Recognition and Reckoning: Montreal’s Alternative Art Spaces at the Crossroads
On a sunny weekend in June, a multigenerational crowd of artists and art enthusiasts flocked to a series of vacant storefronts and office spaces…
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The Sadean Woman: Tricia Middleton and the Violence of Art
Tricia Middleton came late to showing in commercial galleries. In a career spanning fifteen years, her late-2014 exhibition at Jessica Bradley Gallery in Toronto…
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This Is Where It Ends: The Denouement of Post-Internet Art in Jon Rafman’s Deep Web
In a recent essay for Artforum, Jon Rafman described his early work as “romantic.” Specifically, he cited his virtual safaris of Kool-Aid Man in…
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Bad Dream of the Bauhaus: Juan Ortiz-Apuy’s IKEA Fantasia
Entering Juan Ortiz-Apuy’s Out of This Light, Into this Shadow, his second solo exhibition at galerie antoine ertaskiran, the first thing that strikes me…
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Year in Review: Montreal From the Ground Up
A principal difference between year-end lists, rankings, and recollections about art, and those about music, books, or films is that it’s much more difficult…
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Feature Art Fair’s Focus on the Art, and the Currents That Emerged
The latest fair to arrive to Canada’s growing art market was named Feature, but could have been titled Focus. With only twenty-three galleries, and…
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