Against Nations
At the 59th Venice Biennale, many of the stand-out pavilions were those that contested the pavilion structure itself. Consider Roma artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s lustrous…
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A Provisional Biennial Amid Istanbul’s Endless Restoration
Everything is always under construction. In Istanbul, Hagia Sophia, the famed church-turned-mosque-turned-museum, has, over the centuries, seen earthquakes, bloodbaths, and any number of politically…
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Notes on a Crisis in Beauty
1. “I do not mourn for what I have lost. For if there is one new art that we have had to learn, those…
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The Tonal Ambivalence of Feminist Land Art Retreat
In 2005, at the Canadian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale, Indigenous artist Rebecca Belmore projected a video installation called Fountain onto a wall of…
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Performance Art in a Precarious Time: A Conversation with Johanna Householder and Francisco-Fernando Granados
In movement study of a standard North American strip-search procedure, Francisco-Fernando Granados gambols through a codified gestural sequence: “empty pockets … remove clothing ……
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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 Spitting Fit of Teenage Rage: On the Increasing Impotence of Political Art
This is not a review. In August, I went on holiday to the delightful small city of Poznan, in western Poland. One of Europe’s…
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Playing the Double Agent: Kathleen Ritter’s “Camoufleurs”
Kathleen Ritter is an artist. This may come as a surprise to some who knew her better as associate curator at the Vancouver Art…
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