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MAKING THE MUNDANE FEEL MAGNIFICENTLY WEIRD, NATHAN HARE IS A NATIONAL TALENT ON THE RISE
By Rebeccah Love Beneath the deliberately awkward, absurdist exterior of Nathan Hare’s (@nathanhare) delivery, his comedy offers a sharp examination of contemporary alienation, interrogating the paradoxes of digital life and the peculiar loneliness of the modern urban experience. Born into a household Nathan describes as “typically suburban,” he notes that “I was a super hyper kid, wanting attention, making school projects into comedy sketches,” over a meal at Desotos. “SNL g


GILLIAN ILES' GLORIOUS CATASTROPHE MAPS THE EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHY OF PRECARITY
Review by Rebeccah Love 'Glorious Catatrosphe' on unti June 13 Koffler Arts 180 Shaw St kofflerarts.org Four years ago I began hosting dinner parties with a conversational focus on the housing crisis. I invited architects, architecture professors, real estate agents, urban planners, and housing startup CEOs. Over time, these conversations expanded and intensified, culminating in a large dinner last summer with Toronto’s Chief City Planner, where we discussed laneway houses,


THREE TAKES ON THE LAND: BERG, BEAMISH, WALMSLEY
Parting Clouds at Fields End, Stefan Berg, 2025 By Rebeccah Love From its earliest incarnations, landscape painting has been bound to the practical needs of society—engineers sketching blueprints for complex hydraulic systems in prehistoric communities, or rulers commissioning depictions of their expanding territories to assert control, divine authority, and power. As the centuries unfolded, these utilitarian beginnings gave way to new intentions: in the Netherlands, landscap


RAINBOW ON MARS IS A PLAY "TO SEE"
Review by Rebeccah Love In my undergrad Art History lectures, our professor paid special attention to the Impressionist works of Edgard...


STEFAN BERG'S 'LITTLE THINGS' CELEBRATES BEAUTY IN UNEXPECTED PLACES
Photo by Huy Lam Interview by Rebeccah Love Stefan Berg is a painter and printmaker known for his urban landscapes of Toronto. His work...


JUDY SINGER, A LEGACY OF COLOR, MOVEMENT, AND PASSION
In 1974, towards the end of her fourth year at York University's Fine Arts programme, Judy Singer was discovered by the late Jack...


MAZIYAR KHATAM EXPLORES MODERN QUESTIONS OF MASCULINITY IN 'THE SWEATER'
A graduate of the Humber College Film and Television Production program, Maziyar Khatam is an Iranian-Canadian Director/Writer who is...


A RETURN TO THE HANDMADE
In a world of collective screen addiction, Toronto Arts Report Editor Rebeccah Love speaks with four artists/artisans about their...


MICROCINEMA FESTIVAL 'SEWERFEST' CELEBRATES RISK-TAKING FILMS THAT DO NOT MAKE USE OF PROFESSIONAL EQUIPMENT
Toronto Arts Report Editor Rebeccah Love sits down with Sewerfest founder and lead programmer Alex Hennessey to learn more about this...


ALEXANDER GALLANT ENCHANTS WITH 'COME SLOWLY'
Alexander Gallant is a singer-songwriter from Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the tradition of A Singer With A Guitar, Alexander’s songs are...
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