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Robert Houle Career Retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario: Red is Beautiful

Robert Houle: Red is Beautiful is a career spanning retrospective consisting of over 90 large installations, paintings and drawings created between 1970 & 2021. This exhibition shows iconic works, such as Kanata, a reworking of Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe, and Parfleches for the Last Supper, addressing his respect for Indigenous spiritual traditions

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Bridget Thompson Bridget Thompson

Michael Belmore and Camille Turner: Art disputing the arc of Canadian History

Hamilton Spectator review of the AGO’s Every: Now: Then: Reframing Nationhood.

Michael Belmore, an Anishinaabe artist, offers Rumble, a blackened copper sandwich of Trans-Am hoods, with effigies of spiritually significant creatures - a Thunderbird on one side, water panthers on the other - glowing from within.

Nearby looms Bell part of a slickly stylized photo-portrait project by Camal Pirbhai and Camille Turner, which was drawn from a shocking source: 19th-century Canadian classified ads placed by owners in search of their runaway slaves.

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