Culture

Art workshops for children at the Musée d’art contemporain are fun but imaginatively restrictive

Documentary filmmaker Avi Mograbi takes on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with a measure of bombast, style, and effrontery

Wearing conversation-arousing garments to a FIFA screening is like wearing a Jane’s Addiction t-shirt to Lollapalooza. At Púbol – Dalí De-construction, one middle-aged woman seated… Read More »Deconstucting Picasso, delegitimizing Warhol: a look at the FIFA festival

For all you Canadians who grew up with “The Cat Came Back” and “Happy Feet,” Fred Penner’s Place is a childhood memory that will no… Read More »Child entertainment legend Fred Penner makes a comeback…at Gert’s

Paranoid Park explores adolescent alienation – again

Eran Kolirin’s film The Band’s Visit resists cliché with its sincere portrayal of a meeting of cultures in Israel

Caitlin Manicom kicks off The Daily’s four part series on cultural tastemakers in the city with a look at the music scene

Scottish trangressional novelist Irvine Welsh serves up another round of literary debauchery in five installments

AIDS is “a very human virus, a very human epidemic,” said one doctor in a 2006 PBS documentary on the disease, “It touches right to… Read More »La condition humaine: moving beyond the science of AIDS in The Witnesses

Fokus on student filmmaking With the post-Oscar buzz fading to a drone and end-of-year blockbusters outstaying their welcome in corporate theatres, TVMcGill’s upcoming Fokus Film… Read More »Culture Briefs

The Daily’s Leah Pires opens the gates to our city’s cultural hotspots on the web

There’s a song that I like to listen to over and over again. As I write this I’m listening to it on my computer. Some… Read More »The Hipless Boy: Over and over and over

Aesthetics and politics rub up against each other in director Mikhail Kalatozov’s Soy Cuba

Ska/Reggae/Punk

Making music the scientific way If the name José Gonzalez isn’t already familiar, you may have unwittingly come across his music while watching the stunning… Read More »Culture Briefs