Why Can’t We Talk About Class and Art in Canada?
A couple of weeks ago, an old friend posted a j’accuse on social media. It was brief and blunt and perhaps even rude. They…
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The Problem of Access: An Interview with Emerging First Nations Artist Joseph Tisiga
Joseph Tisiga is an emerging artist of a particular stripe. He is young (born in 1984), and very successful: he was nominated as a…
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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 Inequality of Contemporary Art
In an 1854 painting called The Meeting, a young Gustave Courbet depicted himself encountering a rich art patron and his servant. Such was the…
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How to Art Fair
Nobody likes them. Even if you do enjoy an art fair, it would be gauche to say so. You go because it’s your job….
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The Lips of a Wound: Reflections on Doris Salcedo
Suture: A joining of the lips or edges of a wound or the like by stitching. The unexpectedly sensuous definition of the clinical term “stitching”…
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Nothing in These Works is Given Freely: The Phenomenological Approach of Frank Auerbach
“I think all good painting looks as though the painting has escaped from the thicket of prepared positions and has entered some sort of…
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A Prismatic Picture of Colombian Street Culture in Jorge Lozano’s Experimental Films
I see the use of multiple screens as a device to speed up the narrative flow in film, to conceptually give sequences (loops) momentary…
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These Are Not Ideas; These Are Things: A Conversation with Liz Magor
Liz Magor claims her “space between the mould and the cast.” It’s a pronouncement reified by thirty years of installation and sculpture that reads…
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The Future of Online Arts Publishing: A Roundtable with artnet News, Momus, and Temporary Art Review
Everything about publishing is changing, including art criticism and news. What sort of art coverage we consume, how we consume it, and on what…
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