Canadian Art

Reviews / August 20, 2018

Hold Fast Contemporary Arts Festival

Various locations, St. John’s, August 8 to 12, 2018

by Eva Crocker

Features / August 21, 2018

Broadcasting Beckett

How Stan Douglas’s only solo curatorial project to date helped transform a literary icon into a contemporary artist

by Judith Wilkinson

Reviews / August 16, 2018

Joshua Schwebel

Darling Foundry, Montreal, June 21 to August 19, 2018

by Amber Berson

Reviews / August 16, 2018

Karin Lee

SUM gallery, Vancouver, May 12 to August 18, 2018

by Henry Heng Lu

Features / August 15, 2018

Mary Pratt: 1935–2018

Remembering a major artist who revealed herself through her daily life—and, in turn, changed how we see the world and ourselves

by Mireille Eagan

news

The AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize Is No More

News in Brief: Kanata Cancelled and More

Artists Protest Jordan Peterson Talk at Calgary Arts Commons

Winners Announced for BMO 1st Art! Competition

Steve McQueen’s Latest Film Gets World Premiere at TIFF

Features / August 14, 2018

The Curtain Sweeps Down

One of the best-selling novels in modern Turkey was published in 1950 under a male pseudonym. Here, the story of the young translator who kept her work secret for decades, but influenced a generation

by Erdem Taşdelen

Essays / August 9, 2018

Look What’s Possible

The mixtape-style documentary SHAKEDOWN unearths two years’ worth of grimy, early-2000s footage of a Black lesbian strip-show and party series in LA

by Nataleah Hunter-Young

Interviews / August 9, 2018

A Conversation with Jordan Bennett

This year's Sobey Art Award finalist animates Mi'kmaq creation stories and petroglyphs in his largest public artwork to date

by Adrienne Huard

Reviews / August 9, 2018

Robert Murray

Studio 21 Fine Art, Halifax, July 7–August 31, 2018

by Ray Cronin

Reviews / August 8, 2018

Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti

Édouard Deluc’s film meanders around Gauguin as though he is a demigod: his art a religion and he, its prophet

by Rachna Raj Kaur

Features / July 12, 2018

10 Artists Who Work between Meaning and Understanding

From our Summer 2018 issue, 10 cross-country practices that explore the complexities of translation

by Natasha Chaykowski

current issue

Translation

How communication builds up and breaks down—across languages and media, pages and sounds, bodies and boundaries

Featuring Paul P. on the queer eroticism of G.B. Jones, arts.black collaborators Taylor Renee Aldridge and Jessica Lynne in conversation, a new poem by Cecily Nicholson, cover commission and artist project by Caroline Monnet, and more.