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Arts Alert Thursday, Aug. 10 by Cathleen Bond
According to local legend, three years ago those in the painterly know got together and headed across the big pond to "spend a few heady weeks with the best of international contemporary art. Events had conspired to cram a number of the world's most famous exhibitions - the Venice Biennale, the twice-a-decade Documenta roundup in Kassel, Germany, and
the Sculpture Project that fills the streets of nearby Muenster every 10 years - into a single season."
Here's a sampling of what you can hope to see at the HX's inaugural bash:
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Haligonians are famous for more than the world's finest lobsters and Salter Street Films (the gang that keeps Canadians laughing with the likes of Codco and This Hour Has 22 Minutes). They've got a booming fine arts scene, which
is currently being augmented by the Halifax Exhibition of International Contemporary Art aka HX.
As you can imagine, our art-loving Haligonians were somewhat humbled by what they saw. However, not the proud Canadian frontier spirit soon took root, and by the end of this September "nearly every art space in Halifax will have
hosted one or another of the 14 exhibitions with a substantial international component, that make up HX."
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