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Article: The Speed of Life at the Speed of Light
10, Jan 2012The Speed of Life at the Speed of Light
By Lorette C. Luzajic
Where has the year gone? Today is already the tenth of January, the week already a blur. I was hoping “focus” would magically come a little easier for me this year, but I concede already that its unlikely. Focus on what? My poetry? My [...]
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Book Review: Cutting Edges: A Few Reflections on Contemporary Collage
By Lorette C. Luzajic
(Cutting Edges, Gestalten Books, 2011, ed. by James Gallagher et al.)
“Nothing is original,” said Jim Jarmusch, director of Down By Law. He took the words right out of my mouth.
“You’ve written about this theme numerous times,” said the friend who recently passed this [...]
Lewis Blackwell’s “Photo Wisdom” Book Review
11, Nov 2011Lewis Blackwell’s Photo Wisdom: Master Photographers on Their Art
By Lorette C. Luzajic
What strikes me first is the colour, a brilliant turquoise offset by a wide arc of pale and feathery purple and white ripples. It takes a few seconds to make sense of what is happening, of the giant elephant splayed out across the middle [...]
General Idea’s Retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario
By Lorette C. Luzajic
The Art Gallery of Ontario really outdid itself this time, devoting two of its four floors of prime cultural real estate to the “art” of General Idea. It should have been called “No Clue.”
Given the breathless gushing about this Canadian train wreck trilogy of [...]
Talking with guest columnist Lorette C. Luzajic about her new poetry book, Solace.
Your first poetry collection was The Astronaut’s Wife: Poems of Eros and Thanatos. Are the themes in Solace a departure from those themes, the themes of love and death?
No. I would venture that love and death, or life and death, are the [...]
A Painter’s Ode to Autumn
21, Sep 2011A Painter’s Ode to Autumn
By Lorette C. Luzajic
All around me, collective sighs sound a sad farewell to summer. But the second that the inferno-tinged air turns crisp under the sunlight, I come alive.
Photo by Daniel Medalie
I love everything about fall, from September’s grandiose Vogue extravaganza issue, to the crackle of tumbled leaves underfoot, to the [...]
Book Review: Contemporary Art in Eastern Europe
8, Sep 2011Contemporary Art in Eastern Europe – An Important Addition to Every Art and History Library
By Lorette C. Luzajic
One of the best ways to learn about history, geography and culture is through art. The personal interpretations expressed through art give depth to the politics, traditions, and experiences involved in history and its culmination in current events.
Black [...]
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