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Let’s try that whole spring thing again this weekend, shall we? After that weird and thankfully brief snowfall on Montreal’s parade this week, everything’s melted away and we can all collectively get back to the business of enjoying the city when it doesn’t require parkas.
A new exhibition at the MMFA
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Try refreshing your browser, or 10 things to do in Montreal with this much warmer weekend, April 23 to 25 Back to video View of the exhibition Caroline Monnet: Ninga Mìnèh at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Photo by MBAM, Denis Farley
Indigenous housing crisis inspires hopeful art in MMFA exhibition There s a surprising sense of lightness, and life, to Anishinaabe-Québécoise visual artist Caroline Monnet s solo show Ninga Mìnèh.
Author of the article: T Cha Dunlevy • Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: Apr 21, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 4 minute read • Caroline Monnet s new exhibition, Ninga Mìnèh, continues through Aug. 1 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Photo by Allen McInnis /Montreal Gazette
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Upon entering Caroline Monnet’s new exhibition Ninga Mìnèh at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, one is struck by the bright colours.
QF project to use art therapy to help fight depression, anxiety in kids
19 Apr 2021 - 9:17
Michelle Dixon and Dr. Alan Weber
The Peninsula
Doha: One of the themes the project – led by Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar and funded by Qatar Foundation’s (QF) Qatar National Research Fund – will focus on is national identity.
In collaboration with the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ), the project will use the museum’s artifacts to offer children virtual opportunities to explore their history and roots, while also aiming to counteract some of the effects of social distancing and isolation.
While children have remained largely shielded from the physical impacts of COVID-19, they appear to be the ones suffering most in terms of mental health. Isolation from friends and drastically limited in-person social interaction, while for their own good, has slowly but surely creeped up on their mental well-being. In a time where the need for counseling has increased but in-person counsel
Exhibition presents works that convey humanity s relationship with nature
Jessica Houston (born in 1970), Ideas in Things (Antarctic Peninsula), from the series Horizon Felt South, 2018, ink-jet print, 4/5, 120.3 x 180.5 cm (sight). MMFA, Purchase, Hamelys Fund.
MONTREAL
.- Ecological issues are of crucial importance in our era of climate upheaval, and it is only natural for contemporary artists to take up these topics in their practice and thinking. Presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the exhibition Ecologies: A Song for Our Planet includes installations, videos, sculptures, paintings, drawings and photographs that convey humanitys relationship with nature. The nearly 90 works, which are being exhibited in rotation, mostly come from the MMFAs collection and include recent acquisitions by Jocelyne Alloucherie, Shuvinai Ashoona, Olafur Eliasson, Charles Gagnon, Lorraine Gilbert, Jessica Houston, Isabelle Hayeur, Alec Lawson Tuckatuck, Lisette Lemieux, Monique Mo
The Algonguin-French multimedia artist s work explores the complexities of Indigenous identity by Radheyan Simonpillai on April 17th, 2021 at 8:49 PM 1 of 2 2 of 2
Caroline Monnet is speaking over Zoom from her Montreal studio while keeping an eye on Quebec’s COVID-19 announcements. The Algonquin-French multimedia artist, whose work is featured on both international screens and galleries, is preparing her latest solo show, which is set to open at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on April 21.
The pandemic has already delayed the premiere of Monnet’s debut feature film,
Bootlegger. The film, which won a screenplay prize at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival’s Cinéfondation, stars Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs as a young woman returning to her reserve during a referendum on prohibition laws. Principal photography wrapped in December 2019, but COVID-19 stretched the postproduction schedule.