This is what happens when you watch the new Missy Elliott before writing the newsletter
In this week's edition: lots of infrared photography ... because of the 'Throw it Back' video
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Hi, art lovers!
I might as well be honest with you. I actually write these newsletters on Friday, and to make that teensy confession overwhelmingly obvious, I just finished watching the new Missy Elliott video and started streaming her first record in 14 (!!!) years — and both experiences have already fundamentally clouded my ability to curate the next four links.
Stop sulking that you missed out on Museum of Missy Elliott tix this weekend, 'cause I'm rolling right into the eye candy.
Ti esrever dna ti pilf, nwod enohp ruoy tup!
So I have definitely featured this Instagram star before, but the cover Missy's Iconology EP has got to share some DNA with the "braid art" of Laetitia KY. So fierce.
Loving all those pink skies and fuchsia front yards in the "Throw It Back" video, too? Soak in some similarly dreamy infrared photography by Kate Ballis …
Paolo Pettigiani ...
And Mike Andrew McLean. ("Throw it back" to this CBC Arts story from the archives.)
You've got to see this
Oh, they love trash - Around Canada, a bunch of residency programs are dropping artists at the dump. Are people really that desperate for studio space? That's not what led these folks to sign up. Find out what happens when you let artists loose in a landfill.
You won't find these in a thrift shop - Marc Adornato hacks old paintings, turning kitschy landscapes into toxic disasters. Real Canadian toxic disasters. We met him in Ottawa.
An artist's guide to Yellowknife - Maybe it's too late for a last-minute summer vacation in the Northwest Territories, but that's cool. This travel guide from local artist Charlotte Overvold is packed with all-season tips.
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Alison Postma (@rumalow) - Beautiful garbage. Alison's doing the Reclaim Artist Residency this summer, one of the programs that gets a mention in that story I linked to earlier. That pretty-pretty still life? It's made with junk she scavenged from a cottage country landfill.
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