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Living Through the ArtsThe Nuovo Uffizi: Good, but not enough
Since 1997 we have taken the participants of our summer and fall art workshops in Tuscany to the Uffizi Gallery, and just a few days ago we were happy to discover the newly renovated museum, though with some deception. The Uffizi, annually visited by 1.5 million...
Nuit Blanche reveals Ottawa’s hidden artsy side
Ottawa’s first all-night celebration of contemporary art on the streets held last Saturday September 22nd was a success beyond all expectations. As part of the organizing team, we are very grateful to Ottawa’s people for their massive support to Nuit Blanche and its...
Nuit Blanche finally coming to Ottawa on Saturday September 22!
Join us on Saturday September 22 from 6:22 pm until 4:23 a.m. on the 23rd The all night free contemporary art extravaganza will happen for the first time in Ottawa on Saturday September 22! More than 160 artists of all disciplines including projections, performances...
Gregg Simpson, official Portuguese Surrealist.
The Marvelous in the Arts A Walk the Arts’ friend, the artist Gregg Simpson has been made an official honorary Portuguese Surrealist! His show of the 1970's Claw series and other Hermetic works opens tomorrow in Estremoz, Portugal. What follows is an excerpt of Prof....
icscis/walkthearts night on Sunday July 15th in Ottawa
To Rome with Love at 6:15 p.m. at the ByTowne Cinema All icscis/walkthearts friends living in the Ottawa region are welcome to join our next icscis night on Sunday July 15th at the ByTowne Cinema (325 Rideau St) to watch To Rome with Love (scheduled for 6:15 p.m.). ...
On Art and Cooking
The bliss of cooking has been depicted not only in movies but also in the culinary art produced by visual artists contemporary to Alberti and Maestro Martini. As told by Giorgio Vasari, there was a group of twelve artists and poets who formed La compagnia del Paiuolo,...
Post from New York Art Trip 2012
Barns in the Field (Reflections of the icscis New York Art Tour 2012) by Virginia Dupuis Of all the places one would least expect to see a painting of a barn in the field, it would the leading edge Armory Show in New York City. All year long we Ottawa School of Art...
Posts from icscis painting workshop and art history trip Atelier Provence & Paris Art Tour 2012
Painting "sheeps" in Provence "Tomorrow, said Yves, we are going to paint the “sheeps”! But we are not going to paint "gning-gning sheeps", but the essence of the «sheeps"!» Because there is a plural in French for mouton, Yves applied it to English and since then we...
Joan Miró’s sculptures currently in the UK and major retrospective travelling to Washington D.C.
An exhibition of seventy-nine monumental sculptures of the Catalan Surrealist artist Joan Miró (1893-1983) recently opened at the Yorkshire Sculpture Garden in Britain. Miró, one of the most important 20th century artists, was able to convey his deep preoccupation...
rencontre icscis night April 12 avril & Studio Colombia 2013
To all icscis/walkthearts friends in the Ottawa Region Join us next Thursday April 12 for drinks at Mambo Nuevo Latino (77 Clarence Street) starting at 5:00 p.m. As you know icscis nights are very informal and open to everyone. So feel free to arrive with your...
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