for the majority of the 200-plus movies in the line-up. ... Just make sure you fill out the [ticket puchase] form right or you will pay — I checked 'cash' last year but wanted to pay by debit and it was like I'd driven through the bridge without paying the toll then hit a cop car, such a debacle it was. ... Don't bother trying to get into parties. They're lame and exclusionary and there are never free drinks. What you need to do is hang out on Argyle Street — the Shoe Shop and Bitter End especially — and loiter around the fest's HQ, the Delta Halifax. The bar, Sam's Place, is reasonably priced — dude, they make their own potato chips! — and always full of delegate badges. ... If you're a filmmaker who decided to volunteer thinking it would be a way to meet some VIPs, it is, but please remember, from us and the fest, be professional. If you're driving some drunk producer to the golf tournament, don't pitch him your script. Wait until you see him coming out of brunch the next day. It's a small town — you know it, they don't." The Coast          Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 The CN Tower and us The CN Tower has so penetrated our civic consciousness that it hardly matters that after nearly 32 years it's about to lose its status as the world's tallest freestanding structure to the Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower) in the United Arab Emirates. ... Though it's a rare local icon we share with the rest of the country, the CN Tower is unmistakably Torontonian and will continue to mean a great deal to this city. Returning to Toronto, even by plane, there is the special moment it finally comes into a view, when the relieved feeling of being home sets in: we are safe again and that which lays beyond our city's walls has not managed to destroy us. ... Imagine a Toronto without the CN Tower. Darren O'Donnell did in his 2004 novel Your Secrets Sleep With Me, where he wrote of a tornado toppling it into Lake Ontario, forever placing that book into the local dystopia file. We would be as lost and just as freaked out without our concrete compass as New Yorkers were when the World Trade Centre catastrophically disappeared from their lives, leaving that city's citizens guessing where the tip of Manhattan was and, consequently, where they were, both physically and existentially. ... The CN Tower is weird-looking, which is why we haven't been able to stop looking at it all these years, like those supermodels that are so beautiful they're kind of ugly. We can't take our eyes off of any of them. Being on top didn't cure our insecurity, and though it gave us the chance to boast a little when visitors from abroad were around, it hardly matters that the CN Tower is no longer the highest. Its usefulness to us has gone well beyond a world record, so Dubai can have it. From the looks of it, they're even more insecure than us. Eye Weekly          Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 Homegrown Chaz Thorne's many years work to 'overnight success' Chaz Thorne is rolling his eyes at the prospect of his "overnight" success. If you glanced at a Canadian film festival schedule this fall it's easy to see where the perception comes from: Thorne's directorial debut, Just Buried, and Poor Boy's Game, the Clement Virgo-directed drama Thorne wrote, both played at the Toronto International Film Festival this week, and each has a gala here at home in the Atlantic Film Festival. It's a complete fluke. Both films were shot, six months apart, in Nova Scotia last year. But both have been in development for more than five years. It just happened that a perfect storm of funding, scheduling and serendipity has made Thorne a double threat on the festival circuit this year. Thorne was born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, where he lived until he was 10. He fell into acting on the South Shore at a young age. In Halifax, Thorne attended St.Pat's, where he nabbed the lead in Godspell in grade 10. The performance got him a job at the Halifax Feast Dinner Theatre that summer. Then he headed to Toronto for a five-year stint playwriting and acting with his own company, Jack in the Black Theatre. Upon returning to Halifax, Thorne set his sights on film — behind the camera. In 2001 he and Clement Virgo began taking a run at Poor Boy's Game as writers, with Virgo attached to direct. The two filmmakers were hooked up by their mutual agent and began discussing the project in 2001. The lower-profile film of Thorne's is the one he's most proud of, Just Buried. (Formerly known as Pushing Up Daisies.) Thorne was not originally slated to direct the film. Just Buried is a zippy, quirky, beautifully photographed picture that plays off moments of inspired insanity. It's a worthy debut, and Thorne knows it. "No one else is gonna be directing my work ever again," he says. "Unless I get a call from Clint Eastwood or something like that. Because it is something I can do. And it's something I'm really good and, and it's something I really enjoy. The many many years of other stuff have led to the discovery that I'm meant to be a film director. So from here on in, if you want a script by me, then it's directed by me." The Coast          Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 Lighting up the landscape Libby Dulac can move mountains. With the sweep of her paintbrush, she has changed entire landscapes in Yukon's Kluane National Park. But the artist, who has been based in Haines Junction for 32 years, doesn't allow herself to get carried away. Dulac spends her summers snapping photos of the Kluane wilderness. "Composition is something that the photographer's eye will see first, but sometimes I need to use a composite of several different pictures to make the painting," she