Portrait of the Artist

1 June: Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Chuck Workman, USA, 1991, 87 minutes. Hands down the best and most entertaining documentary on the great American Pop artist, this film collects testimonials from Warhol’s oddball relatives, his associates in the Factory demimonde, and even a Campbell’s Soup spokesman, in an attempt to unravel the mystery behind Warhol’s sphinx-like visage.

8 June: Basquiat

Art at Home and All That Jazz

Our popular annual fund-raiser returns on Sunday, 10 April, from 1:30 pm to 6 pm. Enjoy fine art, architecture and craft in four notable private houses in Halifax, followed by a live jazz performance in the Gallery, accompanied by delicious refreshments. Only 200 tickets are sold for this event. Mark the date in your calendar now!

Two by Two: Breakthrough and follow-up films by Black directors Charles Burnett and Kasi Lemmons

In the 1990s African-American Cinema flourished in the wake of directors such as Spike Lee and John Singleton, filmmakers whose work reflected an urban and often aggressive outlook. However, two accomplished Black cineastes, Charles Burnett and Kasi Lemmons, made breakthrough films in the 1990s that suggested an original and less rhetorical direction for African-American Cinema. Two of their films, Burnett's To Sleep With Anger and Lemmons' Eve's Bayou, have become established landmarks.

Jérôme Fortin: ici et là / here and there

Joliette native Jérôme Fortin's meticulous wall assemblages of recycled materials (such as plastic bottles, telephone wire, matchboxes, clothes pins and bottle caps) surprise the viewer with the unexpected beauty of the familiar.