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David Balzer

David Balzer is a writer, editor and educator. He is the author of two books, Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else, winner of ICA London's Book of the Year, and the short-fiction collection Contrivances. In 2015, he won the International Award for Art Criticism. He has written about art and culture for the Globe and Mail, the Guardian, Frieze, Artforum, The Believer and others, and was editor-in-chief and co-publisher of Canadian Art from 2016 to 2019. He is currently working on his next nonfiction book in tkaronto/Toronto.

Features, Reviews• January 17, 2020

Open Secrets: Gossip and the Reframing of a Canadian Painting Dynasty

By David Balzer

The October 12, 2019, edition of CBC Radio’s “Weekend AM Newfoundland with Heather Barrett” begins with a Thanksgiving-themed story about Newfoundland’s love of the…

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Reviews• November 14, 2019

A Provisional Biennial Amid Istanbul’s Endless Restoration

By David Balzer

Everything is always under construction. In Istanbul, Hagia Sophia, the famed church-turned-mosque-turned-museum, has, over the centuries, seen earthquakes, bloodbaths, and any number of politically…

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Features• June 10, 2015

Interview: Rashaad Newsome on Voguing, Heraldry, and FKA Twigs

By David Balzer

New York-based Rashaad Newsome has many credits to his name, among them “King of Arms” (he is a master in the centuries-old art of…

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Reviews• May 27, 2015

Labor Lost: Okwui Enwezor’s Artworld Biennale

By David Balzer

Consuming visual art is conspicuously, if oddly, social. You are inherently distracted, aware of watching and being watched, even, perhaps especially, in the darkened…

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Reviews• March 16, 2015

The Anxiety of Influence: Jack Bush at the National Gallery

By David Balzer

“I feel sorry for Jack Bush,” said an artist acquaintance of mine when I told him about the National Gallery of Canada’s recent, excellent…

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Features• January 5, 2015

Alien vs. Predator: The Critic in Three Recent Films

By David Balzer

“What has to happen in someone’s life for them to end up becoming a critic?” asks Michael Keaton’s desperate, contemptuous Riggan Thomson in Alejandro…

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Reviews• October 22, 2014

Machinations: Stan Douglas Makes His Theatrical Debut

By David Balzer

What to make of Stan Douglas’s Helen Lawrence – currently on at Toronto’s CanStage – from the perspective of a theater-goer unfamiliar with the…

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