said. During the winter she holes up in her studio translating the images to canvas. Dulac began painting three decades ago, on gold pans. "It was kind of a trendy thing to do at the time — you would paint a scene on a gold pan and the tourists would buy them." In 1992, she won the Yukon coin contest with her image of the Kaskawulsh Glacier. Over the past few decades, she's honed her skills at depicting the landscape closest to her heart. "Kluane is my home and my passion, actually. The scenery in Kluane is just awesome and if you can capture the light on the right day there's so much variety. I don't think I'll ever run out of inspiration." Yukon News          Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 Rick White's constant consciousness Rick White hasn't cut his hair in close to 20 years. In 1984, when he was a 14-year-old metalhead in Moncton, New Brunswick, White wore shoulder-length hair and Iron Maiden t-shirts. After discovering skateboards and SST Records a few years later, he shaved it all off. By the time he started the band Eric's Trip with then-girlfriend Julie Doiron in 1990, his hair had grown longer than ever, and it hasn't seen a pair of scissors since. White's hair isn't the only thing that has remained a constant over the last couple of decades — his steady creative output, while evolving through several serious relationships, three or four bands and a few major geographical moves, reflects an archivist's attention to detail as he assiduously documents the changes in his inner and outer worlds. White, who has always been against art school and other brands of formal training, admits he doesn't really experience fallow periods. He tends to stay up all night, sometimes going through cycles of being awake for 20 hours or more, depending on what he's working on; as he gets sleepier, he says his mind slows down and becomes more focused. Beyond the seemingly endless supply of new music that White produces there is evidence of his industry everywhere, from his large-scale, extremely detailed, super-trippy paintings to the strangely beautiful sculptural pieces he creates by wiring different lengths of deadwood into enormous organically imperfect spheres. "I try to be as unconscious as I can be when I write songs, to let it flow in what I see as a natural way. Sometimes I don't understand the symbolism myself until I listen to it years later, and then I hear all the things I was going through when I wrote it," he says. "It's like reading an old diary or remembering an old dream." Eye Weekly          Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 Arts Business Vancouver's artists reflect the city's intercultural scene Vancouver has been a multicultural city for a long, long time. But in recent years, it's been undergoing a small but significant change: from a multicultural city, it's becoming an intercultural one. And the city's artists are reflecting that profound cultural change. "We try and speak about the world we live in today — and the world we live in today is a diverse world," says playwright and actor Maiko Bae Yamamoto. "When you talk about the responsibility of theatre in terms of this subject, its responsibility is to portray the world we live in." The boom in the intercultural arts is not entirely a new development. As far back as the 1920s, for instance, visual artists were taking their cue from Haida sculpture and Salish basketry. Vancouver's underdocumented 1950s bohemian scene maintained a serious and prescient interest in Japanese art, literature, and aesthetics, while in the 1960s it was not uncommon to find the city's cultural elite listening respectfully to Ravi Shankar and his contemporaries. "Interested in" and "influenced by", however, are subtly different from the cultural interpenetration that is a hallmark of Vancouver's contemporary arts scene. "In every community, there are going to be elements looking for bridge-building with other communities," says Moshe Denburg of the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra. Part of VICO's mandate — beyond promoting concerts and lecture-demonstrations is lobbying various levels of government to ensure that intercultural art is properly funded. Canadian-born Jessica Jone and her partner Chinese-born Chengxin Wei are the founders of the dance company, Moving Dragon. Jone travelled to Beijing to study traditional Chinese dance. There, she met Wei after which he joined her in Vancouver, where he initially made his mark with Ballet B.C. "When I came here seven years ago, I did not want to throw my Chinese background away," says Wei, but I felt that I was going to a new culture and I was really eager to explore that culture — like with the ballet." Wei's arrival here coincided with what Jone identifies as a rising interest in hybrid dance. Both Wei and Jone sense a growing optimism in Vancouver's arts scene, an optimism rooted in the awareness that intercultural collaboration is an artistically challenging way to address our changing world. Yamamoto concurs: "It feels like something is growing," she says. "It's a real nurturing time — a gestation period, in some ways. People are testing out the waters, it seems. It's hard to say what's going to happen, but people are committing to a sense of longevity in the community, and I think we're going to see more diversity, even on the big stages." straight          Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 to to to to "Updated" image -- Arts News Canada uses PayPal to collect contributions. Contact Marianne for other options Featured Links LinkNote -- ATTENTIONVISUAL ARTISTSInternet fraud alertandCanadian art sold illegally Collection Xa space to share ideas about life and art. 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