About Michael James Aleck Snow

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    "Renowned artist Michael Snow mixed conceptualist coups with witty populism in his long career by James Adams and Kate Taylor," Obiturary, The Toronto Globe and Mail, by James Adams and Kate Adams, January 6, 2023.

    Millions of Canadians know the art of Michael Snow. His work is familiar to anyone who has walked under the glass arcade of the Eaton Centre in Toronto and admired the flock of Canada geese overhead or anyone who has laughed at the figures of gesticulating fans on the facade of the Rogers Centre. And yet, if Snow is a figure of renown in the international art world, it is not for these accessible sculptures but for Wavelength, an experimental film of 1966 that featured a single 45-minute zoom shot.

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