Looking Out from Looking In: Geneviève Cadieux Shifts From the Polemic to the Poetic
Milling through the Vancouver Art Gallery earlier this spring, I stopped before a towering diptych that paired a cartoon prince and a back-turned nude….
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From Dust to Light: On Photography’s Material Traces
On the occasion of the opening of a Handful of Dust, at the Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, visiting curator David Campany shared an…
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The Legacy of Mary Sully: Early Indigenous Feminism, and the “American Indian Abstract”
Few people have seen the work of 20th-century Indigenous artist Mary Sully. Despite her belonging to a prominent Indigenous family (one of her drawings…
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Applying “Applied Art”: Gropius Bau Mines Old Division Under New Direction
The term “applied art” can only read as a misnomer in 2019, when the line between strictly functional and purely aesthetic art practices has…
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“What Makes Great Art?”: Momus: The Podcast with Osei Bonsu (Episode 9)
In continuing our season-long exploration of the question “What makes great art?” co-hosts Lauren Wetmore and Sky Goodden speak to essential voices about what…
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“But Can a Spirit Burn?”: Alternatives for Art Under Capital
We were reprimanded before the meeting even began. The guard, a tough looking woman employed at the Lisbon Tropical Botanical Garden, told us that…
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Deeper Wounds: Nep Sidhu and Aestheticizing Trauma
To reconstitute memory that has been violently suppressed, we often turn toward the monumental, hoping to fill a discursive void with a profusion of…
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“So Many Glaring Absences That Were Very Loud to Me”: An Interview with Titus Kaphar
Titus Kaphar came into the limelight soon after Time magazine commissioned him in 2014 to make a painting for one of its “Person of the Year”…
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The Substance of Grief: Nelson Henricks Deepens the Black Page
In the course of my grieving, I lost my capacity to represent my grief to others. There were no useful tools to properly describe…
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The Architecture of Exclusion: Storytelling Hannah Hoffman’s New Home Through Paul Williams and Tony Cokes
Architect Paul Williams used to sketch out plans, virtuosically, upside down. He became famous for this skill – most writing about him mentions it….
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