Happy Holidays!
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From the McGill Library - Holiday Remix | Rover’s Dinner Party. Horace William Petherick (1839-1919), Illustrator. Animated by digitization & new media administrator Greg Houston using a combination of Adobe After Effects, Photoshop and Firefly and help from Kling AI.
Rover’s Dinner Party. London: Frederick Warne & Co, printed by Kronheim & co, 1875. McGill Libraries Rare Books and Special Collections, Folio-2102.
More about the image: Holiday Remix | Rover’s Dinner Party – Library Matters
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Poster from Heritage Montreal - It is with great delight that Héritage Montréal’s Next Generation Committee presents the poster created by artist Isadora-Ayesha Lima, as part of the 6th edition of the Affiche ton patrimoine campaign and Héritage Montréal’s 50th anniversary.
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Arts and culture news:
Look up at the clouds! You just might find the 2026 Pantone colour of the year!
The Pantone Color of the Year 2026, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer, is a key structural color whose versatility provides scaffolding for the color spectrum, allowing all colors to shine. In a world where color has become synonymous with personal expression, this is a shade that can adapt, harmonize, and create contrast, bringing a feeling of airy lightness to all product applications and environments, whether making a standalone statement or combined with other hues.
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Indigenous cultural belongings return to Canada from Vatican after long journey. 62 items arrived at Montreal airport on Saturday after 3 years of negotiations.
Katisha Paul of the W̱ JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip First Nation) and Lil’wat Nation, left, and Peyal Laceese of the Tsilhqot'in Nation touch a crate containing Indigenous cultural items at Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport on Saturday after they were returned by the Vatican. Paul and Laceese were on the flight. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press)
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Artisans in Paris revive the old art of hand painted signs. Known for its quaint and classy signage on storefronts and hotels, France is experiencing a renaissance of this hand-painted technique, which dates to the early 19th century.
Artist Victor Bert hand-paints signs for the boutique clothing store Asphalte in Paris, France.
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Dusty painting found in garage sells for £700,000 after being identified as Renaissance masterpiece.
The work, which depicts the Madonna and Child, is believed to be by 15th century painter Pietro Vannucci
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History - the Jacques Cartier Bridge.
Built by the Harbour Commissioners of Montreal, the Jacques Cartier Bridge, a three-lane bridge at the time, was opened to traffic on May 14, 1930. The inauguration of the bridge took place 10 days later, on May 24, 1930.
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Food - ‘Dobre Dobre’: A cookbook that highlights Polish and Jewish baking traditions.
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Books:
“You Are Here” by Maxianne Berger- Maxianne Berger’s superbly crafted haiku focus on her own small part of the universe. She writes of joys and sorrows—of aging, celebrating and remembering. The collection is rich in nostalgia and some regrets, yet, most importantly, reminds us that “we are here”!
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Frank Gehry passes at the age of 96, but his iconic buildings will last a very long time.
Frank Gehry, seen in 2022, was known for his unpredictable architectural style. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Frank Gehry is making a splashy return to the city where he was born, 93 years ago. His new condo tower project is set to make an indelible mark on Toronto's skyline. The pair of residential buildings reflects his love for the city and an expression of Canadian identity because, as Gehry tells Chattopadhyay... art, community value, and the greater global picture are inexplicably intertwined in building design as a conversation forever in progress.
Toronto-born architect Frank Gehry has died at 96. A rebel in his field, Gehry created sensual, sculptural buildings which rejected the cold minimalism and glass boxes of Modernism, and the ornate flourishes of Postmodernism. Gehry became famous in his late 60s, with his design for the now-iconic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. A complex and engaging man, who never hid his disdain for the media and his press-given nickname "star'chitect," Gehry granted IDEAS producer Mary Lynk a rare opportunity in 2017 to spend a couple of days interviewing him at his studio in Los Angeles. This episode is the first of a two-part series and delves into Gehry's infusion of humanity and emotions into his designs. It originally aired on Oct. 6, 2017.
Part 2 - Architecture is art — without it ‘you're giving up’: rebel architect Frank Gehry. 'I think everybody is capable of creativity, if they're curious,' Gehry told IDEAS.
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