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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Mourning at the Museum: Montreal’s Post-Sincere Send-Off for Leonard Cohen
The impulse to grieve publicly is a measure of our turbulent times. We know, lately, the need to share a collective sadness. However, before…
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Interview: Paul Petro on Becoming the Legacy-Building, “Bent Identity Politics” Gallerist of Toronto
The spiritual iconographies of Paul Petro’s roster are many. Robert Flack’s seven chakras series from the 1990s; Stephen Andrews’s heaven painting, and The Apostles;…
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A Future Never Sought: Okwui Enwezor’s 56th Venice Biennale
Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds. – W. E. Gladstone’s diary, 1868…
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Tools for Redress: A Century of Political Art Between “Zero Tolerance” and “The Left Front”
In the fall of 1929, the same month as the collapse of the American stock market, editors from the leftist magazine New Masses met…
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The Temptation of Everything in Michael Dudeck’s “Messiah Complex 5.0”
When a contemporary performance artist adopts religion in general as the theme of a work, a few things are likely to occur: the work…
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