Plagued by funding upsets and the need to get on with life, there hasn’t been a Tart issue in a while and, in fact, this one is probably pretty old. Still, the coolest mag out of Winnipeg lives on – if just barely. This issue takes on “post-urban narratives,” raves, a report on the work of Chris Dorosz, who does ornate labour intensive abstract paintings that end up looking like a cross between a prism and a computer screen, and a report on an attempt to stage a free festival at the Forks Festival Stage last summer. The festival gets busted up by the cops after a successful day of revelry and Tart’s Phil Koch examines what exactly happened and why. Wonder if they tried again this summer? Hopefully, Tart will rise once more to tell us. (Hal Niedzviecki)
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