In the newsletter: Send us your questions for Art 101!

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Hi, art lovers!

Somebody asked me to ask you for a favour. But it's a fun one! Really. Especially if you've been watching Art 101.

You know our video series Art 101? Of course you do. I've been mentioning it for months and linking to it all over these emails. They're the snappy, explainer-style videos hosted by one of our producers, Lise Hosein. (Here's the one she did on the Venice Biennale...because the Venice Biennale kicked off this weekend.) Remember? Grand.

The team's getting ready to shoot a bunch of new episodes, which means that Lise needs a ton of new topics to investigate, so consider this email your official invitation to send us ideas.

Specifically...Are there are any works of art you'd like to learn more about? Maybe you want to know why people even think something is art in the first place, sort of like this episode that dipped into the Voice of Fire controversy from back in the day. Email us this week. Can't wait to read your ideas.

Until then, I'm skipping straight to the eye candy.

How's this for wig goals? Like I mentioned before, the Venice Biennale opened this weekend, and this neon forest of hair is inside the Iceland pavilion. The artist is Shoplifter. (If you remember Björk's Medúlla album cover, you already know her handiwork.) So for those of us who aren't kicking it on the canals right now, these pictures are the closest thing to experiencing its Day-Glo sensory overload.

Have some more pretty pictures from Venice. Here's a look at what's inside the Arsenale and the Giardini. (And if you're curious about Canada's pavilion, here's some light reading on Isuma, the Inuit artist collective that's representing us at the Biennale.)

It's the world's largest pop-up book! (Like, so big you can crawl inside it!) Colette Fu is the artist, and it's appearing at the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Va., to Sept. 8.

Because I spend too much time on Instagram, I discovered that Ian Langohr — a.k.a. Hand Sewn Heads, a.k.a. the artist who taught us how to make DIY mascot masks — worked on Cœur de pirate's new music video. (He built the puppet!) Watch.

The 10th edition of Montreal's Chromatic Festival launched Friday, and there's a week's worth of exhibitions, workshops and concerts to check out. Happy to see a bunch of artists who've appeared on CBC Arts at the festival (Rajni Perera! Winnie Truong! Laurence Philomene!). The picture above, though, is from a special Toiletpaper retrospective that'll be appearing at Galerie blanc. (That one's free to see, 24/7.)

You've got to see this

An artist's guide to the Museum of Anthropology - Pack a sketchbook (and maybe some hiking shoes). Vancouver-based artist David Ullock is your tour guide to the MOA...plus another (secret?) spot worth exploring nearby.

Podcast reco! Uncover: The Village - CBC's series about the McArthur murders wrapped this week, but the podcast was more than another true-crime saga. We talked to host Justin Ling about the project.

It's not about being the best dressed...or the worst - A person who is tired of looking at cheeseburger dresses is a person who is tired of life. Lise Hosein and I spent Tuesday morning reading Susan Sontag and debating whether the looks lived up to the Met Gala's "Camp" dress code (because our jobs are the best). Here's our report card.

Follow this artist

Nicole Dextras (@ndextras) - I'm not sure this is what people mean when they talk about "sustainable fashion," but it's gorgeous nonetheless. Watch our profile of environmental artist Nicole Dextras.

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