Skip to content
HighOnCity Montréal
→ ART, STAGE, SCREEN, SOUND, STYLE

Culture — Page 4

68D AGO

Yayoi Kusama, avant-garde artist known for immersive polka-dot installations, dies at 97

The Japanese avant-garde artist, whose polka-dot infinity rooms redefined immersive art, died in Tokyo at 97.

68D AGO

Theatre builder Pierre MacDuff, pillar of Quebec arts, dies at 74

MacDuff, who directed Les 2 Mondes for 25 years and led multiple theatre organizations, died Tuesday after choosing medical aid in...

72D AGO

Dominique Fortier finds her story in Vivian Maier, the photographer who never saw herself as an artist

The Montreal author's novel Chambres noires uses the enigmatic life of the Franco-American nanny and secret photographer to explore...

73D AGO

Sterling Point is the summer series that catapulted Quebec actor Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie to the big screen

The Amazon Prime Video miniseries is a grittier coming-of-age story than its competitor, and it's launched a Montreal-born actor into...

75D AGO

Quebec femicides climb to 13 this year as shelters turn away nearly half of women seeking help

Montreal police investigating latest domestic homicide while advocacy groups cite abysmally low victim-support resources and failed...

76D AGO

Céline Dion on her return to the stage: 'It's been so long. I want to give them something'

The Montreal legend opens up in Harper's Bazaar about her recovery from Stiff Person Syndrome and preparing for her Paris residency...

77D AGO

Pianist Oliver Jones honoured with public funeral at Petite-Bourgogne church

The Montreal jazz icon, who died at 91, will be remembered Thursday at Union United Church, where he began playing at age five.

82D AGO

August 12 is Quebec's biggest book-buying day—here's why two authors started it in 2014

In a single day, Quebec readers drive a 23 percent spike in book sales by buying backlist titles and discovering authors they'd never...

83D AGO

Cirque Éloize brings revised Serge Fiori tribute back to Montréal

The updated "Seul ensemble" opens August 29 at Espace St-Denis, reimagined with new circus artists and the musician's cousin dancing in...

88D AGO

Jane Schoenbrun's new slasher film deconstructs queer horror at Fantasia

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma reclaims the genre for joy, subverting the trans-coded villains and final girls of 1980s and 90s horror.

89D AGO

Montreal cartoonist Jean-Sébastien Bérubé opens up about stutter in new graphic memoir

After decades of shame and silence, the Radisson creator exposes his lifelong struggle with stammering in 'Toujours sur scène.' The...

90D AGO

Montreal Botanical Garden renames First Nations Garden after 25 years to reflect all Indigenous communities

The garden, opened in 2001, is evolving its programming with consultation from Quebec's 11 Indigenous Nations.