The Sun Disappears
“Our earth-wrecking makes the sky so good and ’grammable.” So observes the narrator in this short story, from our Fall 2018 issue themed on Climates.
I Need to Know Where I’m Standing
Following her Sobey win, a conversation with Kapwani Kiwanga on audiences, critique strategies and when critics get it wrong
Marina Roy’s X Factors
Bridging the Freudian and the functional, the lovely and the lewd, Marina Roy’s art makes an inventory of interior worlds and their exterior contexts
Veronika Pausova Paints a Spidery Sublime
This artist spins webs of imagery by turns cartoonish and trompe l’oeil, ab ex and VFX, rife with loopy insects, nail-bitten fingers and other surreal turns
Historical and Post-War Masterworks Highlight Consignor’s Fall Live Auction
The November 20th auction features notable examples by Canada’s celebrated artists, schools and movements through nearly 150 years of art history
Between Two Ferns
Why are there so many houseplants in contemporary art? It's the economy, stupid
Diyan Achjadi and Cindy Mochizuki
Roedde House Museum, Vancouver, September 25 to November 18, 2018
Experiments in Collective Form
Two Toronto artists reflect on performative gestures of protest in the 1990s Harris-era of Conservative provincial politics—a moment that has sharp similarities to our own
From the Waterline
An artist’s first-hand account of the ocean, and everything we put in it
Haunted Houses
This year, the SITElines biennial in Santa Fe, New Mexico, explores home and belonging—in a place where distinctions between inside and outside often feel blurred
10 Artists Who Work with Changing Environments
Earthworks and paintings, landscapes and ceramics—none are seen as static by this group of creators
videos
A Conversation with Brenda Draney
Viewing a Brenda Draney painting is like witnessing a dream. Here, the artist speaks about the role of small-town memory and mystery in her work
In the Studio with Kent Monkman
“I wanted to address history painting directly with these narratives—these missing narratives—from art history that speak about Indigenous experience.”
In the Studio with Kent Monkman
“I wanted to address history painting directly with these narratives—these missing narratives—from art history that speak about Indigenous experience.”
In the Studio with Sameer Farooq
Building museums of found objects and casting packing materials in porcelain, Farooq questions how citizens are told to think about their pasts
In the Studio with Sameer Farooq
Building museums of found objects and casting packing materials in porcelain, Farooq questions how citizens are told to think about their pasts
Current Exhibitions
‘Cause I work so hard to make it everyday
Artspace, 378 Aylmer Street North, Box 1748, Peterborough ON
You hold me, as I fumble to emulate your care
TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary, 2009 10 Avenue SW, Calgary AB
Manitoba Moments
Charleswood Public Library, 4910 Rollin Boulevard, Winnipeg MB
Marcel Barbeau : Jours d’envol
Galerie D'Este, 4396 Boulevard Saint Laurent, Montreal QC
Bon appétit! Contemporary Foodware Designs in Quebec
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1380 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal QC
Undying Hope for this Dangerous World: Bertrand Russell in perspective
McMaster Museum of Art, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton ON
‘Cause I work so hard to make it everyday
Artspace, 378 Aylmer Street North, Box 1748, Peterborough ON
You hold me, as I fumble to emulate your care
TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary, 2009 10 Avenue SW, Calgary AB
Manitoba Moments
Charleswood Public Library, 4910 Rollin Boulevard, Winnipeg MB
Marcel Barbeau : Jours d’envol
Galerie D'Este, 4396 Boulevard Saint Laurent, Montreal QC
Bon appétit! Contemporary Foodware Designs in Quebec
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1380 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal QC
Undying Hope for this Dangerous World: Bertrand Russell in perspective
McMaster Museum of Art, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton ON