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Julian Samuel

Art

Paintings by Julian Samuel

The current land and seascape paintings combine near-abstraction with realistic references. The portraits, initially inspired by increasing signs of intolerance towards minorities in Québec, are also set within abstraction.  I continue similar works in Toronto. Julian Samuel           […]


Commentary

Icaros: A Vision

On the face of it, Icaros: A Vision brings together two pathologies, a shaman’s developing blindness and a rich Westerner’s spreading cancer. Both the blindness and the cancer will be victorious, in spite of a healing forest.


Montreal’s coming of age: Paintings by Julian Samuel

Montreal’s coming of age: Paintings by Julian Samuel

  Artist’s statement: During the 1950s in Lahore and Karachi I rarely saw women who were Burkaized or Hijabized. Most women during that era did not cover their head. In the UK in the 1960s I never saw any Hijabs or Turbans. We […]


Abstract Safari

Abstract Safari

Carlos Ferrand interviewed by Julian Samuel Carlos Ferrand was born in Lima, Peru. For the past 35 years he has worked as a filmmaker, screen writer, director of photography and he has directed several works which have been shown in […]


MIRA NAIR, PAKISTAN AND THE BIG SATAN

MIRA NAIR, PAKISTAN AND THE BIG SATAN

The Reluctant Fundamentalist, directed by Mira Nair 2012 Duration:130 minutes Starring: Hanluk Bilgner, Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland, Kate Hudson It’s an evening during le joli mois de mai and I’m off to see Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist […]


Is Canadian Cinema evolving?

Is Canadian Cinema evolving?

Welcome to Canada (1989) and Monsieur Lazhar (2011) This film review will comment on two Canadian films that deploy immigrants and political refugees. These films are separated by over two decades. Within this period so called “visible minority” film directors […]


Life in America

Life in America

I am walking along 21st Street toward 11th Avenue to see one exhibition which takes place in three different art galleries. Extractions, the name of one part of the exhibition, shows bronze sculptures made from images of cancer tumors by […]


Landscape paintings by Julian Samuel, 2009

Landscape paintings by Julian Samuel, 2009

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  • S(hell)ter © Beverly Monk
    Art

    Slouching Towards Peace

    Beverly Monk
  • Qingshuiyan Temple, 2021 © Zheng Mingqing, courtesy of the photographer
    Poetry

    The Priests Have Been Arrested

    Catherine Herrmann
  • Oliver Jones mural in Little Burgundy – photo © Ceta Gabriel
    Autofiction

    One Crows’ Sorrow, Two Crows’ Joy

    Ceta Gabriel
  • Poetry

    Proxima Centauri b

    Cora Dean
  • Gandhi, Salt March, April 5, 1930
    Creative Non-fiction

    Peace in a Grain of Salt

    Muhammad Manji
  • Bahram Azimi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Essay

    Finding Peace Through Contentious Conversations

    Noor Musawi
  • Photo Ali Hamad, APA images, Oct. 7, 2023 via Wiki Palestine
    Poetry

    fragmented

    shailee
  • Relief – Fire © Sri theyvi
    Art

    Creation Story Series

    Sri theyvi
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