Monday, January 10, 2011

Canadians in the (Arts and Lit) News

It’s a good week for Canadian artists across the board!  Let’s see which Canucks are getting press south of the border.
 Toxic Event, Chemical Cloud Screenprint by Seripop

Who: Montreal design duo Seripop (Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum)
What: Experimental visual art, specializing in screen-prints
Where: New York – heavy art bimonthly Print’s February Issue
Check it out here.

Who: Toronto Public Library’s Human Library project
What: Pilot program involving “checking out” a volunteer with an interesting life for a chat
Where: The New Yorker’s Book Bench blog
Learn more here. 

Who: Alice Munro
What: Duh
Where: Huffington Post’s list of “Most Important Contemporary Fiction Writers” – chosen by two of the thirteen authors interviewed, and the only writer to be chosen twice
See the whole list here.

Image courtesy of Seripop.

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