What a Book Can Do: On Editing Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason’s Monographs
For the past weeks, I’ve kept a new monograph on the artist Emily Mason on my glass coffee table, observing the sea of its…
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“We’re All Tied to the Place That We’re From”: Celebrating 50 Years with Equinox Gallery
When Equinox Gallery—one of Canada’s best-established galleries, and a longstanding benchmark of Vancouver’s art scene—announced its 50th anniversary, earlier this year, I did a…
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“I Think We’re Changing Into a Tribal Nation”: A Conversation with Dave Hickey on “25 Women”
When you have as many critics as Dave Hickey, you don’t hope to publish a book quietly so much as attract the right kind…
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Friends Among Us: Reflections on the Value and Risk of Nepotism in Art
Corazon del Sol had just arrived in Lisbon, to an apartment she left in the early 2010s, not long after losing someone close. She…
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The Anxiety of Influence: Jack Bush at the National Gallery
“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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The Deadening Gaze of Tal R
Most things, if and when they return from the dead, are dried-out and stiff. However when several outmoded artistic styles turn up in the…
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