In the Skin of a Gallery: Sylvie Bélanger’s Challenge to Photography
The image disputes the presence of the thing. In the image, the thing is not content simply to be; the image shows that the…
Read MoreThe image disputes the presence of the thing. In the image, the thing is not content simply to be; the image shows that the…
Read MoreIn Canadian art’s long and unswift adaptation of an avant-garde, landscape painting yielded to an important reduction, an essentializing that rendered place ancillary, and…
Read MoreKaren Asher has always photographed people, from those she knows intimately to the strangers she meets in passing. As portraits, they fall within an…
Read MoreA blind date is unfolding at Canada Gallery, in Alicia Gibson’s painting My Mom Set Me Up With a Redneck (2016). If, like me,…
Read MoreThe Vancouver Art Gallery’s survey exhibition MashUp is a missed opportunity. To be clear, that’s not because the artworks are “bad” (they’re not) or…
Read MoreNicole Eisenman – beloved New York painter, now MacArthur-certified “Genius” – has just opened a show at the New Museum with the jokey title, “Al-ugh-ories.” The single-floor showing…
Read MorePockmarked moons and missiles at launch, astronauts in profile, and dark-suited men eying fighter jets in take-off. Scrawled archival notes map the surface of…
Read MoreBetween 2009 and 2012, Raphaëlle de Groot invited people to give her objects that they no longer wanted but couldn’t get rid of. As…
Read MoreTo read White Girls, Hilton Als’s 2013 collection of upending essays, is to feel calcified assumptions about sexual and racial identification dissolve. A chain of…
Read MoreArtist Paul Klee said that art does not reproduce the “visible,” it makes visible. What interested him was to get to the other side…
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