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P.Mansaram (1934–2020): A Canadian Artist in, and of, the World

P.Mansaram (1934–2020): A Canadian Artist in, and of, the World

Born in India, Mansaram spent most of his life in Canada, where he defied the hyphenated ways that the art world categorizes diasporic artists

Listening in Reciprocity

Listening in Reciprocity

The natural world invites us into the indescribable yet intimately heard—what does it mean to move beyond hearing and truly listen?

How To Not Disappear

How To Not Disappear

The importance of Chinatown and Chinese Canadian art history in a time of anti-Asian violence and a re-emerging Yellow Peril

Scent and Sensibility

Scent and Sensibility

These artists making work about scent expose the personal and political implications of the aesthetics of smell

A Topography of Free

A Topography of Free

A Toronto installation artist accumulates materials for her found-object sculptures by navigating neighbourhood free piles and scouring curbside detritus

Wearing Fur in the City

Wearing Fur in the City

An Indigenous woman’s perspective on cultural empowerment, safety and protection

Red Dust and Black Clay

Red Dust and Black Clay

For communities committed to abolition and decolonization, clay is the ground, the container, the frame and the fire where we tell each other our stories, where we rest together and where we slow down

What Ever Happened to Felicia Montealegre?

What Ever Happened to Felicia Montealegre?

A distant relative of the wife of Leonard Bernstein looks at her creative and family life, on and off the stage

Memory Work

Memory Work

Two powerful photographs of a 1986 workers’ strike suggest the dystopian consequences of collective forgetting

The Territory of the Unsmelled

The Territory of the Unsmelled

Smell can be both a memory and a chemical compound that triggers reactions in organisms—human, animal and insect