A self explanatory video promoting the city-dubbed “Quartier des Spectacles”

check out their Facebook page here:
Quartier des spectacles, Montréal
Facebook event for the Grand Opening of Place des Festivals:
LE GRAND BAISER
INAUGURATION DE LA PLACE DES FESTIVALS | OFFICIAL OPENING

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Nice new Video by TourismeMontreal / Side Lee about the Belgo Art complex:

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The folks over at Pavilion Projects released this lovely map of Montreal’s hot art spots; is that a cool abbreviation coming on: HARTS?
Download the PDF map here: http://www.pavilionprojects.com/map

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Local boy geniuses over at Moment Factory have outdone themselves once again in their collaboration with Nine Inch Nails‘ Trent Reznor on the NIN: Lights in The Sky tour, which is currently ongoing across North America
Moment Factory is well known in Montreal for their custom lighting design capabilities.  The company grew it’s roots in the VJ world [...]

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The Gazette ran an article on Motel Canada‘s potential closing. Does anyone really care? According to the article Roxane Arseneault does, she’s writing her thesis on Quebec’s Culture of Kitsch. Hmmm… still does anyone care? The folks over at Urban Photo might, they wrote an article titled “Save Our Cities [...]

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L’Art prend le metro: Point de fuite
Originally uploaded by MTL GUY
Art has found a way into the métro system, how terrible!! People are grimacing, oh my! Once upon a time the entire métro system was considered art, that time has come and gone. Check out L’art Prend le Métro is [...]

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Inspired by Mexico’s traditional Day of the Dead, invited international artists were asked to reinterpret the theme of life and death onto their chosen medium. Sweet Calaveras includes work by relevant and notable names such Shawn Barber, Daniel Martin Diaz, Blaine Fontana and Audrey Kawasaki as well as Jason D’Aquino, Kathie Olivas, Turf One, Martin [...]

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The newly opened Emporium Gallery in St Henri hosted a vernisage for the Vice magazine sponsored Heavy Metal In Baghdad exhibit. The Show runs until Sunday the 28th of October.
The Emporium Gallery is located at 3035 st Antoine Ouest, in Studio 74
Extended showing hours 11am – 8pm
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Louis Rastelli has been a longtime comrade, commentator and curator to the Montreal arts scene. He has brought us the fabulous zine Fish Piss (RIP) , created an art dispensing vending machine called the Distroboto, organizes events such as Expozine , and has been published in Saturday Night, Vice, and the Montreal Mirror.
Last Tuesday, friends [...]

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DHC/ART is Montreal’s newest contemporary art gallery. Opened this October, 2007, the place is stunning and is itself worthy of artistic merit.
Running until January 6, 2008, is an exhibition featuring Marc Quinn, a controversial conceptual artist and a member of the YBA’s (Young British Artists). Quinn’s work is shockingly poignant in respect to [...]

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The Politically charged work of Mathieu Beauséjour is on display at the Darling Foundry gallery. The installation titled Monument is a reflection of the global political state and it’s resistance. The artist redresses recognizable objects tat would normally be found outdoors and places them indoors, thereby challenging the legitimacy of the ideas proposed by [...]

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Puces Pop is back with a hundred and one artists and designers bringing you a home made soup of talents and events… and lots and lots of things to by.
Activities, Toys, Foods, Clothes, Housewares, Readables, Wrtitables, Aweables, and maybe even some Shockables too. Fun for the whole family.
When: October 6th & 7th, 2007
Where: Canadian [...]

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Ron English and Van Arno were in Montreal for the “Autres Bizarreries” art exhibit that was on display between May 30 and June 12, 2007 at the Yves Laroche Gallery. While in Montreal they were interviewed for the ART TRASH ET MAUVAIS GOÛT show on radio CISM, 89.3 FM.
Here’s some excerpts of that interview:

Thanks To:
-Ron [...]

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Lickety Split Issue 4 Launch @ Club Lambi in Montreal in a new window
Links:
http://www.licketysplitzine.com
http://www.myspace.com/licketysplitzine
http://www.myspace.com/flamesband

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Souk @ Sat
For three days, the entire SAT space will be transformed in an immense loft inhabited by young Montreal’s creators. From the living room to the dining room, from the kid’s bedroom to the parent’s bedroom, from the bar (yes, here you can have a drink while you shop!) to the walk-in closet, [...]

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