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Regina art exhibit celebrates famous stars and characters

A new art exhibit celebrating famous stars, as well as literary characters and their stories, is now on display at the Regina Public Library (RPL).

Movie stars, musicians, and historical figures are just some of the many faces being featured in a collection of around 50 paintings, which are on display in the Creation Cube at the George Bothwell library.

“Look in a Book: Make a Mark,” is an art project by the Ranch Ehrlo Society in partnership with the RPL. The project is now in its third year.

“The participants got to choose a subject matter they were working on. We used multiple mediums like spray paint, bingo dabbers and markers. Whatever you could think of, we used it,” Dustin Ritter, the art facilitator of the Ranch Ehrlo Society, said.

The entire project has been in the works since September. Every Tuesday, participants would meet to continue working on art pieces. Nearly all of them were a team effort to create.

The organizers said art is an excellent outlet which is a great addition to anyone’s lifestyle.

“It’s really an opportunity for them to participate, enrich their lives and bring a bit of that art and showcase their talents,”

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Kay WalkingStick’s Landscape Paintings Get Beneath the Genre’s Surfaces

IN HER 1997 DIPTYCH ALPINA VENERE, Kay WalkingStick sets a painted image of a hulking mountain in the American Rockies beside a dramatic source slit. The artist sliced ​​open the brown canvas, bisecting it vertically, and under the crisp incision, a crusty layer of fake gems sparkles in the light. Here as elsewhere, WalkingStick makes the land feel corporeal as it tends to cause wounds.

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A member of the Cherokee Nation who is also of European descent, WalkingStick has been exploring relationships between people and the earth for five decades. Diptychs are her signature format: often, she pairs landscapes with abstractions. Since the 1960s, her output has been marked by impressive range. During the ’70s, at the height of the feminist art movement, she painted brightly hued images of her nude form. In the decades following, she took up various triumphs of Native American culture alongside tragedies of Native history. Among her few sculptures are Tears (1990), representing a traditional Plains Indian funerary scaffold, but this version is embossed with a poem identifying the structure as a memorial to those lost, and to those never born. It’s a piece about Native grief that WalkingStick made in anticipation

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9 Galleries to Know Ahead of Art Basel Hong Kong

With Hong Kong Art Week set to take off Monday, art world jet-setters are officially en-route and eyes are squarely on the coastal metropolis. 

It’s been a busy, challenging year for Hong Kong, as 2023 marked the first Art Basel Hong Kong since the lifting of “Zero Covid” restrictions that had all but eliminated international tourism to the metropolis. It couldn’t have come sooner, as the launch of Tokyo Gendai and Art SG last year and Frieze Seoul in 2022 marked those other cities’ entrance in the competition for Asia’s leading art hub. However, any hopes that local politics could be forgotten were dispelled earlier this week when Hong Kong’s legislature passed a new sweeping national security law that curators and artists are already worrying could dampen artistic production.

Next week should tell us a lot about how the competition for regional dominance is shaking out. But early signs point to Hong Kong’s continued centrality to the Asian art market, as Sotheby’s and Christie’s both prepare to open massive new headquarters in the city this year, and M+ Museum (opened in 2021) and Tai Kwun Contemporary (opened in 2018) anchor the institutional scene. In January, Hauser & Wirth inaugurated a

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