How To Follow Your Own Success: Kristiina Lahde at MKG127
Six months ago, Kristiina Lahde created her own toughest act to follow. Her solo exhibition, Ultra-Parallel, held at the Koffler Centre of the Arts in…
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A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Professional: Joseph Hartman’s Artist Studios
The artist’s studio has long been a beloved subject for art, one nearing art itself. What attracts us to it? What is the quale,…
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Interview: Kalup Linzy In Between Acting and Performing
Commenting on a creative relationship that was at the beginning of its end, a 2011 New York Times article quoted Hyperallergic editor-in-chief Hrag Vartanian…
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Robert Rauschenberg and Rachel Harrison Mirror Media and More Across Time
In 1970, a powerful bomb detonated Rodin’s Thinker (1880-81) outside the Cleveland Museum of Art. This edition of the sculpture was a rare version of the existing 25…
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All That Is Solid …: Alex McLeod Taps the Cult of the Canadian Sublime and Explodes the Digital
Alex McLeod’s most recent solo exhibition – his first at Division Gallery in Toronto – is aptly titled HONEYMOON, featuring a unique formal marriage…
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A New Level of Anxiety in Derek Liddington
After seeing Derek Liddington’s solo show at aka artist-run in Saskatoon, I immediately went home to reread the first article I wrote on his…
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Slowing Down Perception: “are you experienced?” Tries to Affect the White Cube
Both experienced and inexperienced gallery visitors are familiar with the standardized formula of spectatorship: Each artwork is treated as a discrete, enclosed structure containing…
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What is the Museum of the Future?
We know that museums the world over are incredibly popular, but how do we keep the visitors coming? In a globalized art economy, the question…
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The Incurable Distance of Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte has been curiously canonized: first as Impressionist, then as Realist, then as more of a collector than an artist. Gustave Caillebotte: The…
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Interview: Lois Andison Talks Back to Male Modernists
Twice in the past year I’ve visited Olga Korper and she’s taken me from the gallery, past the offices, through her kitchen (where there’s…
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