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Catherine Kustanczy

Catherine Kustanczy is a freelance arts journalist and broadcaster. She has worked in Dublin, London, Toronto, and New York City, in a variety of editorial capacities for film, TV, radio, and digital. She has interviewed a range of award-winning cultural figures from the worlds of theater, music, television, movies, and food, and has been part of cultural panels on HuffPost Live, Pivot TV, and CBC Radio. Find her at @catekustanczy.

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The Penetrating Portraits of an Overlooked Photographer

by Catherine Kustanczy March 31, 2016April 1, 2016

TORONTO — Wendy Snyder MacNeil is as much a documentarian as she is an artist.

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Looking Back at Toronto’s Radical 1980s Underground Art Scene

by Catherine Kustanczy March 28, 2016March 28, 2016

TORONTO — The Rebel Zone provides insight into a scene that set the stage for a whole generation of artists, ultimately leading to one of the city’s earliest examples of gentrification.

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In a Time of Displacement, Arab Artists Negotiate the Meaning of Home

by Catherine Kustanczy December 21, 2015December 26, 2015

TORONTO — Home Ground provides a kind of vast cosmos that reflects the rootlessness of the immigrant experience and the challenge of finding, developing, and maintaining an identity.

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With Work by Living Composer, Canadian Opera Company Embraces the Edges of Its Art

by Catherine Kustanczy October 30, 2015November 3, 2015

TORONTO — What do you get when you pair the work of a living composer with that of one from the 17th century?

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Seven First Nations Artists Who Fought for a Place in the Canadian Canon

by Catherine Kustanczy August 5, 2015August 4, 2015

KLEINBURG, Ontario — People often generalize indigenous art, confining it to images of totem poles, bears, and eagles.

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Canadian Modernist Emily Carr Finally Gets Her Due

by Catherine Kustanczy July 1, 2015July 5, 2015

TORONTO — In the discussion around underrepresented female artists in the art world, one name is slowly becoming more well known.

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Douglas Coupland Wants to Give You Brain Orgasms

by Catherine Kustanczy April 7, 2015April 11, 2015

TORONTO — “I like art about art. I think many people pussyfoot around this issue.”

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The Many Faces of Suzy Lake

by Catherine Kustanczy February 26, 2015March 1, 2015

TORONTO — Artist Suzy Lake is many women at once in her work, but in life, she is a singular, deeply influential artist who began exploring the constructed nature of femininity and identity before Cindy Sherman ever donned a wig or set of buck teeth.

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A Roving International Art Fest Kicks Off with Ragnar Kjartansson in Toronto

by Catherine Kustanczy January 21, 2015January 23, 2015

TORONTO — If pain can be funny, and funny things are sometimes painful, then Villa Toronto was off to a hilariously macabre start on Friday night. Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson held court at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), offering “an evening of misery,” complete with sad songs and black humor.

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Canadians in the Shadow of Matisse

by Catherine Kustanczy December 26, 2014December 29, 2014

KLEINBURG, Ontario — With a much-lauded show of cutouts at MoMA and a group exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, Henri Matisse seems to be experiencing (yet another) moment in the North American art scene. Canada’s McMichael Collection has joined the fray with its exhibition Morrice and Lyman in the Company of Matisse.

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Making Michelangelo Contemporary

by Catherine Kustanczy November 26, 2014

The near-mythic name of Michelangelo conjures many things: the divine, swirling figures of the Sistine Chapel ceiling; the almost-touching hands of human and divine; Charlton Heston’s grimacing mug; a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

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Getting to Know the New Terence Koh

by Catherine Kustanczy June 11, 2014December 26, 2014

KLEINBURG, Ontario — In 2007 he described himself as “the Naomi Campbell of the art world.” Now he’s now hugging trees and talking about staying “in the moment” like a Buddhist zen master.

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