The Skylight Caper
One of the world's greatest unsolved art thefts happened in Montreal in 1972. And its mystery continues
The Green Cube
How much waste do exhibitions produce? More than you’d think. How many museums are sustainably built? Fewer than you’d think. A story about what Canadian cultural institutions are doing to reduce their footprints—and about what we choose not to see
Where Do We Go From Here?
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?
Mapping Migration
Artist Abedar Kamgari hoped that her 27-hour walk from Toronto to Hamilton would make her feel at home. But she still navigates her experiences as an immigrant and refugee.
Art in Condoland
Development mania across Canada is marked by eye-catching public art. But what makes such works successful? No one, it seems, can quite agree.
Outside the Box: Breaking the Colonial Gaze with Virtual Reality
Montreal-based artist Olivia Mc Gilchrist uses virtual reality to reveal some of the masks we wear every day.
Big Museum on the Prairie: The Remai Modern and Saskatoon
The Remai Modern is Saskatoon's flashy new museum. But the city has a longstanding, active visual-art community. How are the two coexisting?
Jeff Bierk and the Thorny Issue of Exploitation
Toronto artist Jeff Bierk collaborates with Toronto’s poor and homeless. Are the resulting photographs emancipatory, or exploitative?
Watch Jon Rafman’s LARPing, Tamagotchi-Fuelled Film
Jon Rafman’s new live-action film focuses on the shifting relationship between humans and machines and that watershed Millenial toy: the Tamagotchi.
Kent Monkman’s Buffalo Jump at the Gardiner Museum
Kent Monkman has created a life-sized buffalo jump (with two 300-pound taxidermy bison) for an installation at the Gardiner Museum. Chris Hampton reports.
Neil Farber and Michael Dumontier: Brainn Trrustt
Winnipeg artists Neil Farber and Michael Dumontier—nominees for last year’s Sobey Award—work together on projects including wryly illustrated bookworks.
Tricia Middleton: Exquisite Collapse
Tricia Middleton pushes her materials to the brink, creating a collection of "precarious things about precarious situations."
Dominique Rey’s Veneration of a Disappearing Sisterhood
In "Under the Rose Arch," Dominique Rey documents an order of Catholic nuns facing the threat of extinction in a manner closer to veneration than elegy.
