The artist has fronted the costs of all the work he's displayed in the past 25 years, but now, with the rising cost of materials and his rent, he says it's no longer sustainable.
Sleep may be a basic human need, but "InSomnolence" is anything but ordinary. Until July 13, downtown Montreal is hosting a unique playground for night owls, day nappers, and every circadian rhythm on the spectrum. The imaginative exhibit is a blend of art, science, and technology, deconstructing your perceptions of sleep and offering a unique sensory journey through the world of slumber and dreams.
Montreal is an artsy city, filled with arresting sculptures, video projections on buildings, murals and countless more public art displays hiding in neighbourhood corners. There's a lot to see if you know where to look! If you're into street art and city walks, you can come up with your own itinerary and discover our city's hidden cultural gems thanks to the interactive maps by Art Public Montréal and MURAL.
Sex workers, circus performers, drag queens and disabled children peer out from the walls of a new exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Some of their faces may seem familiar, like the ghostly pair of identical sisters holding hands who inspired the iconic twins in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, or the peculiar child gripping a toy grenade in a park who became the basis for Matt Groening's Bart Simpson. Diane Arbus: Photographs, 1956-1971 not only brings into focus the artist's decades-long impact on pop culture, but her humanization of marginalized people.