Canadian Art

News / September 18, 2018

Amanda Boulos Wins RBC Canadian Painting Competition

Emmanuel Osahor and geetha thurairajah receive honourable mentions

Interviews / September 19, 2018

“If Emily Carr Was Born in Seattle, She’d be World-Famous”

As curator Ian Thom prepares to open his final exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, he discusses what he’s learned about Canadian art—and its problems

by Leah Sandals

Features / September 17, 2018

Fair-Weather Funding

What would it take to ensure that institutional diversity is not a passing fad?

by Denise Ryner

Features / September 19, 2018

Art Auction Picks for Social 2018

Now in its 23rd year, Social 2018 offers one of the largest live and silent contemporary art auctions in Canada, and is an essential source of funding for Canadian Art

Consignor Fine Art Debuts Contemporary Art Auction

The Consignor auction, open for bidding September 19-26, features diverse range of artworks from Canadian artists including Wanda Koop, Hugh Scott Douglas, John Massey and Bruce LaBruce

Sponsored by Consignor Canadian Fine Art

news

News in Brief: Public Art Galore and More

Censorship Issues Surface at Arts Commons in Calgary

News in Brief: Inuit Art Moves and More

Meet the Winners of the 2018 Canadian Art Writing Prize

Artists and Curators Win Hnatyshyn Prizes

Features / September 13, 2018

The Haida Language on Film, in Depth and at Last

A conversation with Gwaai Edenshaw: jeweller, carver and co-director of the world’s first Haida-language feature film

by Leah Sandals

Features / September 12, 2018

Are specialized fine-arts programs in high schools—such as Toronto's Etobicoke School of the Arts—prep schools for potential BFAs, replicating the art-world's inequalities? Or are they a necessary evolution in secondary-school arts education?

by Chris Hampton

Reviews / September 10, 2018

Jack Goldstein and Ron Terada

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, May 26–September 16, 2018

by David Balzer

Essays / September 6, 2018

Who Benefits from the Indigenous Art Biennial?

A look at the 4th BACA biennial reveals the difference between working in Indigenous ways, and working in Indigenous art—and Niki Little and Becca Taylor’s resolve to curate to and for their sisters

by Lindsay Nixon

Essays / September 4, 2018

Political Economy at Art School

Why we can’t—and shouldn’t—disentangle art from money

by Max Haiven

Features / September 6, 2018

Do Canada’s Art Laws Need to Change?

The nation’s major museums are pushing for a speedy appeal to a recent court ruling. But is it the ruling, or the law itself, that needs to change?

by Leah Sandals

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Climates

The environments, spaces and systems we inhabit—and change

Featuring artist Maya Weeks’s research at sea, Erin Sutherland and Meagan Musseau on land-based practices and performance, Chris Hampton’s investigation into sustainability in art museums, Jaclyn Bruneau on contemporary art's infatuation with houseplants, plus an essay by Lucy R. Lippard recalling her 1969 trip to the Arctic, an artist project by David Hartt, new fiction by Elissa Washuta, and much more.