In the Skin of a Gallery: Sylvie Bélanger’s Challenge to Photography
The image disputes the presence of the thing. In the image, the thing is not content simply to be; the image shows that the…
Read MoreThe image disputes the presence of the thing. In the image, the thing is not content simply to be; the image shows that the…
Read MoreIn Canadian art’s long and unswift adaptation of an avant-garde, landscape painting yielded to an important reduction, an essentializing that rendered place ancillary, and…
Read MoreKaren Asher has always photographed people, from those she knows intimately to the strangers she meets in passing. As portraits, they fall within an…
Read MoreDevelop an interest in a particular area of art, history, or science. Be detail-oriented. Volunteer at a museum or similar institution. Get your undergraduate…
Read MoreA blind date is unfolding at Canada Gallery, in Alicia Gibson’s painting My Mom Set Me Up With a Redneck (2016). If, like me,…
Read MoreThe Vancouver Art Gallery’s survey exhibition MashUp is a missed opportunity. To be clear, that’s not because the artworks are “bad” (they’re not) or…
Read MoreNicole Eisenman – beloved New York painter, now MacArthur-certified “Genius” – has just opened a show at the New Museum with the jokey title, “Al-ugh-ories.” The single-floor showing…
Read More1951. “I don’t look back. I don’t want to know. I only think about the future, and I know that it’s certain.” These words…
Read MorePockmarked moons and missiles at launch, astronauts in profile, and dark-suited men eying fighter jets in take-off. Scrawled archival notes map the surface of…
Read MoreIt’s autumn, in Edmonton. A crowd begins to gather outside an enclosed asphalt rink where bodies will soon be pressed against each other. It’s…
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