Exhibits, events, and news - June 27, 2026
- elainebac1
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Events:
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Workshop at the MMFA with Avy Loftus - L’art du shibori.
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Parcours Arsenal art contemporain:
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At Montreal’s Botanical Garden - 25th anniversary celebrations of the First Nations Garden.
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Robert (Bob) Venafro is exhibiting - Using the palette knife technique, artist Bob Venafro’s evocative works of forests and seascapes offer sculpture-like surfaces that produce an immediate response. His latest solo exhibition, titled About Time, runs from June 30 to July 5, the vernissage is on July 2, 5-8pm at Galerie ERGA. About Time finds identity in landscape, stillness in impermanence and self in the interval between moments. This collection of new work is called Ipseity (selfhood). Venafro also volunteers as the curator of the gallery at the Old Brewery Mission, organizing exhibitions with an emphasis on accessibility and inclusion.
Winter- Majestic Four Seasons series 1 by Bob Venafro
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The McCord Stewart Museum presents The Mountain at the Heart of Montreal, an outdoor exhibition tracing 150 years of Mount Royal Park’s history through some fifty archival images drawn from the Museum’s collections. The park’s design follows the vision of Frederick Law Olmsted—the landscape architect also behind New York’s Central Park—and has been a natural refuge at the very heart of the city since 1876.
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Sunday Things Jewellery by Claudia Wong:
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Arts and culture news:
David Hockney - “The cause of death is birth,” he said. “The only real things in life are food and love in that order.” In the pit of the COVID pandemic, Hockney was a constant reminder: “Spring cannot be canceled.”
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Heritage Montreal:
More saved signs:
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Ron Howard's new documentary movie, Avedon, reminds us why the greatest photographer of the 20th century didn't care what camera he used.
Richard Avedon working on his In the American West series, c. 1985 (Image credit: Susan Middleton)
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Music:
Rhiannon Giddens discusses the history of the banjo and its African roots. Musician Rhiannon Giddens is a Renaissance woman whose work shines across a variety of genres. She is a talented singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist; she has won two Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur “Genius Grant” for her work. Giddens was trained at a conservatory where she studied opera but decided to pursue a career as a versatile folk instrumentalist.
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In a major music-art world crossover, pop star Olivia Rodrigo has enlisted artist Chloe Wise to create the cover art for the singer’s eagerly anticipated forthcoming album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love. The collectible vinyl cover features Wise’s oil painting Carve our names (2026), a portrait of Rodrigo clad in a pink baby doll dress and holding a glinting knife with foreboding intensity.
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How four rock star pianists turned a 'solo' instrument into an orchestra. For 300 years, the piano has been a solo instrument. We go behind the curtain with four of the world’s best pianists as they attempt to re-write music history.
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