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Japan Before & After: Five months after Japan was hit by an earthquake & tsunami, the country remains haunted by the disaster.
The Oy of Comics
“Catholics may confess through a screen in a box, but Jews do it in public–preferably with an audience,” Sarah Lightman and Michael Kaminer wrote about their touring exhibition, Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women.
Drawing Comparisons
With his latest exhibit, Dark Energy, Post cartoonist Gary Clement used India ink to explore cosmology, archeology, sitcoms, bodily functions, music, poetry and astronauts, among other things, alongside Thelma Rosner’s show Dictionary, a word-saturated set of works that examines Jewish-Muslim relations in both historical and contemporary contexts. Clement will also be in conversation with Post reporter Peter Kuitenbrouwer on Mar. 5 at 3 p.m. Feb. 19 to Mar. 13. Loop Gallery, 1273 Dundas St. W. Free; loopgallery.ca.
Can you draw me now? Toronto-based art collective Sketchkrieg! plays an illustrated game of Broken Telephone, with the only rule: ‘Don’t be a jerk.’
• Paper Trail exhibits at Toronto’s XSPACE Cultural Centre, 58 Ossington Ave., from Feb. 3-5.
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A fine-art friendship: After 45 years, Francis Bacon’s triptych of Lucian Freud is finally revealed.
Hiding in plain sight: Why one Ontario artist travels the world looking for letters
His friends as fiends: Otto Dix’s grotesque portraits of loved ones reflect the difficulty of readjusting to life after the First World War. Rouge Cabaret continues to Jan. 2 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art
Bienvenue, new venue: Cirque du Soleil refashions an intimate show for a huge space.
![Jack Dylan’s posters, in a New Yorker minute: “[They] celebrate the city and the small moments that come and pass very quickly.”](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/nationalpost/2144607400/1/tumblr_ld4ds018DD1qze0z6)
Jack Dylan’s posters, in a New Yorker minute: “[They] celebrate the city and the small moments that come and pass very quickly.”
A good egg makes a good, if illegal, home To combat Beijing’s sky-high rents, a 24-year-old man has constructed a small egg-shaped cabin made of bamboo bars, bags of grass seeds and wood crumbs.
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Tintin gets twisted: Charles Burns’ punk spin on the boy reporter
In X’ed Out, the first in a three-volume series, cartoonist Charles Burns idea spread like a disease, resulting in a narrative that alternates between reality and a surreal dreamscape. The book blends a semi-autobiographical account of Burns’ twenties with the work of author William S. Burroughs, cartoonist Hergé and the artist Lucas Samaras. It is Little Nemo meets David Lynch.
A wealth of undocumented works by Pablo Picasso emerged this week after a retired French electrician revealed he had hidden the set away in his garage for the past 40 years. Pierre Le Guennec, 71, worked for Picasso for three years until the artist died in 1973, and claims the artworks were given to him in exchange for electrical work. Picasso’s son Claude, however, believes the collection, valued at about US$50-million, was stolen. French police have seized the 271 pieces, many of which belong to the artist’s Blue and Cubist periods.
The writing on the wall: Taliban fighter leave their mark on an Afghan compound. (Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters)
